Programming Language Statistics in the South East

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	36	Down 17 places-17	£55,000	+15.78%	836 3.95%	478
Python	40	Up 9 places+9	£63,375	+10.21%	762 3.60%	800
C#	42	Up 14 places+14	£62,500	+8.69%	737 3.48%	241
C++	75	Up 82 places+82	£65,000	+4.00%	460 2.17%	307
JavaScript	78	Down 1 place-1	£57,500	+4.54%	449 2.12%	152
TypeScript	116	Up 38 places+38	£66,250	-5.35%	295 1.39%	141
Java	139	Down 23 places-23	£70,000	+12.00%	261 1.23%	189
PowerShell	158	Down 64 places-64	£52,500	-9.48%	229 1.08%	193
C	158	Up 32 places+32	£60,000	+7.69%	229 1.08%	206
PHP	220	Down 9 places-9	£57,500	+6.97%	142 0.67%	43
Bash	245	Down 42 places-42	£60,000	-14.28%	112 0.53%	97
Go	250	Down 16 places-16	£71,000	+23.47%	107 0.51%	61
MATLAB	251	Down 50 places-50	£56,000	-25.33%	106 0.50%	104
Ruby	261	Down 5 places-5	£50,000	-28.57%	93 0.44%	25
Rust	286	Down 26 places-26	£68,500	+37.00%	67 0.32%	73
T-SQL	288	Down 60 places-60	£60,000	+41.17%	65 0.31%	41
R	307	Down 63 places-63	£57,500	+9.52%	46 0.22%	54
Bicep	311	Down 47 places-47	£74,250	+6.07%	42 0.20%	37
Assembly Language	314	Down 40 places-40	£32,500	+16.07%	39 0.18%	43
Shell Script	319	Down 66 places-66	£65,000	+13.04%	34 0.16%	27
Kotlin	320	Down 59 places-59	£60,000	-	33 0.16%	14
Kusto Query Language	320	Down 64 places-64	£55,000	-21.42%	33 0.16%	13
ABAP	321	Down 47 places-47	£55,000	-26.66%	32 0.15%	9
Embedded C	323	Down 59 places-59	£57,500	+4.54%	30 0.14%	27
VB.NET	328	Down 62 places-62	£44,000	+3.52%	25 0.12%	12
Swift	332	Down 64 places-64	£60,000	-	21 0.099%	9
Apex Code	332	Down 60 places-60	£62,500	+4.16%	21 0.099%	11
Embedded C++	332	Down 57 places-57	£65,000	-18.75%	21 0.099%	18
PL/SQL	333	Down 87 places-87	£75,000	+7.14%	20 0.094%	8
Ada	333	Down 63 places-63	£55,000	-19.11%	20 0.094%	9
Data Analysis Expressions	335	Down 80 places-80	£55,000	+4.76%	18 0.085%	22
Perl	341	Down 97 places-97	£51,500	-11.20%	12 0.057%	14
SOQL	342	Down 66 places-66	-	-	11 0.052%	4