Remote IT Employment Market Trends Analysis

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	11	-3	£60,000	-4.00%	1,695 9.84%	1,097
Python	18	-8	£71,000	-2.06%	1,491 8.66%	974
Java	35	-6	£72,500	-	899 5.22%	337
C#	43	-23	£60,000	-4.00%	792 4.60%	535
JavaScript	48	-33	£60,000	-9.67%	742 4.31%	412
TypeScript	67	-30	£75,000	-	599 3.48%	335
PowerShell	110	-19	£60,000	+2.56%	393 2.28%	176
Go	163	+39	£100,000	-9.09%	270 1.57%	60
C++	181	-92	£63,750	-3.55%	237 1.38%	189
Bash	182	+35	£65,000	-7.14%	232 1.35%	127
PHP	182	-49	£45,000	-14.28%	232 1.35%	86
T-SQL	263	-31	£47,500	-15.17%	135 0.78%	47
Scala	274	+67	£85,000	+36.00%	123 0.71%	36
C	280	-95	£60,000	-0.82%	116 0.67%	117
Apex Code	299	+94	£60,000	-	97 0.56%	21
PL/SQL	315	-38	£65,000	-	81 0.47%	36
Bicep	316	+58	£67,500	-10.00%	80 0.46%	31
R	328	-9	£57,500	-8.00%	68 0.39%	40
Kotlin	328	-20	£75,000	+30.43%	68 0.39%	89
Rust	332	+25	£90,000	-10.00%	64 0.37%	36
Data Analysis Expressions	339	+19	£46,000	-12.38%	57 0.33%	43
Ruby	343	-6	£75,000	+3.44%	53 0.31%	25
VBA	352	+19	£63,076	-14.47%	44 0.26%	24
SOQL	358	+47	£70,000	+21.73%	38 0.22%	2
SOSL	359	-	£70,000	-	37 0.21%
Embedded C	362	+25	£60,000	+11.11%	34 0.20%	22
Shell Script	367	-6	£57,500	-4.16%	29 0.17%	27
Swift	371	-14	£75,000	+11.11%	25 0.15%	17
Groovy	374	+16	£75,000	+46.16%	22 0.13%	18
Kusto Query Language	378	+21	£55,000	-	18 0.10%	14
ABAP	378	+7	£70,000	+27.27%	18 0.10%	4
VB.NET	379	-45	£65,000	+13.04%	17 0.099%	15
Delphi	383	+13	£55,200	+7.18%	13 0.076%	4
Perl	383	-17	£62,500	-26.68%	13 0.076%	13
Embedded C++	385	+12	£50,000	-9.09%	11 0.064%	15