Programming Language Statistics in Scotland

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	44	Down 15 places-15	£62,250	+38.33%	139 3.21%	394
Java	56	Down 34 places-34	£73,000	-2.66%	105 2.42%	236
SQL	59	Down 41 places-41	£55,000	+22.22%	101 2.33%	184
JavaScript	69	Down 15 places-15	£55,000	+38.36%	82 1.89%	61
TypeScript	88	Up 37 places+37	£50,000	-16.66%	59 1.36%	84
C#	89	Up 31 places+31	£55,000	-3.50%	57 1.32%	66
PowerShell	100	Down 8 places-8	£52,500	-8.69%	46 1.06%	55
C++	125	Down 14 places-14	£67,500	-8.78%	21 0.48%	65
C	130	Down 1 place-1	£60,000	+17.64%	16 0.37%	48
Kotlin	131	Up 25 places+25	£70,000	-6.66%	15 0.35%	19
MATLAB	133	Up 16 places+16	£60,000	+3.38%	13 0.30%	43
RPG	136	New entry-	£55,000	-	10 0.23%
Shell Script	136	Down 1 place-1	£63,451	+33.58%	10 0.23%	16
SystemVerilog	138	New entry-	£32,500	-	8 0.18%	14
PHP	139	Up 16 places+16	£40,000	-43.85%	7 0.16%	6
T-SQL	139	Up 9 places+9	£85,000	+126.66%	7 0.16%	2
VB.NET	139	New entry-	£63,750	-	7 0.16%	2
Go	139	Up 8 places+8	-	-	7 0.16%	38
Bash	139	Down 11 places-11	£68,750	-8.33%	7 0.16%	32
R	140	No change0	£62,500	+104.91%	6 0.14%	8
Embedded C	140	New entry-	£67,500	-	6 0.14%	9
Ladder Logic	140	New entry-	£51,500	-	6 0.14%	1
Bicep	141	Up 5 places+5	£54,388	+9.87%	5 0.12%	21
Rust	142	Up 11 places+11	-	-	4 0.092%	9
PL/SQL	142	Down 25 places-25	£62,500	+31.57%	4 0.092%	6
VB	143	Up 13 places+13	-	-	3 0.069%	6
Embedded C++	143	New entry-	£60,000	-	3 0.069%	2
Apex Code	143	Down 6 places-6	£110,000	-	3 0.069%	6
XPath	143	New entry-	£63,750	-	3 0.069%	1
Perl	144	Up 9 places+9	-	-	2 0.046%	12
ActionScript	144	New entry-	-	-	2 0.046%
Ada	144	Up 8 places+8	-	-	2 0.046%	2