Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	20	Down -8 places-8	£66,750	+2.69%	409 6.42%	158
SQL	23	Down -4 places-4	£55,000	-	378 5.93%	134
Java	35	Down -21 places-21	£70,000	-11.17%	243 3.81%	74
JavaScript	50	Down -34 places-34	£65,000	-	157 2.46%	52
C#	59	Up 9 places+9	£57,500	-8.00%	143 2.24%	66
TypeScript	67	Down -25 places-25	£70,000	-	132 2.07%	62
PowerShell	121	Down -34 places-34	£55,000	+10.00%	59 0.93%	33
PHP	137	Down -16 places-16	£45,000	-18.18%	43 0.67%	5
Bash	140	Down -30 places-30	£67,500	+12.50%	40 0.63%	30
C++	140	Down -82 places-82	£60,000	+14.28%	40 0.63%	24
Go	143	Down -88 places-88	£80,000	+6.66%	37 0.58%	19
Kotlin	161	Up 4 places+4	£65,000	-11.86%	19 0.30%	8
Scala	162	Up 6 places+6	£57,500	-28.12%	18 0.28%	7
Bicep	164	Up 5 places+5	£65,250	+13.47%	16 0.25%	13
T-SQL	165	Down -4 places-4	£47,500	-32.14%	15 0.24%	9
Ruby	166	Up 4 places+4	£55,000	-5.17%	14 0.22%	5
Swift	168	Up 1 place+1	£74,500	+10.37%	12 0.19%	4
C	170	Down -9 places-9	£60,000	+9.09%	10 0.16%	16
VBA	171	Down -8 places-8	£45,000	+83.67%	9 0.14%	1
R	172	Down -8 places-8	£33,718	-53.49%	8 0.13%	9
Apex Code	173	Down -3 places-3	£67,500	+14.40%	7 0.11%	1
Groovy	174	Down -3 places-3	£80,000	+14.28%	6 0.094%	4
PL/SQL	175	Down -13 places-13	£72,500	+62.92%	5 0.079%	3
SOQL	176	New entry-	£75,000	-	4 0.063%
Data Analysis Expressions	176	Down -11 places-11	£40,000	-20.00%	4 0.063%	4
Delphi	176	Down -8 places-8	£60,000	-14.28%	4 0.063%
SOSL	177	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.047%