Programming Language Statistics in Berkshire

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	22	Down -4 places-4	£60,000	-9.43%	142 5.62%	28
Python	23	Up 6 places+6	£55,000	-1.01%	133 5.26%	32
Java	50	Up 5 places+5	£80,000	+23.07%	69 2.73%	11
JavaScript	57	Down -23 places-23	£45,000	-41.93%	58 2.29%	13
C#	65	Down -17 places-17	£46,250	-42.18%	49 1.94%	11
PL/SQL	70	Up 14 places+14	£70,000	+3.70%	44 1.74%	5
TypeScript	80	Up 4 places+4	£75,000	-	33 1.31%	8
C++	83	Down -5 places-5	£55,000	+10.00%	30 1.19%	10
C	92	Up 9 places+9	£56,500	+1.68%	21 0.83%	7
Bash	96	Up 10 places+10	£50,000	-3.84%	17 0.67%	9
PowerShell	98	Up 2 places+2	£44,750	-0.55%	15 0.59%	9
Rust	100	Up 13 places+13	£62,500	-40.47%	13 0.51%	2
Ruby	103	Up 10 places+10	£75,000	-28.57%	10 0.40%	1
Shell Script	103	Down -7 places-7	£67,500	+8.00%	10 0.40%	3
PHP	106	Up 2 places+2	£42,000	-45.80%	7 0.28%
ABAP	106	New entry-	£85,000	-	7 0.28%	2
Groovy	107	Up 11 places+11	£82,500	-	6 0.24%	1
Swift	108	Up 11 places+11	£90,000	+5.88%	5 0.20%	2
Kotlin	108	New entry-	£85,000	-	5 0.20%
Ladder Logic	108	New entry-	£53,750	-	5 0.20%
Perl	109	Up 2 places+2	£82,500	-21.42%	4 0.16%
T-SQL	109	Up 10 places+10	£24,500	-45.55%	4 0.16%	2
Pascal	110	New entry-	£56,500	-	3 0.12%
R	110	No change0	£34,500	-67.14%	3 0.12%	3
Search Processing Language	111	New entry-	-	-	2 0.079%	1
Bicep	112	New entry-	£52,500	-	1 0.040%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	112	Up 5 places+5	£57,500	+15.00%	1 0.040%
Go	112	Down -6 places-6	£82,500	-21.42%	1 0.040%	4
Korn	112	New entry-	-	-	1 0.040%
Kusto Query Language	112	Up 7 places+7	£43,500	-30.40%	1 0.040%	1
Apex Code	112	Down -15 places-15	£67,500	+3.84%	1 0.040%	4