Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	7	Down -1 place-1	£85,000	-	427 11.01%	240
SQL	15	Down -5 places-5	£72,500	-	306 7.89%	142
C#	34	Down -8 places-8	£87,500	+7.36%	172 4.43%	107
Java	44	Down -11 places-11	£100,000	+3.89%	137 3.53%	70
PowerShell	49	Up 15 places+15	£65,000	-21.21%	127 3.27%	23
TypeScript	65	Down -37 places-37	£100,000	+14.28%	104 2.68%	93
JavaScript	67	Down -44 places-44	£80,000	+6.66%	101 2.60%	71
C++	81	Down -10 places-10	£100,000	-13.04%	81 2.09%	40
Bash	127	Down -22 places-22	£52,500	-36.36%	32 0.83%	24
Go	131	Down -3 places-3	£102,500	+2.50%	28 0.72%	31
Scala	143	Down -39 places-39	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.41%	1
C	145	Down -12 places-12	£97,500	+58.95%	14 0.36%	8
PHP	145	Down -22 places-22	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.36%	1
Bicep	145	Down -13 places-13	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.36%	6
Data Analysis Expressions	147	Down -9 places-9	£67,500	+17.39%	12 0.31%	3
PL/SQL	148	Down -31 places-31	£65,000	-	11 0.28%
VB.NET	148	Down -30 places-30	£65,000	-	11 0.28%
Rust	148	Down -17 places-17	£100,000	-16.66%	11 0.28%	12
Kotlin	150	Down -14 places-14	£95,000	+31.03%	9 0.23%	7
ABAP	151	Down -9 places-9	£77,500	-	8 0.21%	1
VBA	151	Down -16 places-16	£80,500	+7.33%	8 0.21%	8
Shell Script	152	Down -11 places-11	£64,375	-36.41%	7 0.18%	7
Ruby	153	Down -15 places-15	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.15%	11
Perl	153	Down -14 places-14	-	-	6 0.15%
T-SQL	153	Down -39 places-39	£72,500	-	6 0.15%	7
R	153	Down -28 places-28	£41,032	-31.61%	6 0.15%	6
RPG	154	New entry-	£85,000	-	5 0.13%	1
Kusto Query Language	154	Down -16 places-16	£56,250	+60.71%	5 0.13%	2
VC++	156	New entry-	£91,000	-	3 0.077%
Objective-C	156	Down -15 places-15	-	-	3 0.077%	2