Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	7	Down -1 place-1	£85,000	+3.03%	435 10.69%	327
SQL	16	Down -6 places-6	£72,500	-	301 7.40%	216
C#	33	Down -5 places-5	£87,500	+6.06%	181 4.45%	94
Java	45	Down -10 places-10	£100,000	+8.10%	140 3.44%	82
PowerShell	51	Up 14 places+14	£65,000	-18.75%	123 3.02%	28
TypeScript	65	Down -33 places-33	£100,000	+14.28%	102 2.51%	98
JavaScript	66	Down -39 places-39	£77,500	+6.89%	101 2.48%	82
C++	77	Down -6 places-6	£100,000	-13.04%	84 2.06%	50
Bash	127	Down -24 places-24	£56,250	-31.81%	31 0.76%	26
Go	130	Down -2 places-2	£102,500	+3.79%	28 0.69%	21
Scala	142	Down -33 places-33	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.39%	4
PHP	144	Down -20 places-20	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.34%	3
Bicep	145	Down -10 places-10	£87,500	+7.36%	13 0.32%	6
C	145	Down -9 places-9	£100,000	+63.02%	13 0.32%	13
PL/SQL	147	Down -23 places-23	£65,000	-	11 0.27%	3
VB.NET	147	Down -22 places-22	£65,000	-	11 0.27%
Rust	147	Down -14 places-14	£100,000	-20.00%	11 0.27%	20
Data Analysis Expressions	148	Down -10 places-10	£67,500	+14.40%	10 0.25%	7
VBA	149	Down -13 places-13	£80,000	+6.66%	9 0.22%	10
R	150	Down -18 places-18	£83,750	+39.58%	8 0.20%	12
Ruby	150	Down -11 places-11	£75,000	-18.91%	8 0.20%	11
ABAP	151	Down -8 places-8	£80,000	-	7 0.17%	3
Shell Script	151	Down -8 places-8	£85,000	-29.16%	7 0.17%	5
Kusto Query Language	152	Down -13 places-13	£67,500	+92.85%	6 0.15%	4
Perl	152	Down -12 places-12	-	-	6 0.15%	1
RPG	152	New entry-	£85,000	-	6 0.15%	2
T-SQL	152	Down -37 places-37	£72,500	-	6 0.15%	8
Kotlin	152	Down -13 places-13	£95,000	+18.75%	6 0.15%	7
Apex Code	155	Down -21 places-21	£40,000	-33.33%	3 0.074%	6
Julia	155	New entry-	£132,500	-	3 0.074%	1
MATLAB	155	Down -29 places-29	£132,500	-11.66%	3 0.074%	2
Objective-C	155	Down -13 places-13	-	-	3 0.074%	2