Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	20	Down -12 places-12	£60,000	+14.28%	192 5.38%	75
Python	37	Down -17 places-17	£67,153	-0.51%	116 3.25%	72
Java	50	Down -6 places-6	£75,000	+15.38%	80 2.24%	44
C#	60	Down -23 places-23	£57,500	-4.16%	66 1.85%	19
JavaScript	65	No change0	£57,500	-6.12%	59 1.65%	24
PowerShell	86	Down -38 places-38	£60,000	-17.24%	37 1.04%	15
TypeScript	93	Down -18 places-18	£80,000	+23.07%	30 0.84%	19
PHP	106	Down -13 places-13	£37,500	+50.00%	17 0.48%	4
PL/SQL	106	Down -14 places-14	£63,076	+20.14%	17 0.48%
Data Analysis Expressions	107	Down -12 places-12	£60,000	+2.12%	16 0.45%	6
COBOL	109	New entry-	£55,000	-	14 0.39%
Bash	109	Down -12 places-12	£50,000	-12.94%	14 0.39%	5
R	111	Down -25 places-25	£65,000	+1.96%	12 0.34%	8
JCL	111	Down -12 places-12	-	-	12 0.34%
Kotlin	113	Down -15 places-15	£55,000	-15.38%	10 0.28%
C	114	Down -15 places-15	£57,500	-	9 0.25%	6
RPG	114	New entry-	£55,000	-	9 0.25%
ABAP	116	Down -39 places-39	£50,000	-9.09%	7 0.20%	1
T-SQL	117	Down -28 places-28	£50,000	-24.24%	6 0.17%	6
RPG IV	117	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.17%
Go	117	Down -19 places-19	£80,000	+23.07%	6 0.17%	4
RPG III	118	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.14%
C++	119	Down -23 places-23	£47,988	+91.95%	4 0.11%	7
RPG/400	119	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.11%
Ruby	119	Down -22 places-22	£43,750	-	4 0.11%	5
Apex Code	120	Down -22 places-22	£62,500	+49.70%	3 0.084%	1
VBScript	121	New entry-	£50,000	-	2 0.056%	1
VB.NET	121	Down -27 places-27	-	-	2 0.056%
Rust	121	New entry-	£45,000	-	2 0.056%
Delphi	122	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.028%
VB	122	Down -25 places-25	-	-	1 0.028%
VBA	122	New entry-	-	-	1 0.028%	3
Pascal	122	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.028%
Groovy	122	Down -54 places-54	-	-	1 0.028%	1
Scala	122	Down -24 places-24	£81,500	+25.38%	1 0.028%	1