Programming Language Statistics in Yorkshire

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	12	Up 22 places+22	£51,250	-19.92%	511 7.94%	145
SQL	14	Up 1 place+1	£50,000	-4.76%	500 7.77%	123
Java	41	Up 26 places+26	£72,500	+0.70%	244 3.79%	48
JavaScript	51	Down -11 places-11	£55,000	-4.34%	206 3.20%	70
TypeScript	70	Up 22 places+22	£70,000	-1.75%	152 2.36%	36
C#	79	Down -22 places-22	£55,000	-8.33%	139 2.16%	39
PHP	107	Up 6 places+6	£50,000	+5.26%	95 1.48%	26
Bash	134	Up 5 places+5	£65,000	-3.70%	63 0.98%	13
PowerShell	140	Down -23 places-23	£45,000	-28.00%	57 0.89%	15
Groovy	142	Up 6 places+6	£80,000	+54.03%	55 0.85%	10
Kotlin	152	Down -1 place-1	£72,500	+5.45%	44 0.68%	6
R	175	Down -49 places-49	£30,500	-59.33%	21 0.33%	17
C	179	Down -45 places-45	£55,000	+10.00%	17 0.26%	10
ABAP	179	Down -24 places-24	£85,000	+6.25%	17 0.26%	2
T-SQL	180	Down -68 places-68	£44,000	-26.66%	16 0.25%	9
Go	184	Down -49 places-49	£71,250	+1.78%	12 0.19%	8
C++	184	Down -62 places-62	£55,000	+19.56%	12 0.19%	7
VBA	185	New entry-	£63,076	-	11 0.17%	1
Perl	186	Down -37 places-37	£80,000	-	10 0.16%
PL/SQL	187	Down -37 places-37	£34,000	-72.30%	9 0.14%	2
Data Analysis Expressions	188	Down -42 places-42	£46,000	-8.00%	8 0.12%	8
COBOL	189	New entry-	£55,000	-	7 0.11%	2
Scala	190	Down -42 places-42	£90,000	+61.43%	6 0.093%	3
Embedded C	191	Down -40 places-40	£55,000	+10.00%	5 0.078%	2
Shell Script	191	Down -36 places-36	£42,500	-	5 0.078%	2
Embedded C++	193	Down -39 places-39	£55,000	-2.22%	3 0.047%
Ruby	193	Down -45 places-45	-	-	3 0.047%
OpenEdge ABL	194	New entry-	-	-	2 0.031%
RPG	194	Down -39 places-39	£65,000	-	2 0.031%	1
Bicep	194	Down -47 places-47	£65,000	+4.00%	2 0.031%	5
MATLAB	194	Down -52 places-52	£51,722	-10.14%	2 0.031%