Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	17	Down -10 places-10	£60,000	+12.14%	198 6.27%	39
Python	30	Down -9 places-9	£65,000	-3.70%	119 3.77%	40
C#	58	Down -34 places-34	£57,500	-4.16%	58 1.84%	9
Java	61	Down -25 places-25	£70,079	+16.79%	54 1.71%	5
JavaScript	82	Down -30 places-30	£57,500	-8.00%	32 1.01%	14
PHP	86	Down -3 places-3	£45,000	+24.13%	28 0.89%	2
PowerShell	93	Down -46 places-46	£52,500	-12.50%	21 0.67%	7
TypeScript	101	Down -25 places-25	£70,000	+3.70%	13 0.41%	4
Data Analysis Expressions	105	Down -9 places-9	£57,500	+2.22%	9 0.29%	2
PL/SQL	105	Down -17 places-17	-	-	9 0.29%	2
RPG	105	New entry-	£55,000	-	9 0.29%
ABAP	105	Down -32 places-32	£90,000	+63.63%	9 0.29%
Bash	106	Down -11 places-11	£50,000	-25.92%	8 0.25%	6
R	108	Down -18 places-18	£65,000	+23.22%	6 0.19%	2
C	108	Down -12 places-12	£57,500	-14.81%	6 0.19%
T-SQL	108	Down -15 places-15	£50,000	-13.04%	6 0.19%	2
RPG IV	108	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.19%
Go	109	Down -14 places-14	£80,000	+48.83%	5 0.16%	2
RPG III	109	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.16%
RPG/400	110	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.13%
Apex Code	111	Down -13 places-13	£62,500	+49.70%	3 0.095%	1
C++	111	Down -22 places-22	£25,000	-	3 0.095%
Rust	111	New entry-	£45,000	-	3 0.095%
Groovy	112	Down -40 places-40	-	-	2 0.063%
COBOL	112	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.063%
VB.NET	112	Down -18 places-18	-	-	2 0.063%
VBA	112	Down -13 places-13	£63,076	+40.16%	2 0.063%
Bicep	113	Down -18 places-18	£56,500	-5.83%	1 0.032%	1
Pascal	113	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.032%
Ruby	113	Down -17 places-17	£35,000	-	1 0.032%	4
Scala	113	Down -14 places-14	£81,500	+12.41%	1 0.032%	1
Delphi	113	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.032%
VBScript	113	New entry-	£50,000	-	1 0.032%
VB	113	Down -17 places-17	-	-	1 0.032%