Programming Language Statistics in London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Mar 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	7	-1	£82,500	-8.33%	2,176 12.74%	1,211
SQL	15	-2	£72,500	-3.33%	1,533 8.97%	844
Java	36	-5	£96,000	-8.57%	952 5.57%	298
JavaScript	53	-28	£75,000	-9.09%	674 3.95%	324
TypeScript	66	-22	£92,500	-	591 3.46%	312
C#	82	-31	£80,000	+6.66%	504 2.95%	265
PowerShell	88	-12	£70,000	-12.50%	480 2.81%	118
C++	148	-13	£100,000	-4.76%	298 1.74%	133
Go	154	+27	£120,000	+9.09%	283 1.66%	85
Bash	184	+13	£75,000	-9.09%	232 1.36%	81
Rust	264	+8	£100,000	-2.43%	131 0.77%	45
Scala	297	-15	£100,000	+25.00%	97 0.57%	31
PHP	302	-31	£65,000	+13.04%	92 0.54%	28
Kotlin	309	-16	£100,000	+17.64%	85 0.50%	27
C	314	-61	£100,000	+11.11%	80 0.47%	43
R	318	-48	£39,200	-44.00%	76 0.44%	74
Apex Code	338	+21	£73,750	+5.35%	56 0.33%	28
Bicep	342	-6	£85,000	-	52 0.30%	26
T-SQL	346	-101	£70,000	+7.69%	48 0.28%	37
Data Analysis Expressions	352	-6	£62,500	+11.60%	42 0.25%	32
Kusto Query Language	354	+19	£80,000	+14.28%	40 0.23%	7
PL/SQL	354	-24	£62,500	-3.84%	40 0.23%	23
Shell Script	362	-19	£57,500	-14.81%	32 0.19%	25
VBA	366	-48	£71,500	-4.66%	28 0.16%	17
Ruby	369	-67	£85,000	+13.33%	25 0.15%	27
VB.NET	374	-25	£58,750	-9.61%	20 0.12%	2
SOQL	376	+11	£82,500	+37.50%	18 0.11%	4
Delphi	377	+13	£30,000	-52.00%	17 0.100%
Pascal	378	-	£30,000	-	16 0.094%
ABAP	380	+8	£75,000	-	14 0.082%	6
Perl	382	-37	£70,000	-3.44%	12 0.070%	10
Swift	382	-40	£78,750	+16.66%	12 0.070%	14
RPG	383	-	£85,000	-	11 0.064%	5