Programming Language Statistics in London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 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%	2,319 11.72%	985
SQL	18	Down -5 places-5	£75,000	-	1,563 7.90%	667
Java	34	Down -6 places-6	£90,000	-16.27%	1,032 5.21%	282
JavaScript	58	Down -36 places-36	£75,000	-9.09%	660 3.34%	244
TypeScript	65	Down -14 places-14	£90,000	-5.26%	621 3.14%	246
C#	75	Down -22 places-22	£82,500	+10.00%	562 2.84%	238
PowerShell	85	Down -15 places-15	£70,000	-9.67%	510 2.58%	92
C++	138	Down -15 places-15	£100,000	-9.09%	341 1.72%	123
Go	164	Up 10 places+10	£110,000	-	300 1.52%	71
Bash	199	Up 3 places+3	£75,000	-9.09%	231 1.17%	82
Rust	297	Down -41 places-41	£100,000	-2.43%	119 0.60%	35
PHP	316	Down -34 places-34	£75,000	+25.00%	99 0.50%	14
Scala	320	Down -15 places-15	£100,000	+53.84%	95 0.48%	23
C	330	Down -81 places-81	£67,500	-25.00%	85 0.43%	34
Kotlin	338	Down -9 places-9	£100,000	+17.64%	77 0.39%	33
Bicep	347	Down -9 places-9	£80,000	-9.09%	68 0.34%	16
R	348	Down -79 places-79	£32,500	-56.66%	67 0.34%	61
Apex Code	363	Down -4 places-4	£80,000	+18.51%	52 0.26%	21
T-SQL	364	Down -99 places-99	£70,000	+3.70%	51 0.26%	24
PL/SQL	371	Down -32 places-32	£65,000	-	44 0.22%	11
Kusto Query Language	373	Up 5 places+5	£80,000	+23.07%	42 0.21%	7
VBA	377	Down -19 places-19	£73,000	-2.66%	38 0.19%	18
Data Analysis Expressions	378	Down -28 places-28	£62,500	+4.16%	37 0.19%	25
Ruby	385	Down -65 places-65	£75,000	-6.25%	30 0.15%	17
Shell Script	389	Down -55 places-55	£60,000	-11.11%	26 0.13%	18
VB.NET	393	Down -39 places-39	£58,750	-9.61%	22 0.11%	2
SOQL	394	Down -4 places-4	£82,500	+37.50%	21 0.11%	5
RPG	398	Down -3 places-3	£87,500	-	17 0.086%	2
ABAP	399	Down -6 places-6	£80,000	+14.28%	16 0.081%	3
Perl	400	Down -45 places-45	£71,250	-10.93%	15 0.076%	3
Swift	403	Down -54 places-54	£77,500	+19.23%	12 0.061%	8