Programming Language Statistics in the South East

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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
SQL	31	Down 12 places-12	£55,000	+17.64%	887 4.35%	215
C#	37	Up 17 places+17	£60,000	+4.34%	786 3.85%	75
Python	39	Up 8 places+8	£62,500	+8.69%	745 3.65%	289
JavaScript	69	Up 10 places+10	£57,500	-	483 2.37%	59
C++	75	Up 101 places+101	£65,000	-	437 2.14%	124
TypeScript	98	Up 63 places+63	£65,000	-7.14%	322 1.58%	44
PowerShell	139	Down 45 places-45	£52,500	-9.48%	239 1.17%	88
Java	140	Down 27 places-27	£70,000	+12.00%	238 1.17%	64
C	154	Up 38 places+38	£62,500	+13.63%	217 1.06%	94
PHP	198	Up 19 places+19	£55,000	-	155 0.76%	17
Bash	222	Down 8 places-8	£60,000	-14.28%	125 0.61%	38
MATLAB	243	Down 42 places-42	£56,000	-25.33%	104 0.51%	37
Go	244	Down 4 places-4	£72,250	+25.65%	103 0.50%	21
Ruby	254	Up 4 places+4	£47,500	-32.14%	92 0.45%	10
Rust	284	Down 19 places-19	£68,000	+36.00%	62 0.30%	18
T-SQL	284	Down 64 places-64	£60,000	+41.17%	62 0.30%	12
R	305	Down 57 places-57	£57,500	+9.52%	41 0.20%	14
Bicep	309	Down 44 places-44	£75,000	+15.38%	37 0.18%	23
Assembly Language	311	Down 33 places-33	£65,000	+132.14%	35 0.17%	38
ABAP	313	Down 34 places-34	£55,000	-15.38%	33 0.16%	4
Embedded C	314	Down 46 places-46	£65,000	+18.18%	32 0.16%	16
Kusto Query Language	316	Down 53 places-53	£55,000	-21.42%	30 0.15%	6
Kotlin	317	Down 52 places-52	£60,000	-	29 0.14%	4
Shell Script	318	Down 58 places-58	£65,000	+3.58%	28 0.14%	11
VB.NET	320	Down 50 places-50	£44,000	+3.52%	26 0.13%	2
PL/SQL	321	Down 80 places-80	£75,000	+7.14%	25 0.12%	4
Embedded C++	323	Down 43 places-43	£65,000	-10.34%	23 0.11%	8
Swift	326	Down 53 places-53	£60,000	-	20 0.098%	3
Apex Code	328	Down 49 places-49	£62,500	+4.16%	18 0.088%	11
Data Analysis Expressions	328	Down 64 places-64	£55,000	+4.76%	18 0.088%	9
Ada	329	Down 56 places-56	£60,000	-11.76%	17 0.083%	7
Perl	331	Down 76 places-76	£51,500	-11.20%	15 0.074%	6
COBOL	336	New entry-	£62,500	-	10 0.049%