Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 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	-	416 11.34%	350
SQL	15	Down -5 places-5	£72,500	-3.33%	299 8.15%	240
C#	36	Down -8 places-8	£87,500	+6.06%	166 4.53%	107
Java	46	Down -13 places-13	£100,000	+2.56%	131 3.57%	90
PowerShell	48	Up 23 places+23	£65,750	-20.30%	127 3.46%	29
TypeScript	61	Down -32 places-32	£100,000	+14.28%	100 2.73%	108
JavaScript	63	Down -41 places-41	£77,500	+6.89%	97 2.64%	92
C++	80	Down -1 place-1	£100,000	-13.04%	75 2.04%	55
Bash	118	Down -5 places-5	£52,500	-36.36%	33 0.90%	24
Go	123	Up 14 places+14	£102,500	+2.50%	28 0.76%	24
Scala	135	Down -27 places-27	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.44%	9
C	137	Up 2 places+2	£97,500	+58.95%	14 0.38%	14
PHP	137	Down -8 places-8	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.38%	6
Bicep	137	Up 1 place+1	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.38%	4
Data Analysis Expressions	138	Up 6 places+6	£67,500	+17.39%	13 0.35%	7
PL/SQL	140	Down -17 places-17	£65,000	-	11 0.30%	3
VB.NET	140	Down -16 places-16	£65,000	-	11 0.30%
VBA	140	Down -2 places-2	£91,000	+21.33%	11 0.30%	12
Rust	140	Down -2 places-2	£100,000	-16.66%	11 0.30%	20
Kotlin	141	Up 1 place+1	£95,000	+31.03%	10 0.27%	12
ABAP	144	Up 4 places+4	£75,000	-	7 0.19%	5
Shell Script	144	Up 2 places+2	£43,750	-46.96%	7 0.19%	8
Ruby	145	Down -1 place-1	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.16%	9
Perl	145	No change0	-	-	6 0.16%	2
R	146	Down -15 places-15	£41,032	-31.61%	5 0.14%	19
RPG	147	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.11%	3
T-SQL	147	Down -29 places-29	£75,000	+3.44%	4 0.11%	10
Kusto Query Language	147	Down -3 places-3	£45,000	+28.57%	4 0.11%	2