Programming Language Statistics in Somerset

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
C#	19	Up 28 places+28	£50,000	+11.11%	81 7.07%	7
SQL	21	No change0	£40,000	-	71 6.20%	3
Python	25	Up 20 places+20	£37,500	-40.00%	60 5.24%	16
JavaScript	36	Down 1 place-1	£37,500	+38.88%	44 3.84%	4
Java	42	New entry-	£30,500	-	38 3.32%	2
C++	43	Up 3 places+3	£30,500	-53.07%	37 3.23%	6
Perl	55	New entry-	£30,500	-	25 2.18%
Bicep	68	Down 20 places-20	£70,000	+55.55%	12 1.05%	1
Ada	69	New entry-	£65,000	-	11 0.96%
TypeScript	69	Down 16 places-16	£70,000	-8.19%	11 0.96%	4
C	72	Down 18 places-18	£55,000	+37.50%	8 0.70%	5
PowerShell	73	Down 32 places-32	£37,500	+11.94%	7 0.61%	4
PHP	74	Down 22 places-22	£53,750	+34.37%	6 0.52%	1
Rust	76	New entry-	-	-	4 0.35%
VB	76	New entry-	£40,000	-	4 0.35%	1
VBA	77	Down 28 places-28	£35,000	-	3 0.26%
Bash	77	New entry-	£42,500	-	3 0.26%	3
Ada 95	77	New entry-	-	-	3 0.26%
Data Analysis Expressions	77	Down 24 places-24	£35,000	-41.66%	3 0.26%
Kusto Query Language	79	New entry-	£62,500	-	1 0.087%
ABAP	79	New entry-	-	-	1 0.087%	1
Embedded C	79	New entry-	£55,000	-	1 0.087%
Embedded C++	79	New entry-	£55,000	-	1 0.087%
Tcl	79	New entry-	-	-	1 0.087%
R	79	Down 28 places-28	£50,000	+5.26%	1 0.087%	3