Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	19	Down -10 places-10	£60,000	+14.83%	202 5.55%	114
Python	41	Down -26 places-26	£67,500	+3.84%	118 3.24%	129
Java	56	Down -15 places-15	£75,000	+17.64%	85 2.33%	72
C#	66	Down -31 places-31	£57,500	-5.34%	71 1.95%	26
JavaScript	74	Down -16 places-16	£58,750	+2.17%	59 1.62%	38
PowerShell	91	Down -46 places-46	£57,500	-20.68%	40 1.10%	26
TypeScript	99	Down -30 places-30	£80,000	+23.07%	32 0.88%	44
PL/SQL	114	Down -26 places-26	£63,076	+20.14%	17 0.47%
Data Analysis Expressions	114	Down -23 places-23	£60,000	+2.12%	17 0.47%	6
Bash	116	Down -23 places-23	£53,750	-6.41%	15 0.41%	9
PHP	116	Down -29 places-29	£37,500	-3.84%	15 0.41%	5
COBOL	117	New entry-	£55,000	-	14 0.38%
JCL	119	Down -24 places-24	-	-	12 0.33%
R	120	Down -38 places-38	£65,000	+10.63%	11 0.30%	9
Kotlin	121	Down -27 places-27	£55,000	-15.38%	10 0.27%	10
C	122	Down -27 places-27	£57,500	-	9 0.25%	9
RPG	122	New entry-	£55,000	-	9 0.25%
T-SQL	124	Down -39 places-39	£55,000	-16.66%	7 0.19%	7
ABAP	124	Down -50 places-50	£50,000	-9.09%	7 0.19%	3
RPG IV	125	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.16%
Go	125	Down -31 places-31	£80,000	+23.07%	6 0.16%	7
RPG III	126	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.14%
Ruby	126	Down -33 places-33	£35,000	-	5 0.14%	6
C++	127	Down -34 places-34	£47,988	+91.95%	4 0.11%	14
RPG/400	127	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.11%
Apex Code	128	Down -34 places-34	£62,500	+49.70%	3 0.082%	2
VBScript	129	New entry-	£50,000	-	2 0.055%
VB.NET	129	Down -39 places-39	-	-	2 0.055%	2
Delphi	130	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.028%
VB	130	Down -37 places-37	-	-	1 0.028%
VBA	130	New entry-	-	-	1 0.028%	5
Rust	130	New entry-	£45,000	-	1 0.028%
Pascal	130	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.028%
Shell Script	130	Down -38 places-38	-	-	1 0.028%	1
Groovy	130	Down -66 places-66	-	-	1 0.028%	2
Scala	130	Down -36 places-36	£81,500	+25.38%	1 0.028%	8