Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	20	Down -9 places-9	£60,500	+0.83%	174 5.70%	59
Java	22	Up 12 places+12	£75,000	+7.14%	156 5.11%	50
Python	23	Down -14 places-14	£80,000	+18.51%	155 5.07%	110
TypeScript	33	Up 10 places+10	£70,000	-	99 3.24%	29
JavaScript	44	Down -20 places-20	£58,750	-12.96%	78 2.55%	22
C#	47	No change0	£55,000	-19.70%	75 2.46%	22
PHP	70	Down -2 places-2	£40,000	+3.22%	47 1.54%
Groovy	74	New entry-	£80,000	-	43 1.41%	1
Kotlin	81	Down -12 places-12	£75,000	+5.26%	36 1.18%	9
PowerShell	98	Down -44 places-44	£52,500	-19.23%	19 0.62%	15
Bash	99	Down -33 places-33	£72,500	+1.75%	18 0.59%	10
RPG	102	New entry-	£65,000	-	15 0.49%	2
ABAP	103	New entry-	£85,000	-	14 0.46%
PL/SQL	107	Down -31 places-31	£32,500	-39.53%	10 0.33%	1
Scala	109	Down -45 places-45	£90,000	+38.46%	8 0.26%	2
C++	110	Down -34 places-34	£38,772	-49.15%	7 0.23%	8
T-SQL	110	Down -48 places-48	£64,250	+22.38%	7 0.23%	2
Perl	112	New entry-	-	-	5 0.16%	1
Bicep	112	Down -36 places-36	£66,250	-2.57%	5 0.16%	6
Go	113	Down -53 places-53	£90,000	+28.57%	4 0.13%	12
XPath	113	New entry-	-	-	4 0.13%
C	114	New entry-	£32,500	-	3 0.098%	6
R	114	Down -41 places-41	£49,110	-34.52%	3 0.098%	14
VBA	114	New entry-	£26,000	-	3 0.098%	5
Ruby	114	Down -40 places-40	£90,000	+28.57%	3 0.098%	1
COBOL	115	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.066%
Ladder Logic	115	New entry-	-	-	2 0.066%	1
Kusto Query Language	115	Down -38 places-38	-	-	2 0.066%	1
OpenEdge ABL	115	New entry-	-	-	2 0.066%