Programming Language Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	18	Down -10 places-10	£60,000	-7.69%	1,221 6.48%	607
SQL	23	Up 1 place+1	£52,130	+4.26%	1,171 6.21%	482
Java	58	Down -40 places-40	£69,305	+2.67%	577 3.06%	265
JavaScript	67	Down -38 places-38	£55,000	-4.34%	482 2.56%	297
C#	70	Down -2 places-2	£60,000	+9.09%	460 2.44%	173
TypeScript	97	Down -18 places-18	£70,000	+4.06%	321 1.70%	128
PHP	180	Down -18 places-18	£50,000	-4.76%	154 0.82%	48
PowerShell	183	Down -116 places-116	£47,500	-5.00%	151 0.80%	79
Bash	206	Down -120 places-120	£51,250	-26.78%	122 0.65%	54
C++	246	Down -215 places-215	£55,000	-	77 0.41%	63
R	261	Down -14 places-14	£30,500	-51.20%	62 0.33%	46
Kotlin	264	Up 19 places+19	£70,000	+33.33%	59 0.31%	18
Groovy	265	Up 22 places+22	£80,000	+14.28%	58 0.31%	17
C	267	Down -26 places-26	£56,500	-1.78%	56 0.30%	36
Go	275	Down -242 places-242	£76,250	-1.61%	48 0.25%	119
T-SQL	289	Down -65 places-65	£47,500	-20.83%	34 0.18%	21
ABAP	295	Down -5 places-5	£85,000	+6.25%	28 0.15%	5
VBA	296	Down -9 places-9	£50,000	+16.27%	27 0.14%	2
Bicep	298	Down -33 places-33	£65,000	-7.14%	25 0.13%	23
VB	301	Down -19 places-19	£40,000	+6.58%	22 0.12%	8
Data Analysis Expressions	302	Down -26 places-26	£47,500	-5.00%	21 0.11%	21
Embedded C	305	Down -15 places-15	£56,000	+21.08%	18 0.096%	8
COBOL	306	New entry-	£55,000	-	17 0.090%	2
PL/SQL	310	Down -34 places-34	£34,000	-35.23%	13 0.069%	6
Shell Script	310	Down -28 places-28	£42,500	-4.49%	13 0.069%	6
Scala	311	Down -31 places-31	£66,250	-1.85%	12 0.064%	17
Swift	312	Down -18 places-18	£66,250	-14.51%	11 0.058%	6
Perl	313	Down -29 places-29	£80,000	+11.69%	10 0.053%	1