Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	7	-2	£87,500	+10.75%	355 14.51%	257
SQL	11	-2	£74,500	+2.75%	268 10.96%	156
C#	36	-10	£87,500	+25.00%	135 5.52%	94
Java	38	+1	£100,000	+11.11%	132 5.40%	63
TypeScript	51	-19	£100,000	+14.28%	95 3.88%	94
PowerShell	58	+1	£70,000	-6.66%	87 3.56%	25
JavaScript	67	-49	£75,000	+7.14%	75 3.07%	69
C++	83	+28	£100,000	+1.26%	57 2.33%	50
Bash	102	+29	£45,500	-52.35%	38 1.55%	28
Data Analysis Expressions	118	+42	£66,250	+33.16%	22 0.90%	3
Rust	121	+40	£140,000	+51.35%	19 0.78%	11
Kotlin	126	+9	£100,000	+25.00%	14 0.57%	8
T-SQL	127	-12	£85,000	+30.76%	13 0.53%	9
Bicep	128	+24	£87,500	+29.62%	12 0.49%	4
Go	128	+29	£100,000	+8.10%	12 0.49%	30
Scala	128	-8	£97,500	+56.00%	12 0.49%	11
VBA	129	+16	£75,000	-	11 0.45%	1
Shell Script	134	+20	£43,750	-58.33%	6 0.25%	1
PHP	134	+16	£60,000	-	6 0.25%	5
C	134	+16	£100,000	+42.85%	6 0.25%	14
R	135	-16	£41,032	-35.63%	5 0.20%	5
RPG	136	-	£85,000	-	4 0.16%	2
ABAP	137	+29	£75,000	-	3 0.12%
Perl	137	+26	-	-	3 0.12%	2
Kusto Query Language	138	+22	£56,250	+87.50%	2 0.082%	2
PL/SQL	138	+11	£80,000	+23.07%	2 0.082%	3
VC++	138	-	£93,000	-	2 0.082%
COBOL	139	+27	-	-	1 0.041%
VB.NET	139	+10	£65,000	-	1 0.041%
Ruby	139	+21	£86,000	-7.02%	1 0.041%	6
Korn	139	+27	-	-	1 0.041%
X++	139	+27	£60,000	-18.21%	1 0.041%
Groovy	139	+17	£80,000	-23.80%	1 0.041%	2
Apex Code	139	+21	£65,000	-7.14%	1 0.041%	5