Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 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	-	417 11.11%	222
SQL	15	Down -5 places-5	£72,500	-	303 8.07%	138
C#	34	Down -6 places-6	£87,500	+6.06%	170 4.53%	91
Java	44	Down -8 places-8	£100,000	+2.56%	134 3.57%	64
PowerShell	46	Up 25 places+25	£65,000	-21.21%	126 3.36%	16
TypeScript	59	Down -29 places-29	£100,000	+14.28%	101 2.69%	88
JavaScript	60	Down -36 places-36	£80,000	+6.66%	100 2.66%	67
C++	78	Up 2 places+2	£100,000	-13.04%	76 2.02%	43
Bash	115	Down -4 places-4	£52,500	-36.36%	33 0.88%	16
Go	120	Up 14 places+14	£102,500	+2.50%	28 0.75%	28
Scala	132	Down -24 places-24	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.43%	3
C	133	Up 6 places+6	£97,500	+58.95%	15 0.40%	10
PHP	134	Down -5 places-5	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.37%	3
Bicep	134	Up 4 places+4	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.37%	5
Data Analysis Expressions	135	Up 9 places+9	£67,500	+17.39%	13 0.35%	2
VBA	136	Up 3 places+3	£80,500	+7.33%	12 0.32%	7
PL/SQL	137	Down -14 places-14	£65,000	-	11 0.29%	1
VB.NET	137	Down -13 places-13	£65,000	-	11 0.29%
Rust	137	No change0	£100,000	-16.66%	11 0.29%	10
Kotlin	139	Up 3 places+3	£95,000	+31.03%	9 0.24%	8
Shell Script	140	Up 6 places+6	£43,750	-46.96%	8 0.21%	7
ABAP	141	Up 7 places+7	£75,000	-	7 0.19%	1
Ruby	142	Up 2 places+2	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.16%	5
Perl	142	Up 3 places+3	-	-	6 0.16%
T-SQL	142	Down -25 places-25	£72,500	-	6 0.16%	6
R	142	Down -11 places-11	£41,032	-31.61%	6 0.16%	9
RPG	144	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.11%	2
Kusto Query Language	144	No change0	£45,000	+28.57%	4 0.11%	2
VC++	145	New entry-	£91,000	-	3 0.080%
Objective-C	145	Up 2 places+2	-	-	3 0.080%