Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	12	Down -2 places-2	£65,000	+1.56%	214 8.21%	66
Java	17	Up 28 places+28	£75,000	+7.14%	193 7.40%	40
SQL	21	Down -14 places-14	£57,500	-	184 7.06%	43
TypeScript	29	Up 12 places+12	£70,000	-9.67%	129 4.95%	18
JavaScript	33	Down -14 places-14	£62,500	-10.71%	117 4.49%	40
C#	47	Down -14 places-14	£55,000	-29.93%	87 3.34%	12
Groovy	70	New entry-	£80,000	-	57 2.19%	9
Bash	77	Down -4 places-4	£75,000	-3.22%	49 1.88%	10
PHP	82	Down -20 places-20	£40,000	-15.78%	43 1.65%	10
Kotlin	92	Down -19 places-19	£72,500	-19.44%	33 1.27%	4
ABAP	110	Down -34 places-34	£85,000	+6.25%	15 0.58%	1
PowerShell	110	Down -52 places-52	£57,500	+3.60%	15 0.58%	5
Go	116	Down -50 places-50	£90,000	+20.95%	9 0.35%	7
R	117	Down -52 places-52	£30,500	-59.33%	8 0.31%	6
PL/SQL	117	Down -46 places-46	£34,000	-72.30%	8 0.31%	1
T-SQL	118	Down -60 places-60	£63,500	+5.83%	7 0.27%	3
Scala	119	Down -50 places-50	£90,000	+83.67%	6 0.23%	3
Perl	119	Down -43 places-43	-	-	6 0.23%
VBA	119	New entry-	£63,076	-	6 0.23%
C++	121	Down -45 places-45	£51,653	+106.61%	4 0.15%	11
Ruby	121	New entry-	-	-	4 0.15%
C	122	Down -46 places-46	£34,000	-58.78%	3 0.12%	11
Data Analysis Expressions	122	Down -50 places-50	£80,000	+33.33%	3 0.12%	3
OpenEdge ABL	123	New entry-	-	-	2 0.077%
COBOL	123	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.077%
RPG	123	New entry-	£65,000	-	2 0.077%
Bicep	123	Down -49 places-49	£65,000	+18.18%	2 0.077%	1