Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	13	Down -3 places-3	£67,500	+3.84%	210 7.88%	56
Java	21	Up 21 places+21	£75,000	+7.14%	188 7.05%	35
SQL	23	Down -15 places-15	£60,000	+4.34%	179 6.72%	46
TypeScript	32	Up 9 places+9	£70,000	-9.67%	127 4.77%	32
JavaScript	34	Down -14 places-14	£62,500	-10.71%	117 4.39%	34
C#	50	Down -14 places-14	£55,000	-31.25%	88 3.30%	26
Groovy	76	New entry-	£80,000	-	54 2.03%	6
PHP	81	Down -21 places-21	£40,000	-15.78%	47 1.76%	14
Bash	86	Down -13 places-13	£65,000	-16.12%	42 1.58%	8
Kotlin	93	Down -19 places-19	£72,500	-19.44%	35 1.31%	3
PowerShell	112	Down -53 places-53	£57,500	-2.12%	16 0.60%	3
ABAP	113	Down -37 places-37	£85,000	+6.25%	15 0.56%	3
Go	119	Down -53 places-53	£90,000	+20.95%	9 0.34%	6
T-SQL	120	Down -62 places-62	£60,500	+0.83%	8 0.30%
PL/SQL	121	Down -50 places-50	£34,000	-72.30%	7 0.26%	3
R	122	Down -57 places-57	£31,000	-58.66%	6 0.23%	4
VBA	122	New entry-	£63,076	-	6 0.23%
Scala	123	Down -54 places-54	£90,000	+83.67%	5 0.19%	3
Perl	123	Down -47 places-47	-	-	5 0.19%
Bicep	124	Down -49 places-49	£65,000	+44.44%	4 0.15%	2
C++	125	Down -49 places-49	£69,305	+177.22%	3 0.11%	4
Ruby	125	New entry-	-	-	3 0.11%	3
Data Analysis Expressions	125	Down -53 places-53	£80,000	+33.33%	3 0.11%	2
OpenEdge ABL	126	New entry-	-	-	2 0.075%
C	126	Down -50 places-50	£54,500	-33.93%	2 0.075%	3
COBOL	126	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.075%
RPG	126	New entry-	£65,000	-	2 0.075%
Kusto Query Language	127	Down -51 places-51	-	-	1 0.038%	4
Apex Code	127	Down -52 places-52	-	-	1 0.038%	3
ActionScript 2.0	127	New entry-	£45,000	-	1 0.038%
ActionScript	127	New entry-	£45,000	-	1 0.038%
Embedded C	127	New entry-	£75,000	-	1 0.038%	1
Dart	127	New entry-	-	-	1 0.038%