Programming Language Statistics in Yorkshire

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	19	Up 7 places+7	£51,500	-1.90%	364 4.84%	163
Python	42	Down 7 places-7	£65,000	-	207 2.75%	218
Java	54	Up 20 places+20	£70,000	+3.70%	177 2.35%	85
C#	59	Up 7 places+7	£55,000	-	170 2.26%	88
JavaScript	82	Down 31 places-31	£55,000	+3.77%	129 1.71%	49
TypeScript	86	Up 8 places+8	£65,000	-	122 1.62%	67
PHP	116	Up 8 places+8	£50,000	+33.33%	82 1.09%	18
PowerShell	139	Down 49 places-49	£49,222	+0.45%	57 0.76%	53
Kotlin	139	Up 12 places+12	£70,000	-6.66%	57 0.76%	20
Groovy	165	New entry-	£77,500	-	31 0.41%	2
Bash	167	Down 25 places-25	£65,000	-1.88%	29 0.39%	27
RPG	177	New entry-	£65,000	-	19 0.25%
Shell Script	179	Down 20 places-20	£42,500	+54.54%	17 0.23%	13
T-SQL	180	Down 38 places-38	£60,500	+51.25%	16 0.21%	12
Data Analysis Expressions	183	Down 24 places-24	£48,750	-9.72%	13 0.17%	5
C	184	Down 52 places-52	£46,250	+0.54%	12 0.16%	25
Go	185	Down 34 places-34	£80,000	+14.28%	11 0.15%	12
C++	185	Down 67 places-67	£47,988	+4.32%	11 0.15%	24
PL/SQL	185	Down 28 places-28	£63,076	+62.77%	11 0.15%	9
Bicep	186	Down 29 places-29	£60,500	-7.27%	10 0.13%	14
Scala	186	Down 37 places-37	£90,000	+38.46%	10 0.13%	5
Delphi	188	Down 31 places-31	£45,000	+47.54%	8 0.11%
VB.NET	188	Down 35 places-35	£45,000	+5.88%	8 0.11%	1
JCL	188	Down 28 places-28	£74,000	-1.33%	8 0.11%	2
CLIST	189	New entry-	£74,000	-	7 0.093%
ABAP	189	Down 30 places-30	£60,000	-	7 0.093%	2
VBA	189	Down 31 places-31	£36,500	-18.88%	7 0.093%	4
Assembly Language	189	New entry-	£30,000	-	7 0.093%	5
REXX	189	Down 29 places-29	£74,000	-1.33%	7 0.093%	1
Rust	190	Down 37 places-37	-	-	6 0.080%	4
Ruby	190	Down 43 places-43	£90,000	+22.03%	6 0.080%	1
R	191	Down 49 places-49	£44,000	+44.26%	5 0.066%	14
XPath	192	New entry-	-	-	4 0.053%
XAML	192	New entry-	£58,750	-	4 0.053%
RPG/400	192	New entry-	£65,000	-	4 0.053%
COBOL	192	Down 34 places-34	£48,500	-39.37%	4 0.053%	3
Kusto Query Language	192	Down 32 places-32	£71,250	+23.91%	4 0.053%	3
Dart	193	Down 40 places-40	£29,330	-	3 0.040%	1
Ladder Logic	194	New entry-	-	-	2 0.027%	2
Perl	194	Down 40 places-40	-	-	2 0.027%	2
VB	194	New entry-	-	-	2 0.027%	2
ActionScript	194	New entry-	-	-	2 0.027%