Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	20	Down -12 places-12	£60,000	-	178 6.03%	54
Python	21	Down -12 places-12	£72,500	+11.53%	173 5.86%	79
Java	23	Up 16 places+16	£75,000	+11.11%	169 5.73%	36
TypeScript	35	Up 10 places+10	£70,000	-	109 3.69%	19
JavaScript	46	Down -21 places-21	£60,000	-11.11%	87 2.95%	27
C#	50	Down -1 place-1	£55,000	-19.11%	82 2.78%	26
PHP	78	Down -11 places-11	£40,000	-	53 1.80%	3
Groovy	81	New entry-	£80,000	-	48 1.63%
Kotlin	92	Down -17 places-17	£73,750	-11.94%	37 1.25%	13
Bash	102	Down -31 places-31	£72,500	-3.33%	27 0.92%	6
PowerShell	113	Down -60 places-60	£60,000	-7.69%	16 0.54%	9
ABAP	114	Down -33 places-33	£85,000	+6.25%	15 0.51%
RPG	117	New entry-	£65,000	-	12 0.41%	5
PL/SQL	120	Down -40 places-40	£32,500	-39.53%	9 0.31%
Scala	122	Down -53 places-53	£90,000	+61.43%	7 0.24%	5
T-SQL	122	Down -62 places-62	£60,500	+0.83%	7 0.24%	2
Go	123	Down -54 places-54	£90,000	+28.57%	6 0.20%	8
C++	124	Down -44 places-44	£32,500	-36.58%	5 0.17%	5
Perl	124	Down -43 places-43	-	-	5 0.17%	3
Bicep	125	Down -44 places-44	£65,000	-	4 0.14%
C	125	Down -44 places-44	£32,500	-60.60%	4 0.14%	4
R	125	Down -49 places-49	£66,720	-11.04%	4 0.14%	8
VBA	126	New entry-	£26,000	-	3 0.10%	5
Ruby	126	Down -48 places-48	£90,000	+28.57%	3 0.10%	1
Ladder Logic	127	New entry-	-	-	2 0.068%
Kusto Query Language	127	Down -46 places-46	-	-	2 0.068%	1
OpenEdge ABL	127	New entry-	-	-	2 0.068%
COBOL	127	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.068%