Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	17	Down -8 places-8	£70,000	+7.69%	193 7.20%	47
SQL	21	Down -14 places-14	£60,000	-	173 6.45%	38
Java	22	Up 20 places+20	£75,000	+7.14%	171 6.38%	20
TypeScript	30	Up 16 places+16	£70,000	-9.67%	113 4.21%	26
JavaScript	37	Down -13 places-13	£62,500	-7.40%	95 3.54%	19
C#	51	Down -6 places-6	£50,000	-33.33%	79 2.95%	16
Groovy	76	New entry-	£80,000	-	50 1.87%	1
PHP	78	Down -12 places-12	£40,000	-9.09%	48 1.79%	5
Bash	92	Down -16 places-16	£65,000	-13.33%	34 1.27%
Kotlin	93	Down -14 places-14	£75,000	-16.66%	33 1.23%
PowerShell	111	Down -53 places-53	£57,500	-11.53%	15 0.56%	6
ABAP	111	Down -28 places-28	£85,000	+6.25%	15 0.56%	1
Go	117	Down -46 places-46	£90,000	+28.57%	9 0.34%	7
Scala	120	Down -45 places-45	£90,000	+83.67%	6 0.22%	3
PL/SQL	120	Down -40 places-40	-	-	6 0.22%	4
T-SQL	120	Down -56 places-56	£60,500	+0.83%	6 0.22%	4
VBA	120	New entry-	£63,076	-	6 0.22%
Bicep	122	Down -40 places-40	£65,000	+44.44%	4 0.15%	1
Perl	122	Down -39 places-39	-	-	4 0.15%
RPG	122	New entry-	£65,000	-	4 0.15%	4
R	123	Down -50 places-50	£66,720	-11.04%	3 0.11%	7
Ruby	123	New entry-	£90,000	-	3 0.11%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	124	Down -45 places-45	£60,000	-	2 0.075%	2
Kusto Query Language	124	Down -42 places-42	-	-	2 0.075%	3
OpenEdge ABL	124	New entry-	-	-	2 0.075%
C++	124	Down -42 places-42	£72,153	+40.78%	2 0.075%	7
COBOL	124	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.075%
Dart	125	New entry-	-	-	1 0.037%
Ladder Logic	125	New entry-	-	-	1 0.037%
Apex Code	125	Down -43 places-43	-	-	1 0.037%
C	125	Down -42 places-42	£75,000	-9.09%	1 0.037%	7
Embedded C	125	New entry-	£75,000	-	1 0.037%	2