Programming Language Statistics in Sheffield

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	14	Down -4 places-4	£45,000	+5.88%	83 8.40%	16
Python	23	Up 2 places+2	£40,000	-42.85%	56 5.67%	24
C#	39	Down -13 places-13	£60,000	-	36 3.64%	6
Java	46	Down -11 places-11	£25,000	-19.35%	29 2.94%	7
JavaScript	56	Down -32 places-32	£55,000	-4.34%	19 1.92%	9
PHP	65	Down -22 places-22	£50,000	+33.33%	10 1.01%	2
PowerShell	66	Down -19 places-19	£42,500	-	9 0.91%	1
TypeScript	68	Down -28 places-28	£62,500	-24.24%	7 0.71%	6
C	70	Down -34 places-34	£50,000	+8.69%	5 0.51%	4
COBOL	70	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.51%
Data Analysis Expressions	72	Down -27 places-27	£44,000	-18.51%	3 0.30%
C++	72	Down -36 places-36	£54,000	+17.39%	3 0.30%	3
VB.NET	72	Down -30 places-30	£55,000	+29.41%	3 0.30%
ABAP	72	New entry-	£60,000	-	3 0.30%
T-SQL	73	Down -32 places-32	£44,000	-26.66%	2 0.20%
Bicep	73	Down -26 places-26	£62,500	-	2 0.20%	1
R	73	Down -26 places-26	£48,360	-3.28%	2 0.20%
VBA	74	New entry-	£63,076	-	1 0.10%
Bash	74	New entry-	£83,774	-	1 0.10%	3