Programming Language Statistics in Berkshire

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	26	Up 13 places+13	£60,000	+26.31%	133 4.39%	42
SQL	27	Down -2 places-2	£57,500	-11.53%	132 4.36%	43
Java	60	Down -10 places-10	£85,000	+30.76%	63 2.08%	19
JavaScript	64	Down -14 places-14	£50,000	-28.57%	58 1.92%	22
C#	71	Up 3 places+3	£55,000	-33.33%	51 1.68%	28
TypeScript	75	Up 50 places+50	£65,000	-16.12%	46 1.52%	7
PowerShell	83	Up 28 places+28	£48,500	+5.43%	35 1.16%	10
PL/SQL	85	Up 14 places+14	£75,000	+15.38%	33 1.09%	3
C++	90	Up 28 places+28	£53,750	+7.50%	28 0.92%	17
C	91	Up 43 places+43	£59,500	+7.08%	27 0.89%	10
Bash	92	Up 36 places+36	£63,750	+14.73%	26 0.86%	4
Shell Script	101	Up 13 places+13	£65,000	-	17 0.56%	2
Ruby	103	New entry-	£100,000	-	15 0.50%
Rust	103	New entry-	£75,000	-	15 0.50%	6
Swift	108	Up 27 places+27	£90,000	+5.88%	10 0.33%
Kusto Query Language	109	Up 24 places+24	£52,500	-16.00%	9 0.30%	1
PHP	109	Up 21 places+21	£37,500	-36.17%	9 0.30%	1
Groovy	110	Up 23 places+23	£82,500	-	8 0.26%
ABAP	110	New entry-	£85,000	-	8 0.26%
Search Processing Language	111	New entry-	£75,000	-	7 0.23%
Apex Code	112	No change0	£55,000	-15.38%	6 0.20%	5
Kotlin	113	New entry-	£85,000	-	5 0.17%	2
T-SQL	113	Up 21 places+21	£45,000	-14.28%	5 0.17%
Perl	114	Up 19 places+19	£82,500	-	4 0.13%
Pascal	115	New entry-	£56,500	-	3 0.099%
SAS Macro	115	New entry-	-	-	3 0.099%
Data Analysis Expressions	116	Up 18 places+18	£64,000	+28.00%	2 0.066%	4
R	116	Up 13 places+13	£34,500	-68.63%	2 0.066%	4
Ladder Logic	116	New entry-	£53,750	-	2 0.066%	1