Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	17	Down -8 places-8	£70,000	+7.69%	191 7.08%	36
SQL	21	Down -14 places-14	£60,000	-	175 6.48%	22
Java	23	Up 17 places+17	£75,000	+7.14%	171 6.34%	13
TypeScript	30	Up 15 places+15	£70,000	-6.66%	114 4.22%	21
JavaScript	36	Down -13 places-13	£61,250	-9.25%	99 3.67%	15
C#	46	Down -1 place-1	£51,250	-25.99%	81 3.00%	22
PHP	69	Down -7 places-7	£40,000	-9.09%	50 1.85%	5
Groovy	70	New entry-	£80,000	-	49 1.82%	3
Bash	84	Down -12 places-12	£65,000	-13.33%	34 1.26%	2
Kotlin	85	Down -10 places-10	£75,000	-16.66%	33 1.22%
PowerShell	99	Down -45 places-45	£57,500	-11.53%	19 0.70%	7
ABAP	103	Down -24 places-24	£85,000	+6.25%	15 0.56%	1
Go	109	Down -42 places-42	£90,000	+28.57%	9 0.33%	5
PL/SQL	111	Down -33 places-33	£32,500	-73.52%	7 0.26%	3
Scala	112	Down -41 places-41	£90,000	+83.67%	6 0.22%	2
T-SQL	112	Down -53 places-53	£60,500	+0.83%	6 0.22%	1
Bicep	114	Down -36 places-36	£65,000	+44.44%	4 0.15%	1
R	114	Down -43 places-43	£66,720	-11.04%	4 0.15%	2
Perl	114	Down -35 places-35	-	-	4 0.15%
RPG	114	New entry-	£65,000	-	4 0.15%	1
VBA	114	New entry-	£44,538	-	4 0.15%	2
C++	115	Down -37 places-37	£69,305	+35.22%	3 0.11%	2
Ruby	115	Down -36 places-36	£90,000	+33.33%	3 0.11%	1
Kusto Query Language	116	Down -38 places-38	-	-	2 0.074%	2
OpenEdge ABL	116	New entry-	-	-	2 0.074%
C	116	Down -37 places-37	£53,750	-34.84%	2 0.074%	3
COBOL	116	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.074%
Data Analysis Expressions	116	Down -41 places-41	£60,000	-	2 0.074%	1