Programming Language Statistics in Yorkshire

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 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%	534 8.98%	119
SQL	13	No change0	£50,000	-	498 8.37%	93
Java	51	Down -2 places-2	£70,000	-1.40%	219 3.68%	33
JavaScript	52	Down -21 places-21	£50,000	-13.04%	218 3.66%	52
TypeScript	83	Up 1 place+1	£70,000	+3.70%	140 2.35%	26
C#	84	Down -42 places-42	£62,000	+3.67%	137 2.30%	28
PHP	131	Down -29 places-29	£51,250	+7.89%	71 1.19%	17
Bash	140	Down -15 places-15	£61,250	-15.51%	61 1.03%	9
PowerShell	144	Down -36 places-36	£47,500	-13.63%	56 0.94%	10
Groovy	154	Down -20 places-20	£80,000	+54.03%	46 0.77%	5
Kotlin	160	Down -26 places-26	£72,500	+61.11%	40 0.67%	6
R	171	Down -52 places-52	£30,500	-59.33%	29 0.49%	17
C	181	Down -54 places-54	£55,000	-4.34%	19 0.32%	19
T-SQL	181	Down -83 places-83	£44,000	-26.66%	19 0.32%	5
C++	183	Down -65 places-65	£45,000	-2.17%	17 0.29%	17
Go	187	Down -62 places-62	£60,000	-19.36%	13 0.22%	8
ABAP	188	Down -46 places-46	£85,000	+6.25%	12 0.20%	3
VBA	188	New entry-	£63,076	-	12 0.20%
Perl	190	Down -59 places-59	£80,000	-6.16%	10 0.17%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	191	Down -58 places-58	£47,000	-6.00%	9 0.15%	4
PL/SQL	191	Down -54 places-54	£34,000	-72.30%	9 0.15%	4
COBOL	192	Down -51 places-51	£55,000	-35.48%	8 0.13%
Embedded C	193	Down -55 places-55	£55,000	+10.00%	7 0.12%	7
Bicep	194	Down -58 places-58	£47,500	-24.00%	6 0.10%	2
Scala	194	Down -61 places-61	£49,000	-12.10%	6 0.10%	1