Programming Language Statistics in West Yorkshire

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	16	Up 2 places+2	£65,000	+4.00%	259 7.90%	69
SQL	20	Down -12 places-12	£55,000	+3.77%	226 6.89%	60
Java	25	Up 7 places+7	£75,000	+4.16%	190 5.79%	31
JavaScript	36	Down -10 places-10	£62,500	-	136 4.15%	42
TypeScript	41	Up 14 places+14	£70,000	+3.70%	122 3.72%	28
C#	49	Down -10 places-10	£65,000	+2.12%	106 3.23%	22
Groovy	92	Up 1 place+1	£80,000	+6.85%	50 1.52%	5
Bash	94	Down -14 places-14	£71,250	-1.72%	48 1.46%	8
PHP	103	Down -28 places-28	£51,250	-14.58%	39 1.19%	16
Kotlin	103	Down -16 places-16	£72,500	+61.11%	39 1.19%	6
PowerShell	117	Down -44 places-44	£57,500	+6.48%	24 0.73%	9
ABAP	127	Down -32 places-32	£85,000	+6.25%	14 0.43%	2
R	129	Down -49 places-49	£30,500	-59.33%	12 0.37%	5
T-SQL	131	Down -59 places-59	£69,750	+16.25%	10 0.31%	6
PL/SQL	132	Down -42 places-42	£34,000	-72.30%	9 0.27%	3
Go	132	Down -46 places-46	£90,000	+14.19%	9 0.27%	2
C	134	Down -45 places-45	£34,000	-60.11%	7 0.21%	9
C++	134	Down -44 places-44	£34,000	-27.27%	7 0.21%	10
Perl	135	Down -44 places-44	-	-	6 0.18%
VBA	135	New entry-	£63,076	-	6 0.18%	1
Scala	135	Down -47 places-47	£49,000	-12.10%	6 0.18%	5
COBOL	138	Down -44 places-44	£55,000	-35.48%	3 0.092%
Data Analysis Expressions	138	Down -47 places-47	£80,000	+33.33%	3 0.092%	5
Bicep	139	Down -50 places-50	£65,000	+4.00%	2 0.061%	2
RPG	139	New entry-	£65,000	-	2 0.061%
Embedded C	139	Down -44 places-44	£72,500	+45.00%	2 0.061%	2
OpenEdge ABL	139	New entry-	-	-	2 0.061%
Ruby	139	New entry-	-	-	2 0.061%	1