Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	20	Down -11 places-11	£60,000	+14.28%	198 5.41%	131
Python	39	Down -23 places-23	£67,500	+3.84%	117 3.20%	153
Java	50	Down -8 places-8	£75,000	+15.38%	90 2.46%	71
C#	62	Down -27 places-27	£57,500	-4.16%	70 1.91%	26
JavaScript	72	Down -12 places-12	£60,000	+4.34%	58 1.58%	38
PowerShell	89	Down -41 places-41	£57,500	-20.68%	41 1.12%	33
TypeScript	99	Down -29 places-29	£80,000	+23.07%	31 0.85%	42
Data Analysis Expressions	113	Down -20 places-20	£60,000	+2.12%	17 0.46%	13
PL/SQL	113	Down -23 places-23	£63,076	+20.14%	17 0.46%	1
COBOL	114	New entry-	£55,000	-	16 0.44%
Bash	115	Down -20 places-20	£53,750	-6.41%	15 0.41%	12
JCL	116	Down -19 places-19	-	-	14 0.38%
PHP	116	Down -29 places-29	£31,250	-19.87%	14 0.38%	4
R	119	Down -35 places-35	£65,000	+10.63%	11 0.30%	12
Kotlin	120	Down -24 places-24	£55,000	-15.38%	10 0.27%	8
C	121	Down -24 places-24	£57,500	-	9 0.25%	9
RPG	121	New entry-	£55,000	-	9 0.25%
ABAP	123	Down -46 places-46	£50,000	-9.09%	7 0.19%	4
RPG IV	124	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.16%
Go	124	Down -28 places-28	£80,000	-	6 0.16%	4
Ruby	124	Down -29 places-29	£32,500	-	6 0.16%	4
T-SQL	124	Down -37 places-37	£60,000	-9.09%	6 0.16%	6
RPG III	125	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.14%
RPG/400	126	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.11%
C++	126	Down -31 places-31	£47,988	+91.95%	4 0.11%	20
Shell Script	127	Down -33 places-33	-	-	3 0.082%
Apex Code	127	Down -31 places-31	£62,500	+49.70%	3 0.082%	2
VBScript	128	New entry-	£50,000	-	2 0.055%	1
VB.NET	128	Down -36 places-36	-	-	2 0.055%	2
Pascal	129	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.027%
Groovy	129	Down -63 places-63	-	-	1 0.027%	2
Scala	129	Down -33 places-33	£81,500	+25.38%	1 0.027%	9
Delphi	129	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.027%
VB	129	Down -34 places-34	-	-	1 0.027%
VBA	129	New entry-	-	-	1 0.027%	6
Rust	129	New entry-	£45,000	-	1 0.027%