Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Apr 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	-	419 11.21%	351
SQL	15	Down -6 places-6	£72,500	-	303 8.11%	227
C#	34	Down -6 places-6	£87,500	+6.06%	169 4.52%	99
Java	44	Down -8 places-8	£100,000	+2.56%	133 3.56%	100
PowerShell	47	Up 21 places+21	£65,000	-21.21%	127 3.40%	25
TypeScript	62	Down -32 places-32	£100,000	+14.28%	101 2.70%	114
JavaScript	63	Down -39 places-39	£80,000	+6.66%	100 2.68%	88
C++	81	Down -6 places-6	£100,000	-13.04%	75 2.01%	53
Bash	120	Down -11 places-11	£52,500	-36.36%	33 0.88%	23
Go	125	Up 7 places+7	£102,500	+2.50%	28 0.75%	31
Scala	137	Down -32 places-32	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.43%	6
Data Analysis Expressions	139	Up 2 places+2	£67,500	+17.39%	14 0.37%	8
C	139	Down -3 places-3	£97,500	+58.95%	14 0.37%	14
PHP	139	Down -13 places-13	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.37%	5
Bicep	139	Down -4 places-4	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.37%	6
VBA	141	Down -6 places-6	£80,500	+7.33%	12 0.32%	12
PL/SQL	142	Down -22 places-22	£65,000	-	11 0.29%	3
VB.NET	142	Down -21 places-21	£65,000	-	11 0.29%
Rust	142	Down -8 places-8	£100,000	-16.66%	11 0.29%	14
Kotlin	144	Down -5 places-5	£95,000	+31.03%	9 0.24%	10
Shell Script	145	Down -2 places-2	£43,750	-46.96%	8 0.21%	10
ABAP	146	Down -1 place-1	£75,000	-	7 0.19%	4
Ruby	147	Down -6 places-6	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.16%	10
Perl	147	Down -5 places-5	-	-	6 0.16%	1
T-SQL	147	Down -33 places-33	£72,500	-	6 0.16%	10
R	148	Down -20 places-20	£41,032	-31.61%	5 0.13%	17
RPG	149	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.11%	2
Kusto Query Language	149	Down -8 places-8	£45,000	+28.57%	4 0.11%	2
VC++	150	New entry-	£91,000	-	3 0.080%
Objective-C	150	Down -6 places-6	-	-	3 0.080%