Programming Language Statistics in Yorkshire

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	12	Up 16 places+16	£50,000	-23.07%	527 8.54%	140
SQL	14	No change0	£50,000	-	503 8.15%	113
Java	42	Up 13 places+13	£72,500	+2.11%	228 3.69%	60
JavaScript	52	Down -17 places-17	£54,250	-7.50%	200 3.24%	77
TypeScript	71	Up 13 places+13	£70,000	-	145 2.35%	38
C#	75	Down -25 places-25	£60,000	+3.62%	138 2.24%	37
PHP	112	Down -8 places-8	£50,000	+14.28%	82 1.33%	27
Bash	129	Down -8 places-8	£62,500	-13.79%	62 1.00%	12
PowerShell	133	Down -31 places-31	£47,500	-14.41%	57 0.92%	16
Groovy	139	Down -6 places-6	£80,000	+54.03%	51 0.83%	7
Kotlin	148	Down -16 places-16	£72,500	+61.11%	42 0.68%	11
R	165	Down -47 places-47	£30,500	-59.33%	25 0.41%	15
C	170	Down -45 places-45	£55,000	-4.34%	20 0.32%	22
T-SQL	172	Down -76 places-76	£44,000	-26.66%	18 0.29%	11
ABAP	175	Down -35 places-35	£85,000	+6.25%	15 0.24%	4
C++	176	Down -60 places-60	£44,500	-3.26%	14 0.23%	23
Go	177	Down -55 places-55	£60,000	-14.28%	13 0.21%	6
VBA	178	New entry-	£63,076	-	12 0.19%
PL/SQL	179	Down -44 places-44	£34,000	-72.30%	11 0.18%	3
Perl	180	Down -50 places-50	£80,000	-6.16%	10 0.16%
COBOL	182	Down -43 places-43	£55,000	-35.48%	8 0.13%
Data Analysis Expressions	183	Down -52 places-52	£47,000	-6.00%	7 0.11%	4
Embedded C	184	Down -48 places-48	£55,000	+10.00%	6 0.097%	5
Scala	185	Down -52 places-52	£69,500	+24.66%	5 0.081%	6
Shell Script	185	Down -45 places-45	£42,500	-	5 0.081%	3
Embedded C++	186	Down -47 places-47	£55,000	-2.22%	4 0.065%	1
Bicep	186	Down -55 places-55	£47,500	-24.00%	4 0.065%	10