Programming Language Statistics in the North East

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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
Python	17	Up 14 places+14	£67,500	+50.00%	242 6.47%	50
SQL	20	Up 4 places+4	£62,500	+31.57%	232 6.20%	42
C#	28	Up 8 places+8	£75,000	+46.34%	201 5.37%	22
Java	30	Up 16 places+16	£55,500	+8.29%	195 5.21%	22
TypeScript	52	Down 2 places-2	£65,000	+33.33%	110 2.94%	9
JavaScript	56	Down 17 places-17	£53,565	+7.13%	105 2.81%	11
C++	85	Down 16 places-16	£100,000	+145.39%	66 1.76%	8
PowerShell	110	Down 43 places-43	£50,913	-15.14%	39 1.04%	12
Rust	112	Down 37 places-37	£100,000	-	37 0.99%	2
Bash	116	Down 51 places-51	£52,500	+56.71%	33 0.88%	5
Bicep	136	Down 65 places-65	£54,500	-26.10%	13 0.35%	6
Shell Script	137	New entry-	£42,500	-	12 0.32%	2
Scala	138	Down 68 places-68	£57,500	-11.53%	11 0.29%	7
Go	139	New entry-	£80,000	-	10 0.27%
C	141	Down 74 places-74	£50,500	-9.41%	8 0.21%	7
Swift	142	New entry-	£47,000	-	7 0.19%
PHP	142	Down 71 places-71	£31,000	+24.00%	7 0.19%	1
Kotlin	144	Down 70 places-70	£47,000	-27.69%	5 0.13%	5
R	144	Down 75 places-75	£100,000	+173.97%	5 0.13%	5
Embedded C	144	Down 69 places-69	£51,000	+27.50%	5 0.13%	3
VB	146	New entry-	-	-	3 0.080%	1
PL/SQL	147	New entry-	£63,076	-	2 0.054%