Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	21	Down -11 places-11	£60,000	+12.14%	184 5.29%	38
Python	35	Down -16 places-16	£66,720	-1.15%	118 3.39%	44
Java	55	Down -18 places-18	£75,000	+15.38%	70 2.01%	20
C#	59	Down -31 places-31	£57,500	-4.16%	65 1.87%	14
JavaScript	71	Down -17 places-17	£60,000	+4.34%	51 1.47%	20
PowerShell	91	Down -51 places-51	£55,000	-10.20%	31 0.89%	15
TypeScript	97	Down -27 places-27	£85,000	+30.76%	25 0.72%	16
PHP	100	Down -13 places-13	£45,000	+80.00%	22 0.63%
Data Analysis Expressions	108	Down -14 places-14	£57,500	+4.54%	14 0.40%	4
PL/SQL	108	Down -18 places-18	-	-	14 0.40%
Bash	109	Down -15 places-15	£50,000	-19.95%	13 0.37%	3
COBOL	111	New entry-	£55,000	-	11 0.32%
C	113	Down -18 places-18	£57,500	-14.81%	9 0.26%	3
RPG	113	New entry-	£55,000	-	9 0.26%
JCL	113	Down -16 places-16	-	-	9 0.26%
ABAP	114	Down -43 places-43	£70,000	+27.27%	8 0.23%
R	115	Down -29 places-29	£65,000	-	7 0.20%	9
Go	116	Down -20 places-20	£80,000	+23.07%	6 0.17%
T-SQL	116	Down -27 places-27	£50,000	-24.24%	6 0.17%	2
RPG IV	116	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.17%
RPG III	117	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.14%
RPG/400	118	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.12%
Kotlin	118	Down -23 places-23	£55,000	-15.38%	4 0.12%	5
Ruby	119	Down -25 places-25	£52,500	-	3 0.086%	3
Apex Code	119	Down -23 places-23	£62,500	+49.70%	3 0.086%	2
Rust	119	New entry-	£45,000	-	3 0.086%
C++	120	Down -29 places-29	£47,153	+88.61%	2 0.058%	8
VB.NET	120	Down -28 places-28	-	-	2 0.058%
Groovy	121	Down -55 places-55	-	-	1 0.029%
Scala	121	Down -25 places-25	£81,500	+25.38%	1 0.029%	1
Delphi	121	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.029%	1
VBScript	121	New entry-	£50,000	-	1 0.029%	1
VB	121	Down -26 places-26	-	-	1 0.029%
VBA	121	Down -24 places-24	-	-	1 0.029%	2
Bicep	121	Down -32 places-32	£56,500	-5.83%	1 0.029%	2
Pascal	121	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.029%