Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	22	Down -11 places-11	£65,500	-2.96%	325 5.97%	166
SQL	28	Down -7 places-7	£55,000	-4.34%	284 5.21%	140
Java	45	Down -27 places-27	£70,000	-15.15%	192 3.52%	59
JavaScript	59	Down -45 places-45	£62,500	-3.84%	131 2.41%	66
C#	62	Up 3 places+3	£61,250	+2.08%	125 2.29%	69
TypeScript	83	Down -37 places-37	£70,000	-	90 1.65%	45
PHP	120	Down -14 places-14	£48,750	-11.36%	50 0.92%	9
PowerShell	124	Down -39 places-39	£55,000	-	46 0.84%	26
C++	133	Down -77 places-77	£60,000	+6.66%	37 0.68%	24
Bash	148	Down -47 places-47	£67,700	-7.88%	22 0.40%	21
Go	154	Down -99 places-99	£90,000	+16.12%	16 0.29%	17
Kotlin	156	Down -1 place-1	£65,000	-3.70%	14 0.26%	6
Bicep	157	Down -1 place-1	£64,073	+2.51%	13 0.24%	6
C	159	Down -14 places-14	£63,750	+15.90%	11 0.20%	12
T-SQL	159	Down -11 places-11	£47,500	-2.56%	11 0.20%	7
R	160	Down -7 places-7	£31,000	-52.30%	10 0.18%	11
VBA	160	Down -5 places-5	£45,000	-10.00%	10 0.18%	1
Swift	162	Down -3 places-3	£77,500	-	8 0.15%	2
Groovy	165	Down -6 places-6	£80,000	+14.28%	5 0.092%	4
Ruby	166	Down -7 places-7	£55,000	-	4 0.073%	9
Scala	167	Down -12 places-12	£75,000	-6.25%	3 0.055%	7
Apex Code	167	Down -9 places-9	£75,000	+27.11%	3 0.055%	3
Data Analysis Expressions	167	Down -14 places-14	£40,000	-20.00%	3 0.055%	7
PL/SQL	167	Down -17 places-17	-	-	3 0.055%	1
VB	167	Down -13 places-13	£40,000	-2.43%	3 0.055%	1
SOQL	167	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.055%
Embedded C	167	Down -8 places-8	£46,500	+16.25%	3 0.055%	2
Embedded C++	167	New entry-	£46,500	-	3 0.055%
COBOL	168	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.037%
SOSL	168	New entry-	£75,000	-	2 0.037%