Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 7 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	19	Down -12 places-12	£60,000	+9.09%	199 5.83%	40
Python	32	Down -15 places-15	£65,000	-3.70%	124 3.63%	66
C#	63	Down -32 places-32	£57,500	-4.16%	66 1.93%	12
Java	63	Down -21 places-21	£72,539	+11.59%	66 1.93%	23
JavaScript	84	Down -28 places-28	£57,500	-4.16%	45 1.32%	14
PHP	100	Down -13 places-13	£45,000	+50.00%	29 0.85%	1
PowerShell	101	Down -56 places-56	£55,000	-8.33%	28 0.82%	11
TypeScript	107	Down -37 places-37	£85,000	+30.76%	22 0.64%	20
Data Analysis Expressions	115	Down -17 places-17	£57,500	+4.54%	14 0.41%	2
PL/SQL	115	Down -25 places-25	-	-	14 0.41%
Bash	116	Down -20 places-20	£50,000	-19.95%	13 0.38%	2
C	120	Down -23 places-23	£57,500	-14.81%	9 0.26%	2
RPG	120	New entry-	£55,000	-	9 0.26%
ABAP	120	Down -49 places-49	£90,000	+63.63%	9 0.26%
COBOL	122	New entry-	£55,000	-	7 0.20%	1
Go	123	Down -27 places-27	£80,000	+48.83%	6 0.18%	2
T-SQL	123	Down -30 places-30	£50,000	-13.04%	6 0.18%	2
RPG IV	123	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.18%
R	123	Down -35 places-35	£65,000	-	6 0.18%	6
JCL	124	Down -25 places-25	-	-	5 0.15%	1
RPG III	124	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.15%
RPG/400	125	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.12%
Apex Code	126	Down -28 places-28	£62,500	+49.70%	3 0.088%	2
C++	126	Down -33 places-33	£25,000	-	3 0.088%	5
Rust	126	New entry-	£45,000	-	3 0.088%
VB.NET	127	Down -33 places-33	-	-	2 0.059%
Kotlin	127	Down -30 places-30	£55,000	-15.38%	2 0.059%	6
Pascal	128	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.029%
Groovy	128	Down -60 places-60	-	-	1 0.029%
Ruby	128	Down -32 places-32	£35,000	-	1 0.029%	3
Scala	128	Down -31 places-31	£81,500	+25.38%	1 0.029%	2
Delphi	128	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.029%	1
VBScript	128	New entry-	£50,000	-	1 0.029%
VB	128	Down -31 places-31	-	-	1 0.029%
VBA	128	Down -29 places-29	-	-	1 0.029%	1
Bicep	128	Down -35 places-35	£56,500	-5.83%	1 0.029%	3