Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	6	No change0	£85,000	-	415 11.57%	324
SQL	13	Down -3 places-3	£72,500	-3.33%	304 8.48%	240
C#	32	Down -7 places-7	£87,500	+6.06%	167 4.66%	108
Java	42	Down -8 places-8	£100,000	+2.56%	130 3.62%	81
PowerShell	44	Up 24 places+24	£67,500	-18.18%	126 3.51%	34
TypeScript	60	Down -32 places-32	£100,000	+14.28%	102 2.84%	97
JavaScript	63	Down -42 places-42	£75,000	+3.44%	97 2.70%	80
C++	82	Down -4 places-4	£100,000	-13.04%	74 2.06%	46
Bash	116	Down -6 places-6	£52,500	-36.36%	35 0.98%	19
Go	123	Up 11 places+11	£102,500	-2.38%	28 0.78%	24
Scala	135	Down -34 places-34	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.45%	11
Data Analysis Expressions	136	Up 3 places+3	£67,500	+17.39%	15 0.42%	10
C	137	Down -3 places-3	£97,500	+58.95%	14 0.39%	10
Bicep	138	Down -5 places-5	£86,250	+10.57%	13 0.36%	3
PHP	138	Down -14 places-14	£60,000	-9.43%	13 0.36%	5
Rust	139	Down -6 places-6	£110,000	-8.33%	12 0.33%	14
Kotlin	140	Down -3 places-3	£97,500	+34.48%	11 0.31%	11
PL/SQL	140	Down -22 places-22	£65,000	-	11 0.31%	3
VB.NET	140	Down -21 places-21	£65,000	-	11 0.31%
VBA	140	Down -10 places-10	£91,000	+21.33%	11 0.31%	10
Shell Script	144	Down -3 places-3	£43,750	-46.96%	7 0.20%	3
Ruby	145	Down -6 places-6	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.17%	8
Perl	145	Down -5 places-5	-	-	6 0.17%
ABAP	145	Down -2 places-2	£75,000	-	6 0.17%	2
R	146	Down -21 places-21	£41,032	-31.61%	5 0.14%	19
Kusto Query Language	147	Down -8 places-8	£45,000	+28.57%	4 0.11%	1
RPG	147	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.11%	1
Objective-C	148	Down -6 places-6	-	-	3 0.084%	1
T-SQL	148	Down -34 places-34	£77,500	+6.89%	3 0.084%	12
VC++	148	New entry-	£91,000	-	3 0.084%