Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 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	-	424 11.02%	241
SQL	15	Down -5 places-5	£72,500	-	308 8.01%	148
C#	33	Down -4 places-4	£87,500	+7.36%	174 4.52%	105
Java	43	Down -6 places-6	£100,000	+2.56%	135 3.51%	73
PowerShell	48	Up 19 places+19	£65,000	-21.21%	126 3.28%	19
JavaScript	61	Down -35 places-35	£80,000	+6.66%	102 2.65%	79
TypeScript	61	Down -31 places-31	£100,000	+14.28%	102 2.65%	95
C++	75	Down -2 places-2	£100,000	-13.04%	82 2.13%	50
Bash	122	Down -17 places-17	£52,500	-36.36%	32 0.83%	21
Go	126	Up 2 places+2	£102,500	+2.50%	28 0.73%	25
Scala	138	Down -35 places-35	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.42%	1
C	139	Down -6 places-6	£97,500	+58.95%	15 0.39%	13
Bicep	140	Down -8 places-8	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.36%	6
PHP	140	Down -17 places-17	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.36%	2
Data Analysis Expressions	141	Down -3 places-3	£67,500	+17.39%	13 0.34%	3
VBA	142	Down -8 places-8	£80,500	+7.33%	12 0.31%	9
PL/SQL	143	Down -26 places-26	£65,000	-	11 0.29%
VB.NET	143	Down -25 places-25	£65,000	-	11 0.29%
Rust	143	Down -12 places-12	£100,000	-16.66%	11 0.29%	17
Kotlin	145	Down -9 places-9	£95,000	+31.03%	9 0.23%	9
ABAP	146	Down -4 places-4	£77,500	-	8 0.21%	1
Shell Script	147	Down -6 places-6	£64,375	-36.41%	7 0.18%	7
R	148	Down -23 places-23	£41,032	-31.61%	6 0.16%	7
Ruby	148	Down -10 places-10	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.16%	8
Perl	148	Down -9 places-9	-	-	6 0.16%
T-SQL	148	Down -35 places-35	£72,500	-	6 0.16%	8
Kusto Query Language	149	Down -11 places-11	£56,250	+60.71%	5 0.13%	2
RPG	149	New entry-	£85,000	-	5 0.13%	2
Objective-C	151	Down -10 places-10	-	-	3 0.078%	1
VC++	151	New entry-	£91,000	-	3 0.078%