Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 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	-	423 10.98%	302
SQL	15	Down -5 places-5	£72,500	-	307 7.97%	215
C#	33	Down -4 places-4	£87,500	+7.36%	171 4.44%	112
Java	41	Down -4 places-4	£100,000	+2.56%	134 3.48%	111
PowerShell	45	Up 22 places+22	£65,000	-21.21%	127 3.30%	26
TypeScript	60	Down -30 places-30	£100,000	+14.28%	102 2.65%	100
JavaScript	61	Down -35 places-35	£80,000	+6.66%	101 2.62%	84
C++	73	No change0	£100,000	-13.04%	82 2.13%	47
Bash	119	Down -14 places-14	£52,500	-36.36%	32 0.83%	30
Go	123	Up 5 places+5	£102,500	+2.50%	28 0.73%	28
Scala	135	Down -32 places-32	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.42%	6
C	136	Down -3 places-3	£97,500	+58.95%	15 0.39%	9
Bicep	137	Down -5 places-5	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.36%	7
PHP	137	Down -14 places-14	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.36%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	138	No change0	£67,500	+17.39%	13 0.34%	4
PL/SQL	140	Down -23 places-23	£65,000	-	11 0.29%	3
VB.NET	140	Down -22 places-22	£65,000	-	11 0.29%	1
Rust	140	Down -9 places-9	£100,000	-16.66%	11 0.29%	11
Kotlin	142	Down -6 places-6	£95,000	+31.03%	9 0.23%	13
ABAP	143	Down -1 place-1	£77,500	-	8 0.21%	1
VBA	143	Down -9 places-9	£80,500	+7.33%	8 0.21%	10
Shell Script	144	Down -3 places-3	£64,375	-36.41%	7 0.18%	7
R	145	Down -20 places-20	£41,032	-31.61%	6 0.16%	16
Ruby	145	Down -7 places-7	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.16%	10
Perl	145	Down -6 places-6	-	-	6 0.16%	2
T-SQL	145	Down -32 places-32	£72,500	-	6 0.16%	8
Kusto Query Language	146	Down -8 places-8	£56,250	+60.71%	5 0.13%	2
RPG	146	New entry-	£85,000	-	5 0.13%	2
Objective-C	148	Down -7 places-7	-	-	3 0.078%	2
VC++	148	New entry-	£91,000	-	3 0.078%