Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 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 11.14%	217
SQL	15	Down -5 places-5	£72,500	-	304 8.07%	134
C#	34	Down -7 places-7	£87,500	+7.36%	171 4.54%	95
Java	45	Down -14 places-14	£100,000	+2.56%	135 3.58%	64
PowerShell	48	Up 16 places+16	£65,000	-21.21%	126 3.34%	16
TypeScript	61	Down -33 places-33	£100,000	+14.28%	101 2.68%	84
JavaScript	61	Down -36 places-36	£80,000	+6.66%	101 2.68%	66
C++	79	Down -7 places-7	£100,000	-13.04%	76 2.02%	43
Bash	117	Down -8 places-8	£52,500	-36.36%	33 0.88%	17
Go	122	Up 10 places+10	£102,500	+2.50%	28 0.74%	26
Scala	134	Down -28 places-28	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.42%	2
C	135	Up 2 places+2	£97,500	+58.95%	15 0.40%	10
PHP	136	Down -9 places-9	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.37%	1
Bicep	136	No change0	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.37%	4
Data Analysis Expressions	137	Up 5 places+5	£67,500	+17.39%	13 0.34%	3
VBA	138	No change0	£80,500	+7.33%	12 0.32%	9
PL/SQL	139	Down -18 places-18	£65,000	-	11 0.29%
VB.NET	139	Down -17 places-17	£65,000	-	11 0.29%
Rust	139	Down -4 places-4	£100,000	-16.66%	11 0.29%	13
Kotlin	141	Down -1 place-1	£95,000	+31.03%	9 0.24%	7
ABAP	143	Up 3 places+3	£75,000	-	7 0.19%	1
Shell Script	143	Up 1 place+1	£64,375	-21.96%	7 0.19%	5
Perl	144	Down -1 place-1	-	-	6 0.16%
T-SQL	144	Down -28 places-28	£72,500	-	6 0.16%	6
R	144	Down -15 places-15	£41,032	-31.61%	6 0.16%	7
Ruby	144	Down -2 places-2	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.16%	7
Kusto Query Language	145	Down -3 places-3	£56,250	+60.71%	5 0.13%	2
RPG	146	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.11%	2
VC++	147	New entry-	£91,000	-	3 0.080%
Objective-C	147	Down -2 places-2	-	-	3 0.080%