Programming Language Statistics in London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 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%	2,286 11.81%	1,243
SQL	18	Down -5 places-5	£75,000	-	1,553 8.03%	909
Java	35	Down -6 places-6	£90,000	-14.28%	1,038 5.36%	331
JavaScript	53	Down -28 places-28	£75,000	-8.50%	674 3.48%	309
TypeScript	66	Down -16 places-16	£90,000	-5.26%	609 3.15%	337
C#	76	Down -23 places-23	£82,500	+10.00%	541 2.80%	275
PowerShell	81	Down -8 places-8	£70,000	-9.67%	512 2.65%	119
C++	140	Down -7 places-7	£100,000	-9.09%	333 1.72%	145
Go	158	Up 20 places+20	£110,000	-	305 1.58%	68
Bash	197	Up 12 places+12	£75,000	-9.09%	235 1.21%	99
Rust	294	Down -29 places-29	£100,000	-2.43%	119 0.62%	42
Scala	311	Down -2 places-2	£100,000	+45.45%	100 0.52%	34
PHP	314	Down -23 places-23	£75,000	+25.00%	97 0.50%	31
C	325	Down -66 places-66	£70,000	-22.22%	86 0.44%	46
Kotlin	326	Up 10 places+10	£100,000	+17.64%	85 0.44%	45
R	342	Down -55 places-55	£31,000	-58.66%	69 0.36%	86
Bicep	344	Up 4 places+4	£83,000	-5.68%	67 0.35%	18
Apex Code	359	Up 6 places+6	£80,000	+18.51%	52 0.27%	27
T-SQL	362	Down -91 places-91	£70,000	+5.66%	49 0.25%	30
PL/SQL	366	Down -17 places-17	£65,000	-	45 0.23%	21
Kusto Query Language	371	Up 17 places+17	£80,000	+23.07%	40 0.21%	10
Data Analysis Expressions	372	Down -14 places-14	£62,500	+8.69%	39 0.20%	31
VBA	377	Down -11 places-11	£73,000	-2.66%	34 0.18%	31
Ruby	381	Down -53 places-53	£75,000	-6.25%	30 0.16%	32
Shell Script	381	Down -38 places-38	£57,500	-14.81%	30 0.16%	24
SOQL	389	Up 11 places+11	£82,500	+37.50%	22 0.11%	9
VB.NET	390	Down -27 places-27	£58,750	-9.61%	21 0.11%	2
ABAP	396	Up 7 places+7	£77,500	+10.71%	15 0.078%	11
Perl	397	Down -35 places-35	£75,000	-3.22%	14 0.072%	7
RPG	398	Up 7 places+7	£85,000	-	13 0.067%	6
Swift	399	Down -42 places-42	£77,500	+19.23%	12 0.062%	8