Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 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	-	422 11.05%	231
SQL	15	Down -5 places-5	£72,500	-	307 8.04%	148
C#	33	Down -4 places-4	£87,500	+7.36%	173 4.53%	101
Java	45	Down -10 places-10	£100,000	+2.56%	135 3.54%	70
PowerShell	48	Up 18 places+18	£65,000	-21.21%	126 3.30%	21
JavaScript	62	Down -36 places-36	£80,000	+6.66%	102 2.67%	72
TypeScript	62	Down -32 places-32	£100,000	+14.28%	102 2.67%	89
C++	77	Down -5 places-5	£100,000	-13.04%	81 2.12%	45
Bash	122	Down -17 places-17	£52,500	-36.36%	32 0.84%	20
Go	126	Up 1 place+1	£102,500	+2.50%	28 0.73%	18
Scala	138	Down -35 places-35	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.42%	1
C	139	Down -7 places-7	£97,500	+58.95%	15 0.39%	8
Bicep	140	Down -9 places-9	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.37%	6
PHP	140	Down -18 places-18	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.37%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	141	Down -4 places-4	£67,500	+17.39%	13 0.34%	4
VBA	142	Down -9 places-9	£80,500	+7.33%	12 0.31%	9
Rust	143	Down -13 places-13	£100,000	-16.66%	11 0.29%	14
PL/SQL	143	Down -27 places-27	£65,000	-	11 0.29%
VB.NET	143	Down -26 places-26	£65,000	-	11 0.29%
Kotlin	145	Down -10 places-10	£95,000	+31.03%	9 0.24%	8
ABAP	147	Down -6 places-6	£75,000	-	7 0.18%	1
Shell Script	147	Down -7 places-7	£64,375	-36.41%	7 0.18%	5
R	148	Down -24 places-24	£41,032	-31.61%	6 0.16%	6
Perl	148	Down -10 places-10	-	-	6 0.16%
T-SQL	148	Down -36 places-36	£72,500	-	6 0.16%	8
Ruby	148	Down -11 places-11	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.16%	8
Kusto Query Language	149	Down -12 places-12	£56,250	+60.71%	5 0.13%	2
RPG	150	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.10%	2
Objective-C	151	Down -11 places-11	-	-	3 0.079%
VC++	151	New entry-	£91,000	-	3 0.079%