Programming Language Statistics in London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 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%	2,302 11.80%	1,206
SQL	18	Down -5 places-5	£75,000	-	1,563 8.01%	825
Java	35	Down -8 places-8	£90,000	-14.28%	1,033 5.30%	312
JavaScript	57	Down -34 places-34	£75,000	-9.09%	675 3.46%	264
TypeScript	68	Down -19 places-19	£90,000	-5.26%	616 3.16%	287
C#	78	Down -25 places-25	£82,500	+10.00%	549 2.81%	259
PowerShell	85	Down -12 places-12	£70,000	-9.67%	517 2.65%	106
C++	138	Down -13 places-13	£100,000	-6.97%	332 1.70%	142
Go	154	Up 20 places+20	£110,000	-	303 1.55%	73
Bash	191	Up 15 places+15	£75,000	-9.09%	232 1.19%	91
Rust	281	Down -21 places-21	£100,000	-2.43%	119 0.61%	39
PHP	300	Down -16 places-16	£75,000	+25.00%	99 0.51%	17
Scala	300	Up 4 places+4	£100,000	+50.94%	99 0.51%	34
C	316	Down -60 places-60	£65,000	-27.77%	83 0.43%	39
Kotlin	319	Up 12 places+12	£100,000	+17.64%	80 0.41%	33
R	331	Down -57 places-57	£30,500	-59.33%	68 0.35%	74
Bicep	332	Up 9 places+9	£81,500	-7.38%	67 0.34%	23
T-SQL	346	Down -82 places-82	£70,000	+5.46%	53 0.27%	28
Apex Code	347	Up 12 places+12	£80,000	+23.07%	52 0.27%	25
PL/SQL	354	Down -12 places-12	£65,000	-	45 0.23%	19
Kusto Query Language	358	Up 22 places+22	£80,000	+23.07%	41 0.21%	8
Data Analysis Expressions	360	Down -8 places-8	£62,500	+6.38%	39 0.20%	30
VBA	362	Down -4 places-4	£71,500	-4.66%	37 0.19%	25
Ruby	369	Down -48 places-48	£75,000	-6.25%	30 0.15%	19
Shell Script	371	Down -37 places-37	£57,500	-13.20%	28 0.14%	27
VB.NET	377	Down -21 places-21	£58,750	-9.61%	22 0.11%	2
SOQL	377	Up 16 places+16	£82,500	+37.50%	22 0.11%	7
ABAP	384	Up 12 places+12	£77,500	+10.71%	15 0.077%	8
Perl	385	Down -29 places-29	£75,000	-6.25%	14 0.072%	5
RPG	386	Up 12 places+12	£85,000	-	13 0.067%	5
Swift	387	Down -37 places-37	£77,500	+19.23%	12 0.062%	5