Programming Language Statistics in Surrey

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	20	Down -11 places-11	£51,000	-18.40%	163 7.32%	32
Python	27	Down -16 places-16	£55,000	-21.42%	139 6.24%	33
C#	41	Down -23 places-23	£60,000	-14.28%	92 4.13%	23
Java	69	Down -34 places-34	£57,500	-11.53%	49 2.20%	18
C++	71	Down -15 places-15	£100,000	+42.85%	47 2.11%	18
PowerShell	80	Down -52 places-52	£42,500	-29.16%	38 1.71%	5
JavaScript	85	Down -52 places-52	£52,500	-22.22%	33 1.48%	22
TypeScript	94	Down -34 places-34	£65,000	-3.70%	24 1.08%	10
R	96	Down -18 places-18	£57,500	+38.55%	22 0.99%	6
Bash	99	Down -33 places-33	£62,500	-3.84%	19 0.85%	6
Go	105	Down -34 places-34	£62,500	-16.66%	13 0.58%	1
Perl	106	Down -29 places-29	£47,500	+46.15%	12 0.54%	3
T-SQL	106	Down -27 places-27	£42,500	-5.55%	12 0.54%	1
Scala	107	Down -33 places-33	£55,000	-21.42%	11 0.49%	1
C	108	Down -39 places-39	£60,000	-14.28%	10 0.45%	7
PHP	109	Down -31 places-31	£47,500	+5.55%	9 0.40%	2
VBA	111	Down -29 places-29	£45,000	-30.76%	7 0.31%	1
VBScript	113	New entry-	£95,000	-	5 0.22%
Shell Script	114	Down -36 places-36	£50,000	+35.13%	4 0.18%	1
DataWeave	115	New entry-	£55,000	-	3 0.13%
Groovy	116	New entry-	£61,250	-	2 0.090%
Julia	116	New entry-	£82,500	-	2 0.090%
Kusto Query Language	117	New entry-	£105,000	-	1 0.045%	2
Objective-C	117	Down -35 places-35	£95,000	+40.74%	1 0.045%
Apex Code	117	New entry-	£72,500	-	1 0.045%
Rust	117	Down -45 places-45	£44,000	-41.33%	1 0.045%	1
PL/SQL	117	Down -42 places-42	-	-	1 0.045%	1
ActionScript	117	New entry-	-	-	1 0.045%
ActionScript 2.0	117	New entry-	-	-	1 0.045%
Data Analysis Expressions	117	Down -46 places-46	£62,500	-10.71%	1 0.045%	4