Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	12	No change0	£65,000	+7.00%	219 8.96%	57
SQL	16	Down -10 places-10	£57,500	-	187 7.65%	35
Java	18	Up 16 places+16	£75,000	+11.11%	182 7.45%	31
TypeScript	26	Up 10 places+10	£70,000	-1.75%	122 4.99%	28
JavaScript	28	Down -9 places-9	£62,500	-7.40%	115 4.71%	37
C#	40	Down -12 places-12	£61,500	-12.14%	90 3.68%	13
Groovy	71	New entry-	£80,000	-	51 2.09%	8
Bash	74	Down -2 places-2	£71,250	-8.06%	48 1.96%	8
PHP	87	Down -28 places-28	£40,000	-15.78%	34 1.39%	13
Kotlin	90	Down -22 places-22	£72,500	+61.11%	31 1.27%	5
ABAP	106	Down -31 places-31	£85,000	+6.25%	15 0.61%	1
PowerShell	106	Down -50 places-50	£57,500	+9.52%	15 0.61%	5
R	111	Down -50 places-50	£30,500	-59.33%	10 0.41%	4
PL/SQL	112	Down -42 places-42	£34,000	-72.30%	9 0.37%	2
Go	112	Down -45 places-45	£90,000	+20.95%	9 0.37%	4
T-SQL	113	Down -56 places-56	£82,000	+36.66%	8 0.33%	4
C	115	Down -41 places-41	£34,000	-51.42%	6 0.25%	2
C++	115	Down -42 places-42	£34,000	-21.83%	6 0.25%	4
Perl	115	Down -40 places-40	-	-	6 0.25%
VBA	115	New entry-	£63,076	-	6 0.25%
Scala	116	Down -47 places-47	£69,500	+24.66%	5 0.20%	7
Data Analysis Expressions	118	Down -47 places-47	£80,000	+33.33%	3 0.12%	2
OpenEdge ABL	119	New entry-	-	-	2 0.082%
COBOL	119	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.082%
RPG	119	New entry-	£65,000	-	2 0.082%
Ruby	119	New entry-	-	-	2 0.082%	4
Bicep	119	Down -46 places-46	£65,000	+18.18%	2 0.082%	4