Programming Language Statistics in London

Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 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%	2,264 11.93%	1,276
SQL	18	Down -5 places-5	£74,000	-1.33%	1,560 8.22%	928
Java	35	Down -6 places-6	£90,000	-14.28%	1,028 5.42%	337
JavaScript	54	Down -29 places-29	£75,000	-9.09%	680 3.58%	292
TypeScript	70	Down -22 places-22	£90,000	-5.26%	603 3.18%	345
C#	78	Down -25 places-25	£82,500	+10.00%	545 2.87%	294
PowerShell	85	Down -11 places-11	£70,000	-12.50%	504 2.66%	119
C++	142	Down -6 places-6	£100,000	-6.97%	327 1.72%	163
Go	155	Up 20 places+20	£110,000	-	305 1.61%	77
Bash	192	Up 8 places+8	£75,000	-9.09%	238 1.25%	90
Rust	287	Down -33 places-33	£100,000	-2.43%	123 0.65%	55
Scala	308	Down -17 places-17	£100,000	+35.59%	102 0.54%	40
PHP	313	Down -37 places-37	£75,000	+25.00%	97 0.51%	30
Kotlin	322	No change0	£100,000	+17.64%	88 0.46%	48
C	323	Down -78 places-78	£72,500	-19.44%	87 0.46%	47
R	339	Down -59 places-59	£32,000	-55.86%	71 0.37%	83
Bicep	347	Down -17 places-17	£84,750	-6.86%	63 0.33%	17
Apex Code	357	Down -6 places-6	£80,000	+18.51%	53 0.28%	27
T-SQL	360	Down -110 places-110	£63,750	-2.85%	50 0.26%	32
PL/SQL	366	Down -34 places-34	£65,000	-	44 0.23%	25
Kusto Query Language	370	Up 2 places+2	£80,000	+18.51%	40 0.21%	7
Data Analysis Expressions	370	Down -30 places-30	£67,500	+18.94%	40 0.21%	28
VBA	378	Down -32 places-32	£91,000	+21.33%	32 0.17%	33
Shell Script	378	Down -45 places-45	£57,500	-13.20%	32 0.17%	24
Ruby	381	Down -69 places-69	£80,000	-	29 0.15%	29
SOQL	389	Down -4 places-4	£82,500	+37.50%	21 0.11%	8
VB.NET	390	Down -41 places-41	£58,750	-9.61%	20 0.11%	3
Perl	396	Down -50 places-50	£75,000	-	14 0.074%	8
ABAP	396	Down -9 places-9	£75,000	+3.44%	14 0.074%	11
Swift	398	Down -57 places-57	£83,750	+24.07%	12 0.063%	11
RPG	399	Down -9 places-9	£85,000	-	11 0.058%	3
Korn	399	New entry-	£75,000	-	11 0.058%	3