Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	28	-16	£57,500	+4.54%	186 5.57%	149
Python	29	-11	£61,418	-5.51%	185 5.54%	138
C#	44	-4	£65,000	+8.33%	124 3.71%	84
JavaScript	46	-25	£55,500	-7.50%	122 3.65%	80
Java	53	-14	£70,000	+7.69%	104 3.11%	77
TypeScript	68	-15	£67,500	+3.84%	75 2.24%	75
PowerShell	101	+6	£55,000	-8.33%	35 1.05%	28
PHP	102	-16	£50,000	-4.76%	34 1.02%	21
C++	117	-16	£57,500	-8.00%	19 0.57%	23
Go	122	-4	£82,500	+15.78%	14 0.42%	17
R	122	+21	£30,500	-45.77%	14 0.42%	11
C	122	+3	£46,500	-31.11%	14 0.42%	10
Bicep	125	+20	£62,500	-7.40%	11 0.33%	7
Bash	126	+7	£57,500	-20.12%	10 0.30%	15
Embedded C	128	+26	£46,500	+16.25%	8 0.24%
Embedded C++	128	-	£46,500	-	8 0.24%
Rust	130	+17	£75,000	+36.36%	6 0.18%	2
Scala	130	+18	£80,000	+33.33%	6 0.18%	5
ANSI SQL	131	-	£67,500	-	5 0.15%
Kotlin	131	+13	£57,500	-6.12%	5 0.15%	7
VB	131	+16	£40,000	-30.43%	5 0.15%
Data Analysis Expressions	132	+17	£57,500	+31.42%	4 0.12%	4
T-SQL	133	+8	£57,500	+21.05%	3 0.090%	8
Erlang	133	+21	£60,000	-	3 0.090%	1
Delphi	133	+21	£60,000	+26.31%	3 0.090%	2
Apex Code	133	+15	£75,000	+17.64%	3 0.090%	1
Ladder Logic	133	-	£47,500	-	3 0.090%
Kusto Query Language	133	+18	£52,500	+5.00%	3 0.090%	2
Swift	134	+18	£65,000	-3.70%	2 0.060%	4
Groovy	134	-	£57,500	-	2 0.060%	3
VBA	134	+17	£63,000	+17.20%	2 0.060%	7
PL/SQL	135	+3	£47,500	-20.83%	1 0.030%	4
VB.NET	135	+15	£41,500	-3.48%	1 0.030%
Shell Script	135	+7	£60,000	+30.43%	1 0.030%
MATLAB	135	-	-	-	1 0.030%	3
Ruby	135	+8	£75,000	+15.38%	1 0.030%	1
SPARQL	135	-	£82,500	-	1 0.030%	1
SHACL	135	-	£82,500	-	1 0.030%	1