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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Hertfordshire region.

 Perl
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank8574113
Rank change year-on-year
Down-11Up+39
Matching permanent IT job ads234255
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire1.211 %1.988 %1.221 %
As % of the Programming Languages category2.725 %4.626 %3.030 %
Salaries quoted213750
Average salary£47,500£40,000£37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75 %+8.100 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£35,300£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£50,000£50,250
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,800£35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.230 %+2.280 %
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
8449081815
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire44.44 %42.97 %40.30 %
Salaries quoted7157711506
Average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,000£27,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£50,000£51,800
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
Perl East of EnglandPerl
East of England

Perl
Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Perl Demand Trend

Perl
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire Perl Salary Trend

Perl
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Perl across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
StevenageUp+82£45,000+63.63 %
St AlbansDown-42£58,750+30.55 %
WatfordDown-191£60,000+52.86 %
RickmansworthNew entry-1£45,000-
Perl East of EnglandPerl
East of England

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

129 (60.42 %)UNIX
221 (43.75 %)Linux
221 (43.75 %)Shell Script
318 (37.50 %)Solaris
414 (29.17 %)AWK
512 (25.00 %)SAN
611 (22.92 %)Red Hat
611 (22.92 %)Oracle
611 (22.92 %)Red Hat Linux
710 (20.83 %)J2EE
710 (20.83 %)Veritas
710 (20.83 %)NetBackup
710 (20.83 %)Finance
89 (18.75 %)EMC
89 (18.75 %)AIX
89 (18.75 %)Apache
98 (16.67 %)C#
98 (16.67 %)PHP
98 (16.67 %)Sun
98 (16.67 %)CLARiiON
98 (16.67 %)Brocade
107 (14.58 %)Symmetrix
107 (14.58 %)VB
107 (14.58 %)MySQL
116 (12.50 %)SQL
116 (12.50 %)HTML
116 (12.50 %)Java
116 (12.50 %)CSS
116 (12.50 %)HP
116 (12.50 %)E-Commerce

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
110 (20.83 %)J2EE
26 (12.50 %)CSS
26 (12.50 %)CGI
26 (12.50 %)HTML
34 (8.333 %)Middleware
34 (8.333 %)LAMP
43 (6.250 %)Hibernate
43 (6.250 %)Spring
43 (6.250 %)JDBC
52 (4.167 %)WebSphere
61 (2.083 %)J2SE
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
19 (18.75 %)Apache
25 (10.42 %)Tomcat
33 (6.250 %)WebLogic
41 (2.083 %)Lotus Notes
41 (2.083 %)WebSphere Application Server
41 (2.083 %)MQSeries
41 (2.083 %)MS Exchange
41 (2.083 %)Exchange Server 2003
41 (2.083 %)Exchange Server 2007
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
112 (25.00 %)SAN
25 (10.42 %)DNS
34 (8.333 %)TCP/IP
43 (6.250 %)Internet
43 (6.250 %)SMTP
52 (4.167 %)DHCP
52 (4.167 %)FTP
52 (4.167 %)BIG-IP
52 (4.167 %)NAS
61 (2.083 %)HTTP
61 (2.083 %)SNMP
61 (2.083 %)3G
61 (2.083 %)BGP
61 (2.083 %)Intrusion Detection
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
17 (14.58 %)MySQL
22 (4.167 %)SQL Server
31 (2.083 %)DB2
31 (2.083 %)ETL
31 (2.083 %)RDBMS
31 (2.083 %)PostgreSQL
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (2.083 %)OpenDeploy
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
110 (20.83 %)Finance
23 (6.250 %)Automotive
31 (2.083 %)Publishing
31 (2.083 %)Games
31 (2.083 %)Music
31 (2.083 %)Online Games
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
115 (31.25 %)Administrator
29 (18.75 %)Systems Administrator
38 (16.67 %)Developer
46 (12.50 %)Architect
46 (12.50 %)Programmer
46 (12.50 %)Perl Programmer
55 (10.42 %)Linux Systems Administrator
55 (10.42 %)Linux Administrator
64 (8.333 %)Designer
64 (8.333 %)Infrastructure Technical Architect
64 (8.333 %)Storage Administrator
64 (8.333 %)Infrastructure Architect
64 (8.333 %)UNIX Administrator
64 (8.333 %)Technical Architect
73 (6.250 %)Applications Support
73 (6.250 %)Systems Manager
73 (6.250 %)Java Developer
73 (6.250 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
73 (6.250 %)J2EE Developer
73 (6.250 %)Perl Developer
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
18 (16.67 %)CLARiiON
27 (14.58 %)Symmetrix
34 (8.333 %)Symmetrix DMX
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
129 (60.42 %)UNIX
221 (43.75 %)Linux
318 (37.50 %)Solaris
411 (22.92 %)Red Hat Linux
59 (18.75 %)AIX
65 (10.42 %)Windows
72 (4.167 %)SUSE
81 (2.083 %)Windows Server 2008
81 (2.083 %)Windows Server 2003
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16 (12.50 %)E-Commerce
24 (8.333 %)Validation
24 (8.333 %)Data Analysis
33 (6.250 %)Refactoring
42 (4.167 %)Operations Management
42 (4.167 %)Technical Architecture
51 (2.083 %)Web Development
51 (2.083 %)Enterprise Architecture
51 (2.083 %)Ethical Hacking
51 (2.083 %)Penetration Testing
51 (2.083 %)Project Management
51 (2.083 %)Disaster Recovery
51 (2.083 %)PRINCE2
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
121 (43.75 %)Shell Script
214 (29.17 %)AWK
38 (16.67 %)C#
38 (16.67 %)PHP
47 (14.58 %)VB
56 (12.50 %)SQL
56 (12.50 %)Java
56 (12.50 %)Korn
65 (10.42 %)Bourne shell
74 (8.333 %)Python
74 (8.333 %)C++
83 (6.250 %)JavaScript
83 (6.250 %)Tcl
83 (6.250 %)Ruby
92 (4.167 %)Bash shell
101 (2.083 %)C
101 (2.083 %)VBA
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
16 (12.50 %)Degree
21 (2.083 %)IBM AIX Certification
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (2.083 %)SLA
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (6.250 %)Sendmail
22 (4.167 %)Postfix
31 (2.083 %)Active Directory
31 (2.083 %)Snort
31 (2.083 %)Xen
31 (2.083 %)Hyper-V
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
110 (20.83 %)NetBackup
22 (4.167 %)Nagios
31 (2.083 %)SCOM
31 (2.083 %)Tivoli
31 (2.083 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
Hertfordshire IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
111 (22.92 %)Oracle
111 (22.92 %)Red Hat
210 (20.83 %)Veritas
39 (18.75 %)EMC
48 (16.67 %)Sun
48 (16.67 %)Brocade
56 (12.50 %)HP
65 (10.42 %)VMware
74 (8.333 %)StorageTek
74 (8.333 %)JBoss
74 (8.333 %)Cisco
82 (4.167 %)Juniper
82 (4.167 %)Opsware
91 (2.083 %)Lotus
91 (2.083 %)TIBCO
91 (2.083 %)ATG
91 (2.083 %)NetApp
91 (2.083 %)Microsoft