Remote IT Employment Market Trends Analysis

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Dec 2025	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	11	-1	£55,000	-5.17%	1,703 11.09%	2,992
Python	18	-6	£72,500	-3.33%	1,345 8.76%	3,312
C#	41	-22	£60,000	-	810 5.27%	988
JavaScript	45	-30	£60,000	-14.28%	787 5.12%	1,697
Java	52	-19	£70,000	-12.50%	698 4.54%	926
TypeScript	65	-36	£75,000	-6.25%	570 3.71%	1,710
PowerShell	108	-12	£60,000	-11.11%	377 2.45%	456
C++	174	-71	£55,000	-8.33%	218 1.42%	815
Bash	189	+14	£67,500	-	197 1.28%	310
PHP	202	-61	£40,000	-20.00%	179 1.17%	502
C	218	-60	£55,000	-12.00%	157 1.02%	592
Go	242	+34	£87,500	-16.66%	132 0.86%	234
T-SQL	266	-47	£48,500	-3.00%	104 0.68%	45
Bicep	276	+107	£60,000	-14.28%	94 0.61%	25
PL/SQL	282	-1	£65,000	+8.33%	88 0.57%	27
R	309	-32	£61,250	+2.08%	61 0.40%	47
Data Analysis Expressions	311	+98	£55,000	+10.00%	59 0.38%	32
Shell Script	311	+49	£55,000	-31.25%	59 0.38%	88
Scala	313	+62	£90,000	+44.00%	57 0.37%	43
Apex Code	314	+112	£60,000	-14.28%	56 0.36%	23
Kotlin	314	+4	£77,500	+34.78%	56 0.36%	73
VBA	323	+54	£57,500	-16.36%	47 0.31%	37
Ruby	326	+27	£67,500	-10.00%	44 0.29%	168
Embedded C	334	+96	£55,000	-8.33%	36 0.23%	175
Swift	340	+75	£75,000	-	30 0.20%	25
ABAP	343	+91	£65,000	+12.55%	27 0.18%	76
Kusto Query Language	348	+67	£55,750	+10.81%	22 0.14%	74
Groovy	348	+90	£77,500	-26.19%	22 0.14%	16
Rust	350	+23	£115,000	+9.52%	20 0.13%	204
Perl	350	+46	£72,500	-14.95%	20 0.13%	96
VB.NET	350	+18	£51,250	-6.81%	20 0.13%	3
SOQL	354	+98	£80,000	+19.85%	16 0.10%	4
Embedded C++	355	+73	£46,500	-31.11%	15 0.098%	77
MATLAB	355	+57	£60,000	-	15 0.098%	37
SOSL	355	-	-	-	15 0.098%	3