Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	12	Down 5 places-5	£90,000	+5.88%	204 9.71%	364
SQL	19	Down 10 places-10	£80,000	+6.66%	169 8.05%	258
Java	37	Down 13 places-13	£97,500	-	87 4.14%	100
C#	55	Down 23 places-23	£85,000	-	61 2.90%	64
TypeScript	60	Down 5 places-5	£100,000	-5.88%	56 2.67%	106
PowerShell	69	Down 14 places-14	£65,000	-7.14%	47 2.24%	66
JavaScript	70	Down 14 places-14	£77,500	+3.33%	46 2.19%	63
C++	85	Up 1 place+1	£115,000	-8.00%	29 1.38%	51
T-SQL	92	Up 16 places+16	£80,000	-5.88%	22 1.05%	7
Bash	99	Down 10 places-10	£87,500	+40.00%	15 0.71%	26
Rust	100	Up 11 places+11	£100,000	-28.57%	14 0.67%	11
R	100	Up 22 places+22	£112,500	+55.17%	14 0.67%	18
VBA	102	Up 17 places+17	£90,000	+20.00%	12 0.57%	8
Go	104	Up 10 places+10	£100,000	+5.26%	10 0.48%	13
Apex Code	105	Up 17 places+17	£82,500	+26.92%	9 0.43%	8
Bicep	106	Up 17 places+17	£85,000	-	8 0.38%	14
Scala	107	Up 12 places+12	£71,250	-25.97%	7 0.33%	12
DataWeave	107	New entry-	£68,500	-	7 0.33%
Julia	108	New entry-	£132,500	-	6 0.29%
MATLAB	108	Up 15 places+15	£132,500	+76.66%	6 0.29%	2
Ruby	110	Up 13 places+13	£75,000	-14.77%	4 0.19%	6
C	111	Up 12 places+12	£75,000	+7.14%	3 0.14%	12
PHP	111	Up 14 places+14	£92,500	+23.33%	3 0.14%	7
PL/SQL	111	Up 14 places+14	£75,000	-31.81%	3 0.14%	4
SOQL	111	New entry-	£105,000	-	3 0.14%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	112	Down 4 places-4	£67,500	+1.88%	2 0.095%	3
XPath	112	New entry-	£80,750	-	2 0.095%
Perl	112	Up 14 places+14	£110,000	-	2 0.095%	2
RPG	112	New entry-	£100,000	-	2 0.095%	1
VB.NET	112	New entry-	£80,750	-	2 0.095%
SOSL	112	New entry-	£106,250	-	2 0.095%
Kotlin	112	Up 1 place+1	£78,000	-22.00%	2 0.095%	12
SPARQL	112	New entry-	-	-	2 0.095%
Korn	113	New entry-	£135,000	-	1 0.048%	3
Cypher	113	New entry-	-	-	1 0.048%
Tcl	113	New entry-	-	-	1 0.048%	1
Groovy	113	Up 13 places+13	£48,000	-40.00%	1 0.048%	1
SHACL	113	New entry-	-	-	1 0.048%