Remote IT Employment Market Trends Analysis

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	13	Down 1 place-1	£60,000	+9.09%	2,494 9.79%	2,219
Python	22	Down 8 places-8	£75,000	-	1,982 7.78%	3,365
C#	33	Up 17 places+17	£57,500	-4.16%	1,610 6.32%	866
JavaScript	51	Down 27 places-27	£57,500	-11.53%	1,190 4.67%	714
Java	64	Down 33 places-33	£69,305	-7.59%	998 3.92%	1,158
TypeScript	68	No change0	£66,250	-19.69%	887 3.48%	914
PowerShell	129	Down 43 places-43	£60,000	-	520 2.04%	544
C++	169	Down 52 places-52	£65,000	+27.45%	389 1.53%	688
Go	256	Down 78 places-78	£80,000	-15.78%	226 0.89%	360
PHP	279	Down 75 places-75	£45,000	+20.00%	199 0.78%	181
Bash	282	Down 160 places-160	£57,500	-14.81%	196 0.77%	427
C	293	Down 84 places-84	£60,000	+14.28%	184 0.72%	455
Bicep	327	Down 9 places-9	£80,000	+28.00%	145 0.57%	136
R	340	Down 60 places-60	£85,000	+36.00%	132 0.52%	170
Kotlin	355	Up 6 places+6	£70,000	-6.66%	117 0.46%	180
Ruby	375	Down 54 places-54	£75,000	+11.11%	97 0.38%	101
T-SQL	386	Down 73 places-73	£62,500	+25.00%	86 0.34%	83
Rust	390	Down 194 places-194	£68,825	-42.64%	82 0.32%	234
PL/SQL	394	Down 56 places-56	£63,076	+0.92%	78 0.31%	63
Data Analysis Expressions	404	Down 49 places-49	£57,500	+0.87%	68 0.27%	58
Scala	409	Down 41 places-41	£105,000	+16.66%	63 0.25%	95
Embedded C	415	Down 35 places-35	£65,000	+23.80%	57 0.22%	66
Kusto Query Language	415	Down 22 places-22	£64,000	+0.87%	57 0.22%	52
MATLAB	417	Down 97 places-97	£56,000	-6.66%	55 0.22%	177
Apex Code	421	Down 52 places-52	£65,000	+8.33%	51 0.20%	77
Ada	434	New entry-	£60,000	-	38 0.15%	34
VBA	440	Down 108 places-108	£57,500	+35.29%	32 0.13%	35
Embedded C++	451	Down 50 places-50	£70,000	+50.53%	21 0.082%	34
SOQL	451	Down 63 places-63	£63,750	+2.00%	21 0.082%	19
VB.NET	452	Down 75 places-75	£53,750	+26.47%	20 0.079%	21
Shell Script	452	Down 86 places-86	£62,976	+9.52%	20 0.079%	82
Swift	452	Down 72 places-72	£90,000	+20.00%	20 0.079%	58
Groovy	455	Down 63 places-63	£72,500	-17.14%	17 0.067%	20
SystemVerilog	455	Down 51 places-51	£70,625	-11.71%	17 0.067%	67
RPG	456	Down 58 places-58	£55,000	+89.65%	16 0.063%	18
ABAP	456	Down 84 places-84	£77,500	+19.23%	16 0.063%	34
DataWeave	456	New entry-	£68,500	-	16 0.063%	3