The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 24 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 46 34 52
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +18
Permanent jobs citing Perl 5 4 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.479% 2.564% 1.190%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.439% 3.704% 1.695%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 3
Average salary £39,500 £30,750 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.45% -27.64%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
205 108 177
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 60.65% 69.23% 70.24%
Number of salaries quoted 119 98 170
Average salary £35,000 £31,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.90% -4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £46,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Perl
Cheshire

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Perl Salary Trend

Perl
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 8 (100.00%) IBM
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
2 5 (62.50%) ClearCase
2 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (62.50%) Subversion
2 5 (62.50%) JIRA
2 5 (62.50%) Release Management
2 5 (62.50%) Git (software)
2 5 (62.50%) Mercurial
3 3 (37.50%) Teradata
3 3 (37.50%) Financial Institution
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Ab Initio
3 3 (37.50%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (37.50%) Siebel
3 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) COBOL
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 3 (37.50%) UNIX
3 3 (37.50%) Mainframe
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (37.50%) DataStage
3 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 3 (37.50%) JCL
4 1 (12.50%) HTTP

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (37.50%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) ClearCase
1 5 (62.50%) Subversion
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
1 5 (62.50%) Git (software)
1 5 (62.50%) Mercurial
General
1 3 (37.50%) Financial Institution
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Build Manager
1 5 (62.50%) Software Configuration Manager
1 5 (62.50%) Software Manager
1 5 (62.50%) Configuration Manager
1 5 (62.50%) Release Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) IBM Mainframe
1 3 (37.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
1 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (62.50%) Release Management
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) COBOL
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
1 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
1 3 (37.50%) JCL
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (37.50%) Teradata
2 3 (37.50%) Ab Initio
2 3 (37.50%) Siebel
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle