Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	6	-1	£86,750	+11.93%	354 15.25%	219
SQL	12	-3	£75,000	+3.44%	256 11.03%	161
Java	34	+7	£100,000	+11.11%	135 5.82%	66
C#	36	-12	£86,250	+23.21%	129 5.56%	96
TypeScript	50	-16	£100,000	+14.28%	89 3.83%	84
PowerShell	55	+3	£70,000	-6.66%	83 3.58%	24
JavaScript	62	-44	£75,000	+5.26%	74 3.19%	71
C++	78	+32	£100,000	-	55 2.37%	50
Bash	96	+33	£43,500	-55.03%	36 1.55%	28
Data Analysis Expressions	110	+48	£66,250	+18.30%	22 0.95%	3
Rust	113	+45	£140,000	+51.35%	19 0.82%	12
Kotlin	118	+11	£100,000	+25.00%	14 0.60%	7
T-SQL	119	-8	£85,000	+41.66%	13 0.56%	11
Go	120	+34	£100,000	+8.10%	12 0.52%	15
Bicep	120	+29	£87,500	+29.62%	12 0.52%	1
Scala	121	-6	£97,500	+56.00%	11 0.47%	13
VBA	121	+21	£75,000	-	11 0.47%	2
Shell Script	127	+22	£43,750	-52.70%	5 0.22%	2
PHP	127	+21	£60,000	+4.34%	5 0.22%	2
R	127	-14	£41,032	-31.61%	5 0.22%	4
C	128	+18	£70,000	-	4 0.17%	18
RPG	128	-	£85,000	-	4 0.17%	2
ABAP	129	+34	£75,000	-	3 0.13%	2
Perl	129	+31	-	-	3 0.13%	3
Ruby	130	+26	£88,000	-4.86%	2 0.086%	5
VC++	130	-	£93,000	-	2 0.086%
Kusto Query Language	130	+27	£56,250	+87.50%	2 0.086%	1
COBOL	131	-	-	-	1 0.043%	2
PL/SQL	131	+16	£95,000	+46.15%	1 0.043%	7
Korn	131	+32	-	-	1 0.043%	1
X++	131	+32	£60,000	-18.21%	1 0.043%
Groovy	131	+22	£80,000	-23.80%	1 0.043%	1
Apex Code	131	+26	£65,000	-7.14%	1 0.043%	3
Search Processing Language	131	+32	£90,000	-2.70%	1 0.043%