Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 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	-	419 11.27%	345
SQL	15	Down -5 places-5	£72,500	-	300 8.07%	236
C#	35	Down -7 places-7	£87,500	+6.70%	168 4.52%	108
Java	45	Down -10 places-10	£100,000	+2.56%	131 3.52%	86
PowerShell	47	Up 21 places+21	£65,750	-20.30%	127 3.42%	27
TypeScript	64	Down -35 places-35	£100,000	+14.28%	101 2.72%	108
JavaScript	66	Down -44 places-44	£80,000	+8.47%	99 2.66%	93
C++	86	Down -10 places-10	£100,000	-13.04%	76 2.04%	57
Bash	126	Down -17 places-17	£52,500	-36.36%	33 0.89%	23
Go	131	Up 2 places+2	£102,500	+2.50%	28 0.75%	33
Scala	143	Down -38 places-38	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.43%	8
C	145	Down -9 places-9	£97,500	+58.95%	14 0.38%	15
PHP	145	Down -19 places-19	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.38%	5
Bicep	145	Down -10 places-10	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.38%	4
Data Analysis Expressions	146	Down -5 places-5	£67,500	+17.39%	13 0.35%	8
PL/SQL	148	Down -28 places-28	£65,000	-	11 0.30%	3
VB.NET	148	Down -27 places-27	£65,000	-	11 0.30%
VBA	148	Down -12 places-12	£91,000	+21.33%	11 0.30%	12
Rust	148	Down -14 places-14	£100,000	-16.66%	11 0.30%	19
Kotlin	149	Down -10 places-10	£95,000	+31.03%	10 0.27%	10
Shell Script	151	Down -8 places-8	£43,750	-46.96%	8 0.22%	9
ABAP	152	Down -7 places-7	£75,000	-	7 0.19%	4
Ruby	153	Down -12 places-12	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.16%	7
Perl	153	Down -11 places-11	-	-	6 0.16%	1
R	154	Down -26 places-26	£41,032	-31.61%	5 0.13%	21
RPG	155	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.11%	2
T-SQL	155	Down -40 places-40	£75,000	+3.44%	4 0.11%	9
Kusto Query Language	155	Down -14 places-14	£45,000	+28.57%	4 0.11%	2