The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 34 34 15
Rank change year-on-year
0 -19
Permanent jobs citing Perl 10 8 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 3.906% 3.774% 10.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.452% 7.080% 17.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 14
Average salary £38,750 - £30,750
90% offered a salary of more than £33,750 - £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,500 - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
155 113 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 60.55% 53.30% 57.61%
Number of salaries quoted 112 59 66
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Perl
County Antrim

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Perl across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Belfast Perl Jobs Demand Trend

Perl
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Perl across the Belfast region.

Belfast Perl Salary Trend

Perl
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Perl across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Belfast Perl Salary Histogram

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast region citing Perl also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Perl.

1 10 (71.43%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) UNIX
3 6 (42.86%) Finance
4 5 (35.71%) Python
5 4 (28.57%) Solaris
5 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
5 4 (28.57%) Oracle
5 4 (28.57%) Tomcat
5 4 (28.57%) Change Management
5 4 (28.57%) QA
6 3 (21.43%) Degree
6 3 (21.43%) YUM
6 3 (21.43%) JBoss
6 3 (21.43%) Apache
6 3 (21.43%) Banking
6 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
6 3 (21.43%) Sybase
6 3 (21.43%) C++
6 3 (21.43%) Java
6 3 (21.43%) ITIL
6 3 (21.43%) Windows
7 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
7 2 (14.29%) Equities
7 2 (14.29%) VMware
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
7 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (14.29%) Ruby
7 2 (14.29%) Derivative

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast region citing Perl also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Perl. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (14.29%) jQuery
2 1 (7.143%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.143%) Ajax
2 1 (7.143%) WCF
2 1 (7.143%) WPF
2 1 (7.143%) WinForms
2 1 (7.143%) .NET
2 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.143%) JSP
2 1 (7.143%) Servlets
2 1 (7.143%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Tomcat
2 3 (21.43%) Apache
3 1 (7.143%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) Internet
1 1 (7.143%) LAN
1 1 (7.143%) WAN
1 1 (7.143%) HTTP
1 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.143%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (7.143%) JIRA
1 1 (7.143%) Git (software)
1 1 (7.143%) Build Forge
1 1 (7.143%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.143%) Maven
1 1 (7.143%) Ant
1 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio
1 1 (7.143%) ClearCase
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 1 (7.143%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) C++ Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.143%) Information Security Specialist
3 1 (7.143%) C++/Java Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Configuration Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Information Specialist
3 1 (7.143%) Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) DBA
3 1 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.143%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.143%) C# Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Database Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Sybase Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Security Specialist
3 1 (7.143%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Equities
1 2 (14.29%) Derivative
2 1 (7.143%) Life Science
2 1 (7.143%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.143%) Open Source
2 1 (7.143%) SaaS
2 1 (7.143%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) UNIX
3 4 (28.57%) Solaris
4 3 (21.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Change Management
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
3 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.143%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
4 1 (7.143%) Problem Management
4 1 (7.143%) Use Case
4 1 (7.143%) MVVM
4 1 (7.143%) High Availability
4 1 (7.143%) Migration
4 1 (7.143%) ITSM
4 1 (7.143%) MVC
4 1 (7.143%) Risk Management
4 1 (7.143%) Information Security
4 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
4 1 (7.143%) Data Modelling
4 1 (7.143%) ETL
4 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) C++
3 3 (21.43%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Ruby
4 2 (14.29%) Bash shell
5 1 (7.143%) C
5 1 (7.143%) C#
5 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.143%) PHP
5 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.143%) GCIA
2 1 (7.143%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) YUM
2 1 (7.143%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) JBoss
2 3 (21.43%) Sybase
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.143%) AccuRev
4 1 (7.143%) ArcSight
4 1 (7.143%) IBM
4 1 (7.143%) Microsoft