Programming Language Statistics in the North West

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	32	-21	£55,000	+10.00%	344 4.58%	212
Python	34	-14	£51,250	-18.00%	340 4.53%	230
JavaScript	62	-34	£52,500	-8.69%	181 2.41%	120
C#	65	-29	£62,500	+19.04%	174 2.32%	110
Java	77	-26	£67,500	+3.84%	143 1.90%	77
TypeScript	109	-36	£70,000	+7.69%	93 1.24%	91
PowerShell	138	-32	£50,000	-4.76%	60 0.80%	39
PHP	152	-50	£50,000	-4.76%	46 0.61%	22
R	162	+19	£30,500	-46.95%	36 0.48%	31
Go	170	-14	£85,000	+30.76%	28 0.37%	22
Bash	171	-19	£50,000	-28.57%	27 0.36%	25
C	175	-20	£67,500	+16.71%	23 0.31%	15
C++	180	-50	£57,500	-0.10%	18 0.24%	39
Bicep	185	-18	£62,573	-10.60%	13 0.17%	6
Kotlin	187	-1	£60,000	-2.04%	11 0.15%	14
VBA	187	+1	£55,990	+16.64%	11 0.15%	11
PL/SQL	188	-11	£26,500	-49.52%	10 0.13%	7
Data Analysis Expressions	188	+2	£57,500	+35.29%	10 0.13%	6
T-SQL	189	-13	£57,500	+9.52%	9 0.12%	17
Embedded C	190	+6	£46,500	+16.25%	8 0.11%	4
MATLAB	191	-39	£57,000	+13.90%	7 0.093%	3
Scala	191	-1	£80,000	+33.33%	7 0.093%	8
VBScript	191	-	£26,500	-	7 0.093%	1
ABAP	191	+2	-	-	7 0.093%	5
Embedded C++	192	-	£46,500	-	6 0.080%
ANSI SQL	193	-	£67,500	-	5 0.067%
Rust	193	-6	£85,000	+49.12%	5 0.067%	2
VB	193	-12	£40,000	-30.43%	5 0.067%	3
Swift	194	0	£65,000	-3.70%	4 0.053%	8
Delphi	195	+1	£60,000	+26.31%	3 0.040%	2
Erlang	195	+1	£60,000	-	3 0.040%	1
Shell Script	195	-13	£60,000	+30.43%	3 0.040%	1
Apex Code	195	-5	£75,000	+17.64%	3 0.040%	2
Ladder Logic	195	-	£47,500	-	3 0.040%	1