Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	14	Down -4 places-4	£60,000	+9.09%	200 6.81%	55
Python	21	Up 20 places+20	£60,000	+23.07%	157 5.35%	42
C#	61	Down -28 places-28	£55,000	-4.34%	50 1.70%	15
JavaScript	64	Down -28 places-28	£41,020	-28.66%	47 1.60%	13
Java	65	Down -17 places-17	£50,000	+11.11%	46 1.57%	16
PHP	84	Down -7 places-7	£45,000	-18.18%	27 0.92%	5
R	94	Down -8 places-8	£30,500	-32.22%	17 0.58%	2
TypeScript	96	Down -23 places-23	£62,500	-10.71%	15 0.51%	7
PowerShell	99	Down -29 places-29	£50,500	+1.00%	12 0.41%	5
C	102	Down -6 places-6	£57,500	-14.81%	9 0.31%	1
PL/SQL	102	Down -11 places-11	-	-	9 0.31%	4
Bash	103	Down -8 places-8	£83,774	+15.55%	8 0.27%	7
Data Analysis Expressions	104	Down -20 places-20	£51,022	-2.81%	7 0.24%	4
C++	106	Down -27 places-27	£25,000	-37.50%	5 0.17%	5
RPG	106	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.17%	3
T-SQL	106	Down -13 places-13	£65,000	+13.04%	5 0.17%	2
ABAP	106	Down -26 places-26	£57,500	+4.54%	5 0.17%	2
VBA	107	Down -9 places-9	£63,076	+40.16%	4 0.14%
RPG IV	107	New entry-	£57,500	-	4 0.14%	2
Go	108	Down -15 places-15	£65,000	+13.04%	3 0.10%	4
Apex Code	108	New entry-	£62,500	-	3 0.10%
Rust	108	New entry-	£45,000	-	3 0.10%
RPG III	108	New entry-	£60,000	-	3 0.10%	2
COBOL	109	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.068%
RPG/400	109	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.068%	1
Kusto Query Language	109	New entry-	-	-	2 0.068%
Groovy	109	Down -14 places-14	-	-	2 0.068%
ActionScript 2.0	110	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.034%
ActionScript	110	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.034%
Bicep	110	Down -12 places-12	£56,500	-	1 0.034%