Programming Language Statistics in Yorkshire

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	12	Up 17 places+17	£50,000	-23.07%	525 8.62%	131
SQL	14	No change0	£50,000	-2.43%	492 8.07%	118
Java	47	Up 7 places+7	£72,500	+2.11%	224 3.68%	51
JavaScript	52	Down -20 places-20	£54,250	-5.65%	201 3.30%	79
TypeScript	74	Up 15 places+15	£70,000	+1.81%	142 2.33%	43
C#	79	Down -29 places-29	£61,500	+2.84%	134 2.20%	45
PHP	120	Down -12 places-12	£50,000	+14.28%	77 1.26%	29
Bash	133	Down -7 places-7	£62,500	-13.79%	62 1.02%	12
PowerShell	138	Down -29 places-29	£47,500	-19.49%	57 0.94%	18
Groovy	144	Down -7 places-7	£80,000	+54.03%	51 0.84%	7
Kotlin	154	Down -18 places-18	£72,500	+61.11%	41 0.67%	10
R	170	Down -48 places-48	£30,500	-59.33%	25 0.41%	12
C	176	Down -47 places-47	£55,000	-4.34%	19 0.31%	14
T-SQL	177	Down -76 places-76	£44,000	-26.66%	18 0.30%	9
C++	181	Down -61 places-61	£44,500	-3.26%	14 0.23%	14
ABAP	181	Down -37 places-37	£85,000	+6.25%	14 0.23%	4
Go	182	Down -55 places-55	£60,000	-19.36%	13 0.21%	7
VBA	183	New entry-	£63,076	-	12 0.20%
Perl	185	Down -51 places-51	£80,000	-6.16%	10 0.16%
PL/SQL	185	Down -46 places-46	£34,000	-72.30%	10 0.16%	4
COBOL	187	Down -44 places-44	£55,000	-35.48%	8 0.13%
Data Analysis Expressions	188	Down -53 places-53	£47,000	-6.00%	7 0.11%	4
Embedded C	189	Down -49 places-49	£55,000	+10.00%	6 0.099%	6
Scala	190	Down -53 places-53	£69,500	+24.66%	5 0.082%	6
Bicep	191	Down -54 places-54	£47,500	-24.00%	4 0.066%	11
Embedded C++	191	Down -48 places-48	£55,000	-2.22%	4 0.066%	2