Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	6	-1	£87,500	+9.37%	371 14.66%	275
SQL	12	-3	£75,000	+3.44%	272 10.75%	173
Java	36	+4	£100,000	+11.11%	136 5.37%	68
C#	40	-14	£87,500	+25.00%	130 5.14%	99
TypeScript	50	-21	£100,000	+14.28%	99 3.91%	108
PowerShell	56	+4	£70,000	-6.66%	91 3.60%	26
JavaScript	63	-45	£75,000	+7.14%	81 3.20%	70
C++	80	+31	£100,000	-1.23%	61 2.41%	47
Bash	103	+23	£47,500	-48.64%	38 1.50%	28
Data Analysis Expressions	119	+39	£66,250	+33.16%	22 0.87%	4
Rust	122	+37	£140,000	+51.35%	19 0.75%	14
Kotlin	127	+8	£100,000	+25.00%	14 0.55%	4
Scala	128	-8	£97,500	+56.00%	13 0.51%	11
T-SQL	129	-15	£85,000	+21.42%	12 0.47%	9
Bicep	129	+21	£87,500	+20.68%	12 0.47%	3
Go	129	+26	£100,000	+8.10%	12 0.47%	25
VBA	130	+14	£75,000	-	11 0.43%	2
Shell Script	135	+20	£43,750	-55.69%	6 0.24%	1
PHP	135	+12	£60,000	-18.64%	6 0.24%	3
C	135	+15	£100,000	+52.27%	6 0.24%	14
R	136	-13	£41,032	-39.21%	5 0.20%	6
RPG	137	-	£85,000	-	4 0.16%	2
Kusto Query Language	137	+21	£45,000	+50.00%	4 0.16%	2
ABAP	138	+26	£75,000	-	3 0.12%	1
Perl	138	+23	-	-	3 0.12%	3
PL/SQL	139	+7	£80,000	+23.07%	2 0.079%	2
VC++	139	-	£93,000	-	2 0.079%
COBOL	140	+24	-	-	1 0.040%
VB.NET	140	+6	£65,000	-	1 0.040%
Ruby	140	+18	£86,000	-7.02%	1 0.040%	6
Korn	140	+24	-	-	1 0.040%
X++	140	-	£60,000	-	1 0.040%
Groovy	140	+16	£80,000	-23.80%	1 0.040%	2
Apex Code	140	+18	£65,000	-7.14%	1 0.040%	6