Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	26	-13	£57,500	+10.31%	188 6.55%	96
Python	31	-11	£60,000	-	164 5.71%	111
C#	40	-5	£65,000	+13.04%	127 4.43%	65
JavaScript	46	-24	£55,000	-3.50%	108 3.76%	72
Java	64	-19	£71,000	+13.60%	81 2.82%	57
TypeScript	76	-19	£68,750	+5.76%	67 2.33%	64
PowerShell	95	+13	£55,000	-8.33%	43 1.50%	18
PHP	106	-25	£50,000	-4.76%	32 1.12%	14
C	122	+2	£46,500	-27.05%	16 0.56%	16
C++	122	-25	£52,000	-15.78%	16 0.56%	22
R	124	+17	£30,500	-44.54%	14 0.49%	7
Go	127	-8	£82,500	+32.00%	11 0.38%	16
Bash	127	+2	£60,000	-12.40%	11 0.38%	4
Bicep	129	+15	£62,439	-7.49%	9 0.31%	6
Embedded C	130	+22	£46,500	+16.25%	8 0.28%	1
Embedded C++	130	-	£46,500	-	8 0.28%
ANSI SQL	131	-	£67,500	-	7 0.24%
Rust	132	+12	£75,000	+36.36%	6 0.21%	4
Data Analysis Expressions	132	+13	£57,500	+21.05%	6 0.21%	3
Scala	132	+13	£80,000	+12.28%	6 0.21%	2
VBA	133	+17	£63,000	+26.00%	5 0.17%	2
Kotlin	133	+8	£57,500	-6.12%	5 0.17%	10
Swift	134	+14	£65,000	-0.76%	4 0.14%	3
VB	134	+16	£50,000	-	4 0.14%
T-SQL	135	-6	£57,500	+21.05%	3 0.10%	2
Erlang	135	+17	£60,000	-	3 0.10%
Delphi	135	+17	£60,000	+26.31%	3 0.10%	1
Ladder Logic	135	-	£47,500	-	3 0.10%	2
SystemVerilog	135	+6	£75,000	-	3 0.10%
Kusto Query Language	135	+14	£52,500	+4.35%	3 0.10%	1
Apex Code	135	+10	£75,000	+9.48%	3 0.10%	4
Shell Script	136	+4	£60,000	+30.43%	2 0.070%	3
VB.NET	136	+11	£43,250	+0.58%	2 0.070%	1
PL/SQL	137	0	£47,500	-8.21%	1 0.035%	2
MATLAB	137	-	-	-	1 0.035%	4
Ruby	137	+3	£75,000	+15.38%	1 0.035%	2
Groovy	137	-	-	-	1 0.035%	2
SPARQL	137	-	£82,500	-	1 0.035%
SHACL	137	-	£82,500	-	1 0.035%