Programming Language Statistics in the Thames Valley

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	31	Down 6 places-6	£55,000	+15.18%	324 4.19%	61
Python	33	Up 22 places+22	£62,500	+1.62%	300 3.88%	79
C#	38	Up 53 places+53	£62,500	-	281 3.63%	24
JavaScript	81	Up 1 place+1	£55,000	-15.38%	148 1.91%	19
C++	90	Up 88 places+88	£60,000	+6.32%	134 1.73%	44
PowerShell	93	Up 50 places+50	£52,000	+13.04%	130 1.68%	22
Java	105	Down 17 places-17	£70,000	+12.00%	110 1.42%	15
TypeScript	113	Up 41 places+41	£55,000	-15.38%	100 1.29%	12
C	145	Up 29 places+29	£55,000	-	63 0.81%	29
Bash	155	Up 3 places+3	£60,000	-14.28%	53 0.69%	14
PHP	168	Up 3 places+3	£67,500	+17.39%	40 0.52%	14
ABAP	178	Up 19 places+19	£60,500	-28.82%	30 0.39%
Go	182	Down 10 places-10	£80,000	+18.51%	26 0.34%	4
MATLAB	183	Up 1 place+1	£56,000	+17.84%	25 0.32%	11
Rust	183	Up 6 places+6	£97,500	-	25 0.32%	7
Kusto Query Language	188	Up 6 places+6	£53,750	-14.00%	20 0.26%
T-SQL	189	Down 33 places-33	£52,500	+31.25%	19 0.25%	3
VB.NET	189	Up 5 places+5	£40,000	-11.11%	19 0.25%
Ruby	189	Down 5 places-5	£100,000	+42.85%	19 0.25%	1
Shell Script	189	Down 13 places-13	£65,000	+3.58%	19 0.25%	3
R	190	Down 3 places-3	-	-	18 0.23%	8
PL/SQL	190	Down 25 places-25	£75,000	+7.14%	18 0.23%
Apex Code	191	Up 4 places+4	£62,500	+4.16%	17 0.22%
COBOL	198	New entry-	£62,500	-	10 0.13%
SOQL	199	Down 3 places-3	-	-	9 0.12%
Kotlin	199	New entry-	£70,000	-	9 0.12%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	199	Down 11 places-11	£53,463	+9.66%	9 0.12%	1
Ada	202	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.078%	3
Swift	202	New entry-	£90,000	-	6 0.078%
Search Processing Language	202	New entry-	£75,000	-	6 0.078%
Assembly Language	202	Down 5 places-5	£29,000	-	6 0.078%	9
Ladder Logic	203	Down 6 places-6	£43,500	-	5 0.065%	1
Bicep	203	Down 9 places-9	£50,000	-16.66%	5 0.065%	8
Embedded C	203	Down 14 places-14	£55,000	-	5 0.065%	4
JCL	204	New entry-	£60,000	-	4 0.052%
Scala	204	New entry-	£32,500	-	4 0.052%	2
SystemVerilog	205	Down 8 places-8	£100,000	+11.11%	3 0.039%	3
SAS Macro	205	New entry-	-	-	3 0.039%