Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

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	20	Down -9 places-9	£65,500	-2.96%	345 6.06%	199
SQL	26	Down -7 places-7	£55,000	-2.65%	301 5.29%	182
Java	43	Down -26 places-26	£70,000	-17.64%	200 3.51%	95
JavaScript	60	Down -47 places-47	£62,500	-3.84%	127 2.23%	102
C#	64	Up 1 place+1	£60,000	-	122 2.14%	64
TypeScript	88	Down -45 places-45	£70,000	-	83 1.46%	53
PHP	119	Down -10 places-10	£47,500	-13.63%	49 0.86%	7
PowerShell	119	Down -36 places-36	£55,000	+4.76%	49 0.86%	21
C++	130	Down -79 places-79	£60,000	+4.34%	38 0.67%	21
Bash	144	Down -40 places-40	£70,400	-2.20%	24 0.42%	23
Go	152	Down -103 places-103	£90,000	+15.15%	16 0.28%	48
Kotlin	153	Up 4 places+4	£65,000	-3.70%	15 0.26%	9
Bicep	154	Up 4 places+4	£65,500	+4.80%	14 0.25%	4
T-SQL	155	Down -5 places-5	£47,500	-2.56%	13 0.23%	7
VBA	158	Down -2 places-2	£45,000	+20.80%	10 0.18%	1
R	158	Down -3 places-3	£31,000	-52.30%	10 0.18%	13
C	160	Down -12 places-12	£63,750	+4.08%	8 0.14%	7
Swift	160	Up 1 place+1	£77,500	-	8 0.14%	1
Ruby	160	No change0	£55,000	-5.17%	8 0.14%	5
Groovy	163	Down -2 places-2	£80,000	+14.28%	5 0.088%	2
SOQL	164	New entry-	£75,000	-	4 0.070%
Scala	164	Down -7 places-7	£75,000	-6.25%	4 0.070%	7
Apex Code	164	Down -4 places-4	£75,000	+27.11%	4 0.070%	3
Data Analysis Expressions	165	Down -10 places-10	£40,000	-20.00%	3 0.053%	2
PL/SQL	165	Down -13 places-13	-	-	3 0.053%	2
VB	165	Down -10 places-10	£40,000	+63.26%	3 0.053%	1
SOSL	165	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.053%
COBOL	166	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.035%
Embedded C	166	Down -5 places-5	£46,500	+16.25%	2 0.035%	1
Embedded C++	166	New entry-	£46,500	-	2 0.035%