Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	31	-19	£57,500	+9.52%	182 5.83%	129
Python	34	-15	£61,418	-1.73%	172 5.51%	141
C#	42	-3	£65,000	+8.33%	131 4.20%	78
JavaScript	48	-27	£55,000	-6.38%	117 3.75%	79
Java	59	-13	£70,000	+7.69%	91 2.92%	60
TypeScript	70	-13	£68,750	+5.76%	73 2.34%	76
PowerShell	99	+5	£55,000	-6.38%	38 1.22%	33
PHP	103	-22	£50,000	-4.76%	34 1.09%	23
C++	118	-19	£57,500	-8.00%	19 0.61%	17
C	121	+2	£46,500	-27.05%	16 0.51%	15
R	123	+18	£30,500	-44.54%	14 0.45%	12
Go	124	-8	£65,000	-16.12%	13 0.42%	13
Bash	126	+2	£57,500	-16.05%	11 0.35%	20
Bicep	127	+16	£62,469	-7.45%	10 0.32%	11
Embedded C	129	+22	£46,500	+16.25%	8 0.26%
Embedded C++	129	-	£46,500	-	8 0.26%
ANSI SQL	130	-	£67,500	-	7 0.22%
Rust	131	+12	£75,000	+36.36%	6 0.19%	5
Scala	131	+15	£80,000	+23.07%	6 0.19%	5
VB	132	+15	£40,000	-	5 0.16%	1
VBA	132	+17	£63,000	+26.00%	5 0.16%	3
Data Analysis Expressions	133	+12	£57,500	+27.77%	4 0.13%	5
Kotlin	133	+8	£57,500	-6.12%	4 0.13%	6
Kusto Query Language	134	+16	£52,500	-12.72%	3 0.096%	2
Erlang	134	+17	£60,000	-	3 0.096%
Delphi	134	+17	£60,000	+26.31%	3 0.096%	2
Apex Code	134	+12	£75,000	+9.48%	3 0.096%	1
Ladder Logic	134	-	£47,500	-	3 0.096%	1
Swift	134	+15	£65,000	-3.70%	3 0.096%	3
Groovy	135	-	£57,500	-	2 0.064%	2
T-SQL	135	-3	£57,500	+24.32%	2 0.064%	7
SystemVerilog	135	+5	£75,000	-	2 0.064%
PL/SQL	136	+1	£47,500	-	1 0.032%	3
VB.NET	136	+10	£41,500	-3.48%	1 0.032%	1
Shell Script	136	+3	£60,000	+30.43%	1 0.032%	1
MATLAB	136	-	-	-	1 0.032%	2
Ruby	136	+4	£75,000	+15.38%	1 0.032%	1
SPARQL	136	-	£82,500	-	1 0.032%
SHACL	136	-	£82,500	-	1 0.032%