City of London Perl Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl)
Location Abingdon Altrincham Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim County Armagh County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hove Hull Humberside Ipswich Isleworth Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester March Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ripon Rotherham Salford Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witham Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	41
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching permanent IT job ads	713	803
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.413 %	0.346 %
As % of the category below	7.450 %	8.579 %
Salaries quoted	610	608
Average minimum salary	£49,931	£52,049
Average salary	£54,964	£57,910
% change on same period last year	-5.08 %
Average maximum salary	£59,996	£63,770
UK excluding London average salary	£37,901	£36,210
% change on same period last year	+4.67 %
Programming Languages City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	9570	9360
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.540 %	4.028 %
Salaries quoted	8262	7268
Average minimum salary	£48,252	£50,487
Average salary	£54,153	£56,026
% change on same period last year	-3.34 %
Average maximum salary	£60,055	£61,564
UK excluding London average salary	£35,506	£35,791
% change on same period last year	-0.79 %
Perl London

Perl
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Perl across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Perl
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Perl across the City of London region.

Perl
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Perl across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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 1000 (64.31 %) UNIX 2 685 (44.05 %) SQL 3 645 (41.48 %) Finance 4 576 (37.04 %) Linux 5 565 (36.33 %) Java 6 427 (27.46 %) Banking 7 398 (25.59 %) Oracle 8 397 (25.53 %) Sybase 9 350 (22.51 %) Solaris 10 344 (22.12 %) Windows 11 296 (19.04 %) Shell Script 12 248 (15.95 %) Python 13 246 (15.82 %) C++ 14 227 (14.60 %) Investment Banking 15 225 (14.47 %) SQL Server

16 220 (14.15 %) Apache 17 213 (13.70 %) PHP 18 201 (12.93 %) Front Office 19 195 (12.54 %) MySQL 20 189 (12.15 %) C# 21 181 (11.64 %) XML 22 170 (10.93 %) Degree 23 161 (10.35 %) Equities 24 151 (9.711 %) TCP/IP 25 141 (9.068 %) Derivative 26 136 (8.746 %) Red Hat 27 135 (8.682 %) J2EE 27 135 (8.682 %) Red Hat Linux 28 134 (8.617 %) .NET 29 120 (7.717 %) OO

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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 1 181 (11.64 %) XML 2 135 (8.682 %) J2EE 3 134 (8.617 %) .NET 4 100 (6.431 %) HTML 5 56 (3.601 %) CSS 6 46 (2.958 %) FIX Protocol 7 39 (2.508 %) AJAX 8 38 (2.444 %) ASP 9 35 (2.251 %) ASP.NET 9 35 (2.251 %) Hibernate 10 34 (2.186 %) WebSphere 10 34 (2.186 %) XSLT 10 34 (2.186 %) XHTML 11 32 (2.058 %) XSL 12 30 (1.929 %) WebServices 13 29 (1.865 %) CGI 14 27 (1.736 %) Middleware 15 25 (1.608 %) Swing 16 23 (1.479 %) LAMP 16 23 (1.479 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 220 (14.15 %) Apache 2 101 (6.495 %) Tomcat 3 66 (4.244 %) MQSeries 4 58 (3.730 %) WebLogic 5 34 (2.186 %) JBoss 6 30 (1.929 %) CMS 7 25 (1.608 %) IIS 8 20 (1.286 %) Rendezvous 9 19 (1.222 %) MS Exchange 10 18 (1.158 %) EPiServer 11 12 (0.772 %) SharePoint 12 11 (0.707 %) iPlanet 12 11 (0.707 %) Exchange Server 2007 12 11 (0.707 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 9 (0.579 %) WebSphere Application Server 14 8 (0.514 %) TeamSite 15 5 (0.322 %) Office Project Server 16 3 (0.193 %) NetWeaver 16 3 (0.193 %) Site Server 16 3 (0.193 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 94 (6.045 %) MS Excel 2 45 (2.894 %) MS Office 3 11 (0.707 %) MS PowerPoint 4 10 (0.643 %) Photoshop 5 6 (0.386 %) MS Visio 6 5 (0.322 %) MS Project 6 5 (0.322 %) CA Clarity 7 1 (0.064 %) Spreadsheet 7 1 (0.064 %) DeltaView	Business Applications 1 10 (0.643 %) Oracle General Ledger 2 7 (0.450 %) Murex MxG2000 3 6 (0.386 %) FRONT ARENA 3 6 (0.386 %) Summit 4 4 (0.257 %) Tesseract 4 4 (0.257 %) Minerva 4 4 (0.257 %) RMDS 5 3 (0.193 %) LongView 6 1 (0.064 %) Oracle Applications 6 1 (0.064 %) HiPortfolio 6 1 (0.064 %) SimCorp Dimension 6 1 (0.064 %) Thomson PORTIA 6 1 (0.064 %) Unica Affinium
Communications & Networking 1 151 (9.711 %) TCP/IP 2 111 (7.138 %) Internet 3 65 (4.180 %) HTTP 4 62 (3.987 %) DNS 5 56 (3.601 %) Firewall 6 40 (2.572 %) SAN 7 37 (2.379 %) FTP 8 36 (2.315 %) LAN 8 36 (2.315 %) WAN 9 27 (1.736 %) LDAP 10 24 (1.543 %) SNMP 11 22 (1.415 %) SMTP 12 19 (1.222 %) SSL 13 17 (1.093 %) BGP 14 14 (0.900 %) Kerberos 14 14 (0.900 %) OSPF 15 11 (0.707 %) IMAP 16 9 (0.579 %) SSH 16 9 (0.579 %) DHCP 16 9 (0.579 %) HTTPS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 225 (14.47 %) SQL Server 2 195 (12.54 %) MySQL 3 91 (5.852 %) RDBMS 4 54 (3.473 %) SQL Server 2005 5 53 (3.408 %) Oracle 10g 6 45 (2.894 %) Oracle 9i 7 42 (2.701 %) Datawarehouse 8 37 (2.379 %) SQL Server 2000 9 35 (2.251 %) ETL 10 25 (1.608 %) DB2 10 25 (1.608 %) PostgreSQL 11 20 (1.286 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 13 (0.836 %) Reference Data 13 12 (0.772 %) Sybase ASE 14 9 (0.579 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 9 (0.579 %) Crystal Reports 15 8 (0.514 %) MS Access 15 8 (0.514 %) DTS 16 6 (0.386 %) SQLPlus 17 4 (0.257 %) Data Mart
Development Applications 1 29 (1.865 %) Subversion 2 25 (1.608 %) ClearCase 3 24 (1.543 %) Ant 4 14 (0.900 %) Eclipse 4 14 (0.900 %) CruiseControl 5 12 (0.772 %) PowerBuilder 6 10 (0.643 %) Flash 7 8 (0.514 %) QuickTest Pro 8 7 (0.450 %) ClearQuest 9 6 (0.386 %) JUnit 9 6 (0.386 %) OpenDeploy 10 4 (0.257 %) TestDirector 10 4 (0.257 %) Rational Robot 10 4 (0.257 %) SilkPerformer 10 4 (0.257 %) SilkTest 10 4 (0.257 %) NUnit 11 3 (0.193 %) FitNesse 12 2 (0.129 %) WinRunner 13 1 (0.064 %) Selenium 13 1 (0.064 %) MSI	General 1 645 (41.48 %) Finance 2 427 (27.46 %) Banking 3 227 (14.60 %) Investment Banking 4 201 (12.93 %) Front Office 5 46 (2.958 %) Telecoms 6 45 (2.894 %) Back Office 7 40 (2.572 %) Publishing 8 38 (2.444 %) Marketing 9 30 (1.929 %) Financial Institution 10 28 (1.801 %) Advertising 11 27 (1.736 %) Pensions 12 22 (1.415 %) Insurance 13 19 (1.222 %) Games 14 15 (0.965 %) Education 15 14 (0.900 %) Health 16 10 (0.643 %) Auditing 17 4 (0.257 %) Billing 17 4 (0.257 %) Government 17 4 (0.257 %) Electronics 17 4 (0.257 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 533 (34.28 %) Developer 2 251 (16.14 %) Analyst 3 206 (13.25 %) Administrator 4 167 (10.74 %) Applications Support 5 156 (10.03 %) Systems Administrator 6 150 (9.646 %) Support Analyst 7 131 (8.424 %) Java Developer 8 81 (5.209 %) UNIX Administrator 9 74 (4.759 %) Applications Support Analyst 10 71 (4.566 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 11 69 (4.437 %) Senior Developer 12 62 (3.987 %) Linux Administrator 13 61 (3.923 %) C++ Developer 14 57 (3.666 %) Support Engineer 15 56 (3.601 %) Team Leader 16 53 (3.408 %) Perl Developer 17 47 (3.023 %) Linux Systems Administrator 18 42 (2.701 %) Systems Engineer 19 38 (2.444 %) Consultant 20 37 (2.379 %) Oracle Developer	Miscellaneous 1 161 (10.35 %) Equities 2 141 (9.068 %) Derivative 3 108 (6.945 %) Fixed Income 4 56 (3.601 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 51 (3.280 %) Multithreading 6 50 (3.215 %) Equity Derivative 7 38 (2.444 %) Computer Science 8 35 (2.251 %) Client/Server 9 27 (1.736 %) Clustering 10 21 (1.350 %) Replication 11 17 (1.093 %) Mathematics 12 16 (1.029 %) Credit Derivative 13 14 (0.900 %) Web 2.0 14 12 (0.772 %) Management Information System 15 11 (0.707 %) Grid Computing 16 10 (0.643 %) W3C 17 9 (0.579 %) PKI 18 7 (0.450 %) Credit Risk 19 6 (0.386 %) Statistical Arbitrage 19 6 (0.386 %) Physics
Operating Systems 1 1000 (64.31 %) UNIX 2 576 (37.04 %) Linux 3 350 (22.51 %) Solaris 4 344 (22.12 %) Windows 5 135 (8.682 %) Red Hat Linux 6 112 (7.203 %) Windows Server 2003 7 67 (4.309 %) Windows 2000 8 40 (2.572 %) Windows XP 9 26 (1.672 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 19 (1.222 %) AIX 11 14 (0.900 %) HPUX 12 13 (0.836 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 13 9 (0.579 %) Debian 14 8 (0.514 %) SUSE 14 8 (0.514 %) CentOS 15 5 (0.322 %) VMS 16 3 (0.193 %) OpenVMS 16 3 (0.193 %) FreeBSD 16 3 (0.193 %) Windows NT 17 2 (0.129 %) Ubuntu	Processes & Methodologies 1 120 (7.717 %) OO 2 83 (5.338 %) ITIL 3 82 (5.273 %) Project Management 4 61 (3.923 %) Electronic Trading 5 54 (3.473 %) Agile Software Development 6 51 (3.280 %) Investment Management 7 49 (3.151 %) Web Development 8 48 (3.087 %) Asset Management 9 44 (2.830 %) Algorithmic Trading 10 39 (2.508 %) Content Management 11 36 (2.315 %) E-Commerce 12 34 (2.186 %) Disaster Recovery 13 28 (1.801 %) Risk Management 13 28 (1.801 %) Software Engineering 13 28 (1.801 %) Release Management 14 27 (1.736 %) Change Management 14 27 (1.736 %) RAD 15 20 (1.286 %) Migration 15 20 (1.286 %) User Acceptance Testing 16 19 (1.222 %) Regression Testing
Programming Languages 1 685 (44.05 %) SQL 2 565 (36.33 %) Java 3 296 (19.04 %) Shell Script 4 248 (15.95 %) Python 5 246 (15.82 %) C++ 6 213 (13.70 %) PHP 7 189 (12.15 %) C# 8 108 (6.945 %) VB 9 99 (6.367 %) PL/SQL 10 81 (5.209 %) VBA 11 77 (4.952 %) Korn 12 75 (4.823 %) C 13 70 (4.502 %) Ruby 14 65 (4.180 %) JavaScript 15 54 (3.473 %) Transact-SQL 16 32 (2.058 %) VBScript 17 29 (1.865 %) Tcl 18 26 (1.672 %) VC++ 19 24 (1.543 %) Lua 20 21 (1.350 %) Euclid	Qualifications 1 170 (10.93 %) Degree 2 21 (1.350 %) OCP 2 21 (1.350 %) Oracle Certification 3 13 (0.836 %) ITIL Certification 4 8 (0.514 %) ISEB 4 8 (0.514 %) Cisco Certification 5 7 (0.450 %) CCIE 6 6 (0.386 %) RHCE 7 5 (0.322 %) RHCT 8 3 (0.193 %) PhD 9 2 (0.129 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 2 (0.129 %) Sun Certification 10 1 (0.064 %) CCNA 10 1 (0.064 %) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 44 (2.830 %) QA 2 20 (1.286 %) SLA 3 8 (0.514 %) Basel II 4 1 (0.064 %) ISO9000 4 1 (0.064 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 33 (2.122 %) NFS 2 32 (2.058 %) VMware ESX 3 28 (1.801 %) Active Directory 4 26 (1.672 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 23 (1.479 %) NetBackup 6 12 (0.772 %) Oracle RMAN 7 11 (0.707 %) Backup Exec 7 11 (0.707 %) Oracle RAC 8 8 (0.514 %) Squid 9 4 (0.257 %) Terminal Server 9 4 (0.257 %) Samba 10 3 (0.193 %) Nmap 10 3 (0.193 %) SAP ITS
Systems Management 1 35 (2.251 %) AutoSys 2 29 (1.865 %) Nagios 3 14 (0.900 %) CONTROL-M 4 13 (0.836 %) OpenView 5 11 (0.707 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 10 (0.643 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 7 9 (0.579 %) MOM 8 4 (0.257 %) OVSD 9 3 (0.193 %) Nessus 9 3 (0.193 %) Legato 10 2 (0.129 %) Tivoli 10 2 (0.129 %) CA SiteMinder 11 1 (0.064 %) EMC TimeFinder	Vendors 1 398 (25.59 %) Oracle 2 397 (25.53 %) Sybase 3 136 (8.746 %) Red Hat 4 89 (5.723 %) Microsoft 5 82 (5.273 %) Sun 6 71 (4.566 %) VERITAS 7 45 (2.894 %) VMware 8 44 (2.830 %) Cisco 9 35 (2.251 %) HP 10 28 (1.801 %) LatentZero 11 27 (1.736 %) TIBCO 12 26 (1.672 %) IBM 12 26 (1.672 %) Adobe 13 25 (1.608 %) Interwoven 14 24 (1.543 %) SAP 15 23 (1.479 %) EMC 16 19 (1.222 %) SunGard 17 18 (1.158 %) Reuters 17 18 (1.158 %) Citrix 18 17 (1.093 %) Informatica