Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Mar 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	30	-11	£65,000	-	245 5.69%	144
SQL	37	-24	£60,000	+9.09%	211 4.90%	153
Java	50	-20	£70,000	+3.70%	149 3.46%	80
JavaScript	53	-35	£60,000	-5.88%	136 3.16%	74
C#	57	-17	£65,000	+8.33%	125 2.90%	57
TypeScript	75	-37	£70,000	+1.81%	86 2.00%	52
PHP	109	-25	£50,000	-9.09%	46 1.07%	7
PowerShell	125	-24	£55,000	-4.34%	30 0.70%	19
C++	136	-32	£57,500	+2.22%	19 0.44%	27
Go	137	-33	£90,000	+20.00%	18 0.42%	10
Kotlin	140	-9	£65,000	+13.04%	15 0.35%	5
R	141	-8	£30,500	-45.77%	14 0.33%	10
C	143	-28	£53,250	-3.18%	12 0.28%	12
Bicep	146	-13	£62,647	-5.43%	9 0.21%	5
Swift	147	-10	£77,500	-	8 0.19%	2
VBA	148	-12	£45,000	-16.27%	7 0.16%	4
Bash	148	-26	£47,500	-34.01%	7 0.16%	13
T-SQL	149	-17	£52,500	+20.00%	6 0.14%	5
Data Analysis Expressions	150	-17	£40,000	-5.88%	5 0.12%	11
Embedded C	150	-11	£46,500	+16.25%	5 0.12%	2
Embedded C++	150	-	£46,500	-	5 0.12%
ANSI SQL	151	-	£67,500	-	4 0.093%
Scala	151	-16	£82,500	+26.92%	4 0.093%	8
Ladder Logic	151	-	£47,500	-	4 0.093%	3
Delphi	152	-13	£60,000	+9.09%	3 0.070%	1
PL/SQL	152	-31	-	-	3 0.070%	2
VB	152	-18	£40,000	-30.43%	3 0.070%	2
Erlang	152	-	£60,000	-	3 0.070%
COBOL	153	-	£55,000	-	2 0.046%	1
Kusto Query Language	154	-18	£40,000	-20.00%	1 0.023%	1
Ruby	154	-19	£75,000	+25.00%	1 0.023%	2
VB.NET	154	-16	£41,500	-19.02%	1 0.023%	2
Shell Script	154	-32	£60,000	+34.83%	1 0.023%	3
MATLAB	154	-	-	-	1 0.023%	2
Groovy	154	-15	£57,500	-17.85%	1 0.023%	3
SPARQL	154	-	£82,500	-	1 0.023%
SHACL	154	-	£82,500	-	1 0.023%