Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	27	Down 17 places-17	£60,000	+14.83%	184 5.08%	126
Java	43	Up 5 places+5	£70,000	+7.69%	119 3.29%	58
Python	48	Down 36 places-36	£70,000	+7.69%	103 2.85%	124
C#	62	Down 22 places-22	£65,000	+4.00%	78 2.16%	38
JavaScript	84	Down 35 places-35	£75,000	+62.16%	49 1.35%	35
PowerShell	91	Down 36 places-36	£60,000	-17.24%	42 1.16%	26
TypeScript	103	Down 30 places-30	£77,500	+19.23%	30 0.83%	36
JCL	105	Down 4 places-4	-	-	28 0.77%
COBOL	105	New entry-	-	-	28 0.77%	2
Data Analysis Expressions	110	Down 16 places-16	£60,000	+2.12%	23 0.64%	8
Bash	120	Down 22 places-22	£53,750	+7.56%	13 0.36%	14
PL/SQL	121	Down 30 places-30	£63,076	+20.14%	12 0.33%	5
R	121	Down 37 places-37	£41,091	-19.43%	12 0.33%	4
Kotlin	123	Down 24 places-24	£55,000	-15.38%	10 0.28%	2
C	124	Down 23 places-23	-	-	9 0.25%	17
PHP	124	Down 40 places-40	£24,000	-38.46%	9 0.25%	15
T-SQL	124	Down 27 places-27	£55,000	-18.51%	9 0.25%	9
Ruby	125	Down 24 places-24	£30,000	-60.00%	8 0.22%	4
ABAP	125	Down 37 places-37	£62,500	+11.11%	8 0.22%	13
Go	128	Down 29 places-29	£80,000	-	5 0.14%	3
ProC	129	New entry-	-	-	4 0.11%
RPG	129	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.11%	2
Shell Script	130	Down 29 places-29	-	-	3 0.083%	2
C++	130	Down 30 places-30	£47,988	+91.95%	3 0.083%	18
Bicep	130	Down 36 places-36	£59,363	-1.06%	3 0.083%	8
Scala	131	Down 32 places-32	£74,500	+14.61%	2 0.055%	5
VBScript	131	New entry-	£50,000	-	2 0.055%
VB.NET	131	New entry-	-	-	2 0.055%	3
RPG/400	131	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.055%
RPG IV	131	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.055%	2
RPG III	131	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.055%
Delphi	132	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.028%
VB	132	Down 33 places-33	-	-	1 0.028%	1
VBA	132	Down 32 places-32	-	-	1 0.028%
OpenEdge ABL	132	New entry-	£70,000	-	1 0.028%
Ladder Logic	132	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.028%	1
Pascal	132	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.028%