Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 Mar 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	30	-11	£62,573	-3.73%	234 5.67%	137
SQL	35	-22	£60,000	+9.09%	203 4.92%	148
Java	49	-14	£70,000	+4.06%	148 3.58%	78
JavaScript	52	-32	£60,000	-4.00%	134 3.25%	74
C#	53	-11	£65,000	+8.33%	132 3.20%	50
TypeScript	69	-28	£70,000	+3.70%	89 2.16%	53
PHP	107	-14	£50,000	-9.09%	43 1.04%	9
PowerShell	119	-7	£55,000	-6.38%	31 0.75%	12
C++	131	-21	£57,500	+4.54%	19 0.46%	23
Go	133	-22	£90,000	+20.00%	17 0.41%	13
Kotlin	136	+4	£65,000	+26.82%	14 0.34%	6
R	136	+4	£30,500	-44.54%	14 0.34%	7
C	138	-16	£53,250	-7.39%	12 0.29%	12
Bicep	141	0	£62,647	-5.43%	9 0.22%	4
Swift	143	+4	£77,500	+12.72%	7 0.17%	3
VBA	143	+2	£45,000	-16.27%	7 0.17%	3
Bash	144	-13	£43,750	-39.22%	6 0.15%	13
T-SQL	144	-4	£52,500	+5.00%	6 0.15%	8
Embedded C	145	+3	£46,500	+16.25%	5 0.12%	3
Embedded C++	145	-	£46,500	-	5 0.12%	1
ANSI SQL	145	-	£67,500	-	5 0.12%
Data Analysis Expressions	145	-3	£57,500	+35.29%	5 0.12%	13
Scala	146	-2	£82,500	+37.50%	4 0.097%	9
Ladder Logic	146	-	£47,500	-	4 0.097%	3
PL/SQL	146	-17	£47,500	+6.74%	4 0.097%	2
Erlang	147	+1	£60,000	-	3 0.073%
Delphi	147	0	£60,000	+17.07%	3 0.073%	1
VB	147	-4	£40,000	-30.43%	3 0.073%	2
Rust	149	-7	£85,000	+54.54%	1 0.024%	3
Shell Script	149	-18	£60,000	+34.83%	1 0.024%	3
MATLAB	149	-	-	-	1 0.024%	2
Groovy	149	-	£57,500	-	1 0.024%	2
SPARQL	149	-	£82,500	-	1 0.024%
SHACL	149	-	£82,500	-	1 0.024%
Kusto Query Language	149	-4	£40,000	-20.00%	1 0.024%	1
Ruby	149	-6	£75,000	+25.00%	1 0.024%	2
VB.NET	149	-2	£41,500	-19.02%	1 0.024%	1