Perl
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Perl skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Perl over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 396 477
Rank change year-on-year -226 +81 -36
Permanent jobs citing Perl 291 795 1,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.84% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 1.98% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 216 349 546
10th Percentile £39,500 £40,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,351 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +8.02% +0.83%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £100,341 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,050 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.99% +10.10% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
UK

Perl is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,947 40,085 91,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 42.29% 54.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25,291 26,714 43,327
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Perl.

Salary trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Perl in the UK

Perl
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -172 262 £67,500 +3.85% 58
UK excluding London -265 174 £60,000 +8.99% 52
London +2 110 £80,000 +3.23% 18
Work from Home -121 96 £72,500 +10.94% 19
South East -56 68 £60,000 +33.33% 11
South West -37 38 £60,000 -25.00% 10
North of England -128 24 £102,500 +67.54% 7
North West -65 20 £79,500 +67.37% 5
Midlands -38 13 £42,000 -30.00% 6
West Midlands -18 12 £42,000 -37.78% 2
Northern Ireland +10 11 £52,500 -27.59%
East of England -32 10 £115,000 +80.39% 5
Scotland -106 10 £60,000 -29.41% 13
Yorkshire -47 4 £130,446 +113.22% 2
Wales -29 1 £130,446 - 1
East Midlands -34 1 - - 4

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.41%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.06%) Confluence
3 6 (2.06%) nginx
4 5 (1.72%) Apache
4 5 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.03%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.81%) Simulink
1 14 (4.81%) Stateflow
2 7 (2.41%) CANalyzer
3 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.69%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (5.84%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.72%) Elite 3E
2 5 (1.72%) Oracle Cash Management
2 5 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 65 (22.34%) AWS
2 53 (18.21%) Azure
3 16 (5.50%) GCP
4 14 (4.81%) GitHub
4 14 (4.81%) IaaS
4 14 (4.81%) Nutanix
5 11 (3.78%) Serverless
6 10 (3.44%) Amazon S3
6 10 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.06%) SaaS
8 5 (1.72%) Cloud Composer
8 5 (1.72%) dbt
8 5 (1.72%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.03%) OCI
11 2 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.69%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 59 (20.27%) TCP/IP
2 53 (18.21%) DNS
3 45 (15.46%) Firewall
4 27 (9.28%) WAN
5 26 (8.93%) DHCP
6 25 (8.59%) SNMP
7 19 (6.53%) LAN
8 17 (5.84%) FIX Connectivity
8 17 (5.84%) SSH
9 14 (4.81%) J1939
10 11 (3.78%) tcpdump
11 10 (3.44%) Internet
11 10 (3.44%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (3.09%) 5G
12 9 (3.09%) Wireshark
13 8 (2.75%) SD-WAN
14 7 (2.41%) VPN
15 6 (2.06%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (2.06%) Remote Desktop
16 5 (1.72%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (19.93%) MySQL
2 37 (12.71%) SQL Server
3 30 (10.31%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.50%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.81%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.72%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.72%) InfluxDB
7 5 (1.72%) Looker
7 5 (1.72%) MariaDB
7 5 (1.72%) Power BI
7 5 (1.72%) Tableau
8 3 (1.03%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.69%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.34%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 39 (13.40%) JIRA
2 37 (12.71%) Jenkins
3 30 (10.31%) Git
4 17 (5.84%) GitLab
5 16 (5.50%) Eclipse
6 15 (5.15%) Visual Studio
7 14 (4.81%) ClearCase
7 14 (4.81%) Plastic SCM
8 7 (2.41%) ClearQuest
9 6 (2.06%) Subversion
10 4 (1.37%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.03%) JUnit
12 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.69%) Maven
13 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
13 1 (0.34%) JProfiler
13 1 (0.34%) Selenium
13 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (27.84%) Finance
2 78 (26.80%) Social Skills
3 53 (18.21%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (14.43%) Banking
5 29 (9.97%) Electronics
6 22 (7.56%) Telecoms
7 20 (6.87%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.81%) Automotive
9 13 (4.47%) Marketing
10 11 (3.78%) Public Sector
11 9 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (2.75%) Front Office
12 8 (2.75%) Legal
13 7 (2.41%) Retail
14 6 (2.06%) Billing
15 5 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (1.37%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
18 1 (0.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 89 (30.58%) Senior
2 53 (18.21%) Software Engineer
3 52 (17.87%) Developer
4 32 (11.00%) Linux Engineer
5 26 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (8.93%) Senior Software Engineer
6 23 (7.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (7.22%) Analyst
8 19 (6.53%) Administrator
8 19 (6.53%) Perl Developer
9 18 (6.19%) Applications Support
9 18 (6.19%) Support Analyst
9 18 (6.19%) Systems Administrator
10 14 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.81%) Support Engineer
11 13 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (4.47%) Senior Technical Engineer
11 13 (4.47%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.93%) XML
2 24 (8.25%) Web Services
3 22 (7.56%) REST
4 21 (7.22%) SOAP
5 20 (6.87%) HTML
6 19 (6.53%) Node.js
7 17 (5.84%) FIX Protocol
8 14 (4.81%) CSS
8 14 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (4.47%) Ajax
9 13 (4.47%) AngularJS
9 13 (4.47%) JDBC
9 13 (4.47%) JSON
9 13 (4.47%) ODBC
9 13 (4.47%) XHTML
10 11 (3.78%) LDAP
11 10 (3.44%) Hibernate
11 10 (3.44%) Spring
12 9 (3.09%) YAML
13 8 (2.75%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.25%) Algorithms
2 20 (6.87%) GNSS
3 19 (6.53%) IoT
4 17 (5.84%) Eurex
4 17 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.47%) CMDB
5 13 (4.47%) FPGA
5 13 (4.47%) Legacy Applications
6 12 (4.12%) Clustering
6 12 (4.12%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.12%) VHDL
7 10 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (3.44%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (3.44%) Wiki
8 8 (2.75%) MicroBlaze
9 7 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.06%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 175 (60.14%) Linux
2 109 (37.46%) Windows
3 63 (21.65%) Unix
4 38 (13.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (12.37%) CentOS
6 17 (5.84%) Ubuntu
7 14 (4.81%) Solaris
7 14 (4.81%) Windows Server
8 13 (4.47%) Windows 10
9 8 (2.75%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (2.06%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.72%) SUSE
11 5 (1.72%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (1.03%) FreeBSD
12 3 (1.03%) Mac OS X
12 3 (1.03%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (1.03%) VMS
13 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (24.74%) Agile
3 59 (20.27%) DevOps
4 56 (19.24%) Software Engineering
5 50 (17.18%) ITIL
6 49 (16.84%) Configuration Management
7 45 (15.46%) Computer Science
8 39 (13.40%) CI/CD
9 35 (12.03%) Task Automation
10 31 (10.65%) Test Automation
11 28 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (9.62%) Mentoring
12 27 (9.28%) Disaster Recovery
13 26 (8.93%) Capacity Planning
13 26 (8.93%) Multithreading
14 25 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (8.59%) OO
15 24 (8.25%) SDLC
16 23 (7.90%) B2B
16 23 (7.90%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 251 (86.25%) Python
2 126 (43.30%) Bash
3 89 (30.58%) PowerShell
4 67 (23.02%) Java
5 64 (21.99%) C
6 58 (19.93%) Ruby
7 49 (16.84%) JavaScript
8 43 (14.78%) SQL
9 42 (14.43%) C++
10 23 (7.90%) MATLAB
11 21 (7.22%) Shell Script
12 18 (6.19%) Tcl
13 14 (4.81%) Embedded C
14 12 (4.12%) Korn
14 12 (4.12%) VB
15 7 (2.41%) Fortran
16 6 (2.06%) PHP
17 5 (1.72%) C#
18 4 (1.37%) Lua
19 3 (1.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 78 (26.80%) Degree
2 29 (9.97%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.78%) HND
5 8 (2.75%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.06%) PhD
7 4 (1.37%) RHCE
8 3 (1.03%) Linux+ Certification
8 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.81%) Automotive SPICE
1 14 (4.81%) AUTOSAR
1 14 (4.81%) Data Quality
1 14 (4.81%) ISO 26262
1 14 (4.81%) MISRA
2 12 (4.12%) PMO
3 11 (3.78%) QA
4 6 (2.06%) JTAG
4 6 (2.06%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (15.81%) Docker
2 32 (11.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (10.31%) Active Directory
4 20 (6.87%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (6.19%) Firmware
6 12 (4.12%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.75%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (2.41%) KVM
9 6 (2.06%) XenApp
9 6 (2.06%) XenDesktop
10 5 (1.72%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (1.72%) Hyper-V
11 3 (1.03%) Ceph
11 3 (1.03%) Gluster
11 3 (1.03%) oVirt
12 2 (0.69%) Lustre
12 2 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.34%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.34%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (24.74%) Ansible
2 49 (16.84%) Puppet
3 42 (14.43%) Kubernetes
4 33 (11.34%) Terraform
5 18 (6.19%) Progress Chef
6 17 (5.84%) Grafana
7 13 (4.47%) Nagios
7 13 (4.47%) Prometheus
7 13 (4.47%) WMI
8 12 (4.12%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (3.09%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 8 (2.75%) Graphite
10 8 (2.75%) HAProxy
10 8 (2.75%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.06%) Salt
11 6 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.06%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.72%) Rundeck
12 5 (1.72%) SCCM
13 4 (1.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 56 (19.24%) Red Hat
2 52 (17.87%) Oracle
3 36 (12.37%) VMware
4 31 (10.65%) Microsoft
5 19 (6.53%) Splunk
6 17 (5.84%) Bloomberg
6 17 (5.84%) CQG
6 17 (5.84%) IBM
6 17 (5.84%) ION Trading
6 17 (5.84%) Patsystems
6 17 (5.84%) Reuters
6 17 (5.84%) Trayport
7 16 (5.50%) Cisco
8 14 (4.81%) Lauterbach
9 13 (4.47%) Facebook
10 12 (4.12%) Fortinet
11 11 (3.78%) ServiceNow
11 11 (3.78%) TOWER Software
12 8 (2.75%) Altera
12 8 (2.75%) F5