Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	16	Down -7 places-7	£60,000	+12.14%	200 6.49%	39
Python	27	Up 3 places+3	£65,000	-3.70%	127 4.12%	40
Java	63	Down -21 places-21	£70,079	+16.79%	55 1.78%	9
C#	68	Down -35 places-35	£55,000	-8.33%	50 1.62%	14
JavaScript	81	Down -27 places-27	£57,500	-8.00%	37 1.20%	18
PHP	91	Down -7 places-7	£45,000	+24.13%	27 0.88%	1
PowerShell	99	Down -51 places-51	£52,500	-8.69%	19 0.62%	9
TypeScript	105	Down -26 places-26	£70,000	+3.70%	13 0.42%	10
PL/SQL	107	Down -18 places-18	-	-	11 0.36%	2
R	108	Down -14 places-14	£65,000	+44.44%	10 0.32%	4
Bash	109	Down -12 places-12	£66,887	-0.90%	9 0.29%	6
RPG	109	New entry-	£55,000	-	9 0.29%
Data Analysis Expressions	110	Down -15 places-15	£57,500	+2.22%	8 0.26%	3
ABAP	111	Down -32 places-32	£90,000	+63.63%	7 0.23%	3
C	111	Down -14 places-14	£57,500	-14.81%	7 0.23%	7
T-SQL	112	Down -17 places-17	£50,000	-13.04%	6 0.19%	1
RPG IV	112	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.19%
RPG III	113	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.16%
VBA	114	Down -14 places-14	£63,076	+40.16%	4 0.13%	1
RPG/400	114	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.13%
Rust	115	New entry-	£45,000	-	3 0.097%
Go	115	Down -19 places-19	£62,500	+16.27%	3 0.097%	3
Apex Code	115	Down -16 places-16	£62,500	+49.70%	3 0.097%	2
C++	115	Down -26 places-26	£25,000	-	3 0.097%	7
VB.NET	116	Down -21 places-21	-	-	2 0.065%
Groovy	116	Down -41 places-41	-	-	2 0.065%
COBOL	116	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.065%
VBScript	117	New entry-	£50,000	-	1 0.032%
VB	117	Down -20 places-20	-	-	1 0.032%
Bicep	117	Down -21 places-21	£56,500	-5.83%	1 0.032%	4
Pascal	117	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.032%
Scala	117	Down -17 places-17	£81,500	+12.41%	1 0.032%
Delphi	117	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.032%	1