Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 7 Mar 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	29	-8	£61,928	-4.72%	217 5.63%	132
SQL	31	-19	£57,843	+5.16%	200 5.19%	144
JavaScript	47	-28	£60,000	-2.04%	134 3.48%	75
Java	48	-12	£70,000	+4.41%	130 3.37%	70
C#	49	-10	£65,000	+8.33%	126 3.27%	63
TypeScript	66	-20	£70,000	+7.69%	90 2.34%	58
PHP	113	-22	£50,000	-4.76%	37 0.96%	14
PowerShell	118	-6	£55,000	-8.33%	32 0.83%	14
Go	134	-14	£95,000	+46.15%	16 0.42%	11
C++	135	-24	£57,500	-	15 0.39%	20
R	137	+9	£30,500	-44.54%	13 0.34%	12
Kotlin	138	+9	£65,000	+13.04%	12 0.31%	14
C	138	-9	£46,500	-22.50%	12 0.31%	11
Bicep	140	+8	£62,573	-7.29%	10 0.26%	7
Bash	141	-3	£50,000	-20.00%	9 0.23%	9
Embedded C	144	+12	£46,500	+16.25%	6 0.16%	3
Embedded C++	144	-	£46,500	-	6 0.16%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	145	+4	£57,500	+24.32%	5 0.13%	2
Swift	145	+10	£73,750	+7.27%	5 0.13%	8
ANSI SQL	145	-	£67,500	-	5 0.13%
PL/SQL	146	-7	£47,500	+0.52%	4 0.10%	3
T-SQL	146	0	£52,500	-	4 0.10%	6
VBA	146	+7	£45,000	-16.27%	4 0.10%	4
Ladder Logic	146	-	£47,500	-	4 0.10%	1
Scala	146	+6	£82,500	+37.50%	4 0.10%	5
Rust	147	+2	£85,000	+54.54%	3 0.078%
Erlang	147	+9	£60,000	-	3 0.078%
VB	147	+4	£40,000	-30.43%	3 0.078%	3
Delphi	147	+8	£60,000	+17.07%	3 0.078%	1
Apex Code	148	+3	£75,000	+27.11%	2 0.052%	2
Groovy	148	-	£57,500	-	2 0.052%	1
VB.NET	149	+6	£41,500	-19.02%	1 0.026%	1
Shell Script	149	-7	£60,000	+32.59%	1 0.026%	2
MATLAB	149	-	-	-	1 0.026%
Ruby	149	+1	£75,000	+20.00%	1 0.026%	4
SPARQL	149	-	£82,500	-	1 0.026%
SHACL	149	-	£82,500	-	1 0.026%
Kusto Query Language	149	+4	£40,000	-20.00%	1 0.026%	2