Programming Language Statistics in Southampton

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	27	Up 3 places+3	£70,000	+55.55%	51 4.92%	20
SQL	29	Down 25 places-25	£55,000	-2.22%	49 4.73%	8
C++	30	Up 5 places+5	£50,000	-16.66%	48 4.63%	10
JavaScript	36	Down 5 places-5	£67,500	+35.00%	40 3.86%	3
TypeScript	40	Down 8 places-8	£80,000	+25.49%	34 3.28%	5
C	41	Down 1 place-1	£50,000	-44.44%	33 3.19%	6
C#	50	Down 34 places-34	£57,500	-4.16%	24 2.32%	9
Java	62	Down 26 places-26	£68,750	+25.00%	12 1.16%	1
MATLAB	64	New entry-	£70,000	-	10 0.97%	1
Ruby	64	New entry-	£60,000	-	10 0.97%	2
PowerShell	65	Down 45 places-45	£60,000	-	9 0.87%	10
T-SQL	65	New entry-	£60,000	-	9 0.87%
PHP	66	Down 25 places-25	£60,000	-22.58%	8 0.77%
Bash	67	New entry-	£60,000	-	7 0.68%	1
Embedded C	68	New entry-	£70,000	-	6 0.58%
Embedded C++	68	New entry-	£70,000	-	6 0.58%	1
Bicep	69	Down 28 places-28	-	-	5 0.48%	5
Data Analysis Expressions	70	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.39%
Scala	70	New entry-	£61,005	-	4 0.39%	2
SystemVerilog	71	New entry-	£152,500	-	3 0.29%	2
Tcl	72	Down 34 places-34	£52,500	+10.52%	2 0.19%	1
VB	73	New entry-	£67,500	-	1 0.097%	1
VB.NET	73	New entry-	£67,500	-	1 0.097%	1
Rust	73	New entry-	£72,500	-	1 0.097%
Assembly Language	73	New entry-	£26,000	-	1 0.097%	3
Shell Script	73	New entry-	£72,500	-	1 0.097%