Programming Language Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 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	-	420 11.06%	224
SQL	15	Down -5 places-5	£72,500	-	305 8.03%	142
C#	34	Down -9 places-9	£87,500	+8.35%	172 4.53%	100
Java	44	Down -13 places-13	£100,000	+2.56%	135 3.56%	65
PowerShell	47	Up 18 places+18	£65,000	-21.21%	126 3.32%	19
JavaScript	61	Down -38 places-38	£80,000	+6.66%	102 2.69%	67
TypeScript	61	Down -35 places-35	£100,000	+14.28%	102 2.69%	83
C++	79	Down -5 places-5	£100,000	-13.04%	79 2.08%	42
Bash	122	Down -10 places-10	£52,500	-36.36%	32 0.84%	19
Go	126	Up 8 places+8	£102,500	+2.50%	28 0.74%	28
Scala	138	Down -28 places-28	£111,250	+78.00%	16 0.42%	1
C	139	No change0	£97,500	+58.95%	15 0.40%	9
Bicep	140	Down -2 places-2	£87,500	+12.17%	14 0.37%	5
PHP	140	Down -11 places-11	£60,000	-9.43%	14 0.37%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	141	Up 3 places+3	£67,500	+17.39%	13 0.34%	3
VBA	142	Down -2 places-2	£80,500	+7.33%	12 0.32%	9
Rust	143	Down -6 places-6	£100,000	-16.66%	11 0.29%	14
PL/SQL	143	Down -20 places-20	£65,000	-	11 0.29%
VB.NET	143	Down -19 places-19	£65,000	-	11 0.29%
Kotlin	145	Down -3 places-3	£95,000	+31.03%	9 0.24%	6
Shell Script	147	No change0	£64,375	-36.41%	7 0.18%	5
ABAP	147	Up 1 place+1	£75,000	-	7 0.18%	1
R	148	Down -17 places-17	£41,032	-31.61%	6 0.16%	7
Ruby	148	Down -4 places-4	£86,000	-7.02%	6 0.16%	6
Perl	148	Down -3 places-3	-	-	6 0.16%
T-SQL	148	Down -29 places-29	£72,500	-	6 0.16%	7
Kusto Query Language	149	Down -5 places-5	£56,250	+60.71%	5 0.13%	2
RPG	150	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.11%	2
VC++	151	New entry-	£91,000	-	3 0.079%
Objective-C	151	Down -4 places-4	-	-	3 0.079%