Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 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%	364 14.65%	306
SQL	12	-3	£74,500	+2.75%	269 10.82%	175
Java	34	+3	£100,000	+11.11%	137 5.51%	74
C#	36	-9	£87,500	+25.00%	132 5.31%	108
TypeScript	47	-16	£100,000	+14.28%	97 3.90%	112
PowerShell	55	+3	£70,000	-6.66%	88 3.54%	27
JavaScript	63	-44	£75,000	+7.14%	78 3.14%	81
C++	84	+26	£100,000	-1.23%	57 2.29%	58
Bash	102	+24	£45,500	-51.46%	38 1.53%	33
Data Analysis Expressions	118	+39	£66,250	+33.16%	22 0.89%	3
Rust	121	+37	£140,000	+51.35%	19 0.76%	19
Kotlin	126	+8	£100,000	+25.00%	14 0.56%	8
Scala	127	-8	£97,500	+56.00%	13 0.52%	12
T-SQL	128	-15	£85,000	+21.42%	12 0.48%	9
Bicep	128	+22	£87,500	+25.00%	12 0.48%	5
Go	128	+26	£100,000	+8.10%	12 0.48%	30
VBA	129	+13	£75,000	-	11 0.44%	2
Shell Script	134	+18	£43,750	-58.33%	6 0.24%	1
PHP	134	+13	£60,000	-	6 0.24%	5
C	134	+15	£100,000	+52.27%	6 0.24%	18
R	135	-15	£41,032	-35.63%	5 0.20%	5
RPG	136	-	£85,000	-	4 0.16%	2
Kusto Query Language	136	+21	£45,000	+50.00%	4 0.16%	2
ABAP	137	+26	£75,000	-	3 0.12%
Perl	137	+23	-	-	3 0.12%	3
PL/SQL	138	+7	£80,000	+23.07%	2 0.081%	2
VC++	138	-	£93,000	-	2 0.081%
COBOL	139	+24	-	-	1 0.040%
VB.NET	139	+6	£65,000	-	1 0.040%
Ruby	139	+18	£86,000	-7.02%	1 0.040%	5
Korn	139	+24	-	-	1 0.040%
X++	139	-	£60,000	-	1 0.040%
Groovy	139	+14	£80,000	-23.80%	1 0.040%	2
Apex Code	139	+18	£65,000	-7.14%	1 0.040%	6