Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 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	-	420 11.28%	307
SQL	15	Down -6 places-6	£72,500	-	300 8.06%	206
C#	34	Down -8 places-8	£87,500	+6.70%	168 4.51%	102
Java	44	Down -12 places-12	£100,000	+2.56%	131 3.52%	72
PowerShell	46	Up 20 places+20	£65,750	-20.30%	127 3.41%	24
TypeScript	62	Down -35 places-35	£100,000	+14.28%	101 2.71%	94
JavaScript	64	Down -43 places-43	£80,000	+10.34%	98 2.63%	72
C++	79	Down -5 places-5	£100,000	-13.04%	77 2.07%	49
Bash	119	Down -11 places-11	£52,500	-36.36%	33 0.89%	21
Go	124	Up 8 places+8	£102,500	+2.50%	28 0.75%	24
Scala	136	Down -32 places-32	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.43%	6
Data Analysis Expressions	138	Up 2 places+2	£67,500	+17.39%	14 0.38%	6
C	138	Down -3 places-3	£97,500	+58.95%	14 0.38%	11
PHP	138	Down -13 places-13	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.38%	4
Bicep	138	Down -4 places-4	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.38%	6
PL/SQL	141	Down -22 places-22	£65,000	-	11 0.30%	2
VB.NET	141	Down -21 places-21	£65,000	-	11 0.30%
VBA	141	Down -6 places-6	£91,000	+21.33%	11 0.30%	10
Rust	141	Down -8 places-8	£100,000	-16.66%	11 0.30%	15
Kotlin	142	Down -4 places-4	£95,000	+31.03%	10 0.27%	8
Shell Script	144	Down -2 places-2	£43,750	-46.96%	8 0.21%	7
ABAP	145	Down -1 place-1	£75,000	-	7 0.19%	4
Ruby	146	Down -6 places-6	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.16%	6
Perl	146	Down -5 places-5	-	-	6 0.16%
T-SQL	147	Down -33 places-33	£75,000	+3.44%	5 0.13%	8
R	147	Down -20 places-20	£41,032	-31.61%	5 0.13%	18
RPG	148	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.11%	2
Kusto Query Language	148	Down -8 places-8	£45,000	+28.57%	4 0.11%	2