The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT jobs advertised for the Livingston region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 23 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 Livingston region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 11 17 14
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Perl 20 5 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Livingston 20.83% 5.051% 14.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.77% 11.36% 31.30%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 31
Average salary £33,000 £45,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.66% +34.32%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Livingston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
65 44 115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Livingston 67.71% 44.44% 45.45%
Number of salaries quoted 23 32 70
Average salary £36,000 £45,000 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £34,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Perl
West Lothian

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Livingston 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 Livingston region.

Livingston Perl Salary Trend

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 25 (100.00%) UNIX
2 21 (84.00%) SQL
3 20 (80.00%) Linux
4 15 (60.00%) Oracle
5 14 (56.00%) Broadband
6 13 (52.00%) Windows
6 13 (52.00%) Degree
7 10 (40.00%) VBScript
7 10 (40.00%) Java
8 9 (36.00%) C#
8 9 (36.00%) T-SQL
8 9 (36.00%) XML
8 9 (36.00%) MS Excel
8 9 (36.00%) Data Modelling
8 9 (36.00%) SNMP
8 9 (36.00%) Shell Script
8 9 (36.00%) Web Development
8 9 (36.00%) Altiris
8 9 (36.00%) SSH
8 9 (36.00%) WMI
8 9 (36.00%) AWK
8 9 (36.00%) sed
9 8 (32.00%) SQL Server
9 8 (32.00%) Solaris
10 7 (28.00%) VB
10 7 (28.00%) MS Office
10 7 (28.00%) Six Sigma
10 7 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (28.00%) ISO 9001
10 7 (28.00%) Lean Six Sigma

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 9 (36.00%) XML
2 4 (16.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) MQSeries
1 4 (16.00%) WMQI
Applications
1 9 (36.00%) MS Excel
2 7 (28.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) Broadband
2 9 (36.00%) SNMP
2 9 (36.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) SQLPlus
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Ant
1 4 (16.00%) Subversion
1 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (16.00%) Hudson
2 1 (4.000%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 1 (4.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Project Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Administrator
4 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Support Specialist
4 4 (16.00%) Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Deployment Specialist
4 4 (16.00%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Automation Tester
5 1 (4.000%) Senior Automation Tester
5 1 (4.000%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Senior Tester
5 1 (4.000%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.000%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) UNIX
2 20 (80.00%) Linux
3 13 (52.00%) Windows
4 8 (32.00%) Solaris
5 7 (28.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Data Modelling
1 9 (36.00%) Web Development
2 7 (28.00%) Six Sigma
2 7 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (28.00%) Lean Six Sigma
3 5 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 4 (16.00%) ITIL
4 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (16.00%) Information Security
4 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (16.00%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (4.000%) Test Automation
5 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (84.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) VBScript
2 10 (40.00%) Java
3 9 (36.00%) C#
3 9 (36.00%) T-SQL
3 9 (36.00%) Shell Script
3 9 (36.00%) AWK
3 9 (36.00%) sed
4 7 (28.00%) VB
5 5 (20.00%) C
6 4 (16.00%) C++
6 4 (16.00%) Python
6 4 (16.00%) C-shell
6 4 (16.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) CISSP
2 4 (16.00%) CISM
2 4 (16.00%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) ISO 9001
2 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) WMI
2 4 (16.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) Oracle
2 9 (36.00%) Altiris
3 4 (16.00%) NetIQ
3 4 (16.00%) Symantec
3 4 (16.00%) Ab Initio
4 1 (4.000%) HP