Programming Language Statistics in Bristol

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	23	Up 7 places+7	£62,500	+2.04%	162 5.93%	53
SQL	25	Down -8 places-8	£60,000	+9.09%	159 5.82%	43
JavaScript	43	Down -1 place-1	£60,000	-	82 3.00%	23
C#	47	Up 15 places+15	£57,000	+8.57%	73 2.67%	15
C++	65	Up 13 places+13	£57,000	-18.57%	52 1.90%	27
TypeScript	76	Down -12 places-12	£60,000	-	40 1.46%	14
PowerShell	80	Down -16 places-16	£55,000	+13.40%	35 1.28%	7
PHP	84	Down -4 places-4	£55,000	-8.33%	31 1.13%	3
Bash	85	Down -8 places-8	£67,500	+17.50%	29 1.06%	11
Embedded C++	92	New entry-	£60,000	-	22 0.81%	1
Java	93	Down -57 places-57	£60,000	-16.65%	21 0.77%	16
Bicep	100	Down -12 places-12	£84,000	+12.37%	14 0.51%
Kusto Query Language	101	New entry-	-	-	13 0.48%	2
C	101	Down -23 places-23	£55,000	-21.42%	13 0.48%	23
Data Analysis Expressions	103	Down -16 places-16	£43,750	-3.84%	11 0.40%	2
R	104	Down -20 places-20	£43,750	-7.89%	10 0.37%	4
Go	108	Down -24 places-24	£80,000	-	6 0.22%	3
Ruby	109	Down -19 places-19	£42,500	+6.25%	5 0.18%
Embedded C	110	Down -21 places-21	£50,000	+11.11%	4 0.15%	2
MATLAB	110	Down -32 places-32	£60,500	+15.01%	4 0.15%	5
Objective-C	112	New entry-	£72,500	-	2 0.073%	2
SystemVerilog	112	New entry-	£75,000	-	2 0.073%	3
Scala	112	New entry-	£55,500	-	2 0.073%
VB	112	Down -33 places-33	£51,250	+5.67%	2 0.073%	1
VBA	112	Down -30 places-30	£52,500	+22.80%	2 0.073%
Assembly Language	113	New entry-	£75,000	-	1 0.037%	1
XAML	113	Down -24 places-24	£60,000	-	1 0.037%	2
Rust	113	Down -25 places-25	£70,150	-12.31%	1 0.037%	4
Swift	113	Down -32 places-32	£72,500	-	1 0.037%	1
T-SQL	113	Down -24 places-24	£35,000	-24.32%	1 0.037%	3