Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 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	-	417 11.29%	343
SQL	15	Down -5 places-5	£72,500	-	299 8.10%	237
C#	36	Down -9 places-9	£87,500	+6.70%	166 4.50%	106
Java	45	Down -11 places-11	£100,000	+2.56%	131 3.55%	87
PowerShell	46	Up 22 places+22	£65,750	-20.30%	127 3.44%	29
TypeScript	62	Down -34 places-34	£100,000	+14.28%	100 2.71%	106
JavaScript	64	Down -42 places-42	£78,750	+6.77%	98 2.65%	92
C++	84	Down -9 places-9	£100,000	-13.04%	75 2.03%	54
Bash	123	Down -13 places-13	£52,500	-36.36%	33 0.89%	25
Go	128	Up 6 places+6	£102,500	+2.50%	28 0.76%	21
Scala	140	Down -34 places-34	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.43%	9
Bicep	142	Down -6 places-6	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.38%	5
C	142	Down -5 places-5	£97,500	+58.95%	14 0.38%	14
PHP	142	Down -15 places-15	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.38%	5
Data Analysis Expressions	143	Down -1 place-1	£67,500	+17.39%	13 0.35%	7
Rust	145	Down -10 places-10	£100,000	-16.66%	11 0.30%	20
PL/SQL	145	Down -24 places-24	£65,000	-	11 0.30%	3
VB.NET	145	Down -23 places-23	£65,000	-	11 0.30%
VBA	145	Down -8 places-8	£91,000	+21.33%	11 0.30%	12
Kotlin	146	Down -6 places-6	£95,000	+31.03%	10 0.27%	11
Shell Script	148	Down -4 places-4	£43,750	-46.96%	8 0.22%	8
ABAP	149	Down -3 places-3	£75,000	-	7 0.19%	5
Ruby	150	Down -8 places-8	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.16%	9
Perl	150	Down -7 places-7	-	-	6 0.16%	2
R	151	Down -22 places-22	£41,032	-31.61%	5 0.14%	18
Kusto Query Language	152	Down -10 places-10	£45,000	+28.57%	4 0.11%	2
RPG	152	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.11%	2
T-SQL	152	Down -35 places-35	£75,000	+3.44%	4 0.11%	10