Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 7 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	28	Down -13 places-13	£65,000	-3.70%	318 5.92%	166
SQL	37	Down -21 places-21	£57,593	+1.04%	265 4.93%	153
Java	50	Down -30 places-30	£70,000	-12.50%	179 3.33%	60
JavaScript	59	Down -46 places-46	£60,000	-7.69%	133 2.48%	66
C#	61	Down -8 places-8	£65,000	+8.33%	124 2.31%	62
TypeScript	81	Down -36 places-36	£70,000	-	90 1.68%	41
PHP	119	Down -20 places-20	£48,750	-11.36%	50 0.93%	11
PowerShell	125	Down -15 places-15	£55,000	-	44 0.82%	15
C++	135	Down -74 places-74	£59,500	+8.18%	34 0.63%	27
Bash	150	Down -14 places-14	£61,250	-14.91%	19 0.35%	22
Go	150	Down -90 places-90	£90,000	+18.03%	19 0.35%	12
Kotlin	155	Down -8 places-8	£65,000	+26.82%	14 0.26%	6
Bicep	156	Down -7 places-7	£62,543	-7.34%	13 0.24%	8
C	156	Down -18 places-18	£60,000	+9.09%	13 0.24%	18
R	157	Down -9 places-9	£30,500	-46.95%	12 0.22%	10
VBA	159	Down -8 places-8	£45,000	-16.27%	10 0.19%
T-SQL	160	Down -18 places-18	£47,500	-2.56%	9 0.17%	7
Swift	161	Down -8 places-8	£77,500	-	8 0.15%	2
Embedded C	165	Down -12 places-12	£46,500	+16.25%	4 0.074%	2
Embedded C++	165	New entry-	£46,500	-	4 0.074%
Data Analysis Expressions	166	Down -19 places-19	£40,000	-20.00%	3 0.056%	12
PL/SQL	166	Down -26 places-26	-	-	3 0.056%	2
VB	166	Down -17 places-17	£40,000	-30.43%	3 0.056%	1
ANSI SQL	166	New entry-	£72,500	-	3 0.056%
Scala	166	Down -18 places-18	£75,000	-4.76%	3 0.056%	7
Ladder Logic	167	New entry-	£53,750	-	2 0.037%
COBOL	167	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.037%
SOQL	167	New entry-	£71,250	-	2 0.037%	1
Groovy	167	Down -14 places-14	£78,750	+12.50%	2 0.037%	5
Apex Code	167	Down -15 places-15	£71,250	+20.76%	2 0.037%	1