Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	16	Down -9 places-9	£60,000	+14.28%	201 6.44%	35
Python	26	Down -2 places-2	£65,000	-3.70%	124 3.97%	39
C#	56	Down -27 places-27	£57,500	-4.16%	57 1.83%	9
Java	59	Down -21 places-21	£70,079	+27.41%	54 1.73%	12
JavaScript	78	Down -26 places-26	£57,500	-8.00%	35 1.12%	17
PHP	85	Down -6 places-6	£45,000	+50.00%	28 0.90%	2
PowerShell	94	Down -46 places-46	£52,500	-8.69%	19 0.61%	8
TypeScript	100	Down -27 places-27	£70,000	+3.70%	13 0.42%	7
PL/SQL	103	Down -18 places-18	-	-	10 0.32%	2
Bash	104	Down -11 places-11	£50,000	-25.92%	9 0.29%	8
RPG	104	New entry-	£55,000	-	9 0.29%
Data Analysis Expressions	104	Down -11 places-11	£57,500	+2.22%	9 0.29%	4
ABAP	105	Down -33 places-33	£90,000	+63.63%	8 0.26%	1
R	105	Down -17 places-17	£65,000	+30.00%	8 0.26%	2
C	107	Down -14 places-14	£57,500	-14.81%	6 0.19%	2
T-SQL	107	Down -16 places-16	£50,000	-13.04%	6 0.19%	2
RPG IV	107	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.19%
RPG III	108	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.16%
Go	108	Down -16 places-16	£70,000	+30.23%	5 0.16%	5
VBA	109	Down -13 places-13	£63,076	+40.16%	4 0.13%	1
RPG/400	109	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.13%
Apex Code	110	Down -15 places-15	£62,500	+49.70%	3 0.096%	1
C++	110	Down -26 places-26	£25,000	-	3 0.096%	1
Rust	110	New entry-	£45,000	-	3 0.096%
COBOL	111	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.064%
VB.NET	111	Down -20 places-20	-	-	2 0.064%
Groovy	111	Down -41 places-41	-	-	2 0.064%	2
Ruby	112	Down -19 places-19	£35,000	-	1 0.032%	3
Scala	112	Down -16 places-16	£81,500	+12.41%	1 0.032%
Delphi	112	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.032%
VBScript	112	New entry-	£50,000	-	1 0.032%
VB	112	Down -19 places-19	-	-	1 0.032%
Bicep	112	Down -20 places-20	£56,500	-5.83%	1 0.032%	2
Pascal	112	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.032%