Programming Language Statistics in Central London

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	14	Down 7 places-7	£90,000	+5.88%	248 9.43%	137
SQL	21	Down 10 places-10	£80,000	+6.66%	204 7.75%	79
Java	45	Down 20 places-20	£100,000	-	94 3.57%	32
C#	56	Down 25 places-25	£88,000	+3.52%	78 2.96%	32
TypeScript	65	Down 10 places-10	£90,000	-16.27%	69 2.62%	25
PowerShell	78	Down 22 places-22	£65,000	-13.33%	55 2.09%	18
JavaScript	78	Down 23 places-23	£72,500	-9.37%	55 2.09%	22
C++	96	Up 3 places+3	£100,000	-25.23%	36 1.37%	14
T-SQL	110	Up 4 places+4	£79,000	-7.05%	22 0.84%	5
Bash	112	Down 10 places-10	£88,750	+54.34%	20 0.76%	18
R	116	Up 11 places+11	£112,500	+55.17%	16 0.61%	4
Rust	117	Up 6 places+6	£100,000	-28.57%	15 0.57%	2
VBA	117	Up 17 places+17	£90,000	+20.00%	15 0.57%	5
Go	118	Up 8 places+8	£100,000	+29.03%	14 0.53%	5
Bicep	122	Up 14 places+14	£85,000	+4.61%	10 0.38%	4
MATLAB	123	Up 6 places+6	£132,500	+65.62%	9 0.34%
Apex Code	123	Up 5 places+5	£82,500	+37.50%	9 0.34%	4
Julia	123	New entry-	£132,500	-	9 0.34%
Scala	124	Up 6 places+6	£72,500	-24.67%	8 0.30%	5
DataWeave	125	New entry-	£68,500	-	7 0.27%
Ruby	125	Up 10 places+10	£75,000	-16.66%	7 0.27%	1
RPG	127	New entry-	£100,000	-	5 0.19%	1
Kotlin	128	No change0	£78,750	-21.25%	4 0.15%	1
PHP	128	Up 9 places+9	£92,500	+23.33%	4 0.15%	1
Shell Script	129	Up 5 places+5	£85,000	+15.25%	3 0.11%	4
Data Analysis Expressions	129	Down 7 places-7	£85,000	+36.00%	3 0.11%	1
SOQL	129	Up 5 places+5	£105,000	+75.00%	3 0.11%
C	129	Up 8 places+8	£75,000	-	3 0.11%	2
PL/SQL	129	Up 7 places+7	£75,000	-31.81%	3 0.11%	5
XPath	130	New entry-	£80,750	-	2 0.076%
SOSL	130	New entry-	£106,250	-	2 0.076%
SPARQL	130	New entry-	-	-	2 0.076%	4
Perl	130	New entry-	£110,000	-	2 0.076%
VB.NET	130	New entry-	£80,750	-	2 0.076%
Tcl	131	New entry-	-	-	1 0.038%
SHACL	131	New entry-	-	-	1 0.038%	4
Groovy	131	Up 6 places+6	£48,000	-40.00%	1 0.038%
Swift	131	New entry-	£77,500	-	1 0.038%	5
Kusto Query Language	131	New entry-	£85,000	-	1 0.038%	2
Cypher	131	New entry-	-	-	1 0.038%	1
VBScript	131	New entry-	£70,000	-	1 0.038%
VB	131	Up 5 places+5	£80,000	-33.33%	1 0.038%
ABAP	131	New entry-	£80,000	-	1 0.038%
Korn	131	New entry-	£135,000	-	1 0.038%	1