Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	19	Down -9 places-9	£60,000	+14.28%	195 5.30%	124
Python	41	Down -24 places-24	£67,500	+3.84%	108 2.94%	148
Java	47	Down -2 places-2	£75,000	+15.38%	95 2.58%	67
C#	67	Down -28 places-28	£57,500	-6.50%	69 1.88%	39
JavaScript	77	Down -18 places-18	£64,653	+20.28%	58 1.58%	45
PowerShell	94	Down -43 places-43	£57,500	-20.68%	41 1.12%	32
TypeScript	105	Down -38 places-38	£80,000	+23.07%	30 0.82%	47
Data Analysis Expressions	116	Down -23 places-23	£57,500	-2.12%	19 0.52%	13
COBOL	118	New entry-	£55,000	-	17 0.46%
PL/SQL	118	Down -30 places-30	£63,076	+20.14%	17 0.46%	2
JCL	119	Down -22 places-22	-	-	16 0.44%
Bash	120	Down -26 places-26	£53,750	-6.41%	15 0.41%	9
PHP	122	Down -34 places-34	£37,500	-3.84%	13 0.35%	5
R	123	Down -39 places-39	£65,000	+10.63%	12 0.33%	12
Kotlin	125	Down -29 places-29	£55,000	-15.38%	10 0.27%	6
RPG	126	New entry-	£55,000	-	9 0.24%
C	127	Down -30 places-30	£57,500	-	8 0.22%	10
ABAP	128	Down -51 places-51	£50,000	-9.09%	7 0.19%	4
T-SQL	129	Down -41 places-41	£60,000	-10.11%	6 0.16%	8
RPG IV	129	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.16%
Go	129	Down -33 places-33	£80,000	-	6 0.16%	5
Ruby	129	Down -33 places-33	£32,500	-	6 0.16%	2
RPG III	130	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.14%
RPG/400	131	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.11%
C++	132	Down -36 places-36	£47,988	+91.95%	3 0.082%	21
Shell Script	132	Down -36 places-36	-	-	3 0.082%	2
Apex Code	132	Down -36 places-36	£62,500	+49.70%	3 0.082%	2
VBScript	133	New entry-	£50,000	-	2 0.054%
VB.NET	133	Down -40 places-40	-	-	2 0.054%	2
Delphi	134	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.027%
VB	134	Down -39 places-39	-	-	1 0.027%
VBA	134	New entry-	-	-	1 0.027%	6
Rust	134	New entry-	£45,000	-	1 0.027%	1
Ladder Logic	134	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.027%
Pascal	134	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.027%
Scala	134	Down -38 places-38	£81,500	+25.38%	1 0.027%	9