Remote IT Employment Market Trends Analysis

Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	12	-4	£60,000	-4.00%	1,662 9.77%	1,097
Python	19	-9	£71,250	-4.83%	1,478 8.69%	974
Java	36	-6	£72,500	-	893 5.25%	337
C#	43	-24	£60,000	-4.00%	776 4.56%	535
JavaScript	47	-32	£60,000	-9.77%	744 4.37%	412
TypeScript	67	-31	£74,250	-1.00%	598 3.52%	335
PowerShell	113	-21	£60,000	+2.56%	382 2.25%	176
Go	160	+32	£100,000	-9.09%	270 1.59%	60
C++	179	-89	£65,000	-1.66%	232 1.36%	189
PHP	182	-55	£45,000	-14.28%	229 1.35%	86
Bash	182	+25	£65,000	-7.14%	229 1.35%	127
T-SQL	256	-37	£47,500	-15.17%	132 0.78%	47
Scala	262	+58	£85,000	+36.00%	126 0.74%	36
C	272	-94	£60,000	-	115 0.68%	117
Apex Code	287	+86	£60,000	-	99 0.58%	21
PL/SQL	305	-53	£66,250	+1.92%	81 0.48%	36
Bicep	307	+49	£67,500	-10.00%	79 0.46%	31
Kotlin	316	-30	£74,500	+26.80%	70 0.41%	89
R	317	-18	£58,750	-6.00%	69 0.41%	40
Rust	321	+17	£90,000	-10.00%	65 0.38%	36
Data Analysis Expressions	330	+8	£47,250	-10.00%	56 0.33%	43
Ruby	334	-18	£75,000	+3.44%	52 0.31%	25
VBA	344	+7	£63,076	-14.47%	42 0.25%	24
SOQL	344	+41	£70,000	+21.73%	42 0.25%	2
SOSL	344	-	£70,000	-	42 0.25%
Embedded C	353	+15	£60,000	+11.11%	33 0.19%	22
Shell Script	356	-19	£57,500	-4.16%	30 0.18%	27
Swift	361	-25	£75,000	+11.11%	25 0.15%	17
Groovy	364	+7	£75,000	+42.85%	22 0.13%	18
VB.NET	368	-55	£65,000	+18.18%	18 0.11%	15
ABAP	368	-3	£70,000	+27.27%	18 0.11%	4
Kusto Query Language	369	+10	£55,000	-	17 0.100%	14
Delphi	373	+3	£55,200	+7.18%	13 0.076%	4
Perl	373	-26	£62,500	-28.67%	13 0.076%	13