Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	21	Down -11 places-11	£62,500	+4.16%	177 5.74%	106
Java	23	Up 10 places+10	£75,000	+7.14%	159 5.15%	76
Python	26	Down -17 places-17	£80,000	+18.51%	150 4.86%	166
TypeScript	35	Up 7 places+7	£70,000	-3.44%	105 3.40%	39
JavaScript	50	Down -25 places-25	£58,750	-12.96%	78 2.53%	27
C#	54	Down -12 places-12	£55,000	-19.70%	73 2.37%	33
PHP	81	Down -14 places-14	£40,000	+6.66%	45 1.46%	4
Groovy	82	New entry-	£80,000	-	44 1.43%
Kotlin	85	Down -18 places-18	£73,500	+3.15%	41 1.33%	11
PowerShell	106	Down -55 places-55	£55,000	-15.38%	20 0.65%	27
Bash	109	Down -45 places-45	£72,500	+4.69%	17 0.55%	15
RPG	109	New entry-	£65,000	-	17 0.55%	2
ABAP	112	New entry-	£85,000	-	14 0.45%
PL/SQL	115	Down -41 places-41	£32,500	-39.53%	11 0.36%	3
Scala	118	Down -56 places-56	£90,000	+38.46%	8 0.26%	3
C++	119	Down -45 places-45	£38,772	-49.15%	7 0.23%	10
T-SQL	120	Down -61 places-61	£60,500	+15.23%	6 0.19%	5
Perl	121	New entry-	-	-	5 0.16%	2
Bicep	121	Down -47 places-47	£66,250	-2.57%	5 0.16%	7
Go	122	Down -61 places-61	£90,000	+24.13%	4 0.13%	13
XPath	122	New entry-	-	-	4 0.13%
Kusto Query Language	122	Down -47 places-47	£71,250	+23.91%	4 0.13%	4
C	123	New entry-	£32,500	-	3 0.097%	7
Ruby	123	Down -51 places-51	£90,000	+28.57%	3 0.097%	2
RPG/400	124	New entry-	£65,000	-	2 0.065%	2
OpenEdge ABL	124	New entry-	-	-	2 0.065%
COBOL	124	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.065%
VBA	124	New entry-	£35,500	-	2 0.065%	6
R	124	Down -53 places-53	£66,720	-11.04%	2 0.065%	20
Ladder Logic	124	New entry-	-	-	2 0.065%	1