Programming Language Statistics in the Midlands

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Dec 2025	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	21	-11	£47,500	-	650 8.55%	542
Python	40	-9	£60,000	+4.34%	369 4.86%	749
C#	61	-35	£55,000	-	260 3.42%	196
JavaScript	77	-47	£47,500	-13.63%	192 2.53%	355
PowerShell	127	-11	£52,500	+10.52%	99 1.30%	89
Java	129	+1	£58,000	+45.00%	97 1.28%	218
PHP	153	-4	£40,000	+14.28%	73 0.96%	58
TypeScript	169	-49	£55,000	-15.38%	57 0.75%	164
T-SQL	178	+5	£48,500	+5.02%	48 0.63%	10
R	195	+17	£45,195	-26.21%	31 0.41%	80
C	199	-32	£52,500	-8.69%	27 0.36%	59
Data Analysis Expressions	201	+18	£45,000	-5.26%	25 0.33%	15
Bash	202	+5	£60,000	+4.34%	24 0.32%	80
Groovy	202	+48	£72,500	+3.57%	24 0.32%	3
C++	206	-78	£54,000	-6.08%	20 0.26%	106
Perl	207	+32	£72,500	+28.88%	19 0.25%	7
ABAP	208	+38	£57,500	-11.53%	18 0.24%	5
Bicep	208	+45	£60,000	+14.28%	18 0.24%	20
PL/SQL	212	+11	£60,000	+22.44%	14 0.18%	15
VB	214	+10	£40,000	-15.78%	12 0.16%	12
Ladder Logic	214	+38	£49,750	-13.47%	12 0.16%	5
VBA	215	+25	£50,000	+17.64%	11 0.14%	12
Delphi	216	+36	£45,000	-12.62%	10 0.13%	5
Go	216	+25	£72,500	+20.83%	10 0.13%	95
Scala	218	+33	£65,000	-7.14%	8 0.11%	21
Ruby	221	+22	£55,000	-12.00%	5 0.066%	80
Apex Code	221	+30	£80,000	+60.00%	5 0.066%	20
Rust	222	+29	£80,000	+39.13%	4 0.053%	47
Shell Script	222	+19	£58,000	+5.45%	4 0.053%	9
VB.NET	223	+16	£40,250	-15.26%	3 0.040%	3
XAML	223	+21	£45,000	+20.00%	3 0.040%
Kotlin	223	+29	£65,000	+44.44%	3 0.040%	32
Kusto Query Language	223	+19	-	-	3 0.040%	6