Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 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	-	438 10.82%	357
SQL	16	Down -6 places-6	£72,500	-	306 7.56%	230
C#	29	Down -1 place-1	£87,500	+6.06%	182 4.50%	100
Java	40	Down -4 places-4	£100,000	+8.10%	140 3.46%	86
PowerShell	45	Up 15 places+15	£65,000	-21.21%	124 3.06%	32
JavaScript	59	Down -33 places-33	£78,750	+8.62%	102 2.52%	83
TypeScript	60	Down -30 places-30	£100,000	+14.28%	101 2.50%	109
C++	69	No change0	£100,000	-13.04%	85 2.10%	57
Bash	118	Down -16 places-16	£52,500	-36.36%	32 0.79%	27
Go	122	Up 5 places+5	£102,500	+3.79%	28 0.69%	24
Scala	134	Down -26 places-26	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.40%	7
C	136	Down -2 places-2	£97,500	+58.95%	14 0.35%	17
PHP	136	Down -13 places-13	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.35%	3
Bicep	137	Down -3 places-3	£87,500	+7.36%	13 0.32%	6
Data Analysis Expressions	139	Down -2 places-2	£67,500	+14.40%	11 0.27%	7
PL/SQL	139	Down -16 places-16	£65,000	-	11 0.27%	3
VB.NET	139	Down -15 places-15	£65,000	-	11 0.27%
Rust	139	Down -7 places-7	£100,000	-20.00%	11 0.27%	24
R	141	Down -11 places-11	£83,750	+39.58%	9 0.22%	12
VBA	141	Down -6 places-6	£80,000	+6.66%	9 0.22%	11
Ruby	143	Down -5 places-5	£80,500	-12.97%	7 0.17%	12
ABAP	143	Down -1 place-1	£80,000	-	7 0.17%	3
Shell Script	143	Down -1 place-1	£85,000	-29.16%	7 0.17%	6
Kotlin	143	Down -5 places-5	£95,000	+18.75%	7 0.17%	9
Perl	144	Down -5 places-5	-	-	6 0.15%	1
T-SQL	144	Down -30 places-30	£72,500	-	6 0.15%	9
Kusto Query Language	144	Down -6 places-6	£67,500	+92.85%	6 0.15%	4
RPG	145	New entry-	£85,000	-	5 0.12%	2
Julia	147	New entry-	£132,500	-	3 0.074%	2
MATLAB	147	Down -22 places-22	£132,500	-11.66%	3 0.074%	3
Objective-C	147	Down -6 places-6	-	-	3 0.074%	2
Apex Code	147	Down -14 places-14	£40,000	-33.33%	3 0.074%	6