Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 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	-	435 10.68%	320
SQL	15	Down -5 places-5	£72,500	-	302 7.41%	211
C#	31	Down -4 places-4	£87,500	+6.06%	182 4.47%	90
Java	42	Down -6 places-6	£100,000	+8.10%	140 3.44%	77
PowerShell	48	Up 15 places+15	£65,000	-20.00%	124 3.04%	27
TypeScript	64	Down -34 places-34	£100,000	+14.28%	101 2.48%	91
JavaScript	64	Down -38 places-38	£77,500	+6.89%	101 2.48%	78
C++	75	Down -4 places-4	£100,000	-13.04%	85 2.09%	56
Bash	125	Down -22 places-22	£52,500	-36.36%	32 0.79%	23
Go	129	Down -1 place-1	£102,500	+3.79%	28 0.69%	16
Scala	141	Down -32 places-32	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.39%	4
C	143	Down -7 places-7	£97,500	+58.95%	14 0.34%	17
PHP	143	Down -19 places-19	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.34%	3
Bicep	144	Down -9 places-9	£87,500	+7.36%	13 0.32%	6
Rust	146	Down -13 places-13	£100,000	-20.00%	11 0.27%	23
PL/SQL	146	Down -22 places-22	£65,000	-	11 0.27%	2
VB.NET	146	Down -21 places-21	£65,000	-	11 0.27%
Data Analysis Expressions	147	Down -9 places-9	£67,500	+14.40%	10 0.25%	7
R	148	Down -16 places-16	£83,750	+39.58%	9 0.22%	11
VBA	148	Down -12 places-12	£80,000	+6.66%	9 0.22%	8
Ruby	149	Down -10 places-10	£75,000	-18.91%	8 0.20%	10
Shell Script	150	Down -7 places-7	£85,000	-29.16%	7 0.17%	4
ABAP	150	Down -7 places-7	£80,000	-	7 0.17%	3
Kotlin	151	Down -12 places-12	£95,000	+18.75%	6 0.15%	6
Kusto Query Language	151	Down -12 places-12	£67,500	+92.85%	6 0.15%	4
Perl	151	Down -11 places-11	-	-	6 0.15%	1
T-SQL	151	Down -36 places-36	£72,500	-	6 0.15%	8
RPG	152	New entry-	£85,000	-	5 0.12%	2
MATLAB	154	Down -28 places-28	£132,500	-11.66%	3 0.074%	2
Objective-C	154	Down -12 places-12	-	-	3 0.074%	2
Apex Code	154	Down -20 places-20	£40,000	-33.33%	3 0.074%	5
Julia	154	New entry-	£132,500	-	3 0.074%	1