Contract Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 Mar 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Java	10	+14	£500	-6.27%	176 11.86%	64
SQL	13	-2	£450	-5.01%	162 10.92%	140
Python	15	+7	£500	+5.26%	140 9.43%	132
TypeScript	36	+8	£500	+11.11%	69 4.65%	55
JavaScript	43	-11	£475	+9.19%	57 3.84%	66
Kotlin	66	+10	£475	+11.76%	32 2.16%	3
PowerShell	69	-18	£442	-6.01%	29 1.95%	11
C#	70	-3	£450	+5.88%	28 1.89%	57
Bash	77	-9	£525	+5.00%	21 1.42%	8
COBOL	79	+2	£375	-0.79%	19 1.28%	4
PL/SQL	84	-19	£344	-39.91%	14 0.94%	2
CLIST	86	-	£350	-	12 0.81%
REXX	86	-5	£350	-7.40%	12 0.81%
JCL	86	-6	£350	+0.28%	12 0.81%	1
Go	87	-11	£488	-18.75%	11 0.74%	15
Swift	89	-10	£400	-	9 0.61%	3
Objective-C	90	-	£400	-	8 0.54%	2
T-SQL	90	-10	£426	-	8 0.54%	8
Bicep	90	-10	£476	+5.77%	8 0.54%	4
Rust	91	-	-	-	7 0.47%	2
Data Analysis Expressions	92	-13	£438	-16.66%	6 0.40%	10
Ruby	92	-12	£650	+98.77%	6 0.40%	2
R	94	-15	£375	-17.58%	4 0.27%	13
Shell Script	94	-17	£468	-25.20%	4 0.27%	1
PHP	95	-18	£357	-27.97%	3 0.20%	12
ProC	95	-	£485	-	3 0.20%
Scala	95	-15	£500	-6.97%	3 0.20%	6
Groovy	95	-	£350	-	3 0.20%	1
SPARQL	96	-18	£463	-	2 0.13%
AWK	96	-	-	-	2 0.13%
X++	96	-	-	-	2 0.13%
VBA	96	-	£410	-	2 0.13%	2
C	96	-	£450	-	2 0.13%	10
C++	96	-17	£450	-40.98%	2 0.13%	21
SHACL	96	-	£613	-	2 0.13%
ABAP	97	-18	£500	-7.40%	1 0.067%
ActionScript	97	-16	£490	+30.66%	1 0.067%
SAS Macro	97	-	£375	-	1 0.067%
BeanShell	97	-	£695	-	1 0.067%	2