Programming Language Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	32	Up 2 places+2	£52,500	+5.00%	536 5.19%	213
Python	35	Down -29 places-29	£62,500	-7.40%	514 4.97%	274
Java	63	Down -50 places-50	£70,000	-4.76%	234 2.26%	76
C#	64	Up 30 places+30	£60,000	+14.28%	233 2.25%	100
JavaScript	68	Down -39 places-39	£55,000	-4.34%	224 2.17%	100
TypeScript	108	Down -25 places-25	£70,000	+3.70%	133 1.29%	66
PowerShell	157	Down -109 places-109	£51,500	+11.95%	76 0.74%	54
PHP	174	Down -14 places-14	£45,000	-14.28%	59 0.57%	16
C++	180	Down -155 places-155	£57,500	+4.54%	53 0.51%	38
Bash	199	Down -142 places-142	£55,000	-21.42%	33 0.32%	37
C	199	Up 13 places+13	£60,000	+9.09%	33 0.32%	25
R	203	Up 21 places+21	£30,500	-46.95%	29 0.28%	22
Go	204	Down -178 places-178	£85,000	+9.67%	28 0.27%	19
Bicep	213	No change0	£65,500	-6.42%	19 0.18%	11
T-SQL	215	Down -4 places-4	£53,750	+7.50%	17 0.16%	9
VB	215	Up 8 places+8	£40,000	-30.43%	17 0.16%	9
Kotlin	217	Up 12 places+12	£65,000	-3.70%	15 0.15%	6
VBA	219	Up 7 places+7	£45,000	-2.17%	13 0.13%	2
Data Analysis Expressions	219	Up 6 places+6	£55,000	+10.00%	13 0.13%	11
ABAP	220	Up 9 places+9	-	-	12 0.12%	2
Embedded C	221	Up 12 places+12	£57,500	+43.75%	11 0.11%	7
Swift	223	Up 10 places+10	£73,750	-4.83%	9 0.087%	2
Shell Script	226	Down -4 places-4	£42,500	-4.49%	6 0.058%	3
MATLAB	226	Down -40 places-40	£49,900	-0.30%	6 0.058%	2
COBOL	226	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.058%	1
Apex Code	227	Up 5 places+5	£75,000	+27.11%	5 0.048%	2
Groovy	227	Up 6 places+6	£80,000	+14.28%	5 0.048%	4
Scala	228	Up 1 place+1	£75,000	-6.25%	4 0.039%	8
Ruby	228	Down -8 places-8	£55,000	-21.42%	4 0.039%	11
SOQL	228	New entry-	£75,000	-	4 0.039%