Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	16	Down -6 places-6	£70,000	+7.69%	191 6.91%	50
SQL	19	Down -10 places-10	£57,500	-4.16%	181 6.55%	36
Java	23	Up 18 places+18	£75,000	+11.11%	170 6.15%	21
TypeScript	31	Up 18 places+18	£70,000	-1.75%	110 3.98%	24
JavaScript	38	Down -14 places-14	£60,000	-11.11%	97 3.51%	20
C#	47	Up 3 places+3	£52,500	-23.35%	83 3.00%	17
PHP	75	Down -9 places-9	£40,000	-4.76%	51 1.85%	6
Groovy	78	New entry-	£80,000	-	48 1.74%	3
Kotlin	94	Down -17 places-17	£75,000	-10.44%	31 1.12%	5
Bash	95	Down -20 places-20	£68,750	-9.83%	30 1.09%	3
PowerShell	108	Down -51 places-51	£57,500	-11.53%	17 0.62%	7
ABAP	110	Down -27 places-27	£85,000	+6.25%	15 0.54%	1
Go	116	Down -45 places-45	£90,000	+28.57%	9 0.33%	5
PL/SQL	117	New entry-	£32,500	-	8 0.29%	2
Scala	118	Down -45 places-45	£90,000	+44.00%	7 0.25%	4
T-SQL	118	Down -56 places-56	£60,500	+0.83%	7 0.25%	1
RPG	119	New entry-	£65,000	-	6 0.22%	2
Bicep	121	Down -38 places-38	£65,000	-	4 0.14%
C++	121	Down -39 places-39	£50,903	-0.67%	4 0.14%	2
R	121	Down -44 places-44	£66,720	-11.04%	4 0.14%	3
Perl	121	Down -38 places-38	-	-	4 0.14%	1
C	122	Down -39 places-39	£32,500	-60.60%	3 0.11%	2
VBA	122	New entry-	£26,000	-	3 0.11%	3
Ruby	122	Down -40 places-40	£90,000	+33.33%	3 0.11%
Kusto Query Language	123	Down -41 places-41	-	-	2 0.072%	2
OpenEdge ABL	123	New entry-	-	-	2 0.072%
COBOL	123	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.072%
Data Analysis Expressions	123	Down -44 places-44	£60,000	-	2 0.072%