Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	14	Down -5 places-5	£60,000	+9.09%	189 6.50%	64
Python	18	Up 33 places+33	£60,000	+20.00%	164 5.64%	47
C#	63	Down -24 places-24	£55,000	-4.34%	47 1.62%	15
JavaScript	67	Down -27 places-27	£42,039	-26.88%	43 1.48%	19
Java	68	Down -7 places-7	£50,000	+11.11%	41 1.41%	15
PHP	82	Up 4 places+4	£45,000	-18.18%	27 0.93%	3
R	92	Up 2 places+2	£30,500	-32.22%	17 0.59%	3
TypeScript	95	Down -14 places-14	£60,000	-14.28%	14 0.48%	12
PowerShell	98	Down -16 places-16	£48,500	-3.00%	11 0.38%	6
C	100	Up 5 places+5	£57,500	-14.81%	9 0.31%	2
Bash	103	Up 1 place+1	£83,774	+15.55%	6 0.21%	5
ABAP	103	Down -13 places-13	£57,500	+4.54%	6 0.21%
C++	104	Down -17 places-17	£25,000	-37.50%	5 0.17%	5
PL/SQL	104	Down -8 places-8	-	-	5 0.17%	4
T-SQL	104	Down -2 places-2	£65,000	+13.04%	5 0.17%	1
VBA	105	Up 2 places+2	£63,076	+40.16%	4 0.14%
Data Analysis Expressions	106	Down -13 places-13	£40,000	-23.80%	3 0.10%	5
Go	106	Down -4 places-4	£65,000	+13.04%	3 0.10%	3
Apex Code	106	New entry-	£62,500	-	3 0.10%
Rust	106	New entry-	£45,000	-	3 0.10%
Groovy	107	Down -2 places-2	-	-	2 0.069%
COBOL	107	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.069%
RPG	107	New entry-	£60,000	-	2 0.069%	3
RPG IV	107	New entry-	£60,000	-	2 0.069%	2
RPG III	107	New entry-	£60,000	-	2 0.069%	2
Kusto Query Language	107	New entry-	-	-	2 0.069%
ActionScript 2.0	108	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.034%
ActionScript	108	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.034%
Bicep	108	New entry-	£56,500	-	1 0.034%	1