Programming Language Statistics in London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 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%	2,293 11.82%	1,258
SQL	18	Down -5 places-5	£75,000	-	1,555 8.01%	905
Java	35	Down -6 places-6	£90,000	-14.28%	1,040 5.36%	327
JavaScript	56	Down -31 places-31	£75,000	-7.91%	675 3.48%	312
TypeScript	68	Down -17 places-17	£90,000	-5.26%	613 3.16%	331
C#	78	Down -24 places-24	£82,500	+10.00%	547 2.82%	272
PowerShell	85	Down -11 places-11	£70,000	-9.67%	515 2.65%	118
C++	137	Down -4 places-4	£100,000	-9.09%	335 1.73%	144
Go	153	Up 24 places+24	£110,000	-	305 1.57%	78
Bash	194	Up 12 places+12	£75,000	-9.09%	236 1.22%	102
Rust	287	Down -23 places-23	£100,000	-2.43%	119 0.61%	40
Scala	306	Up 1 place+1	£100,000	+45.45%	100 0.52%	35
PHP	309	Down -19 places-19	£75,000	+25.00%	97 0.50%	28
C	320	Down -60 places-60	£70,000	-22.22%	86 0.44%	44
Kotlin	321	Up 13 places+13	£100,000	+17.64%	85 0.44%	43
R	337	Down -51 places-51	£31,000	-58.66%	69 0.36%	88
Bicep	339	Up 7 places+7	£83,000	-5.68%	67 0.35%	20
Apex Code	354	Up 9 places+9	£80,000	+18.51%	52 0.27%	26
T-SQL	356	Down -87 places-87	£70,000	+5.46%	50 0.26%	29
PL/SQL	361	Down -14 places-14	£65,000	-	45 0.23%	22
Kusto Query Language	365	Up 21 places+21	£80,000	+23.07%	41 0.21%	10
Data Analysis Expressions	367	Down -11 places-11	£62,500	+8.69%	39 0.20%	31
VBA	371	Down -7 places-7	£82,000	+9.33%	35 0.18%	31
Ruby	376	Down -50 places-50	£75,000	-6.25%	30 0.15%	31
Shell Script	376	Down -35 places-35	£57,500	-14.81%	30 0.15%	25
SOQL	384	Up 14 places+14	£82,500	+37.50%	22 0.11%	9
VB.NET	385	Down -24 places-24	£58,750	-9.61%	21 0.11%	2
ABAP	391	Up 10 places+10	£77,500	+10.71%	15 0.077%	10
Perl	392	Down -32 places-32	£75,000	-3.22%	14 0.072%	6
RPG	393	Up 10 places+10	£85,000	-	13 0.067%	6
Swift	394	Down -39 places-39	£77,500	+19.23%	12 0.062%	10