Programming Language Statistics in Leeds

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 Sep 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%	171 5.63%	55
Python	23	Down -15 places-15	£80,000	+18.51%	157 5.17%	104
Java	24	Up 11 places+11	£76,750	+13.70%	154 5.07%	60
TypeScript	34	Up 10 places+10	£70,000	+1.81%	99 3.26%	38
C#	48	No change0	£55,000	-19.11%	78 2.57%	24
JavaScript	50	Down -24 places-24	£60,000	-11.11%	76 2.50%	28
PHP	73	Down -4 places-4	£40,000	+3.22%	50 1.65%
Groovy	80	New entry-	£80,000	-	43 1.42%	1
Kotlin	87	Down -17 places-17	£75,000	+5.26%	35 1.15%	18
Bash	103	Down -37 places-37	£72,500	+1.75%	19 0.63%	13
PowerShell	104	Down -53 places-53	£55,000	-15.38%	18 0.59%	14
RPG	108	New entry-	£65,000	-	14 0.46%	3
ABAP	108	New entry-	£85,000	-	14 0.46%
PL/SQL	112	Down -35 places-35	£32,500	-39.53%	10 0.33%	2
Scala	114	Down -50 places-50	£90,000	+57.89%	8 0.26%	2
T-SQL	115	Down -53 places-53	£64,250	+7.08%	7 0.23%	2
C++	117	Down -40 places-40	£32,500	-57.37%	5 0.16%	12
Perl	117	Down -39 places-39	-	-	5 0.16%	2
Go	117	Down -56 places-56	£90,000	+28.57%	5 0.16%	12
Bicep	117	Down -39 places-39	£66,250	-	5 0.16%	5
C	119	Down -41 places-41	£32,500	-60.60%	3 0.099%	9
VBA	119	New entry-	£26,000	-	3 0.099%	4
R	119	Down -46 places-46	£49,110	-34.52%	3 0.099%	7
Ruby	119	Down -44 places-44	£90,000	+28.57%	3 0.099%	1
Kusto Query Language	120	Down -42 places-42	-	-	2 0.066%	1
COBOL	120	New entry-	£49,724	-	2 0.066%
OpenEdge ABL	120	New entry-	-	-	2 0.066%
XPath	120	New entry-	-	-	2 0.066%	1
Ladder Logic	120	New entry-	-	-	2 0.066%	1