Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 Mar 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	30	-10	£63,000	-3.07%	239 5.71%	143
SQL	37	-24	£60,000	+9.09%	208 4.97%	152
Java	51	-14	£70,000	+3.70%	148 3.54%	80
JavaScript	52	-33	£60,000	-7.69%	138 3.30%	75
C#	54	-10	£65,000	+8.33%	126 3.01%	56
TypeScript	68	-26	£70,000	+3.70%	88 2.10%	52
PHP	104	-16	£50,000	-9.09%	46 1.10%	7
PowerShell	119	-14	£55,000	-4.34%	31 0.74%	19
C++	131	-24	£57,500	+4.54%	19 0.45%	27
Go	132	-26	£90,000	+20.00%	18 0.43%	10
Kotlin	135	-1	£65,000	+26.82%	15 0.36%	5
R	136	-1	£30,500	-45.77%	14 0.33%	10
C	138	-23	£53,250	-7.39%	12 0.29%	12
Bicep	141	-6	£62,647	-5.43%	9 0.22%	5
Swift	142	-2	£77,500	+12.72%	8 0.19%	2
VBA	143	-5	£45,000	-16.27%	7 0.17%	4
T-SQL	144	-10	£52,500	+7.69%	6 0.14%	5
Bash	144	-19	£43,750	-39.22%	6 0.14%	14
Embedded C	145	-4	£46,500	+16.25%	5 0.12%	2
Embedded C++	145	-	£46,500	-	5 0.12%
Data Analysis Expressions	146	-11	£48,750	+14.70%	4 0.096%	11
PL/SQL	146	-22	£47,500	+6.74%	4 0.096%	2
ANSI SQL	146	-	£67,500	-	4 0.096%
Scala	146	-8	£82,500	+37.50%	4 0.096%	8
Ladder Logic	146	-	£47,500	-	4 0.096%	3
Delphi	147	-7	£60,000	+17.07%	3 0.072%	1
VB	147	-11	£40,000	-30.43%	3 0.072%	2
Erlang	147	-	£60,000	-	3 0.072%
Kusto Query Language	149	-11	£40,000	-20.00%	1 0.024%	1
Ruby	149	-13	£75,000	+25.00%	1 0.024%	2
COBOL	149	-	£55,000	-	1 0.024%	1
VB.NET	149	-9	£41,500	-19.02%	1 0.024%	2
Shell Script	149	-26	£60,000	+34.83%	1 0.024%	3
MATLAB	149	-	-	-	1 0.024%	2
Groovy	149	-	£57,500	-	1 0.024%	3
SPARQL	149	-	£82,500	-	1 0.024%
SHACL	149	-	£82,500	-	1 0.024%