Programming Language Statistics in London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	9	-1	£82,500	-5.71%	1,993 13.82%	1,116
SQL	15	-4	£72,500	-3.33%	1,476 10.24%	642
Java	36	-10	£100,000	-	843 5.85%	289
JavaScript	45	-26	£75,000	-11.76%	675 4.68%	301
TypeScript	68	-28	£92,500	-2.63%	541 3.75%	313
C#	72	-21	£80,000	+6.66%	493 3.42%	244
PowerShell	86	-8	£71,250	-5.00%	448 3.11%	141
C++	166	-29	£100,000	+11.11%	244 1.69%	156
Bash	176	+9	£75,000	-6.25%	228 1.58%	117
Go	205	+19	£100,000	-9.09%	179 1.24%	98
Scala	280	+30	£90,000	+5.88%	97 0.67%	59
Rust	284	+24	£100,000	-	93 0.64%	44
Kotlin	285	+16	£95,000	+11.76%	92 0.64%	31
PHP	296	+26	£60,000	+4.34%	81 0.56%	41
R	296	-22	£45,500	-35.00%	81 0.56%	63
C	306	-20	£100,000	+11.11%	71 0.49%	54
T-SQL	316	-77	£80,000	+28.00%	61 0.42%	60
Bicep	324	+52	£82,500	+3.12%	53 0.37%	20
Data Analysis Expressions	332	+48	£67,500	+20.53%	45 0.31%	18
Apex Code	332	+62	£80,000	+14.28%	45 0.31%	15
Delphi	338	+86	£55,200	-15.07%	39 0.27%
Pascal	339	-	-	-	38 0.26%
VBA	341	+4	£52,500	-25.00%	36 0.25%	8
Shell Script	342	+25	£55,000	-22.80%	35 0.24%	7
PL/SQL	347	+39	£60,000	-7.69%	30 0.21%	16
Kusto Query Language	350	+51	£60,000	-7.69%	27 0.19%	10
Perl	356	+23	£72,500	-	21 0.15%	12
Ruby	357	-23	£85,000	+13.33%	20 0.14%	31
Swift	358	+18	£75,000	-	19 0.13%	10
ABAP	363	+58	£75,000	-21.05%	14 0.097%	2
SOQL	365	+62	£82,500	+22.22%	12 0.083%	3
VB.NET	365	+32	£57,500	-11.53%	12 0.083%	1
RPG	367	-	£85,000	-	10 0.069%	2
Groovy	367	+46	£99,250	-5.47%	10 0.069%	3