Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	21	Down -10 places-10	£67,500	+3.84%	435 5.94%	239
SQL	23	Down -7 places-7	£55,000	-	402 5.49%	202
Java	37	Down -22 places-22	£71,000	-9.90%	256 3.49%	122
JavaScript	59	Down -37 places-37	£57,500	-8.00%	168 2.29%	65
TypeScript	65	Down -10 places-10	£70,000	-5.08%	151 2.06%	101
C#	67	Down -19 places-19	£55,000	-15.38%	147 2.01%	64
PowerShell	106	Down -33 places-33	£54,500	+17.83%	87 1.19%	50
Go	130	Down -80 places-80	£80,000	+6.66%	61 0.83%	34
Bash	135	Down -42 places-42	£65,000	+8.33%	56 0.76%	26
C++	150	Down -106 places-106	£59,500	+19.00%	41 0.56%	20
PHP	151	Down -21 places-21	£45,000	-14.28%	40 0.55%	8
Kotlin	164	Down -14 places-14	£70,000	-	27 0.37%	15
Scala	169	Down -16 places-16	£57,500	-28.12%	22 0.30%	6
C	170	Down -23 places-23	£65,000	+39.78%	21 0.29%	13
Bicep	171	Down -16 places-16	£65,000	+21.49%	20 0.27%	8
Ruby	176	Down -19 places-19	£55,000	-5.17%	15 0.20%	2
R	177	Down -23 places-23	£45,037	-12.54%	14 0.19%	16
T-SQL	178	Down -28 places-28	£75,000	+7.14%	13 0.18%	8
Apex Code	178	Down -23 places-23	£65,000	-13.33%	13 0.18%	4
Swift	183	Down -32 places-32	£69,500	+6.92%	8 0.11%	12
Groovy	183	Down -27 places-27	£90,000	+28.57%	8 0.11%	5
Data Analysis Expressions	186	Down -32 places-32	£42,500	-46.87%	5 0.068%	8
VBA	186	Down -40 places-40	£45,000	+83.67%	5 0.068%	3
Delphi	187	Down -32 places-32	£60,000	-14.28%	4 0.055%
PL/SQL	187	Down -34 places-34	£65,000	+46.06%	4 0.055%	2
SOQL	187	New entry-	£75,000	-	4 0.055%	1
Rust	187	Down -111 places-111	£65,000	-23.52%	4 0.055%
ABAP	188	New entry-	-	-	3 0.041%
SOSL	188	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.041%
Kusto Query Language	189	Down -33 places-33	-	-	2 0.027%
COBOL	189	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.027%
VBScript	189	New entry-	-	-	2 0.027%	3
VB.NET	189	Down -32 places-32	£42,500	-5.55%	2 0.027%	2