Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	32	-20	£57,500	+4.54%	184 5.73%	131
Python	33	-17	£61,418	-1.73%	175 5.45%	135
C#	42	0	£65,000	+8.33%	129 4.02%	82
JavaScript	48	-27	£55,000	-8.33%	119 3.71%	80
Java	58	-15	£70,000	+7.69%	97 3.02%	73
TypeScript	73	-17	£67,500	+3.84%	75 2.34%	71
PowerShell	108	-2	£55,000	-8.33%	35 1.09%	33
PHP	109	-29	£50,000	-4.76%	34 1.06%	19
C++	124	-25	£57,500	-8.00%	19 0.59%	23
C	128	-6	£46,500	-27.05%	15 0.47%	12
R	129	+11	£30,500	-44.54%	14 0.44%	10
Go	130	-16	£65,000	-8.77%	13 0.40%	15
Bash	132	-5	£57,500	-16.05%	11 0.34%	21
Bicep	133	+9	£62,469	-7.45%	10 0.31%	8
Embedded C	135	+15	£46,500	+16.25%	8 0.25%
Embedded C++	135	-	£46,500	-	8 0.25%
Scala	137	+7	£80,000	+33.33%	6 0.19%	5
Rust	137	+5	£75,000	+36.36%	6 0.19%	3
ANSI SQL	138	-	£67,500	-	5 0.16%
Kotlin	138	+2	£57,500	-6.12%	5 0.16%	7
VB	138	+8	£40,000	-	5 0.16%	1
VBA	138	+10	£63,000	+26.00%	5 0.16%	3
Data Analysis Expressions	139	+6	£57,500	+31.42%	4 0.12%	4
Erlang	140	+10	£60,000	-	3 0.093%	1
Delphi	140	+10	£60,000	+26.31%	3 0.093%	2
Apex Code	140	+5	£75,000	+9.48%	3 0.093%
Kusto Query Language	140	+8	£52,500	-12.50%	3 0.093%	1
Ladder Logic	140	-	£47,500	-	3 0.093%	1
Swift	140	+8	£65,000	-3.70%	3 0.093%	4
Groovy	141	-	£57,500	-	2 0.062%	5
T-SQL	141	-8	£57,500	+21.05%	2 0.062%	8
PL/SQL	142	-7	£47,500	-5.00%	1 0.031%	5
VB.NET	142	+4	£41,500	-3.48%	1 0.031%
Shell Script	142	-4	£60,000	+30.43%	1 0.031%	1
MATLAB	142	-	-	-	1 0.031%	3
Ruby	142	-4	£75,000	+15.38%	1 0.031%	1
SPARQL	142	-	£82,500	-	1 0.031%	1
SHACL	142	-	£82,500	-	1 0.031%	1
SystemVerilog	142	-3	£75,000	-	1 0.031%