Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	15	Down -6 places-6	£57,500	+7.47%	190 6.86%	64
Python	21	Up 27 places+27	£56,250	+12.50%	165 5.96%	52
JavaScript	64	Down -25 places-25	£35,250	-37.33%	49 1.77%	16
C#	65	Down -28 places-28	£55,000	-4.34%	48 1.73%	15
Java	71	Down -10 places-10	£52,500	+16.66%	42 1.52%	12
PHP	86	Down -1 place-1	£45,000	-18.18%	27 0.98%	6
R	95	Down -3 places-3	£30,500	-32.22%	18 0.65%	1
TypeScript	100	Down -18 places-18	£55,000	-21.42%	13 0.47%	9
PowerShell	101	Down -21 places-21	£52,500	+5.00%	12 0.43%	5
C	106	Down -2 places-2	£57,500	-14.81%	7 0.25%	5
PL/SQL	107	Down -11 places-11	-	-	6 0.22%	2
ABAP	107	Down -18 places-18	£57,500	+4.54%	6 0.22%
Data Analysis Expressions	107	Down -16 places-16	£40,000	-27.27%	6 0.22%	5
Bash	108	Down -5 places-5	-	-	5 0.18%	4
C++	108	Down -23 places-23	£25,000	-37.50%	5 0.18%	6
T-SQL	108	Down -7 places-7	£65,000	+13.04%	5 0.18%	1
VBA	108	Down -2 places-2	£63,076	+40.16%	5 0.18%
Rust	110	New entry-	£45,000	-	3 0.11%
Go	110	Down -9 places-9	£65,000	+13.04%	3 0.11%	1
Apex Code	110	New entry-	£62,500	-	3 0.11%
COBOL	111	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.072%
Kusto Query Language	111	New entry-	-	-	2 0.072%
Groovy	111	Down -7 places-7	-	-	2 0.072%
ActionScript 2.0	112	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.036%
ActionScript	112	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.036%
Bicep	112	New entry-	£56,500	-	1 0.036%	3