Programming Language Statistics in Cheshire

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	32	Down 24 places-24	£51,250	+36.66%	55 3.08%	12
C#	33	Up 45 places+45	£65,000	+18.18%	54 3.02%	10
Python	55	Down 35 places-35	£67,500	+35.00%	31 1.73%	17
C	60	Up 33 places+33	£57,500	-	26 1.45%	11
JavaScript	67	Down 52 places-52	£65,000	+8.33%	19 1.06%	5
TypeScript	68	Down 16 places-16	£67,500	+5.88%	18 1.01%	2
Embedded C	70	New entry-	£57,500	-	16 0.89%	3
Java	72	Down 61 places-61	£75,000	+25.00%	14 0.78%	3
PowerShell	73	Down 20 places-20	£40,000	-11.11%	13 0.73%	1
C++	76	Down 5 places-5	£50,000	-14.89%	10 0.56%	12
PHP	79	Up 13 places+13	£52,500	-12.50%	7 0.39%
Bash	82	Down 30 places-30	£52,500	+7.96%	4 0.22%	2
Go	82	Down 17 places-17	£77,500	+14.81%	4 0.22%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	83	Up 10 places+10	£75,000	+76.47%	3 0.17%
Assembly Language	83	New entry-	-	-	3 0.17%	2
Shell Script	83	New entry-	£66,250	-	3 0.17%
Rust	84	Down 10 places-10	-	-	2 0.11%
Kotlin	84	Up 10 places+10	-	-	2 0.11%
Scala	85	New entry-	£80,000	-	1 0.056%
Apex Code	85	Up 9 places+9	-	-	1 0.056%
Search Processing Language	85	New entry-	-	-	1 0.056%
T-SQL	85	New entry-	£39,602	-	1 0.056%
ABAP	85	New entry-	-	-	1 0.056%