Programming Language Statistics in London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 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%	2,284 11.96%	1,179
SQL	18	Down -5 places-5	£75,000	-	1,562 8.18%	846
Java	35	Down -6 places-6	£90,000	-14.28%	1,030 5.39%	301
JavaScript	55	Down -30 places-30	£75,000	-9.09%	681 3.57%	273
TypeScript	71	Down -22 places-22	£90,000	-5.26%	602 3.15%	298
C#	79	Down -27 places-27	£82,500	+10.00%	543 2.84%	254
PowerShell	84	Down -10 places-10	£70,000	-12.50%	513 2.69%	108
C++	138	Down -1 place-1	£100,000	-4.76%	331 1.73%	123
Go	154	Up 29 places+29	£110,000	-	303 1.59%	70
Bash	189	Up 24 places+24	£75,000	-9.09%	236 1.24%	89
Rust	289	Down -17 places-17	£100,000	-2.43%	117 0.61%	36
Scala	305	Down -1 place-1	£100,000	+35.59%	100 0.52%	35
PHP	308	Down -19 places-19	£75,000	+25.00%	97 0.51%	27
C	319	Down -58 places-58	£70,000	-22.22%	86 0.45%	43
Kotlin	322	Up 12 places+12	£100,000	+17.64%	83 0.43%	42
R	335	Down -45 places-45	£31,500	-59.35%	70 0.37%	84
Bicep	338	Up 6 places+6	£83,000	-8.79%	67 0.35%	16
Apex Code	351	Up 12 places+12	£80,000	+18.51%	54 0.28%	26
T-SQL	358	Down -92 places-92	£57,500	-13.20%	47 0.25%	27
PL/SQL	361	Down -15 places-15	£65,000	-	44 0.23%	18
Data Analysis Expressions	363	Down -10 places-10	£62,500	+8.69%	42 0.22%	28
Kusto Query Language	365	Up 20 places+20	£80,000	+23.07%	40 0.21%	10
VBA	371	Down -10 places-10	£73,000	-2.66%	34 0.18%	28
Shell Script	374	Down -31 places-31	£57,500	-14.81%	31 0.16%	23
Ruby	376	Down -52 places-52	£80,000	-	29 0.15%	28
SOQL	383	Up 14 places+14	£82,500	+37.50%	22 0.12%	8
VB.NET	384	Down -23 places-23	£58,750	-9.61%	21 0.11%	2
Perl	391	Down -33 places-33	£75,000	-	14 0.073%	8
ABAP	391	Up 8 places+8	£75,000	+3.44%	14 0.073%	6
Swift	393	Down -39 places-39	£83,750	+28.84%	12 0.063%	9
RPG	394	Up 8 places+8	£85,000	-	11 0.058%	4
Korn	394	New entry-	£75,000	-	11 0.058%	1