Programming Language Statistics in London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 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%	2,312 11.72%	957
SQL	18	Down -5 places-5	£75,000	-	1,560 7.91%	646
Java	35	Down -6 places-6	£90,000	-16.27%	1,030 5.22%	260
JavaScript	59	Down -36 places-36	£75,000	-9.09%	660 3.35%	240
TypeScript	68	Down -17 places-17	£90,000	-5.26%	618 3.13%	250
C#	78	Down -24 places-24	£82,500	+10.00%	559 2.83%	239
PowerShell	86	Down -16 places-16	£70,000	-9.67%	510 2.59%	94
C++	137	Down -10 places-10	£100,000	-9.09%	339 1.72%	116
Go	160	Up 18 places+18	£110,000	-	300 1.52%	65
Bash	197	Up 6 places+6	£75,000	-9.09%	231 1.17%	82
Rust	295	Down -41 places-41	£100,000	-2.43%	119 0.60%	30
PHP	313	Down -33 places-33	£75,000	+25.00%	99 0.50%	14
Scala	316	Down -13 places-13	£100,000	+53.84%	96 0.49%	19
C	327	Down -80 places-80	£67,500	-25.00%	85 0.43%	32
Kotlin	334	Down -7 places-7	£100,000	+17.64%	78 0.40%	33
Bicep	344	Down -8 places-8	£80,000	-9.09%	68 0.34%	15
R	345	Down -78 places-78	£32,500	-56.66%	67 0.34%	61
Apex Code	360	Down -3 places-3	£80,000	+18.51%	52 0.26%	21
T-SQL	361	Down -98 places-98	£70,000	+3.70%	51 0.26%	24
PL/SQL	368	Down -31 places-31	£65,000	-	44 0.22%	10
Kusto Query Language	370	Up 6 places+6	£80,000	+23.07%	42 0.21%	7
Data Analysis Expressions	375	Down -27 places-27	£62,500	+4.16%	37 0.19%	27
VBA	375	Down -19 places-19	£71,500	-4.66%	37 0.19%	18
Ruby	382	Down -64 places-64	£75,000	-6.25%	30 0.15%	18
Shell Script	386	Down -54 places-54	£60,000	-11.11%	26 0.13%	17
VB.NET	390	Down -38 places-38	£58,750	-9.61%	22 0.11%	2
SOQL	391	Down -3 places-3	£82,500	+37.50%	21 0.11%	5
RPG	396	Down -3 places-3	£86,250	-	16 0.081%	2
Perl	397	Down -44 places-44	£71,250	-10.93%	15 0.076%	3
ABAP	397	Down -6 places-6	£77,500	+10.71%	15 0.076%	3
Swift	400	Down -53 places-53	£77,500	+19.23%	12 0.061%	8