Programming Language Statistics in the West Midlands

Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	24	-15	£47,085	-10.31%	373 6.67%	163
Python	34	+3	£55,000	-	254 4.54%	106
JavaScript	70	-37	£45,000	-18.18%	134 2.40%	49
C#	72	-41	£52,500	-4.54%	132 2.36%	48
Java	106	+2	£50,000	-4.76%	69 1.23%	36
PHP	123	+11	£40,000	-28.57%	52 0.93%	21
PowerShell	130	-33	£49,250	-1.50%	45 0.80%	25
TypeScript	140	-34	£60,000	-11.11%	35 0.63%	16
T-SQL	147	+19	£42,500	-15.00%	28 0.50%	7
Bash	153	+19	£61,250	+3.37%	22 0.39%	10
R	153	+16	£30,500	-32.22%	22 0.39%	8
VBA	155	+40	£50,000	+14.28%	20 0.36%	6
C	157	+3	£52,500	-12.50%	18 0.32%	11
Data Analysis Expressions	158	+12	£57,500	+9.52%	17 0.30%	13
C++	162	-38	£55,000	+22.22%	13 0.23%	16
Ladder Logic	166	+33	£46,500	-	9 0.16%	1
PL/SQL	167	+3	-	-	8 0.14%	7
Go	167	+21	£65,000	-21.21%	8 0.14%	4
Bicep	168	-	£60,000	-	7 0.13%	3
Scala	168	+31	£64,250	-	7 0.13%	7
ABAP	168	+28	£57,500	-17.85%	7 0.13%	1
Groovy	169	+29	£72,500	+3.57%	6 0.11%	3
Delphi	171	+28	£45,000	-21.05%	4 0.072%
Perl	171	+25	£50,000	-23.07%	4 0.072%	3
Kusto Query Language	171	-	-	-	4 0.072%	2
VB.NET	172	+20	£40,250	-15.26%	3 0.054%	1
Google Apps Script	173	-	£27,500	-	2 0.036%
XAML	173	-	£45,000	-	2 0.036%
Ruby	173	+20	£75,000	+22.44%	2 0.036%	1
Embedded C	173	+22	£62,500	+25.00%	2 0.036%	3
Embedded C++	173	+27	£53,750	-28.33%	2 0.036%	3
VB	174	+15	£27,500	-50.00%	1 0.018%	2
ActionScript	174	-	£40,000	-	1 0.018%
Shell Script	174	+12	-	-	1 0.018%	4
MATLAB	174	+10	£65,000	+23.80%	1 0.018%	7
Korn	174	-	-	-	1 0.018%	2
ActionScript 2.0	174	-	£40,000	-	1 0.018%
Kotlin	174	+24	£75,000	+66.66%	1 0.018%	1