Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	24	Down 1 place-1	£67,500	+8.10%	457 5.85%	351
SQL	29	Down 11 places-11	£55,000	-	381 4.88%	288
Java	37	Up 11 places+11	£75,000	+5.63%	316 4.05%	145
TypeScript	58	Up 6 places+6	£70,000	+3.70%	201 2.57%	132
JavaScript	70	Down 18 places-18	£54,250	-7.65%	177 2.27%	80
C#	84	Down 46 places-46	£55,679	-14.34%	152 1.95%	108
PowerShell	117	Down 48 places-48	£52,500	-4.54%	98 1.26%	67
Go	142	Down 12 places-12	£80,000	+23.07%	73 0.94%	47
Bash	144	Down 51 places-51	£65,000	+8.33%	71 0.91%	57
Kotlin	168	Down 38 places-38	£70,000	-	46 0.59%	26
C++	182	Down 62 places-62	£60,000	+29.03%	32 0.41%	60
Scala	185	Down 52 places-52	£67,500	-15.62%	29 0.37%	11
PHP	190	Down 76 places-76	£47,500	-11.62%	24 0.31%	30
C	195	Down 72 places-72	£65,000	+39.78%	19 0.24%	37
Bicep	198	Down 69 places-69	£65,000	+10.69%	16 0.20%	21
R	200	Down 71 places-71	£45,037	+47.66%	14 0.18%	12
Rust	200	Down 69 places-69	£72,500	-3.33%	14 0.18%	12
Apex Code	202	Down 68 places-68	£65,000	-13.33%	12 0.15%	8
Ruby	202	Down 67 places-67	£60,000	-9.77%	12 0.15%	5
Data Analysis Expressions	203	Down 72 places-72	£42,500	-26.08%	11 0.14%	5
T-SQL	207	Down 73 places-73	£72,500	+26.08%	7 0.090%	11
ABAP	207	New entry-	£58,541	-	7 0.090%	5
Kusto Query Language	208	Down 74 places-74	-	-	6 0.077%	3
Swift	208	Down 77 places-77	£69,500	+6.92%	6 0.077%	7
Groovy	208	Down 72 places-72	£90,000	-	6 0.077%	2
PL/SQL	209	Down 73 places-73	£63,750	+34.21%	5 0.064%	3
ActionScript	209	New entry-	-	-	5 0.064%	1
Shell Script	209	Down 76 places-76	£57,500	+32.18%	5 0.064%	11
Delphi	210	Down 79 places-79	£60,000	-7.69%	4 0.051%
VB.NET	210	Down 74 places-74	£45,000	-	4 0.051%	1
Ladder Logic	211	Down 77 places-77	£45,000	-5.26%	3 0.038%	1
VBScript	211	New entry-	-	-	3 0.038%	1
MATLAB	211	New entry-	£52,500	-	3 0.038%	9
RPG	212	New entry-	-	-	2 0.026%	6