Programming Language Statistics in Yorkshire

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	11	Up 15 places+15	£50,000	-23.07%	535 8.96%	127
SQL	14	Down -1 place-1	£50,000	-	498 8.34%	91
Java	49	No change0	£70,000	-1.40%	222 3.72%	41
JavaScript	51	Down -21 places-21	£50,000	-13.04%	218 3.65%	61
TypeScript	79	Up 2 places+2	£70,000	+3.70%	141 2.36%	24
C#	80	Down -39 places-39	£62,000	+3.67%	137 2.29%	29
PHP	126	Down -27 places-27	£50,000	+5.26%	72 1.21%	17
Bash	136	Down -14 places-14	£61,250	-15.51%	61 1.02%	12
PowerShell	140	Down -35 places-35	£47,500	-13.63%	56 0.94%	12
Groovy	149	Down -18 places-18	£80,000	+54.03%	47 0.79%	6
Kotlin	156	Down -25 places-25	£72,500	+61.11%	40 0.67%	6
R	167	Down -51 places-51	£30,500	-59.33%	29 0.49%	11
C	177	Down -53 places-53	£55,000	-4.34%	19 0.32%	28
T-SQL	177	Down -82 places-82	£44,000	-26.66%	19 0.32%	5
C++	179	Down -64 places-64	£45,000	-2.17%	17 0.28%	25
Go	183	Down -61 places-61	£60,000	-19.36%	13 0.22%	7
ABAP	184	Down -45 places-45	£85,000	+6.25%	12 0.20%	3
VBA	184	New entry-	£63,076	-	12 0.20%
Perl	186	Down -58 places-58	£80,000	-6.16%	10 0.17%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	187	Down -57 places-57	£47,000	-6.00%	9 0.15%	4
PL/SQL	187	Down -53 places-53	£34,000	-72.30%	9 0.15%	4
COBOL	188	Down -50 places-50	£55,000	-35.48%	8 0.13%
Embedded C	189	Down -54 places-54	£55,000	+10.00%	7 0.12%	7
Bicep	190	Down -57 places-57	£47,500	-24.00%	6 0.10%	3
Scala	190	Down -60 places-60	£49,000	-12.10%	6 0.10%	2