Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	30	-12	£61,418	-5.51%	206 5.67%	118
SQL	34	-22	£57,500	+4.54%	190 5.23%	133
C#	49	-9	£65,000	+9.24%	123 3.39%	65
JavaScript	50	-29	£58,750	-2.08%	122 3.36%	75
Java	52	-16	£70,000	+7.69%	115 3.17%	59
TypeScript	70	-18	£68,750	+3.77%	83 2.28%	57
PHP	110	-19	£50,000	-4.76%	35 0.96%	12
PowerShell	112	-4	£55,000	-8.33%	33 0.91%	11
Go	129	-14	£95,000	+46.15%	16 0.44%	10
C++	130	-26	£57,500	-4.16%	15 0.41%	19
R	131	+11	£30,500	-45.77%	14 0.39%	13
C	133	-8	£46,500	-27.05%	12 0.33%	11
Bicep	134	+8	£62,500	-7.40%	11 0.30%	7
Kotlin	135	+6	£62,500	+2.04%	10 0.28%	12
Bash	136	-4	£50,000	-23.07%	9 0.25%	9
Embedded C	139	+12	£46,500	+16.25%	6 0.17%	3
Embedded C++	139	-	£46,500	-	6 0.17%	1
ANSI SQL	140	-	£67,500	-	5 0.14%
T-SQL	141	0	£52,500	-	4 0.11%	5
Data Analysis Expressions	141	+5	£57,500	+24.32%	4 0.11%	2
Rust	141	+3	£85,000	+54.54%	4 0.11%	1
Swift	141	+8	£73,750	+9.25%	4 0.11%	8
Scala	141	+5	£82,500	+50.00%	4 0.11%	8
Apex Code	142	+3	£75,000	+17.64%	3 0.083%	2
Ladder Logic	142	-	£47,500	-	3 0.083%	1
Erlang	142	+9	£60,000	-	3 0.083%
VBA	142	+6	£54,000	+0.46%	3 0.083%	6
VB	142	+3	£40,000	-30.43%	3 0.083%	2
Delphi	142	+9	£60,000	+26.31%	3 0.083%	1
Groovy	143	-	£57,500	-	2 0.055%
PL/SQL	144	-8	£47,500	-20.83%	1 0.028%	7
VB.NET	144	+5	£41,500	-15.30%	1 0.028%	1
Shell Script	144	-5	£60,000	+30.43%	1 0.028%	1
MATLAB	144	-	-	-	1 0.028%	1
Ruby	144	+1	£75,000	+20.00%	1 0.028%	6
SPARQL	144	-	£82,500	-	1 0.028%
SHACL	144	-	£82,500	-	1 0.028%
Kusto Query Language	144	+4	£40,000	-20.00%	1 0.028%	2