Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	6	-1	£87,500	+9.37%	371 14.58%	265
SQL	11	-1	£75,000	+3.44%	271 10.65%	169
C#	38	-10	£87,500	+25.00%	133 5.23%	100
Java	38	+2	£100,000	+11.11%	133 5.23%	73
TypeScript	45	-15	£100,000	+14.28%	100 3.93%	102
PowerShell	54	+2	£70,000	-6.04%	90 3.54%	33
JavaScript	61	-42	£75,000	+5.26%	80 3.14%	76
C++	75	+34	£100,000	-1.23%	62 2.44%	47
Bash	96	+28	£47,500	-47.22%	38 1.49%	33
Data Analysis Expressions	113	+43	£67,500	+35.67%	21 0.83%	4
Rust	115	+42	£140,000	+51.35%	19 0.75%	15
Kotlin	120	+14	£100,000	+25.00%	14 0.55%	10
Scala	121	-4	£100,000	+60.00%	13 0.51%	11
Go	121	+32	£100,000	+8.10%	13 0.51%	21
Bicep	122	+26	£87,500	+20.68%	12 0.47%	3
T-SQL	122	-8	£85,000	+17.24%	12 0.47%	10
VBA	123	+19	£75,000	-	11 0.43%	2
C	126	+22	£100,000	+52.27%	8 0.31%	14
PHP	128	+16	£60,000	-31.42%	6 0.24%	4
Shell Script	128	+25	£43,750	-55.69%	6 0.24%	3
R	129	-8	£41,032	-39.21%	5 0.20%	6
Kusto Query Language	130	+25	£45,000	+50.00%	4 0.16%	2
RPG	130	-	£85,000	-	4 0.16%	2
Perl	131	+28	-	-	3 0.12%	4
ABAP	131	+31	£75,000	-	3 0.12%	1
PL/SQL	132	+11	£80,000	+23.07%	2 0.079%	3
VC++	132	-	£93,000	-	2 0.079%
VB.NET	133	+10	£65,000	-	1 0.039%
Ruby	133	+23	£86,000	-7.02%	1 0.039%	8
Korn	133	+29	-	-	1 0.039%
X++	133	-	£60,000	-	1 0.039%
Groovy	133	+21	£80,000	-23.80%	1 0.039%	2
COBOL	133	+29	-	-	1 0.039%
Apex Code	133	+23	£65,000	-7.14%	1 0.039%	5