Programming Language Statistics in the Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	22	Down 13 places-13	£52,500	+16.66%	758 4.77%	362
C#	48	Up 3 places+3	£60,000	+9.09%	429 2.70%	169
Python	57	Down 22 places-22	£62,500	+4.16%	404 2.54%	367
JavaScript	99	Down 49 places-49	£55,000	+10.00%	232 1.46%	104
Java	100	Down 30 places-30	£70,000	+12.00%	229 1.44%	117
PowerShell	141	Down 45 places-45	£53,094	+1.13%	157 0.99%	100
TypeScript	156	Down 22 places-22	£60,000	-	138 0.87%	86
C++	178	Up 7 places+7	£67,500	+22.72%	110 0.69%	130
C	203	Down 20 places-20	£65,000	+23.80%	85 0.53%	90
Data Analysis Expressions	221	Down 14 places-14	£55,000	+12.24%	67 0.42%	24
MATLAB	235	Down 32 places-32	£45,000	-30.76%	53 0.33%	64
Embedded C	244	Down 21 places-21	£65,000	+30.00%	44 0.28%	20
Ladder Logic	251	Down 43 places-43	£51,500	-6.36%	37 0.23%	11
Bash	254	Down 59 places-59	£51,250	-10.81%	34 0.21%	42
Go	255	Down 42 places-42	£80,000	-	33 0.21%	20
PHP	257	Down 102 places-102	£40,500	+1.25%	31 0.19%	36
PL/SQL	258	Down 50 places-50	£63,076	+5.12%	30 0.19%	18
COBOL	266	New entry-	-	-	22 0.14%	2
JCL	266	Down 43 places-43	-	-	22 0.14%
VBA	267	Down 47 places-47	£31,000	-	21 0.13%	16
Bicep	267	Down 64 places-64	£81,500	+35.83%	21 0.13%	25
T-SQL	270	Down 84 places-84	£60,000	+33.33%	18 0.11%	20
R	270	Down 92 places-92	£65,000	+18.18%	18 0.11%	34
Ruby	272	Down 72 places-72	£30,000	-45.45%	16 0.10%	6
Kotlin	274	Down 54 places-54	£55,000	-15.38%	14 0.088%	8
Shell Script	276	Down 60 places-60	£61,500	+6.49%	12 0.076%	12
RPG	277	Down 57 places-57	£55,000	-	11 0.069%	4
ABAP	277	Down 71 places-71	£62,500	+13.63%	11 0.069%	12
Scala	279	Down 62 places-62	£74,500	+14.61%	9 0.057%	8
VB.NET	281	Down 63 places-63	£45,250	-9.50%	7 0.044%	8
RPG IV	283	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.031%	2
Perl	283	Down 87 places-87	-	-	5 0.031%	3
RPG/400	284	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.025%
RPG III	284	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.025%
Apex Code	284	Down 69 places-69	£35,000	-45.52%	4 0.025%	16
Embedded C++	284	Down 62 places-62	£59,500	+10.69%	4 0.025%	13
Assembly Language	284	New entry-	£30,500	-	4 0.025%	13
Rust	284	Down 82 places-82	£97,500	+25.80%	4 0.025%	8