Programming Language Statistics in Bristol

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	26	Down -13 places-13	£60,000	+11.62%	161 5.17%	68
Python	29	Up 1 place+1	£62,500	+4.16%	148 4.75%	90
C++	48	Up 20 places+20	£57,211	-4.64%	79 2.54%	47
JavaScript	53	Down -13 places-13	£60,000	+14.28%	73 2.34%	41
C#	58	Down -6 places-6	£57,000	+4.58%	65 2.09%	34
TypeScript	81	Down -21 places-21	£65,000	+8.33%	38 1.22%	20
PowerShell	82	Down -33 places-33	£55,000	+13.40%	37 1.19%	5
Java	86	Down -41 places-41	£60,000	-	33 1.06%	19
Bash	91	Down -17 places-17	£57,500	-7.63%	28 0.90%	4
C	94	Down -25 places-25	£58,750	+6.81%	25 0.80%	27
Embedded C++	97	New entry-	£60,000	-	22 0.71%	4
PHP	99	Down -24 places-24	£42,500	-29.16%	20 0.64%	5
Kotlin	102	Down -27 places-27	£70,000	+55.55%	17 0.55%	3
Bicep	104	Down -27 places-27	£84,000	-9.18%	15 0.48%	4
Kusto Query Language	104	New entry-	-	-	15 0.48%	2
MATLAB	106	Down -37 places-37	£66,250	+25.95%	13 0.42%	12
Data Analysis Expressions	109	Down -31 places-31	£42,500	-5.55%	10 0.32%	2
R	113	Down -39 places-39	£46,250	+18.58%	6 0.19%	3
Go	113	Down -39 places-39	£80,000	-	6 0.19%	2
Objective-C	116	New entry-	-	-	3 0.096%
Embedded C	117	Down -37 places-37	£52,500	+31.25%	2 0.064%	8
Ruby	117	New entry-	£42,500	-	2 0.064%
XAML	117	Down -38 places-38	£60,000	+14.28%	2 0.064%
SystemVerilog	117	New entry-	£75,000	-	2 0.064%	3
Scala	117	New entry-	£55,500	-	2 0.064%
Perl	117	New entry-	£62,500	-	2 0.064%	3
T-SQL	117	Down -42 places-42	£38,750	-22.50%	2 0.064%	4
VB	117	Down -53 places-53	£51,250	+5.67%	2 0.064%	2
VBA	117	Down -45 places-45	£52,500	+22.80%	2 0.064%	3