Remote IT Employment Market Trends Analysis

Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Dec 2025	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	11	-1	£55,000	-8.33%	1,696 11.20%	4,402
Python	18	-6	£72,500	-3.33%	1,335 8.81%	5,765
C#	40	-21	£60,000	-	804 5.31%	1,984
JavaScript	43	-28	£60,000	-14.28%	782 5.16%	2,903
Java	51	-19	£70,000	-12.50%	692 4.57%	1,902
TypeScript	64	-36	£75,000	-6.25%	568 3.75%	3,366
PowerShell	109	-13	£60,000	-11.11%	374 2.47%	783
C++	179	-79	£55,000	-9.46%	214 1.41%	1,264
Bash	192	+12	£67,500	-	195 1.29%	495
PHP	210	-70	£40,000	-20.00%	173 1.14%	1,115
C	222	-63	£55,000	-12.00%	157 1.04%	674
Go	247	+23	£87,500	-16.66%	132 0.87%	932
T-SQL	272	-52	£48,500	-3.00%	106 0.70%	163
Bicep	284	+97	£60,000	-14.28%	94 0.62%	205
PL/SQL	289	-11	£65,000	+8.33%	89 0.59%	103
Scala	311	+60	£90,000	+44.00%	67 0.44%	113
R	317	-44	£61,250	+2.08%	61 0.40%	182
Kotlin	321	-8	£77,500	+29.16%	57 0.38%	259
Data Analysis Expressions	321	+84	£54,000	+8.00%	57 0.38%	99
Shell Script	321	+37	£55,000	-31.25%	57 0.38%	38
Apex Code	322	+101	£60,000	-14.28%	56 0.37%	30
VBA	331	+43	£57,500	-16.36%	47 0.31%	151
Ruby	333	+19	£67,500	-10.00%	45 0.30%	587
Embedded C	342	+85	£55,000	-8.33%	36 0.24%	97
Swift	348	+62	£75,000	-	30 0.20%	86
ABAP	351	+80	£65,000	+12.55%	27 0.18%	76
Kusto Query Language	356	+56	£55,750	+10.81%	22 0.15%	68
Groovy	356	+80	£77,500	-26.19%	22 0.15%	31
Rust	357	+13	£115,000	+9.52%	21 0.14%	254
VB.NET	358	+7	£51,250	-6.81%	20 0.13%	8
Perl	359	+34	£72,500	-14.95%	19 0.13%	145
Embedded C++	363	+62	£46,500	-31.11%	15 0.099%	65
MATLAB	363	+46	£60,000	-	15 0.099%	51
SOQL	363	+86	-	-	15 0.099%	4
SOSL	363	-	-	-	15 0.099%	2