Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	21	Down -9 places-9	£65,500	-2.96%	327 5.96%	205
SQL	27	Down -6 places-6	£55,000	-2.65%	285 5.19%	174
Java	45	Down -27 places-27	£70,000	-15.15%	194 3.53%	95
JavaScript	60	Down -46 places-46	£62,500	-3.84%	131 2.39%	105
C#	64	No change0	£62,500	+4.16%	124 2.26%	65
TypeScript	84	Down -40 places-40	£70,000	-	90 1.64%	46
PHP	121	Down -13 places-13	£48,750	-11.36%	50 0.91%	9
PowerShell	125	Down -40 places-40	£55,000	+4.76%	46 0.84%	22
C++	134	Down -81 places-81	£60,000	+6.66%	37 0.67%	25
Bash	148	Down -45 places-45	£70,400	-4.21%	23 0.42%	24
Go	155	Down -103 places-103	£90,000	+16.12%	16 0.29%	45
Kotlin	157	No change0	£65,000	-3.70%	14 0.26%	7
Bicep	158	No change0	£64,073	+2.51%	13 0.24%	7
C	160	Down -13 places-13	£63,750	+15.90%	11 0.20%	11
T-SQL	160	Down -10 places-10	£47,500	-2.56%	11 0.20%	7
R	161	Down -6 places-6	£31,000	-52.30%	10 0.18%	13
VBA	161	Down -5 places-5	£45,000	+20.80%	10 0.18%	2
Swift	163	Down -2 places-2	£77,500	-	8 0.15%	2
Groovy	166	Down -5 places-5	£80,000	+14.28%	5 0.091%	5
Ruby	167	Down -7 places-7	£55,000	-5.17%	4 0.073%	10
Data Analysis Expressions	168	Down -13 places-13	£40,000	-20.00%	3 0.055%	7
PL/SQL	168	Down -16 places-16	-	-	3 0.055%	2
VB	168	Down -13 places-13	£40,000	+63.26%	3 0.055%	1
SOQL	168	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.055%
Embedded C	168	Down -7 places-7	£46,500	+16.25%	3 0.055%	2
Embedded C++	168	New entry-	£46,500	-	3 0.055%
Scala	168	Down -11 places-11	£75,000	-6.25%	3 0.055%	7
Apex Code	168	Down -8 places-8	£75,000	+27.11%	3 0.055%	4
COBOL	169	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.036%
SOSL	169	New entry-	£75,000	-	2 0.036%