Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	29	-17	£57,500	+9.52%	182 6.27%	99
Python	32	-13	£60,000	-0.38%	163 5.62%	114
C#	37	0	£65,000	+13.04%	132 4.55%	68
JavaScript	44	-22	£55,000	-3.93%	109 3.76%	77
Java	56	-11	£70,079	+12.12%	88 3.03%	62
TypeScript	65	-5	£70,000	+7.69%	71 2.45%	67
PowerShell	89	+23	£55,000	-8.33%	42 1.45%	20
PHP	99	-14	£50,000	-4.76%	32 1.10%	16
C	115	+13	£46,500	-27.05%	16 0.55%	17
C++	115	-14	£52,000	-15.78%	16 0.55%	20
R	117	+28	£30,500	-44.54%	14 0.48%	8
Go	119	+4	£65,000	+4.00%	12 0.41%	16
Bash	120	+13	£60,000	-12.40%	11 0.38%	6
Bicep	121	+27	£62,469	-7.45%	10 0.34%	7
Embedded C	123	+33	£46,500	+16.25%	8 0.28%	1
Embedded C++	123	-	£46,500	-	8 0.28%
ANSI SQL	124	-	£67,500	-	7 0.24%
Scala	125	+25	£80,000	+12.28%	6 0.21%	2
Rust	125	+23	£75,000	+36.36%	6 0.21%	4
Data Analysis Expressions	126	+23	£57,500	+21.05%	5 0.17%	1
VB	126	+28	£40,000	-	5 0.17%	1
VBA	126	+28	£63,000	+26.00%	5 0.17%	2
Swift	127	+26	£65,000	-2.25%	4 0.14%	5
Kotlin	127	+19	£57,500	-6.12%	4 0.14%	12
Erlang	128	+28	£60,000	-	3 0.10%
Delphi	128	+28	£60,000	+26.31%	3 0.10%	1
Ladder Logic	128	-	£47,500	-	3 0.10%	2
SystemVerilog	128	+17	£75,000	-	3 0.10%
Kusto Query Language	128	+25	£52,500	+4.35%	3 0.10%	1
Apex Code	128	+21	£75,000	+9.48%	3 0.10%	3
Shell Script	129	+15	£60,000	+30.43%	2 0.069%	3
T-SQL	129	+6	£57,500	+24.32%	2 0.069%	1
PL/SQL	130	+11	£47,500	-8.21%	1 0.035%	3
VB.NET	130	+21	£41,500	-3.48%	1 0.035%	1
MATLAB	130	-	-	-	1 0.035%	2
Ruby	130	+14	£75,000	+15.38%	1 0.035%	2
Groovy	130	-	-	-	1 0.035%	2
SPARQL	130	-	£82,500	-	1 0.035%
SHACL	130	-	£82,500	-	1 0.035%