Programming Language Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	28	Down -16 places-16	£55,000	-15.38%	1,190 6.54%	377
SQL	33	Down -14 places-14	£52,130	+4.26%	1,088 5.98%	323
Java	64	Down -44 places-44	£69,310	+3.39%	495 2.72%	122
JavaScript	66	Down -25 places-25	£50,000	-11.50%	469 2.58%	160
C#	75	Down -19 places-19	£61,500	+11.81%	418 2.30%	131
TypeScript	102	Down -19 places-19	£70,000	+7.69%	294 1.62%	91
PowerShell	192	Down -59 places-59	£48,445	-1.44%	139 0.76%	54
PHP	194	Down -63 places-63	£50,000	-4.76%	136 0.75%	30
Bash	214	Down -17 places-17	£48,445	-32.94%	113 0.62%	37
R	259	Down -35 places-35	£30,500	-51.20%	67 0.37%	36
Kotlin	270	Down -28 places-28	£72,500	+56.75%	56 0.31%	9
C++	271	Down -227 places-227	£55,000	-	55 0.30%	55
C	272	Down -59 places-59	£56,500	-2.30%	54 0.30%	61
Go	273	Down -226 places-226	£75,000	-3.22%	53 0.29%	13
Groovy	277	Down -28 places-28	£80,000	+14.28%	49 0.27%	7
T-SQL	292	Down -108 places-108	£48,750	-18.75%	34 0.19%	17
VBA	297	Down -44 places-44	£50,000	+4.16%	29 0.16%	1
Bicep	298	Down -70 places-70	£62,543	-10.65%	28 0.15%	17
ABAP	301	Down -48 places-48	£85,000	+6.25%	25 0.14%	4
Data Analysis Expressions	309	Down -71 places-71	£47,500	-5.00%	17 0.093%	17
COBOL	309	Down -52 places-52	£55,000	-35.48%	17 0.093%	1
Embedded C	309	Down -56 places-56	£56,000	+21.08%	17 0.093%	14
VB	310	Down -65 places-65	£40,000	-30.43%	16 0.088%	7
PL/SQL	313	Down -77 places-77	£33,250	-36.66%	13 0.071%	5
Scala	315	Down -75 places-75	£49,000	-24.61%	11 0.060%	8
Perl	316	Down -71 places-71	£80,000	-6.16%	10 0.055%