Programming Language Statistics in the Midlands

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	25	-15	£45,000	-10.00%	616 7.58%	355
Python	41	-14	£55,000	-	371 4.57%	346
C#	60	-35	£52,500	-4.54%	265 3.26%	124
JavaScript	74	-46	£47,500	-13.63%	213 2.62%	147
PowerShell	146	-48	£52,500	+5.00%	90 1.11%	78
Java	147	-39	£50,000	+11.11%	89 1.10%	71
PHP	155	-16	£40,000	+14.28%	78 0.96%	33
TypeScript	173	-64	£53,750	-17.30%	58 0.71%	84
T-SQL	187	-14	£50,000	+8.10%	44 0.54%	20
Bash	200	-10	£66,500	+20.90%	31 0.38%	31
C	201	-35	£52,500	-12.50%	30 0.37%	68
R	201	-10	£30,500	-46.95%	30 0.37%	34
Data Analysis Expressions	201	-4	£51,250	+2.50%	30 0.37%	17
C++	207	-82	£55,000	-	24 0.30%	60
VBA	209	+18	£50,000	+42.85%	22 0.27%	8
Bicep	218	-	£63,500	-	13 0.16%	15
Go	219	+7	£65,000	-21.21%	12 0.15%	17
Delphi	219	+17	£45,000	-21.05%	12 0.15%
PL/SQL	220	-21	£70,000	+21.73%	11 0.14%	11
Groovy	220	+13	£72,500	+3.57%	11 0.14%	4
ABAP	221	+9	£67,500	-3.57%	10 0.12%	1
Perl	221	+5	£50,000	-18.36%	10 0.12%	3
Ladder Logic	221	+15	£46,500	-	10 0.12%	9
Scala	224	+10	£64,250	-8.21%	7 0.086%	9
Rust	226	+8	£80,000	+39.13%	5 0.062%	18
Ruby	226	+1	£55,000	-10.20%	5 0.062%	4
Embedded C	227	0	£57,000	+6.04%	4 0.049%	14
Kusto Query Language	227	-4	-	-	4 0.049%	5
Apex Code	228	-	£80,000	-	3 0.037%	1
VB	228	-17	£38,500	-26.66%	3 0.037%	7
VB.NET	228	-3	£40,250	-15.26%	3 0.037%
Google Apps Script	229	-	£27,500	-	2 0.025%
Embedded C++	229	+5	£53,750	-18.86%	2 0.025%	7
XAML	229	-2	£45,000	+20.00%	2 0.025%