Programming Language Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	29	Down 7 places-7	£54,250	+8.50%	602 4.68%	382
Python	33	Down 17 places-17	£66,805	+11.34%	540 4.20%	451
Java	42	Up 33 places+33	£75,000	+7.14%	440 3.42%	177
C#	60	Up 19 places+19	£57,722	-7.64%	293 2.28%	154
JavaScript	65	Up 7 places+7	£54,250	-1.36%	276 2.15%	100
TypeScript	72	Up 29 places+29	£66,250	+1.92%	262 2.04%	156
PowerShell	133	Down 96 places-96	£50,000	-5.88%	142 1.10%	83
Bash	185	Down 140 places-140	£65,000	+8.33%	82 0.64%	59
Go	191	Down 1 place-1	£80,000	+20.75%	76 0.59%	49
C++	208	Down 26 places-26	£55,000	+10.00%	59 0.46%	88
C	212	Down 25 places-25	£57,500	+23.65%	55 0.43%	62
Kotlin	219	Down 20 places-20	£70,000	-	48 0.37%	31
PHP	232	Down 56 places-56	£51,250	-6.81%	35 0.27%	37
Scala	237	Down 34 places-34	£71,250	-5.00%	30 0.23%	11
Bicep	241	Down 43 places-43	£65,500	+4.90%	26 0.20%	27
Shell Script	245	Down 41 places-41	£42,500	-2.29%	22 0.17%	18
Data Analysis Expressions	247	Down 50 places-50	£58,750	+3.98%	20 0.16%	8
R	247	Down 68 places-68	£50,019	+63.99%	20 0.16%	18
Embedded C	248	Down 49 places-49	£57,500	+23.65%	19 0.15%	12
T-SQL	250	Down 47 places-47	£55,000	-4.34%	17 0.13%	14
Apex Code	250	Down 46 places-46	£65,000	-13.33%	17 0.13%	10
PL/SQL	253	Down 55 places-55	£55,000	+107.54%	14 0.11%	5
VB	255	Down 53 places-53	£40,000	+63.26%	12 0.093%
Ruby	255	Down 73 places-73	£60,000	-12.72%	12 0.093%	7
Rust	255	Down 57 places-57	£72,500	-3.33%	12 0.093%	13
VBScript	257	Down 56 places-56	£35,500	+33.96%	10 0.078%	1
ABAP	258	Down 52 places-52	£58,541	-26.82%	9 0.070%	8
Kusto Query Language	260	Down 55 places-55	£45,000	-14.28%	7 0.055%	6
Swift	261	Down 60 places-60	£69,500	+6.92%	6 0.047%	9
Assembly Language	261	New entry-	£29,750	-	6 0.047%	3
Groovy	261	Down 54 places-54	£90,000	-	6 0.047%	2
ActionScript	262	New entry-	-	-	5 0.039%	2