The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 17 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 90 81 89
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +8
Permanent jobs citing Perl 26 11 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.551% 0.757% 0.376%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.471% 1.679% 0.942%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 5
Average salary £35,000 £45,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.22% +16.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £37,250 £35,200
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,500 £42,400
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
749 655 531
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 44.69% 45.08% 39.92%
Number of salaries quoted 651 610 483
Average salary £37,500 £35,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.63% +18.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,150 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Perl
West Midlands

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Perl Salary Trend

Perl
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Perl across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Birmingham Perl Salary Histogram

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 47 (82.46%) Linux
2 41 (71.93%) UNIX
3 32 (56.14%) Oracle
4 27 (47.37%) SQL Server
5 25 (43.86%) PHP
6 24 (42.11%) Solaris
7 23 (40.35%) SQL
8 19 (33.33%) HTML
8 19 (33.33%) AIX
8 19 (33.33%) Finance
8 19 (33.33%) SUSE
9 17 (29.82%) Shell Script
10 16 (28.07%) VMware
11 14 (24.56%) Windows
11 14 (24.56%) Java
11 14 (24.56%) Sybase
11 14 (24.56%) Korn
11 14 (24.56%) Degree
11 14 (24.56%) Problem Management
12 13 (22.81%) ITIL
12 13 (22.81%) Apache
12 13 (22.81%) Sun
12 13 (22.81%) Change Management
12 13 (22.81%) Banking
13 12 (21.05%) Investment Banking
13 12 (21.05%) EMC
13 12 (21.05%) SAN
13 12 (21.05%) Veritas
13 12 (21.05%) Red Hat
13 12 (21.05%) Python

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 19 (33.33%) HTML
2 7 (12.28%) Zend Framework
2 7 (12.28%) jQuery
2 7 (12.28%) CSS
2 7 (12.28%) Web Services
2 7 (12.28%) XML
2 7 (12.28%) XHTML
3 2 (3.509%) J2EE
4 1 (1.754%) J2SE
4 1 (1.754%) Lucene
4 1 (1.754%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 13 (22.81%) Apache
2 11 (19.30%) SharePoint
2 11 (19.30%) SAS
3 7 (12.28%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.754%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.754%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (1.754%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.754%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Photoshop
1 7 (12.28%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (7.018%) MS Office
3 3 (5.263%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) SAN
2 9 (15.79%) Internet
3 5 (8.772%) SSH
4 4 (7.018%) SSL
5 3 (5.263%) BIG-IP
6 2 (3.509%) HTTP
7 1 (1.754%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (47.37%) SQL Server
2 12 (21.05%) MySQL
3 11 (19.30%) Oracle Exadata
4 10 (17.54%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.018%) SAP Data Services
5 4 (7.018%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (7.018%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (7.018%) BODI
6 2 (3.509%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.754%) HBase
7 1 (1.754%) Redis
7 1 (1.754%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (1.754%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.754%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.754%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.754%) TOAD
7 1 (1.754%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Subversion
2 1 (1.754%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.754%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (1.754%) JBuilder
2 1 (1.754%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.754%) JDeveloper
2 1 (1.754%) ProC
General
1 19 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (22.81%) Banking
3 12 (21.05%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.509%) Retail
5 1 (1.754%) Publishing
5 1 (1.754%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Applications Support
2 13 (22.81%) Developer
3 12 (21.05%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 10 (17.54%) Consultant
4 10 (17.54%) Applications Consultant
5 9 (15.79%) Support Consultant
5 9 (15.79%) Applications Support Consultant
6 7 (12.28%) Web Developer
7 4 (7.018%) Business Developer
7 4 (7.018%) Applications Specialist
7 4 (7.018%) Support Engineer
7 4 (7.018%) Support Specialist
7 4 (7.018%) PHP Web Developer
7 4 (7.018%) Business Objects Developer
7 4 (7.018%) PHP Developer
8 3 (5.263%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.263%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.263%) Technical Engineer
9 2 (3.509%) Programmer
9 2 (3.509%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Wiki
1 11 (19.30%) Symmetrix DMX
2 2 (3.509%) Client/Server
2 2 (3.509%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.754%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 47 (82.46%) Linux
2 41 (71.93%) UNIX
3 24 (42.11%) Solaris
4 19 (33.33%) AIX
4 19 (33.33%) SUSE
5 14 (24.56%) Windows
6 12 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.509%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (3.509%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.56%) Problem Management
2 13 (22.81%) ITIL
2 13 (22.81%) Change Management
3 11 (19.30%) RDF
3 11 (19.30%) Risk Analysis
4 10 (17.54%) Project Management
5 9 (15.79%) Migration
5 9 (15.79%) Business Analysis
6 8 (14.04%) OO
7 7 (12.28%) CRM
7 7 (12.28%) OOP
8 4 (7.018%) Data Migration
8 4 (7.018%) Data Cleansing
8 4 (7.018%) ETL
8 4 (7.018%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (3.509%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (3.509%) Waterfall
9 2 (3.509%) Load Balancing
10 1 (1.754%) Continuous Improvement
10 1 (1.754%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.86%) PHP
2 23 (40.35%) SQL
3 17 (29.82%) Shell Script
4 14 (24.56%) Korn
4 14 (24.56%) Java
5 12 (21.05%) Python
6 11 (19.30%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.754%) C
7 1 (1.754%) C#
7 1 (1.754%) VBScript
7 1 (1.754%) VB
7 1 (1.754%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.754%) VBA
7 1 (1.754%) R
7 1 (1.754%) VB6
7 1 (1.754%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.754%) QA
System Software
1 12 (21.05%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 11 (19.30%) Veritas File System
2 11 (19.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 4 (7.018%) VMware ESX
4 1 (1.754%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.754%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (8.772%) Control-M
2 2 (3.509%) Foglight
2 2 (3.509%) Netcool/Webtop
2 2 (3.509%) Tivoli
2 2 (3.509%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 2 (3.509%) Netcool
2 2 (3.509%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 32 (56.14%) Oracle
2 16 (28.07%) VMware
3 14 (24.56%) Sybase
4 13 (22.81%) Sun
5 12 (21.05%) EMC
5 12 (21.05%) Veritas
5 12 (21.05%) Red Hat
6 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
7 7 (12.28%) Zend
8 4 (7.018%) Business Objects
9 3 (5.263%) F5
10 2 (3.509%) Nimsoft
10 2 (3.509%) RedPrairie
10 2 (3.509%) BMC
11 1 (1.754%) BEA
11 1 (1.754%) JBoss
11 1 (1.754%) webMethods
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