Programming Language Statistics in Northern Ireland

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
C#	35	Up 7 places+7	£35,000	-44.00%	114 6.80%	45
Python	50	Down 18 places-18	£80,000	+36.17%	82 4.89%	172
PowerShell	59	Down 17 places-17	£46,000	-	70 4.18%	27
JavaScript	72	Down 32 places-32	-	-	55 3.28%	53
TypeScript	73	Down 30 places-30	-	-	54 3.22%	47
SQL	86	Down 51 places-51	£45,000	+11.11%	38 2.27%	111
Java	98	Down 55 places-55	£60,000	-	26 1.55%	118
C	117	New entry-	£35,000	-	5 0.30%	16
C++	118	New entry-	-	-	4 0.24%	26
Bash	118	New entry-	-	-	4 0.24%	27
XPath	120	New entry-	-	-	2 0.12%
PHP	121	Down 76 places-76	-	-	1 0.060%	5
VB.NET	121	New entry-	£35,000	-	1 0.060%
Data Analysis Expressions	121	New entry-	£60,000	-	1 0.060%	8
Go	121	New entry-	-	-	1 0.060%	21
Scala	121	Down 76 places-76	-	-	1 0.060%	4
Kusto Query Language	121	New entry-	-	-	1 0.060%	3