Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	6	-1	£87,500	+6.06%	371 14.54%	355
SQL	12	-3	£75,000	+3.44%	270 10.58%	260
C#	40	-13	£87,500	+22.80%	133 5.21%	118
Java	40	+2	£100,000	+11.11%	133 5.21%	87
TypeScript	46	-15	£100,000	+14.28%	100 3.92%	120
PowerShell	53	+10	£70,000	-6.66%	90 3.53%	37
JavaScript	61	-42	£75,000	+3.44%	79 3.10%	90
C++	73	+35	£100,000	-1.23%	62 2.43%	49
Bash	95	+30	£47,500	-47.22%	38 1.49%	37
Data Analysis Expressions	112	+45	£67,500	+35.67%	21 0.82%	6
Rust	114	+44	£140,000	+51.35%	19 0.74%	13
Kotlin	119	+16	£100,000	+25.00%	14 0.55%	9
Go	120	+34	£100,000	+8.10%	13 0.51%	25
Scala	120	-2	£100,000	+60.00%	13 0.51%	12
T-SQL	121	-5	£85,000	+17.24%	12 0.47%	11
Bicep	121	+28	£87,500	+20.68%	12 0.47%	3
VBA	122	+22	£75,000	-	11 0.43%	5
C	125	+24	£100,000	+52.27%	8 0.31%	13
PHP	126	+19	£60,000	-31.42%	7 0.27%	4
Shell Script	127	+27	£43,750	-55.69%	6 0.24%	4
R	128	-6	£41,032	-39.21%	5 0.20%	16
RPG	129	-	£85,000	-	4 0.16%	2
Kusto Query Language	129	+27	£45,000	+50.00%	4 0.16%	2
ABAP	130	+33	£75,000	-	3 0.12%	1
Perl	130	+30	-	-	3 0.12%	4
PL/SQL	131	+13	£80,000	+23.07%	2 0.078%	3
VC++	131	-	£93,000	-	2 0.078%
COBOL	132	+31	-	-	1 0.039%
VB.NET	132	+11	£65,000	-	1 0.039%
Ruby	132	+25	£86,000	-7.02%	1 0.039%	12
Korn	132	+31	-	-	1 0.039%	1
X++	132	-	£60,000	-	1 0.039%
Groovy	132	+23	£80,000	-23.80%	1 0.039%	4
Apex Code	132	+25	£65,000	-7.14%	1 0.039%	7