Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 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	-	418 11.46%	374
SQL	14	Down -5 places-5	£72,500	-1.69%	304 8.34%	239
C#	33	Down -5 places-5	£87,500	+6.06%	167 4.58%	105
Java	42	Down -8 places-8	£100,000	+2.56%	130 3.57%	100
PowerShell	42	Up 27 places+27	£66,500	-19.39%	130 3.57%	36
TypeScript	56	Down -27 places-27	£100,000	+14.28%	99 2.72%	119
JavaScript	56	Down -35 places-35	£77,500	+6.89%	99 2.72%	94
C++	74	Up 3 places+3	£100,000	-13.04%	75 2.06%	60
Bash	113	Down -1 place-1	£52,500	-36.36%	33 0.91%	24
Go	118	Up 18 places+18	£102,500	-2.38%	28 0.77%	30
Scala	130	Down -24 places-24	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.44%	8
Bicep	132	Up 4 places+4	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.38%	8
C	132	Up 5 places+5	£97,500	+58.95%	14 0.38%	12
PHP	132	Down -5 places-5	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.38%	6
Data Analysis Expressions	133	Up 9 places+9	£67,500	+17.39%	13 0.36%	8
PL/SQL	135	Down -14 places-14	£65,000	-	11 0.30%	2
VB.NET	135	Down -13 places-13	£65,000	-	11 0.30%
VBA	135	Up 1 place+1	£91,000	+21.33%	11 0.30%	12
Rust	135	Up 1 place+1	£100,000	-16.66%	11 0.30%	21
Kotlin	136	Up 4 places+4	£95,000	+31.03%	10 0.27%	15
Shell Script	139	Up 5 places+5	£43,750	-46.96%	7 0.19%	7
Ruby	140	Up 2 places+2	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.16%	7
Perl	140	Up 3 places+3	-	-	6 0.16%	1
ABAP	140	Up 6 places+6	£75,000	-	6 0.16%	3
R	141	Down -12 places-12	£41,032	-31.61%	5 0.14%	19
Kusto Query Language	142	No change0	£45,000	+28.57%	4 0.11%	3
RPG	142	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.11%	1
T-SQL	143	Down -27 places-27	£72,500	-	3 0.082%	8
VC++	143	New entry-	£91,000	-	3 0.082%
Objective-C	143	Up 2 places+2	-	-	3 0.082%