Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	14	Down -4 places-4	£61,250	+12.90%	209 6.92%	47
Python	26	Up 9 places+9	£62,500	-7.40%	140 4.64%	35
Java	60	Down -14 places-14	£61,000	+6.08%	58 1.92%	13
C#	68	Down -35 places-35	£55,000	-6.38%	48 1.59%	11
JavaScript	71	Down -19 places-19	£52,500	-16.00%	45 1.49%	10
PHP	90	Down -6 places-6	£45,000	+2.85%	26 0.86%
PowerShell	100	Down -42 places-42	£52,500	-1.86%	16 0.53%	6
R	101	Down -6 places-6	£30,500	-32.22%	15 0.50%	5
TypeScript	101	Down -20 places-20	£70,000	+3.70%	15 0.50%	4
PL/SQL	103	Down -11 places-11	-	-	13 0.43%
Bash	105	Down -5 places-5	£66,887	-0.90%	11 0.36%	3
Data Analysis Expressions	106	Down -10 places-10	£57,500	-4.16%	10 0.33%	1
C	107	Down -7 places-7	£57,500	-14.81%	9 0.30%	1
RPG	107	New entry-	£55,000	-	9 0.30%
T-SQL	109	Down -12 places-12	£55,000	-4.34%	7 0.23%	1
RPG IV	110	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.20%
ABAP	110	Down -26 places-26	£72,500	+31.81%	6 0.20%	2
RPG III	111	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.17%
RPG/400	112	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.13%
Go	112	Down -14 places-14	£63,750	+18.60%	4 0.13%	1
VBA	112	Down -10 places-10	£63,076	+40.16%	4 0.13%	2
Apex Code	113	Down -11 places-11	£62,500	+62.33%	3 0.099%
C++	113	Down -24 places-24	£25,000	-	3 0.099%	2
Rust	113	New entry-	£45,000	-	3 0.099%
Kusto Query Language	114	New entry-	-	-	2 0.066%	1
Groovy	114	Down -31 places-31	-	-	2 0.066%
COBOL	114	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.066%
VB.NET	114	Down -17 places-17	-	-	2 0.066%	1
Bicep	115	Down -16 places-16	£56,500	-5.83%	1 0.033%	2
Scala	115	Down -13 places-13	£81,500	+12.41%	1 0.033%	1
ActionScript 2.0	115	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.033%
VB	115	Down -16 places-16	-	-	1 0.033%
ActionScript	115	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.033%