Remote IT Employment Market Trends Analysis

Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Dec 2025	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	11	-1	£55,000	-6.97%	1,693 11.13%	4,219
Python	18	-6	£72,500	-3.33%	1,334 8.77%	5,167
C#	41	-22	£60,000	-	805 5.29%	1,718
JavaScript	46	-31	£60,000	-14.28%	777 5.11%	2,218
Java	53	-20	£70,000	-12.50%	695 4.57%	1,729
TypeScript	66	-37	£75,000	-6.25%	566 3.72%	2,692
PowerShell	109	-12	£60,000	-11.11%	374 2.46%	591
C++	173	-72	£55,000	-8.33%	218 1.43%	997
Bash	191	+5	£67,500	-	196 1.29%	334
PHP	204	-66	£40,000	-20.00%	178 1.17%	830
C	218	-66	£55,000	-12.00%	157 1.03%	546
Go	240	+27	£90,000	-14.28%	133 0.87%	837
T-SQL	267	-53	£48,500	-3.00%	104 0.68%	95
Bicep	276	+103	£60,000	-14.28%	94 0.62%	135
PL/SQL	282	-8	£65,000	+8.33%	88 0.58%	83
R	309	-39	£61,250	+2.08%	61 0.40%	211
Shell Script	311	+44	£55,000	-31.25%	59 0.39%	36
Data Analysis Expressions	312	+92	£54,500	+9.00%	58 0.38%	86
Scala	313	+57	£90,000	+44.00%	57 0.37%	146
Apex Code	314	+107	£60,000	-14.28%	56 0.37%	70
Kotlin	314	-7	£77,500	+29.16%	56 0.37%	237
VBA	323	+49	£57,500	-16.36%	47 0.31%	127
Ruby	326	+21	£67,500	-10.00%	44 0.29%	383
Embedded C	334	+91	£55,000	-8.33%	36 0.24%	72
Swift	340	+68	£75,000	-	30 0.20%	75
ABAP	343	+86	£65,000	+12.55%	27 0.18%	99
Kusto Query Language	348	+62	£55,750	+10.81%	22 0.14%	62
Groovy	348	+85	£77,500	-26.19%	22 0.14%	22
Rust	349	+19	£115,000	+9.52%	21 0.14%	231
VB.NET	350	+13	£51,250	-6.81%	20 0.13%	8
Perl	350	+41	£72,500	-14.95%	20 0.13%	110
SOQL	354	+93	£80,000	+19.85%	16 0.11%	3
Embedded C++	355	+68	£46,500	-31.11%	15 0.099%	51
MATLAB	355	+52	£60,000	-	15 0.099%	52
SOSL	355	-	-	-	15 0.099%	2