Programming Language Statistics in Manchester

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Python	21	Down -9 places-9	£66,750	+2.69%	437 6.38%	189
SQL	25	Down -8 places-8	£55,000	-	389 5.68%	152
Java	38	Down -23 places-23	£72,000	+2.85%	249 3.64%	99
JavaScript	50	Down -34 places-34	£60,000	-7.69%	170 2.48%	85
C#	56	Down -5 places-5	£55,000	-12.00%	158 2.31%	78
TypeScript	62	Down -18 places-18	£70,000	-3.44%	147 2.15%	89
PowerShell	122	Down -45 places-45	£55,000	+18.27%	69 1.01%	32
Go	135	Down -84 places-84	£80,000	+23.07%	56 0.82%	25
Bash	142	Down -45 places-45	£70,000	+16.66%	49 0.72%	29
PHP	146	Down -30 places-30	£45,000	-18.18%	45 0.66%	8
C++	151	Down -99 places-99	£59,000	+18.00%	40 0.58%	22
Kotlin	165	Down -11 places-11	£70,000	-5.08%	26 0.38%	20
Scala	170	Down -12 places-12	£57,500	-28.12%	21 0.31%	3
Bicep	172	Down -13 places-13	£65,000	+13.04%	19 0.28%	9
Ruby	176	Down -16 places-16	£55,000	-5.17%	15 0.22%	2
T-SQL	176	Down -25 places-25	£61,250	-12.50%	15 0.22%	6
Swift	177	Down -21 places-21	£71,500	+5.92%	14 0.20%	5
C	178	Down -31 places-31	£60,000	+9.09%	13 0.19%	17
R	181	Down -26 places-26	£33,718	-53.49%	10 0.15%	19
Apex Code	181	Down -21 places-21	£66,250	+12.28%	10 0.15%	6
VBA	182	Down -32 places-32	£45,000	+83.67%	9 0.13%	1
Data Analysis Expressions	185	Down -31 places-31	£41,250	-21.42%	6 0.088%
Groovy	185	Down -25 places-25	£90,000	+28.57%	6 0.088%	1
PL/SQL	186	Down -33 places-33	£72,500	+62.92%	5 0.073%	1
Delphi	187	Down -30 places-30	£60,000	-14.28%	4 0.058%
SOQL	187	New entry-	£75,000	-	4 0.058%	1
SOSL	188	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.044%
COBOL	189	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.029%
VB.NET	189	Down -30 places-30	£42,500	-8.10%	2 0.029%
Ladder Logic	189	New entry-	£60,000	-	2 0.029%	2