This data ranks programming languages by relative popularity and additionally provides US employment numbers. The employment numbers only account for the primary language used by developers. All values provided here are estimates based on the available data collected from Indeed and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Data last updated: October 2016
| Language | Rank | Popularity (%) | Jobs | Salary (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| java | 1 | 20.4051 | 688,388 | 71,764 |
| javascript | 2 | 18.3699 | 619,728 | 88,169 |
| c_sharp | 3 | 10.5458 | 355,773 | 82,156 |
| python | 4 | 7.6623 | 258,496 | 87,581 |
| cpp | 5 | 6.7637 | 228,179 | 106,928 |
| c | 6 | 6.7267 | 226,932 | 84,457 |
| php | 7 | 4.2526 | 143,466 | 74,627 |
| ruby | 8 | 3.7821 | 127,593 | 92,856 |
| go | 9 | 3.7360 | 126,039 | 99,392 |
| perl | 10 | 3.0989 | 104,544 | 83,352 |
| d | 11 | 2.1000 | 70,847 | 149,794 |
| visual_basic | 12 | 1.4592 | 49,226 | 75,607 |
| objective_c | 13 | 1.3697 | 46,207 | 89,300 |
| r | 14 | 1.2159 | 41,018 | 115,235 |
| bash | 15 | 1.0808 | 36,463 | 110,921 |
| assembly | 16 | 1.0251 | 34,583 | 96,450 |
| scala | 17 | 1.0053 | 33,914 | 113,431 |
| swift | 18 | 0.9517 | 32,106 | 108,588 |
| groovy | 19 | 0.5471 | 18,457 | 102,915 |
| matlab | 20 | 0.5021 | 16,939 | 75,803 |
| cobol | 21 | 0.4571 | 15,420 | 78,013 |
| typescript | 22 | 0.3231 | 10,900 | NA |
| ada | 23 | 0.3226 | 10,882 | 108,254 |
| forth | 24 | 0.2449 | 8,261 | NA |
| scheme | 25 | 0.2267 | 7,646 | NA |
| vbscript | 26 | 0.2229 | 7,520 | 55,843 |
| clojure | 27 | 0.1688 | 5,694 | 183,705 |
| coffeescript | 28 | 0.1249 | 4,212 | 90,382 |
| actionscript | 29 | 0.1232 | 4,157 | 72,908 |
| fortran | 30 | 0.0927 | 3,127 | 75,647 |
| boo | 31 | 0.0873 | 2,946 | NA |
| vhdl | 32 | 0.0809 | 2,729 | NA |
| erlang | 33 | 0.0782 | 2,639 | 135,225 |
| ecmascript | 34 | 0.0772 | 2,603 | NA |
| lua | 35 | 0.0761 | 2,567 | 48,254 |
| verilog | 36 | 0.0702 | 2,368 | NA |
| labview | 37 | 0.0702 | 2,368 | 89,647 |
| awk | 38 | 0.0691 | 2,332 | NA |
| delphi | 39 | 0.0616 | 2,078 | 90,882 |
| dart | 40 | 0.0611 | 2,060 | 115,843 |
| haskell | 41 | 0.0600 | 2,024 | 96,450 |
| elixir | 42 | 0.0450 | 1,518 | 110,921 |
| jscript | 43 | 0.0434 | 1,464 | 95,323 |
| elm | 44 | 0.0402 | 1,355 | 115,843 |
| f_sharp | 45 | 0.0386 | 1,301 | 68,745 |
| lisp | 46 | 0.0284 | 958 | 106,156 |
| rust | 47 | 0.0209 | 705 | NA |
| julia | 48 | 0.0193 | 650 | NA |
| squirrel | 49 | 0.0166 | 560 | NA |
| ocaml | 50 | 0.0166 | 560 | 68,745 |
| kotlin | 51 | 0.0161 | 542 | NA |
| pascal | 52 | 0.0080 | 271 | NA |
| common_lisp | 53 | 0.0048 | 162 | NA |
| nim | 54 | 0.0032 | 108 | NA |
| haxe | 55 | 0.0000 | 0 | NA |
| vala | 56 | 0.0000 | 0 | NA |
