Programming Language Statistics in Wales

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	13	Up 14 places+14	£60,000	+4.34%	192 7.22%	65
Python	18	Up 11 places+11	£60,000	-11.11%	171 6.43%	84
Java	36	Up 23 places+23	£66,000	+32.70%	106 3.99%	38
JavaScript	61	Down -27 places-27	£55,000	-15.05%	65 2.44%	26
C#	78	Down -46 places-46	£51,619	-0.73%	46 1.73%	28
TypeScript	84	Down -27 places-27	£57,500	-14.17%	40 1.50%	23
Ruby	90	New entry-	£60,000	-	34 1.28%	12
PowerShell	94	Down -36 places-36	£53,000	-3.63%	30 1.13%	12
C++	110	Down -63 places-63	£44,000	-16.19%	14 0.53%	13
PHP	113	Down -47 places-47	£35,000	-36.36%	11 0.41%	2
Scala	115	New entry-	£63,500	-	9 0.34%	4
Bash	116	Down -49 places-49	£60,000	+4.34%	8 0.30%	7
C	117	Down -65 places-65	£44,000	-16.19%	7 0.26%	11
COBOL	118	New entry-	£80,000	-	6 0.23%	1
Bicep	120	New entry-	£75,000	-	4 0.15%	1
Embedded C	121	New entry-	£44,000	-	3 0.11%	1
Go	121	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.11%	11
MATLAB	121	Down -56 places-56	£55,000	-19.11%	3 0.11%	1
Kotlin	122	New entry-	£66,000	-	2 0.075%	8
Google Apps Script	123	New entry-	-	-	1 0.038%
Natural	123	New entry-	£31,000	-	1 0.038%	1
XAML	123	New entry-	-	-	1 0.038%
Dart	123	Down -55 places-55	£71,500	+104.28%	1 0.038%
R	123	Down -56 places-56	£40,000	-42.85%	1 0.038%	6