Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	13	Down -4 places-4	£56,250	+7.14%	190 6.87%	63
Python	17	Up 33 places+33	£55,000	+12.82%	165 5.97%	54
JavaScript	57	Down -17 places-17	£40,000	-27.27%	50 1.81%	16
C#	60	Down -22 places-22	£55,000	-4.34%	47 1.70%	14
Java	64	Down -2 places-2	£55,000	+22.22%	43 1.56%	13
PHP	80	Up 7 places+7	£45,000	-18.18%	27 0.98%	6
R	89	Up 6 places+6	£30,500	-28.23%	18 0.65%	1
PowerShell	94	Down -12 places-12	£52,500	+5.00%	13 0.47%	6
TypeScript	94	Down -9 places-9	£55,000	-21.42%	13 0.47%	10
C	100	Up 6 places+6	£57,500	-14.81%	7 0.25%	4
Data Analysis Expressions	101	Down -8 places-8	£40,000	-27.27%	6 0.22%	6
PL/SQL	101	Down -3 places-3	-	-	6 0.22%	2
ABAP	101	Down -9 places-9	£57,500	+4.54%	6 0.22%
Bash	102	Up 3 places+3	-	-	5 0.18%	4
C++	102	Down -15 places-15	£25,000	-37.50%	5 0.18%	6
T-SQL	102	Up 2 places+2	£65,000	+13.04%	5 0.18%	1
VBA	102	Up 6 places+6	£63,076	+40.16%	5 0.18%
Go	104	Down -1 place-1	£65,000	+13.04%	3 0.11%	2
Apex Code	104	New entry-	£62,500	-	3 0.11%
Rust	104	New entry-	£45,000	-	3 0.11%
Groovy	105	Up 1 place+1	-	-	2 0.072%
COBOL	105	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.072%
Kusto Query Language	105	New entry-	-	-	2 0.072%
ActionScript 2.0	106	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.036%
ActionScript	106	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.036%
Bicep	106	New entry-	£56,500	-	1 0.036%	3