Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	11	Up 2 places+2	£65,000	+5.48%	221 9.23%	56
SQL	18	Down -12 places-12	£55,000	-2.22%	186 7.77%	42
Java	20	Up 19 places+19	£75,000	+11.11%	176 7.35%	22
TypeScript	29	Up 13 places+13	£70,000	+3.70%	120 5.01%	21
JavaScript	29	Down -10 places-10	£60,000	-4.00%	120 5.01%	32
C#	42	Down -13 places-13	£65,000	-7.14%	92 3.84%	16
Groovy	75	New entry-	£80,000	-	49 2.05%	4
Bash	76	Up 2 places+2	£71,250	-8.06%	48 2.01%	7
Kotlin	94	Down -20 places-20	£72,500	+61.11%	30 1.25%	7
PHP	95	Down -33 places-33	£42,500	-15.00%	29 1.21%	13
PowerShell	108	Down -45 places-45	£57,500	+9.52%	16 0.67%	5
ABAP	110	Down -29 places-29	£85,000	+6.25%	14 0.58%	3
R	112	Down -46 places-46	£30,500	-59.33%	12 0.50%	2
Go	115	Down -41 places-41	£90,000	+14.19%	9 0.38%	5
PL/SQL	115	Down -39 places-39	£34,000	-72.30%	9 0.38%	2
T-SQL	116	Down -53 places-53	£82,000	+36.66%	8 0.33%	4
Scala	118	Down -44 places-44	£49,000	-12.10%	6 0.25%	3
C	118	Down -38 places-38	£34,000	-51.42%	6 0.25%	6
C++	118	Down -39 places-39	£34,000	-21.83%	6 0.25%	6
Perl	118	Down -37 places-37	-	-	6 0.25%	1
VBA	118	New entry-	£63,076	-	6 0.25%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	121	Down -44 places-44	£80,000	+33.33%	3 0.13%	2
Ruby	122	New entry-	-	-	2 0.084%	1
Bicep	122	Down -42 places-42	£65,000	+18.18%	2 0.084%	2
OpenEdge ABL	122	New entry-	-	-	2 0.084%
COBOL	122	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.084%
RPG	122	New entry-	£65,000	-	2 0.084%