Programming Language Statistics in Gloucestershire

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	7	Up 3 places+3	£60,000	-7.69%	156 12.13%	42
Java	20	Down -8 places-8	£70,000	+16.66%	81 6.30%	27
SQL	31	Up 2 places+2	£42,500	-22.72%	56 4.35%	13
Bash	40	Up 13 places+13	£55,000	-20.28%	44 3.42%	8
C++	44	Up 14 places+14	£50,000	-1.47%	40 3.11%	25
JavaScript	44	Down -21 places-21	£57,500	-9.80%	40 3.11%	20
PowerShell	59	Down -4 places-4	£55,000	+69.23%	25 1.94%	7
TypeScript	61	Down -14 places-14	£57,500	-4.16%	23 1.79%	16
C	63	Down -6 places-6	£57,500	+9.52%	21 1.63%	22
Go	68	Down -5 places-5	£75,000	+3.44%	16 1.24%	6
Kotlin	72	Down -8 places-8	£85,000	+17.24%	12 0.93%	2
Rust	75	Down -11 places-11	£60,000	+38.72%	9 0.70%	2
T-SQL	75	New entry-	£42,500	-	9 0.70%
C#	77	Down -21 places-21	£63,750	+27.50%	7 0.54%	5
Embedded C++	79	Down -14 places-14	£50,000	+42.85%	5 0.39%	3
Groovy	80	New entry-	£75,000	-	4 0.31%	1
Scala	80	Down -15 places-15	-	-	4 0.31%	2
PHP	80	Down -16 places-16	£47,750	-	4 0.31%
Embedded C	81	Down -20 places-20	£50,000	-4.76%	3 0.23%	6
Erlang	81	New entry-	£50,000	-	3 0.23%
Elixir	81	New entry-	£50,000	-	3 0.23%
Shell Script	82	Down -17 places-17	-	-	2 0.16%
Data Analysis Expressions	82	New entry-	£40,000	-	2 0.16%	1
VBScript	82	Down -17 places-17	£75,000	-	2 0.16%
R	83	Down -23 places-23	£62,500	-9.09%	1 0.078%	2
Ladder Logic	83	New entry-	£52,500	-	1 0.078%	1
VB	83	Down -20 places-20	£34,500	-31.00%	1 0.078%
VBA	83	Down -19 places-19	£42,500	-22.72%	1 0.078%