Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	21	Down -13 places-13	£62,500	+4.16%	173 5.73%	36
Python	23	Down -14 places-14	£80,000	+23.07%	163 5.40%	48
Java	24	Up 15 places+15	£75,000	+9.09%	160 5.30%	23
TypeScript	35	Up 12 places+12	£70,000	-	102 3.38%	15
C#	47	Up 4 places+4	£55,000	-19.70%	81 2.68%	8
JavaScript	50	Down -22 places-22	£60,000	-11.11%	78 2.58%	15
PHP	74	Down -2 places-2	£40,000	-	50 1.66%
Groovy	80	New entry-	£80,000	-	44 1.46%
Kotlin	85	Down -11 places-11	£75,000	-10.44%	38 1.26%	4
Bash	103	Down -32 places-32	£72,500	-3.33%	20 0.66%	5
PowerShell	106	Down -51 places-51	£57,500	-11.53%	17 0.56%	6
RPG	109	New entry-	£65,000	-	14 0.46%	2
ABAP	109	New entry-	£85,000	-	14 0.46%
PL/SQL	114	Down -33 places-33	£32,500	-39.53%	9 0.30%	2
Scala	115	Down -47 places-47	£90,000	+61.43%	8 0.27%	3
T-SQL	115	Down -52 places-52	£64,250	+7.08%	8 0.27%
Go	117	Down -49 places-49	£90,000	+28.57%	6 0.20%	6
Bicep	118	Down -36 places-36	£66,250	-	5 0.17%
Perl	118	Down -36 places-36	-	-	5 0.17%	2
C++	119	Down -37 places-37	£32,500	-58.06%	4 0.13%	3
C	120	Down -38 places-38	£32,500	-60.60%	3 0.099%	3
R	120	Down -43 places-43	£49,110	-34.52%	3 0.099%	7
VBA	120	New entry-	£26,000	-	3 0.099%	5
Ruby	120	Down -41 places-41	£90,000	+28.57%	3 0.099%	1
Ladder Logic	121	New entry-	-	-	2 0.066%
Kusto Query Language	121	Down -39 places-39	-	-	2 0.066%
OpenEdge ABL	121	New entry-	-	-	2 0.066%
COBOL	121	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.066%
Dart	122	New entry-	-	-	1 0.033%
Apex Code	122	Down -42 places-42	-	-	1 0.033%	2
RPG/400	122	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.033%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	122	Down -42 places-42	£40,000	-33.33%	1 0.033%
XPath	122	New entry-	-	-	1 0.033%	1