The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 65 101 87
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -14
Permanent jobs citing Perl 22 3 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 2.187% 0.218% 1.198%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.787% 0.324% 2.146%
Number of salaries quoted 14 3 15
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £35,000 £21,600
10% offered a salary of more than £44,550 £35,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
581 927 699
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 57.75% 67.42% 55.83%
Number of salaries quoted 501 763 599
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +5.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Perl
East of England

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Perl Salary Trend

Perl
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Perl across the Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Essex Perl Salary Histogram

Perl
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Colchester - 12 £35,000 -
Brentwood - 8 - -
Chelmsford - 1 £43,500 -
Basildon - 1 £26,000 -
Perl
East of England

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 22 (95.65%) PHP
2 20 (86.96%) JavaScript
3 13 (56.52%) Linux
4 12 (52.17%) HTML
4 12 (52.17%) CSS
5 9 (39.13%) C
6 8 (34.78%) Broadband
6 8 (34.78%) Red Hat
6 8 (34.78%) Debian
6 8 (34.78%) VMware
6 8 (34.78%) VMware ESX
6 8 (34.78%) Subversion
6 8 (34.78%) Korn
6 8 (34.78%) Degree
6 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (34.78%) vSphere
6 8 (34.78%) Bash shell
6 8 (34.78%) Change Control
7 7 (30.43%) Web Development
8 5 (21.74%) Apache
8 5 (21.74%) SQL
8 5 (21.74%) Social Network
9 2 (8.696%) CodeIgniter
9 2 (8.696%) Digital Marketing
9 2 (8.696%) Magento
9 2 (8.696%) Git (software)
9 2 (8.696%) MySQL
9 2 (8.696%) OOP
9 2 (8.696%) OO
9 2 (8.696%) Sun

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 12 (52.17%) HTML
1 12 (52.17%) CSS
2 2 (8.696%) CodeIgniter
2 2 (8.696%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) Apache
2 2 (8.696%) Magento
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.696%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Subversion
2 2 (8.696%) Git (software)
3 1 (4.348%) CppUnit
General
1 2 (8.696%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) Systems Administrator
2 8 (34.78%) Administrator
3 7 (30.43%) Perl Developer
3 7 (30.43%) PHP Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Web Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Perl Web Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
2 8 (34.78%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Change Control
2 7 (30.43%) Web Development
3 2 (8.696%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (8.696%) OOP
3 2 (8.696%) OO
3 2 (8.696%) MVC
4 1 (4.348%) Change Management
4 1 (4.348%) Unit Testing
4 1 (4.348%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) PHP
2 20 (86.96%) JavaScript
3 9 (39.13%) C
4 8 (34.78%) Korn
4 8 (34.78%) Bash shell
5 5 (21.74%) SQL
6 2 (8.696%) Objective-C
7 1 (4.348%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) QA
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) VMware ESX
1 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (34.78%) vSphere
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Red Hat
1 8 (34.78%) VMware
2 2 (8.696%) Sun
3 1 (4.348%) Remedy
Canvey Island, Essex
Lamp Developer... You should be able to demonstrate a thorough working knowledge of Perl 5 and MySQL within Linux/Unix/Apache CGI environment... (OO not important) - MySQL (+5...
TechnoRecruit
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Basildon, Essex, South East
Position: Software Engineer (Control Systems) Location: Laindon, Basildon, Essex Salary: £35,000 - £45,000 Job description We require a Software Engineer (Control Systems) based onsite with a major...
Net Recruit.co.uk Ltd
Salary: GBP35,000 - GBP45,000
Posted: 16 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
Matlab, Simulink, Stateflow) -Experience with both hand C code and auto-generated C code... perl, java, jscript, html, matlab, python, etc...) -Experience with dSpace Targetlink... PVCS, ClearCase, ClearQuest,...
Net Recruit.co.uk Ltd
Salary: £35,000 - £45,000
Posted: 23 May 2013