Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	21	Down -11 places-11	£60,500	+0.83%	174 5.68%	58
Java	23	Up 9 places+9	£75,000	+11.11%	156 5.09%	55
Python	25	Down -16 places-16	£80,000	+18.51%	154 5.03%	113
TypeScript	37	Up 4 places+4	£70,000	-	98 3.20%	32
JavaScript	47	Down -23 places-23	£58,750	-12.96%	78 2.55%	23
C#	49	Down -6 places-6	£55,000	-19.70%	76 2.48%	24
PHP	71	Down -5 places-5	£40,000	+3.22%	47 1.53%
Groovy	75	New entry-	£80,000	-	43 1.40%	1
Kotlin	82	Down -15 places-15	£75,000	+5.26%	36 1.18%	12
PowerShell	99	Down -48 places-48	£52,500	-19.23%	19 0.62%	17
Bash	100	Down -35 places-35	£72,500	+7.40%	18 0.59%	10
RPG	103	New entry-	£65,000	-	15 0.49%	3
ABAP	104	New entry-	£85,000	-	14 0.46%
PL/SQL	108	Down -34 places-34	£32,500	-39.53%	10 0.33%	1
Scala	110	Down -48 places-48	£90,000	+38.46%	8 0.26%	2
C++	111	Down -37 places-37	£38,772	-49.15%	7 0.23%	14
T-SQL	111	Down -52 places-52	£64,250	+22.38%	7 0.23%	3
Bicep	113	Down -39 places-39	£66,250	-2.57%	5 0.16%	6
Perl	113	New entry-	-	-	5 0.16%	1
Go	114	Down -56 places-56	£90,000	+28.57%	4 0.13%	11
C	115	New entry-	£32,500	-	3 0.098%	7
R	115	Down -44 places-44	£49,110	-34.52%	3 0.098%	12
VBA	115	New entry-	£26,000	-	3 0.098%	5
Ruby	115	Down -43 places-43	£90,000	+28.57%	3 0.098%	1
XPath	115	New entry-	-	-	3 0.098%
Ladder Logic	116	New entry-	-	-	2 0.065%	1
Kusto Query Language	116	Down -41 places-41	-	-	2 0.065%	1
OpenEdge ABL	116	New entry-	-	-	2 0.065%
COBOL	116	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.065%