Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 Mar 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	30	-11	£62,439	-3.94%	219 5.61%	124
SQL	32	-20	£60,000	+9.09%	196 5.02%	131
JavaScript	49	-31	£60,000	-2.04%	132 3.38%	73
Java	50	-14	£70,000	+4.41%	129 3.31%	53
C#	53	-16	£65,000	+9.24%	122 3.13%	60
TypeScript	69	-28	£70,000	+7.69%	88 2.25%	60
PHP	111	-25	£50,000	-4.76%	37 0.95%	12
PowerShell	116	-6	£55,000	-8.33%	32 0.82%	16
Go	132	-18	£95,000	+46.15%	16 0.41%	11
C++	133	-26	£57,500	-	15 0.38%	29
Kotlin	135	+5	£65,000	+13.04%	13 0.33%	9
R	135	+4	£30,500	-44.54%	13 0.33%	10
C	136	-13	£46,500	-22.50%	12 0.31%	14
Bicep	139	+2	£62,647	-7.19%	9 0.23%	6
Bash	141	-8	£47,500	-24.00%	7 0.18%	10
Embedded C	142	+7	£46,500	+16.25%	6 0.15%	3
Embedded C++	142	-	£46,500	-	6 0.15%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	143	-1	£57,500	+24.32%	5 0.13%	4
Swift	143	+5	£73,750	+7.27%	5 0.13%	8
ANSI SQL	143	-	£67,500	-	5 0.13%
PL/SQL	144	-12	£47,500	+6.74%	4 0.10%	2
T-SQL	144	-4	£52,500	-	4 0.10%	8
VBA	144	+2	£45,000	-16.27%	4 0.10%	4
Scala	144	+1	£82,500	+37.50%	4 0.10%	6
Ladder Logic	144	-	£47,500	-	4 0.10%	1
Erlang	145	+4	£60,000	-	3 0.077%
VB	145	-1	£40,000	-30.43%	3 0.077%	3
Delphi	145	+3	£60,000	+17.07%	3 0.077%	1
Rust	146	-4	£75,000	+36.36%	2 0.051%	5
Apex Code	146	-2	£75,000	+27.11%	2 0.051%	3
VB.NET	147	+1	£41,500	-19.02%	1 0.026%	1
Shell Script	147	-13	£60,000	+34.83%	1 0.026%	1
MATLAB	147	-	-	-	1 0.026%
Ruby	147	-4	£75,000	+20.00%	1 0.026%	4
Groovy	147	-	£57,500	-	1 0.026%
SPARQL	147	-	£82,500	-	1 0.026%
SHACL	147	-	£82,500	-	1 0.026%
Kusto Query Language	147	-1	£40,000	-20.00%	1 0.026%	1