Programming Language Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	18	Up 14 places+14	£50,000	-	689 5.49%	228
Python	26	Down -20 places-20	£67,153	+11.92%	583 4.64%	265
Java	47	Down -34 places-34	£70,000	-	337 2.68%	113
C#	49	Up 57 places+57	£55,000	-10.93%	302 2.41%	85
JavaScript	50	Down -17 places-17	£53,500	-10.83%	300 2.39%	90
TypeScript	75	Up 20 places+20	£68,403	-5.65%	234 1.86%	102
PowerShell	128	Down -73 places-73	£50,000	+9.89%	138 1.10%	59
C++	183	Down -157 places-157	£55,000	+7.31%	75 0.60%	24
Bash	187	Down -127 places-127	£57,500	-4.16%	71 0.57%	32
Go	194	Down -167 places-167	£80,000	+18.51%	64 0.51%	31
PHP	206	Down -12 places-12	£45,000	-13.04%	52 0.41%	14
C	207	Up 12 places+12	£57,500	+13.30%	51 0.41%	21
Bicep	226	Up 4 places+4	£65,500	+22.42%	32 0.25%	12
R	226	Down -4 places-4	£45,037	-14.21%	32 0.25%	16
Kotlin	231	Down -3 places-3	£70,000	-	27 0.22%	11
Scala	235	Down -4 places-4	£66,250	-17.18%	23 0.18%	8
Shell Script	240	Down -14 places-14	£42,500	-4.49%	18 0.14%	6
T-SQL	240	Down -21 places-21	£53,750	-6.52%	18 0.14%	7
Apex Code	240	Down -7 places-7	£67,500	+12.50%	18 0.14%	6
Embedded C	241	Down -11 places-11	£57,500	+23.65%	17 0.14%	6
Ruby	243	Down -34 places-34	£55,000	-18.51%	15 0.12%	3
VB	243	Down -14 places-14	£40,000	+63.26%	15 0.12%	4
Data Analysis Expressions	245	Down -16 places-16	£42,500	-23.76%	13 0.10%	10
VBScript	248	New entry-	£35,500	-	10 0.080%	3
Swift	249	Down -21 places-21	£71,500	+10.00%	9 0.072%	12
Groovy	250	Down -16 places-16	£90,000	+28.57%	8 0.064%	5
VBA	251	Down -28 places-28	£45,000	+83.67%	7 0.056%	2
COBOL	252	Down -18 places-18	£55,000	-	6 0.048%
ABAP	252	Down -18 places-18	£75,000	-6.25%	6 0.048%
PL/SQL	253	Down -26 places-26	£64,038	+43.90%	5 0.040%	1