Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
SQL	31	-19	£57,500	+4.54%	188 5.60%	150
Python	31	-12	£61,418	-5.51%	188 5.60%	143
C#	46	-4	£65,000	+8.33%	125 3.72%	81
JavaScript	48	-27	£55,500	-7.50%	122 3.63%	75
Java	57	-18	£70,000	+7.69%	101 3.01%	75
TypeScript	73	-20	£68,750	+5.76%	74 2.20%	75
PHP	111	-26	£50,000	-4.76%	35 1.04%	19
PowerShell	111	-5	£55,000	-8.33%	35 1.04%	29
C++	127	-27	£57,500	-8.00%	19 0.57%	25
Go	131	-14	£85,000	+19.29%	15 0.45%	17
R	132	+11	£30,500	-45.77%	14 0.42%	11
C	132	-8	£46,500	-31.11%	14 0.42%	11
Bicep	135	+9	£62,500	-7.40%	11 0.33%	8
Bash	136	-4	£57,500	-20.12%	10 0.30%	15
Embedded C	138	+15	£46,500	+16.25%	8 0.24%
Embedded C++	138	-	£46,500	-	8 0.24%
Rust	140	+6	£75,000	+36.36%	6 0.18%	1
Scala	140	+7	£80,000	+33.33%	6 0.18%	4
ANSI SQL	141	-	£67,500	-	5 0.15%
Kotlin	141	+2	£57,500	-6.12%	5 0.15%	7
VB	141	+5	£40,000	-30.43%	5 0.15%
Data Analysis Expressions	142	+6	£57,500	+31.42%	4 0.12%	3
T-SQL	143	-3	£57,500	+21.05%	3 0.089%	8
Erlang	143	+10	£60,000	-	3 0.089%	1
Delphi	143	+10	£60,000	+26.31%	3 0.089%	2
Apex Code	143	+4	£75,000	+17.64%	3 0.089%	1
Ladder Logic	143	-	£47,500	-	3 0.089%
Kusto Query Language	143	+7	£52,500	+5.00%	3 0.089%	2
Swift	144	+7	£65,000	-3.70%	2 0.060%	7
Groovy	144	-	£57,500	-	2 0.060%	3
VBA	144	+6	£63,000	+17.20%	2 0.060%	8
PL/SQL	145	-8	£47,500	-20.83%	1 0.030%	4
VB.NET	145	+4	£41,500	-3.48%	1 0.030%
Shell Script	145	-4	£60,000	+30.43%	1 0.030%
MATLAB	145	-	-	-	1 0.030%	3
Ruby	145	-3	£75,000	+15.38%	1 0.030%	1
SPARQL	145	-	£82,500	-	1 0.030%	1
SHACL	145	-	£82,500	-	1 0.030%	1