Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 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%	372 14.64%	285
SQL	12	-3	£74,000	+2.06%	273 10.74%	180
Java	37	+4	£100,000	+11.11%	134 5.27%	76
C#	38	-11	£87,500	+25.00%	133 5.23%	99
TypeScript	50	-21	£100,000	+14.28%	100 3.94%	108
PowerShell	57	+1	£70,000	-6.04%	91 3.58%	30
JavaScript	64	-45	£75,000	+7.14%	81 3.19%	74
C++	80	+28	£100,000	-1.23%	62 2.44%	50
Bash	104	+19	£47,500	-47.22%	38 1.50%	32
Data Analysis Expressions	120	+35	£66,250	+33.16%	22 0.87%	3
Rust	123	+33	£140,000	+51.35%	19 0.75%	15
Scala	128	-12	£97,500	+56.00%	14 0.55%	12
Kotlin	128	+4	£100,000	+25.00%	14 0.55%	6
Go	129	+23	£100,000	+8.10%	13 0.51%	24
T-SQL	130	-17	£85,000	+17.24%	12 0.47%	9
Bicep	130	+17	£87,500	+20.68%	12 0.47%	3
VBA	131	+10	£75,000	-	11 0.43%	2
C	134	+13	£100,000	+52.27%	8 0.31%	15
Shell Script	136	+16	£43,750	-55.69%	6 0.24%	2
PHP	136	+7	£60,000	-31.42%	6 0.24%	5
R	137	-17	£41,032	-39.21%	5 0.20%	6
RPG	138	-	£85,000	-	4 0.16%	2
Kusto Query Language	138	+16	£45,000	+50.00%	4 0.16%	2
ABAP	139	+22	£75,000	-	3 0.12%	1
Perl	139	+19	-	-	3 0.12%	3
PL/SQL	140	+2	£80,000	+23.07%	2 0.079%	2
VC++	140	-	£93,000	-	2 0.079%
COBOL	141	+20	-	-	1 0.039%
VB.NET	141	+1	£65,000	-	1 0.039%
Ruby	141	+14	£86,000	-7.02%	1 0.039%	8
Korn	141	+20	-	-	1 0.039%
X++	141	-	£60,000	-	1 0.039%
Groovy	141	+12	£80,000	-23.80%	1 0.039%	2
Apex Code	141	+14	£65,000	-7.14%	1 0.039%	6