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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 616 388 468
Rank change year-on-year -228 +80 -22
Permanent jobs citing Perl 310 815 1,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.84% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 1.95% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 213 360 555
10th Percentile £39,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,099 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +14.21% +0.83%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £106,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,180 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% +22.36% -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 33,562 41,867 90,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.71% 43.01% 54.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,071 26,942 43,619
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,772 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.23% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -171 273 £70,000 +3.70% 77
UK excluding London -244 191 £60,000 -1.93% 57
Work from Home -85 122 £72,500 +7.41% 36
London +28 111 £79,750 -0.31% 26
South East -40 70 £60,000 +33.33% 11
South West -35 39 £60,000 -25.00% 17
North of England -113 29 £102,500 +67.54% 9
North West -48 23 £79,500 +67.37% 7
Midlands -29 15 £42,000 -34.12% 8
Northern Ireland +12 13 £52,500 -27.59%
Scotland -94 13 £60,000 -29.41% 5
West Midlands +3 12 £42,000 -37.78% 4
East of England -33 10 £115,000 +80.39% 8
Yorkshire -37 6 £130,446 +113.22% 2
Wales -29 3 £130,446 - 1
East Midlands -32 3 - - 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 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.26%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.94%) Confluence
3 6 (1.94%) nginx
4 5 (1.61%) Apache
4 5 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.97%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.52%) Simulink
1 14 (4.52%) Stateflow
2 7 (2.26%) CANalyzer
3 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.65%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 17 (5.48%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.61%) Elite 3E
2 5 (1.61%) Oracle Cash Management
2 5 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 67 (21.61%) AWS
2 56 (18.06%) Azure
3 35 (11.29%) Serverless
4 17 (5.48%) GCP
5 15 (4.84%) IaaS
6 14 (4.52%) GitHub
6 14 (4.52%) Nutanix
7 11 (3.55%) Amazon S3
8 10 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.94%) SaaS
10 5 (1.61%) Cloud Composer
10 5 (1.61%) dbt
10 5 (1.61%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.97%) OCI
13 2 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.65%) Google Docs
13 2 (0.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (19.35%) TCP/IP
2 54 (17.42%) DNS
3 46 (14.84%) Firewall
4 27 (8.71%) WAN
5 26 (8.39%) DHCP
5 26 (8.39%) SNMP
6 19 (6.13%) LAN
7 17 (5.48%) FIX Connectivity
7 17 (5.48%) SSH
8 14 (4.52%) J1939
9 12 (3.87%) tcpdump
10 11 (3.55%) Internet
11 10 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (2.90%) 5G
12 9 (2.90%) Wireshark
13 8 (2.58%) SD-WAN
14 7 (2.26%) VPN
15 6 (1.94%) Cisco ASA
16 5 (1.61%) SAN
17 4 (1.29%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (19.03%) MySQL
2 53 (17.10%) Relational Database
3 37 (11.94%) SQL Server
4 25 (8.06%) RDBMS
5 24 (7.74%) Oracle Database
6 16 (5.16%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.84%) MongoDB
8 10 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.61%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.61%) InfluxDB
10 5 (1.61%) Looker
10 5 (1.61%) MariaDB
10 5 (1.61%) Power BI
10 5 (1.61%) Tableau
11 3 (0.97%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.65%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 54 (17.42%) Git
2 38 (12.26%) JIRA
3 36 (11.61%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.74%) JDeveloper
5 16 (5.16%) Eclipse
6 15 (4.84%) GitLab
6 15 (4.84%) Visual Studio
7 14 (4.52%) ClearCase
7 14 (4.52%) Plastic SCM
8 7 (2.26%) ClearQuest
9 6 (1.94%) Subversion
10 4 (1.29%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.97%) JUnit
12 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.32%) NeoLoad
13 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.32%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 79 (25.48%) Finance
2 78 (25.16%) Social Skills
3 52 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (12.90%) Banking
5 29 (9.35%) Electronics
6 22 (7.10%) Telecoms
7 18 (5.81%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.52%) Automotive
9 13 (4.19%) Marketing
10 11 (3.55%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (2.58%) Front Office
12 8 (2.58%) Legal
13 7 (2.26%) Retail
14 6 (1.94%) Billing
15 5 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (1.29%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
18 1 (0.32%) Games
18 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (29.03%) Senior
2 75 (24.19%) Software Engineer
3 50 (16.13%) Developer
4 33 (10.65%) Linux Engineer
5 26 (8.39%) Senior Software Engineer
6 24 (7.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (7.74%) Ruby Engineer
7 21 (6.77%) Analyst
8 19 (6.13%) Administrator
9 18 (5.81%) Perl Developer
9 18 (5.81%) Support Analyst
9 18 (5.81%) Systems Administrator
10 17 (5.48%) Applications Support
11 15 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (4.84%) Senior DevOps
11 15 (4.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (4.52%) Support Engineer
13 13 (4.19%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (13.87%) Node.js
2 27 (8.71%) React
3 26 (8.39%) XML
4 24 (7.74%) Web Services
5 22 (7.10%) REST
6 21 (6.77%) SOAP
7 20 (6.45%) HTML
8 17 (5.48%) FIX Protocol
9 15 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (4.52%) CSS
11 13 (4.19%) Ajax
11 13 (4.19%) AngularJS
11 13 (4.19%) JDBC
11 13 (4.19%) JSON
11 13 (4.19%) ODBC
11 13 (4.19%) XHTML
12 11 (3.55%) LDAP
13 10 (3.23%) YAML
14 9 (2.90%) Hibernate
14 9 (2.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.74%) Algorithms
2 20 (6.45%) GNSS
3 19 (6.13%) IoT
4 17 (5.48%) Eurex
4 17 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.19%) Clustering
5 13 (4.19%) CMDB
5 13 (4.19%) FPGA
6 12 (3.87%) Legacy Applications
6 12 (3.87%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.87%) VHDL
7 11 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (3.23%) Wiki
9 8 (2.58%) MicroBlaze
10 7 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.94%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.94%) Verilog
11 6 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 174 (56.13%) Linux
2 108 (34.84%) Windows
3 62 (20.00%) Unix
4 37 (11.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (11.61%) CentOS
6 17 (5.48%) Ubuntu
7 14 (4.52%) Solaris
8 13 (4.19%) Windows 10
9 12 (3.87%) Windows Server
10 8 (2.58%) Embedded Linux
11 6 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (1.61%) SUSE
12 5 (1.61%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.97%) FreeBSD
13 3 (0.97%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.97%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.97%) VMS
14 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (34.84%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (26.77%) DevOps
3 78 (25.16%) Software Engineering
4 74 (23.87%) Agile
5 50 (16.13%) Configuration Management
5 50 (16.13%) ITIL
6 45 (14.52%) Computer Science
7 42 (13.55%) Containerisation
8 41 (13.23%) CI/CD
9 38 (12.26%) Continuous Integration
10 36 (11.61%) Open Source
11 33 (10.65%) Code Quality
11 33 (10.65%) Microservices
11 33 (10.65%) Task Automation
12 32 (10.32%) Test Automation
13 28 (9.03%) Disaster Recovery
13 28 (9.03%) Mentoring
13 28 (9.03%) Unit Testing
14 27 (8.71%) Capacity Planning
15 26 (8.39%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 273 (88.06%) Python
2 148 (47.74%) Bash
3 91 (29.35%) Java
4 89 (28.71%) PowerShell
5 80 (25.81%) Ruby
6 73 (23.55%) JavaScript
7 62 (20.00%) C
8 42 (13.55%) SQL
9 39 (12.58%) C++
10 27 (8.71%) Go
11 23 (7.42%) MATLAB
12 22 (7.10%) Shell Script
13 18 (5.81%) Tcl
14 14 (4.52%) Embedded C
15 11 (3.55%) VB
16 10 (3.23%) Korn
17 7 (2.26%) Fortran
18 6 (1.94%) PHP
19 4 (1.29%) C#
19 4 (1.29%) Lua
Qualifications
1 77 (24.84%) Degree
2 29 (9.35%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.55%) HND
5 8 (2.58%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.94%) PhD
7 4 (1.29%) RHCE
8 3 (0.97%) Linux+ Certification
8 3 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.29%) QA
2 14 (4.52%) Automotive SPICE
2 14 (4.52%) AUTOSAR
2 14 (4.52%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.52%) ISO 26262
2 14 (4.52%) MISRA
3 12 (3.87%) PMO
4 6 (1.94%) JTAG
4 6 (1.94%) SLA
5 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (14.52%) Docker
2 30 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 30 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (5.81%) Firmware
5 13 (4.19%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.58%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (2.26%) KVM
8 5 (1.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (1.61%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.29%) XenApp
9 4 (1.29%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.97%) Ceph
10 3 (0.97%) Gluster
10 3 (0.97%) oVirt
11 2 (0.65%) Lustre
11 2 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.32%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.32%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (23.23%) Ansible
2 49 (15.81%) Puppet
3 42 (13.55%) Kubernetes
4 34 (10.97%) Terraform
5 19 (6.13%) Progress Chef
6 18 (5.81%) Grafana
7 14 (4.52%) Nagios
8 13 (4.19%) Prometheus
8 13 (4.19%) WMI
9 10 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
10 9 (2.90%) Graphite
10 9 (2.90%) HAProxy
10 9 (2.90%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 9 (2.90%) vCenter Server
11 7 (2.26%) Salt
12 6 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.94%) ZABBIX
13 5 (1.61%) Rundeck
13 5 (1.61%) SCCM
14 4 (1.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 76 (24.52%) Oracle
2 54 (17.42%) Red Hat
3 34 (10.97%) VMware
4 30 (9.68%) Microsoft
5 19 (6.13%) Splunk
6 17 (5.48%) Bloomberg
6 17 (5.48%) CQG
6 17 (5.48%) IBM
6 17 (5.48%) ION Trading
6 17 (5.48%) Patsystems
6 17 (5.48%) Reuters
6 17 (5.48%) Trayport
7 16 (5.16%) Cisco
8 14 (4.52%) Lauterbach
9 13 (4.19%) Facebook
10 12 (3.87%) Fortinet
11 11 (3.55%) ServiceNow
12 9 (2.90%) TOWER Software
13 8 (2.58%) Green Hills
13 8 (2.58%) Xilinx