Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	14	Down -5 places-5	£56,250	+7.14%	190 6.90%	62
Python	20	Up 30 places+30	£55,000	+12.82%	163 5.92%	58
JavaScript	64	Down -23 places-23	£40,000	-27.27%	50 1.82%	16
C#	67	Down -28 places-28	£55,000	-4.34%	47 1.71%	15
Java	71	Down -11 places-11	£55,000	+22.22%	43 1.56%	12
PHP	87	Down -2 places-2	£45,000	-18.18%	27 0.98%	6
R	96	Down -3 places-3	£30,500	-28.23%	18 0.65%	1
PowerShell	101	Down -21 places-21	£52,500	+5.00%	13 0.47%	6
TypeScript	101	Down -18 places-18	£55,000	-21.42%	13 0.47%	11
C	107	Down -3 places-3	£57,500	-14.81%	7 0.25%	5
PL/SQL	108	Down -12 places-12	-	-	6 0.22%	2
Data Analysis Expressions	108	Down -17 places-17	£40,000	-27.27%	6 0.22%	6
ABAP	108	Down -18 places-18	£57,500	+4.54%	6 0.22%
VBA	108	Down -2 places-2	£63,076	+40.16%	6 0.22%
C++	109	Down -24 places-24	£25,000	-37.50%	5 0.18%	6
T-SQL	109	Down -7 places-7	£65,000	+13.04%	5 0.18%	1
Bash	109	Down -6 places-6	-	-	5 0.18%	4
Rust	111	New entry-	£45,000	-	3 0.11%
Go	111	Down -10 places-10	£65,000	+13.04%	3 0.11%	1
Apex Code	111	New entry-	£62,500	-	3 0.11%
Kusto Query Language	112	New entry-	-	-	2 0.073%
Groovy	112	Down -8 places-8	-	-	2 0.073%
COBOL	112	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.073%
Bicep	113	New entry-	£56,500	-	1 0.036%	3
ActionScript	113	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.036%
ActionScript 2.0	113	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.036%