Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	30	-18	£57,500	+4.54%	184 5.63%	147
Python	31	-15	£61,418	-3.65%	182 5.57%	155
C#	44	-5	£65,000	+8.33%	127 3.88%	85
JavaScript	47	-26	£55,000	-8.33%	121 3.70%	86
Java	54	-15	£70,000	+7.69%	102 3.12%	82
TypeScript	67	-16	£67,500	+3.84%	75 2.29%	80
PHP	102	-19	£50,000	-4.76%	34 1.04%	19
PowerShell	102	+1	£55,000	-8.33%	34 1.04%	28
C++	117	-20	£57,500	-8.00%	19 0.58%	24
C	121	+1	£46,500	-31.11%	15 0.46%	14
R	122	+19	£30,500	-44.54%	14 0.43%	13
Go	123	-10	£65,000	-8.77%	13 0.40%	22
Bash	126	+2	£57,500	-16.05%	10 0.31%	22
Bicep	126	+16	£62,469	-7.45%	10 0.31%	6
Embedded C	128	+23	£46,500	+16.25%	8 0.24%
Embedded C++	128	-	£46,500	-	8 0.24%
Scala	130	+15	£80,000	+33.33%	6 0.18%	6
Rust	130	+14	£75,000	+36.36%	6 0.18%	2
ANSI SQL	131	-	£67,500	-	5 0.15%
Kotlin	131	+10	£57,500	-6.12%	5 0.15%	7
VB	131	+13	£40,000	-30.43%	5 0.15%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	132	+14	£57,500	+31.42%	4 0.12%	4
Apex Code	133	+12	£75,000	+17.64%	3 0.092%
Kusto Query Language	133	+15	£52,500	+5.00%	3 0.092%	1
Ladder Logic	133	-	£47,500	-	3 0.092%
Swift	133	+16	£65,000	-3.70%	3 0.092%	4
Erlang	133	+18	£60,000	-	3 0.092%	1
VBA	133	+15	£63,000	+17.20%	3 0.092%	7
T-SQL	133	+2	£57,500	+21.05%	3 0.092%	7
Delphi	133	+18	£60,000	+26.31%	3 0.092%	2
Groovy	134	-	£57,500	-	2 0.061%	6
PL/SQL	135	0	£47,500	-20.83%	1 0.031%	5
VB.NET	135	+12	£41,500	-3.48%	1 0.031%
Shell Script	135	+4	£60,000	+30.43%	1 0.031%	1
MATLAB	135	-	-	-	1 0.031%	3
Ruby	135	+4	£75,000	+15.38%	1 0.031%	1
SPARQL	135	-	£82,500	-	1 0.031%	1
SHACL	135	-	£82,500	-	1 0.031%	1
SystemVerilog	135	+5	£75,000	-	1 0.031%