Programming Language Statistics in Surrey

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	8	No change0	£57,500	-8.00%	196 9.09%	44
Python	15	Up 13 places+13	£60,000	-7.69%	166 7.70%	33
C#	18	Up 4 places+4	£72,500	+11.53%	152 7.05%	26
C++	49	Up 22 places+22	£100,000	+37.93%	71 3.29%	9
JavaScript	50	Up 11 places+11	£57,500	-23.33%	69 3.20%	15
TypeScript	57	Up 23 places+23	£67,500	-10.00%	61 2.83%	9
Java	71	Down -23 places-23	£65,000	-	45 2.09%	5
PowerShell	74	Down -33 places-33	£50,000	-4.76%	42 1.95%	8
R	89	Up 5 places+5	£57,500	-	27 1.25%	8
PHP	96	Down -2 places-2	£48,750	-15.21%	20 0.93%	2
Bash	96	Down -18 places-18	£62,500	-3.84%	20 0.93%	9
Go	102	Down -18 places-18	£62,500	+8.69%	14 0.65%	2
T-SQL	103	Down -12 places-12	£42,500	-5.55%	13 0.60%	3
C	105	Down -20 places-20	£56,250	-16.66%	11 0.51%	5
Perl	106	Down -15 places-15	£47,500	+46.15%	10 0.46%	8
VBA	109	Down -13 places-13	£45,000	-30.76%	7 0.32%	3
Bicep	109	Down -19 places-19	£65,000	-7.14%	7 0.32%
Scala	110	Down -16 places-16	£55,000	-35.29%	6 0.28%
VBScript	111	New entry-	£95,000	-	5 0.23%
Kotlin	112	New entry-	£43,750	-	4 0.19%	1
Ruby	112	Down -16 places-16	£47,500	-13.63%	4 0.19%	2
Julia	112	New entry-	£93,750	-	4 0.19%	1
DataWeave	113	New entry-	£55,000	-	3 0.14%
Groovy	113	New entry-	£61,250	-	3 0.14%
PL/SQL	114	Down -21 places-21	-	-	2 0.093%	2
Rust	115	Down -29 places-29	£44,000	-41.33%	1 0.046%
Data Analysis Expressions	115	Down -29 places-29	£62,500	-3.84%	1 0.046%	1
Shell Script	115	Down -22 places-22	£80,000	+116.21%	1 0.046%	1
Kusto Query Language	115	New entry-	£105,000	-	1 0.046%
Apex Code	115	New entry-	£92,500	-	1 0.046%