Programming Language Statistics in Yorkshire

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	13	Up 14 places+14	£51,250	-21.15%	523 8.37%	138
SQL	14	Down -1 place-1	£50,000	-	504 8.07%	111
Java	43	Up 11 places+11	£72,500	+2.11%	234 3.75%	55
JavaScript	53	Down -18 places-18	£55,000	-4.34%	203 3.25%	66
TypeScript	74	Up 7 places+7	£70,000	-	146 2.34%	35
C#	77	Down -30 places-30	£60,000	+0.33%	141 2.26%	37
PHP	117	Down -13 places-13	£50,000	+14.28%	86 1.38%	27
Bash	138	Down -17 places-17	£65,000	-10.34%	64 1.02%	10
PowerShell	146	Down -46 places-46	£47,500	-24.00%	56 0.90%	16
Groovy	150	Down -18 places-18	£80,000	+54.03%	52 0.83%	9
Kotlin	160	Down -27 places-27	£72,500	+56.75%	42 0.67%	13
R	178	Down -62 places-62	£30,500	-59.33%	24 0.38%	17
C	183	Down -57 places-57	£55,000	+10.00%	19 0.30%	9
T-SQL	186	Down -91 places-91	£44,000	-26.66%	16 0.26%	12
ABAP	186	Down -47 places-47	£85,000	+6.25%	16 0.26%	4
C++	187	Down -72 places-72	£55,000	+19.56%	15 0.24%	9
Go	189	Down -69 places-69	£60,000	-19.36%	13 0.21%	6
VBA	191	New entry-	£63,076	-	11 0.18%	1
Perl	192	Down -61 places-61	£80,000	-6.16%	10 0.16%	1
PL/SQL	192	Down -58 places-58	£34,000	-72.30%	10 0.16%	4
Data Analysis Expressions	194	Down -64 places-64	£46,000	-8.00%	8 0.13%	9
COBOL	194	New entry-	£55,000	-	8 0.13%	1
Scala	196	Down -64 places-64	£90,000	+61.43%	6 0.096%	6
Embedded C	196	Down -61 places-61	£55,000	+10.00%	6 0.096%	5
Shell Script	197	Down -58 places-58	£42,500	-	5 0.080%	4
Embedded C++	198	Down -60 places-60	£55,000	-2.22%	4 0.064%	1