Programming Language Statistics in the South West

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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	27	Up 1 place+1	£65,000	+8.33%	533 4.87%	407
SQL	35	Down 13 places-13	£52,500	+15.38%	458 4.18%	198
Java	44	Up 22 places+22	£70,000	+7.69%	362 3.31%	141
C++	56	Up 42 places+42	£60,000	-	298 2.72%	181
C#	57	Up 27 places+27	£55,000	+4.76%	297 2.71%	96
JavaScript	73	Down 27 places-27	£60,000	+26.31%	255 2.33%	106
Bash	145	Down 5 places-5	£67,500	+8.00%	106 0.97%	82
TypeScript	145	Down 30 places-30	£60,000	-	106 0.97%	80
PowerShell	155	Down 80 places-80	£54,300	+8.60%	96 0.88%	84
C	156	Down 33 places-33	£67,500	+50.00%	95 0.87%	132
Go	196	Down 41 places-41	£77,500	-7.46%	55 0.50%	44
PHP	201	Down 61 places-61	£55,000	-	50 0.46%	18
Rust	206	Down 48 places-48	£75,075	+84.04%	45 0.41%	28
Kotlin	207	Down 47 places-47	£70,000	+55.55%	44 0.40%	19
Bicep	210	Down 61 places-61	£75,000	+66.66%	41 0.37%	12
Perl	223	Down 60 places-60	£30,500	-51.20%	28 0.26%	4
MATLAB	227	Down 89 places-89	£62,500	+18.82%	24 0.22%	34
Kusto Query Language	229	Down 64 places-64	£51,375	-	22 0.20%	1
Scala	229	Down 64 places-64	£91,000	+21.33%	22 0.20%	11
Data Analysis Expressions	232	Down 73 places-73	£40,750	-14.21%	19 0.17%	3
Embedded C++	233	Down 72 places-72	£60,000	-	18 0.16%	23
Ada	236	New entry-	£65,000	-	15 0.14%	14
Assembly Language	239	New entry-	£29,000	-	12 0.11%	23
T-SQL	240	Down 95 places-95	£52,500	+5.00%	11 0.10%	7
VBA	241	Down 101 places-101	£52,500	+22.80%	10 0.091%	4
Shell Script	242	Down 81 places-81	£66,250	-30.26%	9 0.082%	11
VB	244	Down 96 places-96	£45,000	-7.21%	7 0.064%	2
R	244	Down 107 places-107	£46,250	+26.19%	7 0.064%	17
Groovy	245	Down 80 places-80	£67,500	-32.50%	6 0.055%	2
SystemVerilog	246	New entry-	£75,000	-	5 0.046%	14
Objective-C	247	Down 82 places-82	£85,000	-	4 0.037%	1
COBOL	247	New entry-	£45,000	-	4 0.037%
Embedded C	247	Down 89 places-89	£70,000	+33.33%	4 0.037%	30
Ruby	248	Down 83 places-83	£42,500	-43.33%	3 0.027%	4
Ada 95	248	New entry-	-	-	3 0.027%	1
Clojure	248	New entry-	£55,000	-	3 0.027%
ABAP	248	New entry-	-	-	3 0.027%	5
GLSL	248	New entry-	£40,000	-	3 0.027%	1