Programming Language Statistics in Surrey

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	13	Down -2 places-2	£62,500	+8.69%	188 8.45%	39
C#	17	Up 7 places+7	£72,500	+11.53%	173 7.77%	24
Python	23	Up 8 places+8	£60,000	-7.69%	150 6.74%	28
C++	53	Up 14 places+14	£100,000	+33.33%	71 3.19%	7
JavaScript	53	Up 8 places+8	£75,000	-	71 3.19%	10
TypeScript	60	Up 19 places+19	£70,000	-6.66%	63 2.83%	7
Java	83	Down -38 places-38	£65,000	-	39 1.75%	3
PowerShell	90	Down -51 places-51	£55,000	+10.00%	32 1.44%	6
R	94	Down -1 place-1	£57,500	-	28 1.26%	1
PHP	104	Down -11 places-11	£50,000	-13.04%	18 0.81%	2
Bash	104	Down -28 places-28	£56,250	-13.46%	18 0.81%	10
Go	109	Down -26 places-26	£62,500	+8.69%	13 0.58%	3
T-SQL	109	Down -20 places-20	£52,500	+16.66%	13 0.58%	2
Perl	111	Down -21 places-21	£47,500	+46.15%	11 0.49%	7
Ruby	114	Down -19 places-19	£47,500	-13.63%	8 0.36%	1
C	114	Down -31 places-31	£52,500	-22.22%	8 0.36%	5
Bicep	115	Down -24 places-24	£65,000	-7.14%	7 0.31%
Scala	116	Down -23 places-23	£55,000	-35.29%	6 0.27%
Julia	117	Down -22 places-22	£105,000	+2.43%	5 0.22%	1
VBScript	117	New entry-	£95,000	-	5 0.22%
Kotlin	118	New entry-	£43,750	-	4 0.18%
VBA	118	Down -23 places-23	-	-	4 0.18%	2
DataWeave	119	New entry-	£55,000	-	3 0.13%
Groovy	120	New entry-	£65,000	-	2 0.090%
Kusto Query Language	121	Down -26 places-26	£105,000	+50.00%	1 0.045%
Data Analysis Expressions	121	Down -35 places-35	£62,500	-3.84%	1 0.045%
Shell Script	121	Down -29 places-29	£80,000	+116.21%	1 0.045%
Apex Code	121	New entry-	£92,500	-	1 0.045%
Rust	121	Down -36 places-36	£44,000	-41.33%	1 0.045%
PL/SQL	121	Down -29 places-29	-	-	1 0.045%