Programming Language Statistics in the UK excluding London

Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	24	-5	£57,500	-11.53%	3,776 6.16%	1,815
SQL	30	-18	£50,000	-4.76%	3,709 6.05%	1,576
C#	75	-46	£57,500	-	1,439 2.35%	709
JavaScript	77	-52	£50,000	-16.66%	1,386 2.26%	707
Java	97	-50	£65,000	+8.33%	1,115 1.82%	449
TypeScript	157	-74	£65,000	-	714 1.16%	375
PowerShell	164	-69	£52,500	-	696 1.14%	321
C++	190	-96	£60,000	-4.00%	587 0.96%	483
PHP	230	-88	£50,000	-	481 0.78%	139
Bash	258	-45	£60,000	-9.43%	391 0.64%	170
C	282	-112	£57,500	-0.34%	335 0.55%	382
R	354	-12	£30,500	-46.95%	223 0.36%	178
T-SQL	388	-76	£47,500	-2.06%	189 0.31%	75
Go	440	-182	£62,500	-13.79%	135 0.22%	68
Data Analysis Expressions	448	-46	£47,500	-5.00%	127 0.21%	79
VBA	449	+4	£52,500	+4.07%	126 0.21%	33
Kotlin	465	-56	£70,000	+21.73%	110 0.18%	34
PL/SQL	475	-121	£67,500	+12.50%	100 0.16%	37
MATLAB	485	-184	£52,500	-	90 0.15%	91
Apex Code	486	-49	£60,000	-	89 0.15%	26
Bicep	490	-54	£67,500	-3.57%	85 0.14%	51
Embedded C	497	-55	£55,000	+1.85%	78 0.13%	82
Rust	502	-72	£80,000	+10.34%	73 0.12%	39
Swift	509	-67	£62,500	+4.16%	66 0.11%	10
Groovy	511	-51	£77,500	+40.90%	64 0.10%	23
Scala	520	-80	£65,500	-6.42%	55 0.090%	27
Perl	525	-94	£58,000	-6.45%	50 0.082%	42
Shell Script	526	-110	£57,500	-4.16%	49 0.080%	36
Ruby	537	-122	£75,000	+7.14%	38 0.062%	22
SOQL	538	-	£70,000	-	37 0.060%	5
ABAP	540	-88	£77,500	+40.90%	35 0.057%	21
Delphi	541	-68	£55,200	+16.21%	34 0.056%	10
SOSL	541	-	-	-	34 0.056%	1
Embedded C++	541	-70	£50,000	-13.04%	34 0.056%	36
COBOL	544	-57	£55,000	-35.48%	31 0.051%	2
VB	544	-109	£40,000	-15.78%	31 0.051%	20
Ladder Logic	549	-62	£47,500	-	26 0.042%	10
Kusto Query Language	553	-100	£76,750	+70.55%	22 0.036%	17
Ada	555	-90	£65,000	+13.04%	20 0.033%	24