Programming Language Statistics in London

Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 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%	2,274 11.94%	1,008
SQL	18	Down -5 places-5	£75,000	-	1,563 8.20%	704
Java	34	Down -4 places-4	£90,000	-14.28%	1,026 5.39%	265
JavaScript	53	Down -28 places-28	£75,000	-9.09%	679 3.56%	243
TypeScript	71	Down -21 places-21	£90,000	-5.26%	597 3.13%	279
C#	78	Down -24 places-24	£82,500	+10.00%	543 2.85%	229
PowerShell	85	Down -9 places-9	£70,000	-12.50%	507 2.66%	99
C++	140	Down -2 places-2	£100,000	-4.76%	329 1.73%	114
Go	156	Up 23 places+23	£110,000	-	302 1.59%	59
Bash	195	Up 13 places+13	£75,000	-9.09%	236 1.24%	76
Rust	296	Down -29 places-29	£100,000	-2.43%	116 0.61%	32
Scala	311	Down -10 places-10	£100,000	+35.59%	101 0.53%	28
PHP	316	Down -33 places-33	£75,000	+25.00%	96 0.50%	24
C	327	Down -72 places-72	£70,000	-22.22%	85 0.45%	36
Kotlin	327	Up 4 places+4	£100,000	+17.64%	85 0.45%	48
R	342	Down -54 places-54	£32,000	-57.33%	70 0.37%	60
Bicep	348	Down -9 places-9	£85,000	-6.59%	64 0.34%	13
Apex Code	358	Up 2 places+2	£80,000	+18.51%	54 0.28%	22
T-SQL	364	Down -103 places-103	£63,750	-3.95%	48 0.25%	28
PL/SQL	368	Down -27 places-27	£65,000	-	44 0.23%	21
Data Analysis Expressions	370	Down -21 places-21	£65,000	+14.53%	42 0.22%	20
Kusto Query Language	372	Up 9 places+9	£80,000	+18.51%	40 0.21%	7
VBA	379	Down -23 places-23	£82,000	+9.33%	33 0.17%	22
Shell Script	381	Down -40 places-40	£57,500	-14.81%	31 0.16%	18
Ruby	383	Down -62 places-62	£80,000	-	29 0.15%	26
SOQL	390	Up 4 places+4	£82,500	+37.50%	22 0.12%	6
VB.NET	392	Down -34 places-34	£58,750	-9.61%	20 0.11%	3
Perl	398	Down -43 places-43	£75,000	-	14 0.074%	6
ABAP	398	Down -2 places-2	£75,000	+3.44%	14 0.074%	5
Swift	400	Down -50 places-50	£83,750	+24.07%	12 0.063%	11
RPG	401	Down -2 places-2	£85,000	-	11 0.058%	1
Korn	401	New entry-	£75,000	-	11 0.058%