Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	31	-12	£61,418	-5.51%	206 5.62%	119
SQL	34	-22	£57,500	+4.54%	190 5.19%	135
C#	48	-8	£65,000	+8.33%	124 3.39%	63
JavaScript	49	-28	£60,000	-	123 3.36%	75
Java	51	-15	£70,000	+7.69%	116 3.17%	58
TypeScript	68	-16	£70,000	+7.69%	84 2.29%	55
PHP	111	-17	£50,000	-4.76%	35 0.96%	10
PowerShell	113	-3	£55,000	-8.33%	33 0.90%	11
Go	130	-14	£95,000	+46.15%	16 0.44%	10
C++	131	-25	£57,500	-4.16%	15 0.41%	18
R	132	+11	£30,500	-45.77%	14 0.38%	13
C	134	-7	£46,500	-27.05%	12 0.33%	11
Bicep	135	+8	£62,500	-7.40%	11 0.30%	7
Kotlin	136	+6	£62,500	+2.04%	10 0.27%	11
Bash	137	-4	£50,000	-23.07%	9 0.25%	9
Embedded C	140	+12	£46,500	+16.25%	6 0.16%	3
Embedded C++	140	-	£46,500	-	6 0.16%	1
ANSI SQL	141	-	£67,500	-	5 0.14%
T-SQL	142	+1	£52,500	-4.54%	4 0.11%	5
Data Analysis Expressions	142	+5	£57,500	+24.32%	4 0.11%	2
Rust	142	+3	£85,000	+54.54%	4 0.11%	1
Swift	142	+8	£73,750	+9.25%	4 0.11%	7
Scala	142	+5	£82,500	+50.00%	4 0.11%	8
Apex Code	143	+3	£75,000	+17.64%	3 0.082%	2
Ladder Logic	143	-	£47,500	-	3 0.082%	1
Erlang	143	+9	£60,000	-	3 0.082%
VBA	143	+6	£54,000	+0.46%	3 0.082%	6
VB	143	+3	£40,000	-30.43%	3 0.082%	2
Delphi	143	+9	£60,000	+26.31%	3 0.082%
Groovy	144	-	£57,500	-	2 0.055%
PL/SQL	145	-9	£47,500	-5.00%	1 0.027%	7
VB.NET	145	+6	£41,500	-24.54%	1 0.027%	1
Shell Script	145	-6	£60,000	+30.43%	1 0.027%	1
MATLAB	145	-	-	-	1 0.027%	1
Ruby	145	+1	£75,000	+20.00%	1 0.027%	4
SPARQL	145	-	£82,500	-	1 0.027%
SHACL	145	-	£82,500	-	1 0.027%
Kusto Query Language	145	+4	£40,000	-20.00%	1 0.027%	2