Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	22	Down 9 places-9	£67,500	+12.50%	452 5.86%	356
SQL	26	Down 10 places-10	£55,000	+4.76%	401 5.20%	279
Java	39	Down 21 places-21	£75,000	-	297 3.85%	186
TypeScript	59	Down 2 places-2	£70,000	+3.70%	189 2.45%	155
JavaScript	62	Down 39 places-39	£54,250	-9.58%	183 2.37%	102
C#	77	Down 37 places-37	£55,000	-15.38%	150 1.94%	114
PowerShell	113	Down 44 places-44	£52,500	+2.94%	96 1.24%	60
Go	138	Down 79 places-79	£80,000	+30.61%	68 0.88%	59
Bash	141	Down 53 places-53	£67,500	+12.50%	65 0.84%	45
Kotlin	170	Down 29 places-29	£70,000	-	36 0.47%	29
C++	173	Down 123 places-123	£56,250	+20.96%	33 0.43%	70
Scala	177	Down 31 places-31	£67,500	-10.00%	29 0.38%	10
PHP	179	Down 50 places-50	£45,000	-14.28%	27 0.35%	15
C	186	Down 48 places-48	£65,000	+39.78%	20 0.26%	28
Bicep	187	Down 44 places-44	£65,000	+4.00%	19 0.25%	24
Ruby	191	Down 44 places-44	£55,000	-17.29%	15 0.19%	4
R	191	Down 48 places-48	£45,037	+47.66%	15 0.19%	18
Apex Code	192	Down 47 places-47	£65,000	-13.33%	14 0.18%	6
T-SQL	194	Down 53 places-53	£50,000	-28.57%	12 0.16%	7
Data Analysis Expressions	198	Down 54 places-54	£42,500	-38.18%	8 0.10%	8
Groovy	198	Down 50 places-50	£90,000	-	8 0.10%	3
ABAP	199	New entry-	£58,541	-	7 0.091%	1
Rust	199	Down 133 places-133	£65,000	-13.33%	7 0.091%	14
Swift	200	Down 57 places-57	£69,500	+6.92%	6 0.078%	14
PL/SQL	201	Down 53 places-53	£63,750	+34.21%	5 0.065%	2
ActionScript	201	New entry-	-	-	5 0.065%	3
Delphi	202	Down 56 places-56	£60,000	-14.28%	4 0.052%
VB.NET	202	Down 54 places-54	£45,000	-	4 0.052%	2
Kusto Query Language	202	Down 56 places-56	-	-	4 0.052%	2
VBScript	203	New entry-	-	-	3 0.039%
SOQL	203	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.039%	1
SOSL	203	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.039%	1
Shell Script	203	Down 58 places-58	£57,500	+32.18%	3 0.039%	12
Ladder Logic	203	New entry-	£45,000	-	3 0.039%	2