Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	20	Down -13 places-13	£60,000	-	178 6.25%	50
Python	20	Down -12 places-12	£72,500	+11.53%	178 6.25%	67
Java	21	Up 16 places+16	£75,000	+11.11%	167 5.86%	39
TypeScript	31	Up 13 places+13	£70,000	-	108 3.79%	18
JavaScript	41	Down -17 places-17	£60,000	-11.11%	91 3.19%	20
C#	47	Down -1 place-1	£52,500	-22.79%	82 2.88%	18
PHP	73	Down -11 places-11	£40,000	-	52 1.82%	6
Groovy	76	New entry-	£80,000	-	47 1.65%	1
Kotlin	89	Down -18 places-18	£72,500	-13.43%	34 1.19%	9
Bash	95	Down -26 places-26	£68,750	-9.83%	28 0.98%	5
PowerShell	107	Down -56 places-56	£60,000	-7.69%	16 0.56%	6
ABAP	108	Down -31 places-31	£85,000	+6.25%	15 0.53%	1
PL/SQL	114	New entry-	£32,500	-	9 0.32%	3
RPG	114	New entry-	£65,000	-	9 0.32%	6
Scala	116	Down -51 places-51	£90,000	+61.43%	7 0.25%	6
T-SQL	116	Down -60 places-60	£60,500	+0.83%	7 0.25%	1
Go	116	Down -51 places-51	£90,000	+28.57%	7 0.25%	5
C++	118	Down -42 places-42	£32,500	-36.58%	5 0.18%	6
Perl	118	Down -41 places-41	-	-	5 0.18%	2
Bicep	119	Down -42 places-42	£65,000	-	4 0.14%	1
C	119	Down -42 places-42	£32,500	-60.60%	4 0.14%	6
R	119	Down -47 places-47	£66,720	-11.04%	4 0.14%	7
VBA	120	New entry-	£26,000	-	3 0.11%	4
Ruby	120	Down -46 places-46	£90,000	+28.57%	3 0.11%	1
Kusto Query Language	121	Down -44 places-44	-	-	2 0.070%	1
COBOL	121	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.070%
Data Analysis Expressions	121	Down -48 places-48	£60,000	-	2 0.070%
OpenEdge ABL	121	New entry-	-	-	2 0.070%