Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 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	-	417 11.51%	316
SQL	14	Down -4 places-4	£72,500	-1.69%	306 8.45%	234
C#	35	Down -7 places-7	£87,500	+6.06%	167 4.61%	106
Java	45	Down -8 places-8	£100,000	+2.56%	130 3.59%	79
PowerShell	46	Up 19 places+19	£67,000	-18.78%	128 3.53%	30
TypeScript	65	Down -35 places-35	£100,000	+14.28%	100 2.76%	96
JavaScript	66	Down -44 places-44	£77,500	+6.89%	99 2.73%	79
C++	84	Down -9 places-9	£100,000	-13.04%	75 2.07%	45
Bash	123	Down -17 places-17	£52,500	-36.36%	34 0.94%	14
Go	129	Up 1 place+1	£102,500	-2.38%	28 0.77%	24
Scala	141	Down -42 places-42	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.44%	10
Data Analysis Expressions	142	Down -6 places-6	£67,500	+17.39%	15 0.41%	8
C	143	Down -12 places-12	£97,500	+58.95%	14 0.39%	9
PHP	143	Down -22 places-22	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.39%	5
Bicep	143	Down -13 places-13	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.39%	5
PL/SQL	146	Down -31 places-31	£65,000	-	11 0.30%	1
VB.NET	146	Down -30 places-30	£65,000	-	11 0.30%
VBA	146	Down -17 places-17	£91,000	+21.33%	11 0.30%	10
Rust	147	Down -17 places-17	£100,000	-16.66%	10 0.28%	13
Kotlin	147	Down -13 places-13	£95,000	+31.03%	10 0.28%	11
Shell Script	150	Down -12 places-12	£43,750	-46.96%	7 0.19%	6
Perl	151	Down -14 places-14	-	-	6 0.17%
ABAP	151	Down -11 places-11	£75,000	-	6 0.17%	2
Ruby	151	Down -15 places-15	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.17%	9
R	152	Down -29 places-29	£41,032	-31.61%	5 0.14%	19
RPG	153	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.11%	1
Kusto Query Language	153	Down -17 places-17	£45,000	+28.57%	4 0.11%	2
VC++	154	New entry-	£91,000	-	3 0.083%
Objective-C	154	Down -15 places-15	-	-	3 0.083%