Programming Language Statistics in the West Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	27	Down 16 places-16	£55,000	+15.78%	418 4.58%	158
C#	58	Down 8 places-8	£60,000	+9.09%	223 2.44%	59
Python	60	Down 32 places-32	£65,000	+8.33%	220 2.41%	130
Java	62	Down 3 places-3	£70,000	+10.67%	209 2.29%	57
JavaScript	94	Down 47 places-47	£57,500	+21.05%	145 1.59%	52
PowerShell	144	Down 71 places-71	£55,000	-4.34%	80 0.88%	46
TypeScript	145	Down 32 places-32	£67,950	+4.53%	79 0.87%	37
Data Analysis Expressions	171	Down 17 places-17	£55,000	+22.22%	53 0.58%	14
C	184	Down 32 places-32	£70,000	+33.33%	40 0.44%	22
MATLAB	190	Down 28 places-28	£65,000	-	34 0.37%	6
C++	197	Down 48 places-48	£67,500	+22.72%	27 0.30%	25
Go	200	Down 37 places-37	£85,000	+3.03%	24 0.26%	6
COBOL	200	New entry-	-	-	24 0.26%	6
JCL	200	Down 31 places-31	-	-	24 0.26%
PL/SQL	204	Down 44 places-44	£63,076	+20.14%	20 0.22%	8
Ladder Logic	205	Down 49 places-49	£51,500	-6.36%	19 0.21%	2
Bash	205	Down 50 places-50	£57,500	+11.65%	19 0.21%	15
Embedded C	206	New entry-	£65,000	-	18 0.20%	8
PHP	207	Down 80 places-80	£37,500	-3.84%	17 0.19%	7
Bicep	209	Down 56 places-56	£88,000	+46.66%	15 0.16%	9
Ruby	209	Down 49 places-49	£30,000	-60.00%	15 0.16%	1
R	210	Down 67 places-67	£65,000	+21.49%	14 0.15%	8
T-SQL	211	Down 66 places-66	£48,750	+14.70%	13 0.14%	14
Kotlin	213	Down 47 places-47	£55,000	-15.38%	11 0.12%	5
RPG	215	New entry-	£55,000	-	9 0.099%
ABAP	216	Down 61 places-61	£62,500	+13.63%	8 0.088%	3
RPG IV	219	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 0.055%
Perl	219	Down 75 places-75	-	-	5 0.055%	1
Scala	219	Down 56 places-56	£74,500	+14.61%	5 0.055%	6
Embedded C++	219	Down 51 places-51	£54,000	+0.46%	5 0.055%	5
Shell Script	219	Down 53 places-53	-	-	5 0.055%	12
RPG/400	220	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.044%
RPG III	220	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.044%
VB.NET	220	Down 54 places-54	-	-	4 0.044%
VBA	220	Down 57 places-57	£68,750	+77.41%	4 0.044%	6
Assembly Language	221	New entry-	£30,500	-	3 0.033%	6
Rust	221	Down 61 places-61	£97,500	+25.80%	3 0.033%	1