Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	11	Up 2 places+2	£65,000	+5.48%	226 9.31%	57
SQL	17	Down -11 places-11	£56,250	-	186 7.66%	41
Java	20	Up 19 places+19	£75,000	+11.11%	177 7.29%	24
TypeScript	30	Up 12 places+12	£70,000	+3.70%	120 4.94%	21
JavaScript	33	Down -14 places-14	£62,500	-	117 4.82%	32
C#	47	Down -18 places-18	£65,000	-7.14%	89 3.67%	14
Groovy	80	New entry-	£80,000	-	50 2.06%	5
Bash	82	Down -5 places-5	£71,250	-8.06%	48 1.98%	8
PHP	99	Down -38 places-38	£42,500	-15.00%	31 1.28%	11
Kotlin	100	Down -27 places-27	£72,500	+61.11%	30 1.24%	6
PowerShell	114	Down -52 places-52	£57,500	+9.52%	16 0.66%	5
ABAP	116	Down -36 places-36	£85,000	+6.25%	14 0.58%	1
R	119	Down -54 places-54	£30,500	-59.33%	11 0.45%	4
Go	121	Down -48 places-48	£90,000	+14.19%	9 0.37%	2
PL/SQL	121	Down -46 places-46	£34,000	-72.30%	9 0.37%	2
T-SQL	122	Down -60 places-60	£82,000	+36.66%	8 0.33%	4
Scala	124	Down -51 places-51	£49,000	-12.10%	6 0.25%	5
C	124	Down -45 places-45	£34,000	-51.42%	6 0.25%	7
C++	124	Down -46 places-46	£34,000	-21.83%	6 0.25%	7
Perl	124	Down -44 places-44	-	-	6 0.25%
VBA	124	New entry-	£63,076	-	6 0.25%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	127	Down -51 places-51	£80,000	+33.33%	3 0.12%	3
OpenEdge ABL	128	New entry-	-	-	2 0.082%
Ruby	128	New entry-	-	-	2 0.082%	1
Bicep	128	Down -49 places-49	£65,000	+18.18%	2 0.082%	2
COBOL	128	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.082%
RPG	128	New entry-	£65,000	-	2 0.082%