Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	12	Down 5 places-5	£90,000	+5.88%	222 9.82%	86
SQL	19	Down 10 places-10	£80,000	+6.66%	180 7.96%	55
Java	38	Down 12 places-12	£100,000	+8.10%	90 3.98%	25
C#	52	Down 21 places-21	£86,250	+1.47%	69 3.05%	24
TypeScript	63	Down 7 places-7	£92,500	-9.75%	57 2.52%	18
JavaScript	73	Down 16 places-16	£77,500	+8.77%	46 2.03%	14
PowerShell	74	Down 17 places-17	£65,000	-5.45%	45 1.99%	14
C++	87	Up 3 places+3	£105,000	-17.64%	32 1.42%	11
T-SQL	99	Up 9 places+9	£79,000	-7.05%	20 0.88%	3
Bash	102	Down 10 places-10	£87,500	+52.17%	17 0.75%	8
R	104	Up 20 places+20	£122,500	+68.96%	15 0.66%
Rust	105	Up 9 places+9	£100,000	-28.57%	14 0.62%
VBA	106	Up 15 places+15	£90,000	+20.00%	13 0.58%	2
Go	109	Up 10 places+10	£100,000	+29.03%	10 0.44%	2
Apex Code	110	Up 14 places+14	£82,500	+26.92%	9 0.40%	2
Julia	111	New entry-	£132,500	-	8 0.35%
MATLAB	111	Up 13 places+13	£132,500	+65.62%	8 0.35%
Bicep	111	Up 16 places+16	£85,000	+4.61%	8 0.35%	4
Ruby	112	Up 14 places+14	£75,000	-16.66%	7 0.31%	1
Scala	112	Up 9 places+9	£71,250	-25.97%	7 0.31%	4
DataWeave	112	New entry-	£68,500	-	7 0.31%
RPG	115	New entry-	£100,000	-	4 0.18%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	116	Down 5 places-5	£85,000	+36.00%	3 0.13%
C	116	Up 11 places+11	£75,000	-	3 0.13%
PHP	116	Up 12 places+12	£92,500	+23.33%	3 0.13%
PL/SQL	116	Up 11 places+11	£75,000	-31.81%	3 0.13%	5
SOQL	116	New entry-	£105,000	-	3 0.13%
XPath	117	New entry-	£80,750	-	2 0.089%
Perl	117	New entry-	£110,000	-	2 0.089%
VB.NET	117	New entry-	£80,750	-	2 0.089%
SOSL	117	New entry-	£106,250	-	2 0.089%
Kotlin	117	Up 2 places+2	£78,000	-22.00%	2 0.089%	1
SPARQL	117	New entry-	-	-	2 0.089%
Kusto Query Language	118	New entry-	£85,000	-	1 0.044%	1
Korn	118	New entry-	£135,000	-	1 0.044%
Cypher	118	New entry-	-	-	1 0.044%
Tcl	118	New entry-	-	-	1 0.044%
Shell Script	118	Up 6 places+6	£85,000	+47.82%	1 0.044%	2
Groovy	118	Up 10 places+10	£48,000	-40.00%	1 0.044%	1
SHACL	118	New entry-	-	-	1 0.044%