Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	6	No change0	£85,000	-	414 11.49%	338
SQL	14	Down -4 places-4	£72,500	-3.33%	306 8.49%	242
C#	36	Down -11 places-11	£87,500	+6.06%	166 4.61%	106
Java	45	Down -12 places-12	£100,000	+2.04%	130 3.61%	87
PowerShell	46	Up 25 places+25	£67,000	-18.78%	127 3.52%	36
TypeScript	63	Down -35 places-35	£100,000	+14.28%	99 2.75%	100
JavaScript	64	Down -43 places-43	£77,500	+6.89%	97 2.69%	84
C++	77	Up 4 places+4	£100,000	-13.04%	75 2.08%	46
Bash	115	Down -1 place-1	£52,500	-36.36%	34 0.94%	23
Go	121	Up 17 places+17	£102,500	-2.38%	28 0.78%	24
Scala	133	Down -27 places-27	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.44%	11
Data Analysis Expressions	134	Up 9 places+9	£67,500	+17.39%	15 0.42%	10
Bicep	135	Up 2 places+2	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.39%	3
C	135	Up 3 places+3	£97,500	+58.95%	14 0.39%	11
PHP	136	Down -8 places-8	£60,000	-9.43%	13 0.36%	6
PL/SQL	138	Down -16 places-16	£65,000	-	11 0.31%	4
VB.NET	138	Down -15 places-15	£65,000	-	11 0.31%
VBA	138	Down -4 places-4	£91,000	+21.33%	11 0.31%	9
Kotlin	139	Up 2 places+2	£95,000	+31.03%	10 0.28%	12
Rust	139	Down -2 places-2	£100,000	-16.66%	10 0.28%	16
Shell Script	142	Up 3 places+3	£43,750	-46.96%	7 0.19%	4
Ruby	143	No change0	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.17%	8
Perl	143	Up 1 place+1	-	-	6 0.17%
ABAP	143	Up 4 places+4	£75,000	-	6 0.17%	2
R	144	Down -14 places-14	£41,032	-31.61%	5 0.14%	22
Kusto Query Language	145	Down -2 places-2	£45,000	+28.57%	4 0.11%	1
RPG	145	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.11%	1
Objective-C	146	No change0	-	-	3 0.083%	1
T-SQL	146	Down -29 places-29	£77,500	+5.08%	3 0.083%	11
VC++	146	New entry-	£91,000	-	3 0.083%