Programming Language Statistics in the North West

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	33	-22	£55,000	+10.00%	347 4.63%	218
Python	34	-15	£52,500	-16.00%	342 4.56%	230
JavaScript	60	-33	£52,500	-8.69%	181 2.42%	118
C#	62	-26	£62,500	+19.04%	174 2.32%	113
Java	73	-19	£67,500	+3.84%	143 1.91%	78
TypeScript	108	-36	£70,000	+7.69%	93 1.24%	88
PowerShell	136	-32	£50,000	-4.76%	60 0.80%	39
PHP	150	-50	£50,000	-	46 0.61%	22
R	160	+16	£30,500	-48.08%	36 0.48%	33
Go	168	-14	£85,000	+30.76%	28 0.37%	19
Bash	169	-21	£50,000	-28.57%	27 0.36%	25
C	173	-22	£67,500	+16.71%	23 0.31%	17
C++	178	-52	£57,500	-0.10%	18 0.24%	42
Bicep	183	-20	£62,573	-10.60%	13 0.17%	5
Kotlin	185	-3	£60,000	-2.04%	11 0.15%	12
VBA	185	-1	£55,990	+16.64%	11 0.15%	10
PL/SQL	186	-13	£26,500	-49.52%	10 0.13%	9
Data Analysis Expressions	186	0	£57,500	+35.29%	10 0.13%	6
T-SQL	187	-15	£57,500	+9.52%	9 0.12%	19
Embedded C	188	+4	£46,500	+16.25%	8 0.11%	4
MATLAB	189	-41	£57,000	+13.90%	7 0.093%	3
Scala	189	-4	£80,000	+23.07%	7 0.093%	8
VBScript	189	-	£26,500	-	7 0.093%	1
ABAP	189	0	-	-	7 0.093%	8
Embedded C++	190	-	£46,500	-	6 0.080%
ANSI SQL	191	-	£67,500	-	5 0.067%
Rust	191	-8	£85,000	+49.12%	5 0.067%	2
VB	191	-14	£40,000	-30.43%	5 0.067%	3
Swift	192	-2	£65,000	-3.70%	4 0.053%	8
Delphi	193	-1	£60,000	+26.31%	3 0.040%	2
Erlang	193	-1	£60,000	-	3 0.040%	1
Shell Script	193	-15	£60,000	+30.43%	3 0.040%	2
Apex Code	193	-7	£75,000	+17.64%	3 0.040%	2
Ladder Logic	193	-	£47,500	-	3 0.040%	1