Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 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%	369 14.41%	335
SQL	12	-3	£74,500	+2.75%	270 10.55%	254
C#	37	-10	£88,750	+26.78%	132 5.16%	117
Java	37	+5	£100,000	+11.11%	132 5.16%	87
TypeScript	44	-14	£100,000	+14.28%	101 3.95%	117
PowerShell	53	+7	£70,000	-6.66%	89 3.48%	35
JavaScript	63	-44	£75,000	+3.44%	77 3.01%	87
C++	74	+28	£100,000	-2.43%	62 2.42%	48
Bash	97	+22	£47,500	-47.22%	38 1.48%	37
Data Analysis Expressions	114	+38	£67,500	+35.67%	21 0.82%	5
Rust	116	+37	£140,000	+51.35%	19 0.74%	12
Kotlin	121	+9	£100,000	+25.00%	14 0.55%	10
Go	122	+27	£100,000	+8.10%	13 0.51%	24
Scala	122	-8	£100,000	+60.00%	13 0.51%	12
T-SQL	123	-12	£85,000	+17.24%	12 0.47%	11
Bicep	123	+21	£87,500	+20.68%	12 0.47%	3
VBA	124	+15	£75,000	-	11 0.43%	6
C	127	+17	£100,000	+52.27%	8 0.31%	16
PHP	128	+12	£60,000	-31.42%	7 0.27%	4
Shell Script	129	+22	£43,750	-50.00%	6 0.23%	5
R	130	-13	£41,032	-39.21%	5 0.20%	14
RPG	131	-	£85,000	-	4 0.16%	2
Kusto Query Language	131	+20	£45,000	+50.00%	4 0.16%	2
ABAP	132	+26	£75,000	-	3 0.12%	1
Perl	132	+23	-	-	3 0.12%	3
PL/SQL	133	+6	£80,000	+23.07%	2 0.078%	3
VC++	133	-	£93,000	-	2 0.078%
COBOL	134	+24	-	-	1 0.039%
VB.NET	134	+4	£65,000	-	1 0.039%
Ruby	134	+18	£86,000	-7.02%	1 0.039%	10
Korn	134	+24	-	-	1 0.039%	1
X++	134	-	£60,000	-	1 0.039%
Groovy	134	+18	£80,000	-3.03%	1 0.039%	4
Apex Code	134	+19	£65,000	+4.00%	1 0.039%	8