Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	20	Down -11 places-11	£60,000	+14.28%	191 5.24%	100
Python	42	Down -26 places-26	£70,000	+7.69%	102 2.80%	124
Java	46	Down -2 places-2	£75,000	+15.38%	97 2.66%	56
C#	62	Down -24 places-24	£57,500	-6.50%	73 2.00%	36
JavaScript	71	Down -15 places-15	£64,653	+29.30%	59 1.62%	36
PowerShell	88	Down -38 places-38	£57,500	-20.68%	41 1.13%	35
TypeScript	100	Down -35 places-35	£80,000	+23.07%	29 0.80%	40
Data Analysis Expressions	110	Down -19 places-19	£57,500	-2.12%	19 0.52%	11
PL/SQL	112	Down -26 places-26	£63,076	+20.14%	17 0.47%	2
COBOL	113	New entry-	-	-	16 0.44%
JCL	113	Down -18 places-18	-	-	16 0.44%
Bash	114	Down -22 places-22	£53,750	-6.41%	15 0.41%	11
PHP	117	Down -33 places-33	£30,750	-21.15%	12 0.33%	3
R	117	Down -36 places-36	£65,000	+18.18%	12 0.33%	13
Kotlin	119	Down -25 places-25	£55,000	-15.38%	10 0.27%	7
RPG	120	New entry-	£55,000	-	9 0.25%
C	121	Down -26 places-26	£57,500	-	8 0.22%	10
Ruby	122	Down -27 places-27	£30,000	-	7 0.19%	1
ABAP	122	Down -47 places-47	£50,000	-9.09%	7 0.19%	4
Go	123	Down -29 places-29	£80,000	-	6 0.16%	3
T-SQL	123	Down -36 places-36	£60,000	-11.11%	6 0.16%	6
RPG IV	123	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.16%
RPG III	124	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.14%
RPG/400	125	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.11%
C++	126	Down -32 places-32	£47,988	+91.95%	3 0.082%	19
Shell Script	126	Down -31 places-31	-	-	3 0.082%	2
VBScript	127	New entry-	£50,000	-	2 0.055%
VB.NET	127	Down -35 places-35	-	-	2 0.055%	2
Scala	128	Down -34 places-34	£81,500	+25.38%	1 0.028%	7
Apex Code	128	Down -34 places-34	£62,500	+49.70%	1 0.028%	3
Delphi	128	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.028%
VB	128	Down -35 places-35	-	-	1 0.028%
VBA	128	New entry-	-	-	1 0.028%	2
Ladder Logic	128	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.028%
Pascal	128	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.028%