Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Mar 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	28	-8	£65,000	-3.70%	247 5.69%	144
SQL	36	-24	£60,000	+9.09%	212 4.88%	153
Java	48	-17	£70,000	-9.67%	153 3.53%	80
JavaScript	50	-32	£60,000	-4.00%	136 3.13%	74
C#	55	-13	£65,000	+8.33%	120 2.77%	57
TypeScript	75	-36	£70,000	-	85 1.96%	52
PHP	108	-17	£50,000	-9.09%	47 1.08%	7
PowerShell	125	-18	£55,000	-4.34%	30 0.69%	19
C++	135	-21	£58,250	+3.55%	20 0.46%	27
Go	137	-27	£90,000	+20.00%	18 0.41%	10
Kotlin	140	-3	£65,000	+13.04%	15 0.35%	5
R	141	-2	£30,500	-45.77%	14 0.32%	10
C	143	-18	£53,250	-3.18%	12 0.28%	12
Bicep	145	-6	£62,573	-5.54%	10 0.23%	5
Swift	147	-4	£77,500	-	8 0.18%	2
VBA	148	-6	£45,000	-16.27%	7 0.16%	4
Bash	148	-19	£47,500	-34.01%	7 0.16%	13
T-SQL	149	-11	£52,500	+20.00%	6 0.14%	5
Embedded C	150	-5	£46,500	+16.25%	5 0.12%	2
Embedded C++	150	-	£46,500	-	5 0.12%
Data Analysis Expressions	150	-11	£40,000	-5.88%	5 0.12%	11
Scala	151	-10	£82,500	+26.92%	4 0.092%	8
Ladder Logic	151	-	£47,500	-	4 0.092%	3
Delphi	152	-7	£60,000	+9.09%	3 0.069%	1
PL/SQL	152	-25	-	-	3 0.069%	2
VB	152	-12	£40,000	-30.43%	3 0.069%	2
ANSI SQL	152	-	£72,500	-	3 0.069%
COBOL	153	-	£55,000	-	2 0.046%	1
VB.NET	154	-10	£41,500	-19.02%	1 0.023%	2
Shell Script	154	-23	£60,000	+34.83%	1 0.023%	3
Erlang	154	-	£60,000	-	1 0.023%
MATLAB	154	-	-	-	1 0.023%	2
Groovy	154	-9	£57,500	-17.85%	1 0.023%	3
SPARQL	154	-	£82,500	-	1 0.023%
SHACL	154	-	£82,500	-	1 0.023%
Kusto Query Language	154	-12	£40,000	-20.00%	1 0.023%	1
Ruby	154	-13	£75,000	+25.00%	1 0.023%	2