Programming Language Statistics in Birmingham

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	21	Down -12 places-12	£60,000	+14.28%	189 5.19%	120
Python	45	Down -29 places-29	£70,000	+7.69%	102 2.80%	139
Java	48	Down -3 places-3	£75,000	+15.38%	98 2.69%	70
C#	64	Down -23 places-23	£57,500	-8.00%	73 2.00%	50
JavaScript	73	Down -14 places-14	£64,653	+29.30%	60 1.65%	44
PowerShell	93	Down -39 places-39	£58,750	-18.96%	40 1.10%	40
TypeScript	104	Down -33 places-33	£80,000	+23.07%	29 0.80%	43
Data Analysis Expressions	114	Down -18 places-18	£57,500	-2.12%	19 0.52%	10
COBOL	115	New entry-	-	-	18 0.49%
JCL	115	Down -15 places-15	-	-	18 0.49%
PL/SQL	116	Down -25 places-25	£63,076	+20.14%	17 0.47%	3
Bash	118	Down -20 places-20	£53,750	+7.56%	15 0.41%	12
PHP	121	Down -30 places-30	£30,750	-21.15%	12 0.33%	3
R	121	Down -35 places-35	£65,000	+18.18%	12 0.33%	15
Kotlin	123	Down -25 places-25	£55,000	-15.38%	10 0.27%	8
C	124	Down -24 places-24	£57,500	-	9 0.25%	14
RPG	124	New entry-	£55,000	-	9 0.25%
Ruby	126	Down -27 places-27	£30,000	-60.00%	7 0.19%	1
ABAP	126	Down -45 places-45	£50,000	-9.09%	7 0.19%	4
Go	127	Down -28 places-28	£80,000	-	6 0.16%	3
RPG IV	127	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.16%
T-SQL	128	Down -36 places-36	£60,000	-11.11%	5 0.14%	6
RPG III	128	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.14%
C++	129	Down -30 places-30	£47,988	+91.95%	4 0.11%	21
RPG/400	129	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.11%
Shell Script	130	Down -30 places-30	-	-	3 0.082%	3
VBScript	131	New entry-	£50,000	-	2 0.055%
VB.NET	131	Down -34 places-34	-	-	2 0.055%	2
Scala	132	Down -34 places-34	£81,500	+25.38%	1 0.028%	7
Delphi	132	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.028%
VB	132	Down -34 places-34	-	-	1 0.028%
Ladder Logic	132	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.028%
Pascal	132	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.028%