Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	6	-1	£87,500	+10.06%	366 14.80%	261
SQL	12	-3	£75,000	+3.44%	270 10.92%	165
Java	32	+7	£100,000	+11.11%	136 5.50%	54
C#	34	-8	£87,500	+25.00%	133 5.38%	99
TypeScript	46	-17	£100,000	+14.28%	96 3.88%	91
PowerShell	50	+7	£70,000	-6.66%	89 3.60%	24
JavaScript	58	-40	£75,000	+7.14%	78 3.15%	71
C++	79	+31	£100,000	-	56 2.26%	47
Bash	97	+28	£45,500	-51.46%	38 1.54%	29
Data Analysis Expressions	113	+43	£66,250	+33.16%	22 0.89%	3
Rust	116	+41	£140,000	+51.35%	19 0.77%	10
Kotlin	121	+12	£100,000	+25.00%	14 0.57%	7
Scala	122	-5	£97,500	+56.00%	13 0.53%	11
T-SQL	123	-12	£85,000	+30.76%	12 0.49%	9
Bicep	123	+26	£87,500	+25.00%	12 0.49%	4
Go	123	+30	£100,000	+8.10%	12 0.49%	30
VBA	124	+17	£75,000	-	11 0.44%	2
Shell Script	129	+22	£43,750	-58.33%	6 0.24%	1
PHP	129	+17	£60,000	-	6 0.24%	5
C	129	+19	£100,000	+52.27%	6 0.24%	12
R	130	-11	£41,032	-35.63%	5 0.20%	5
RPG	131	-	£85,000	-	4 0.16%	2
Kusto Query Language	131	+25	£45,000	+50.00%	4 0.16%	2
ABAP	132	+30	£75,000	-	3 0.12%
Perl	132	+27	-	-	3 0.12%	3
PL/SQL	133	+11	£80,000	+23.07%	2 0.081%	2
VC++	133	-	£93,000	-	2 0.081%
COBOL	134	+28	-	-	1 0.040%
VB.NET	134	+10	£65,000	-	1 0.040%
Ruby	134	+22	£86,000	-7.02%	1 0.040%	6
Korn	134	+28	-	-	1 0.040%
X++	134	-	£60,000	-	1 0.040%
Groovy	134	+18	£80,000	-23.80%	1 0.040%	2
Apex Code	134	+22	£65,000	-7.14%	1 0.040%	6