Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	17	Down -7 places-7	£70,000	+7.69%	194 7.28%	62
Java	22	Up 18 places+18	£75,000	+7.14%	174 6.53%	24
SQL	23	Down -15 places-15	£60,000	-	171 6.42%	36
TypeScript	31	Up 13 places+13	£70,000	-9.67%	116 4.35%	20
JavaScript	41	Down -17 places-17	£62,500	-10.71%	97 3.64%	31
C#	53	Down -13 places-13	£50,000	-36.30%	79 2.96%	15
Groovy	73	New entry-	£80,000	-	53 1.99%	3
PHP	78	Down -15 places-15	£40,000	-9.09%	47 1.76%	3
Bash	87	Down -14 places-14	£65,000	-13.33%	37 1.39%	5
Kotlin	91	Down -15 places-15	£73,750	-18.05%	33 1.24%	1
PowerShell	108	Down -53 places-53	£57,500	-11.53%	16 0.60%	5
ABAP	109	Down -29 places-29	£85,000	+6.25%	15 0.56%	1
Go	115	Down -47 places-47	£90,000	+28.57%	9 0.34%	6
PL/SQL	118	Down -42 places-42	-	-	6 0.23%	1
T-SQL	118	Down -57 places-57	£60,500	+0.83%	6 0.23%	2
VBA	118	New entry-	£63,076	-	6 0.23%
Scala	119	Down -46 places-46	£90,000	+83.67%	5 0.19%	4
Bicep	120	Down -41 places-41	£65,000	+44.44%	4 0.15%	2
Perl	120	Down -40 places-40	-	-	4 0.15%
R	121	Down -51 places-51	£66,720	-11.04%	3 0.11%	3
Ruby	122	New entry-	-	-	2 0.075%	3
Data Analysis Expressions	122	Down -46 places-46	£60,000	-	2 0.075%	2
Kusto Query Language	122	Down -43 places-43	-	-	2 0.075%	1
OpenEdge ABL	122	New entry-	-	-	2 0.075%
C++	122	Down -43 places-43	£72,153	+40.78%	2 0.075%	13
COBOL	122	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.075%
RPG	122	New entry-	£65,000	-	2 0.075%	3
Embedded C	123	New entry-	£75,000	-	1 0.038%	1
Dart	123	New entry-	-	-	1 0.038%
Ladder Logic	123	New entry-	-	-	1 0.038%
Apex Code	123	Down -44 places-44	-	-	1 0.038%	2
C	123	Down -43 places-43	£75,000	-9.09%	1 0.038%	11