Programming Language Statistics in London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	6	No change0	£85,000	-5.55%	2,294 11.79%	1,214
SQL	18	Down -5 places-5	£75,000	-	1,557 8.00%	842
Java	36	Down -8 places-8	£90,000	-14.28%	1,032 5.30%	319
JavaScript	57	Down -32 places-32	£75,000	-7.40%	674 3.46%	270
TypeScript	69	Down -19 places-19	£90,000	-5.26%	614 3.15%	298
C#	78	Down -25 places-25	£82,500	+10.00%	548 2.82%	263
PowerShell	85	Down -12 places-12	£70,000	-9.67%	516 2.65%	110
C++	142	Down -17 places-17	£100,000	-9.09%	334 1.72%	146
Go	160	Up 8 places+8	£110,000	-	305 1.57%	69
Bash	200	Down -3 places-3	£75,000	-9.09%	234 1.20%	96
Rust	286	Down -28 places-28	£100,000	-2.43%	122 0.63%	41
Scala	308	Down -5 places-5	£100,000	+50.94%	100 0.51%	34
PHP	310	Down -26 places-26	£75,000	+25.00%	98 0.50%	17
C	324	Down -71 places-71	£70,000	-22.22%	84 0.43%	41
Kotlin	326	Up 3 places+3	£100,000	+17.64%	82 0.42%	37
R	340	Down -60 places-60	£30,500	-59.33%	68 0.35%	79
Bicep	341	Down -2 places-2	£83,000	-5.68%	67 0.34%	22
T-SQL	356	Down -93 places-93	£70,000	+5.46%	52 0.27%	28
Apex Code	356	No change0	£80,000	+18.51%	52 0.27%	24
PL/SQL	363	Down -23 places-23	£65,000	-	45 0.23%	19
Kusto Query Language	367	Up 12 places+12	£80,000	+23.07%	41 0.21%	8
Data Analysis Expressions	368	Down -19 places-19	£62,500	+8.69%	40 0.21%	29
VBA	372	Down -15 places-15	£73,000	-2.66%	36 0.19%	24
Ruby	378	Down -59 places-59	£75,000	-6.25%	30 0.15%	20
Shell Script	379	Down -45 places-45	£57,500	-14.81%	29 0.15%	26
VB.NET	386	Down -32 places-32	£58,750	-9.61%	22 0.11%	2
SOQL	386	Up 5 places+5	£82,500	+37.50%	22 0.11%	7
ABAP	393	Up 1 place+1	£77,500	+10.71%	15 0.077%	8
Perl	394	Down -41 places-41	£75,000	-3.22%	14 0.072%	5
RPG	395	Up 1 place+1	£85,000	-	13 0.067%	5
Swift	396	Down -48 places-48	£77,500	+19.23%	12 0.062%	6