Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	7	-2	£87,500	+10.06%	356 14.55%	262
SQL	12	-3	£75,000	+3.44%	267 10.91%	162
Java	35	+2	£100,000	+11.11%	133 5.44%	62
C#	36	-12	£87,500	+25.00%	131 5.35%	105
TypeScript	50	-22	£100,000	+14.28%	95 3.88%	97
PowerShell	56	+1	£70,000	-6.66%	88 3.60%	25
JavaScript	66	-48	£75,000	+7.14%	75 3.07%	73
C++	82	+26	£100,000	-1.23%	57 2.33%	48
Bash	101	+25	£45,500	-52.35%	38 1.55%	28
Data Analysis Expressions	117	+38	£66,250	+33.16%	22 0.90%	3
Rust	120	+36	£140,000	+51.35%	19 0.78%	11
Kotlin	125	+5	£100,000	+25.00%	14 0.57%	8
Scala	126	-12	£97,500	+56.00%	13 0.53%	11
T-SQL	126	-16	£85,000	+30.76%	13 0.53%	9
Bicep	127	+21	£87,500	+25.00%	12 0.49%	4
Go	127	+25	£100,000	+8.10%	12 0.49%	30
VBA	128	+12	£75,000	-	11 0.45%	1
Shell Script	133	+17	£43,750	-58.33%	6 0.25%	1
PHP	133	+12	£60,000	-	6 0.25%	5
C	133	+14	£100,000	+52.27%	6 0.25%	14
R	134	-19	£41,032	-39.21%	5 0.20%	5
RPG	135	-	£85,000	-	4 0.16%	2
ABAP	136	+25	£75,000	-	3 0.12%
Perl	136	+22	-	-	3 0.12%	2
Kusto Query Language	137	+18	£56,250	+87.50%	2 0.082%	2
PL/SQL	137	+6	£80,000	+23.07%	2 0.082%	3
VC++	137	-	£93,000	-	2 0.082%
COBOL	138	+23	-	-	1 0.041%
VB.NET	138	+5	£65,000	-	1 0.041%
Ruby	138	+17	£86,000	-7.02%	1 0.041%	5
Korn	138	+23	-	-	1 0.041%
X++	138	+23	£60,000	-18.21%	1 0.041%
Groovy	138	+13	£80,000	-23.80%	1 0.041%	2
Apex Code	138	+17	£65,000	-7.14%	1 0.041%	5