The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 17 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 145 126 142
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +16
Permanent jobs citing Perl 49 49 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 1.207% 1.351% 0.786%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.924% 2.250% 1.561%
Number of salaries quoted 47 33 22
Average salary £33,500 £29,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.51% -12.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,200 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £43,900 £41,600 £37,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2547 2178 1986
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 62.76% 60.07% 50.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2276 1978 1857
Average salary £34,500 £33,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.98% +6.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Perl
North West

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Perl Salary Trend

Perl
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Perl across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 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
Stockport -7 3 £37,500 +36.36%
Salford - 1 - -
Perl
North West

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 99 (77.34%) Linux
2 88 (68.75%) PHP
3 52 (40.63%) Apache
4 49 (38.28%) MySQL
5 48 (37.50%) Windows
6 42 (32.81%) HTML
7 39 (30.47%) XML
8 38 (29.69%) Python
8 38 (29.69%) E-Commerce
9 37 (28.91%) C
9 37 (28.91%) Bash shell
10 35 (27.34%) JavaScript
11 34 (26.56%) IIS
12 32 (25.00%) CSS
12 32 (25.00%) Java
13 30 (23.44%) Web Services
14 28 (21.88%) UNIX
14 28 (21.88%) Finance
15 27 (21.09%) C++
16 25 (19.53%) Open Source
16 25 (19.53%) SAN
17 23 (17.97%) SQL
18 22 (17.19%) VMware
18 22 (17.19%) Configuration Management
18 22 (17.19%) DNS
18 22 (17.19%) HP
19 21 (16.41%) Web Development
20 20 (15.63%) IBM
20 20 (15.63%) Windows Server 2003
21 19 (14.84%) Replication

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 42 (32.81%) HTML
2 39 (30.47%) XML
3 32 (25.00%) CSS
4 30 (23.44%) Web Services
5 15 (11.72%) SOAP
5 15 (11.72%) WebSphere
6 11 (8.594%) JSP
7 7 (5.469%) LAMP
8 6 (4.688%) cXML
8 6 (4.688%) .NET
9 5 (3.906%) J2EE
9 5 (3.906%) Ajax
10 4 (3.125%) RESTful
10 4 (3.125%) Spring
11 3 (2.344%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 3 (2.344%) CGI
11 3 (2.344%) Java EE 5
11 3 (2.344%) JPA
11 3 (2.344%) EJB 3.0
11 3 (2.344%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 52 (40.63%) Apache
2 34 (26.56%) IIS
3 15 (11.72%) WebSphere MQ
4 11 (8.594%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (4.688%) Amazon AWS
5 6 (4.688%) MS Exchange
6 2 (1.563%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.563%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.781%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (4.688%) assyst
2 2 (1.563%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.781%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.53%) SAN
2 22 (17.19%) DNS
3 14 (10.94%) DHCP
4 9 (7.031%) Firewall
5 7 (5.469%) VoIP
6 6 (4.688%) SSH
6 6 (4.688%) TACACS
6 6 (4.688%) MRTG
7 3 (2.344%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (2.344%) NFC
7 3 (2.344%) iSCSI
7 3 (2.344%) NAS
7 3 (2.344%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.344%) Ethernet
8 2 (1.563%) SNMP
8 2 (1.563%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.781%) VPN
9 1 (0.781%) FTP
9 1 (0.781%) HTTP
9 1 (0.781%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (38.28%) MySQL
2 8 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
3 7 (5.469%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.906%) DataStage
4 5 (3.906%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.906%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.125%) TOAD
6 1 (0.781%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (7.031%) Subversion
2 3 (2.344%) Git (software)
3 2 (1.563%) Maven
4 1 (0.781%) Ant
4 1 (0.781%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.781%) Synon
4 1 (0.781%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 28 (21.88%) Finance
2 12 (9.375%) Telecoms
3 7 (5.469%) Billing
4 5 (3.906%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.344%) Banking
6 2 (1.563%) Electronics
6 2 (1.563%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.781%) Advertising
7 1 (0.781%) Marketing
7 1 (0.781%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (40.63%) Developer
2 43 (33.59%) Systems Administrator
2 43 (33.59%) Administrator
2 43 (33.59%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 43 (33.59%) Linux Administrator
3 27 (21.09%) Perl Developer
4 25 (19.53%) Web Developer
5 23 (17.97%) Perl Web Developer
6 9 (7.031%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 9 (7.031%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
6 9 (7.031%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 8 (6.250%) Software Developer
8 7 (5.469%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.688%) UNIX Systems Administrator
9 6 (4.688%) Service Manager
9 6 (4.688%) UNIX Administrator
9 6 (4.688%) Junior
10 5 (3.906%) Graduate
10 5 (3.906%) Graduate Developer
10 5 (3.906%) Graduate Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.53%) Open Source
2 19 (14.84%) Replication
3 15 (11.72%) Clustering
4 9 (7.031%) Computer Science
5 6 (4.688%) Client/Server
6 5 (3.906%) Mainframe
6 5 (3.906%) IBM Mainframe
7 4 (3.125%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.344%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (2.344%) Java Card
9 2 (1.563%) Social Media
9 2 (1.563%) BBC
9 2 (1.563%) Blackberry
9 2 (1.563%) Interactive TV
10 1 (0.781%) CMDB
10 1 (0.781%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 99 (77.34%) Linux
2 48 (37.50%) Windows
3 28 (21.88%) UNIX
4 20 (15.63%) Windows Server 2003
5 15 (11.72%) AIX
5 15 (11.72%) Windows Server 2008
5 15 (11.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.344%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.344%) Android
7 2 (1.563%) Solaris
7 2 (1.563%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (29.69%) E-Commerce
2 22 (17.19%) Configuration Management
3 21 (16.41%) Web Development
4 16 (12.50%) ITIL
5 15 (11.72%) High Availability
6 14 (10.94%) Change Management
6 14 (10.94%) Load Balancing
7 12 (9.375%) OO
8 11 (8.594%) Incident Management
9 9 (7.031%) Project Management
9 9 (7.031%) OOD
10 8 (6.250%) ETL
11 7 (5.469%) Release Management
11 7 (5.469%) Agile Software Development
11 7 (5.469%) Time Management
12 6 (4.688%) B2C
13 5 (3.906%) Risk Management
13 5 (3.906%) Software Engineering
14 4 (3.125%) Problem Management
14 4 (3.125%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (68.75%) PHP
2 38 (29.69%) Python
3 37 (28.91%) C
3 37 (28.91%) Bash shell
4 35 (27.34%) JavaScript
5 32 (25.00%) Java
6 27 (21.09%) C++
7 23 (17.97%) SQL
8 11 (8.594%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.469%) C#
10 5 (3.906%) COBOL
10 5 (3.906%) JCL
10 5 (3.906%) Ruby
11 4 (3.125%) PL/SQL
11 4 (3.125%) Bourne shell
12 2 (1.563%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.781%) RPG/400
13 1 (0.781%) RPG
13 1 (0.781%) Groovy
13 1 (0.781%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (13.28%) Degree
2 12 (9.375%) RHCE
3 11 (8.594%) RHCT
3 11 (8.594%) CCNA
3 11 (8.594%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.781%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.344%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.563%) QA
System Software
1 16 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.688%) NFS
2 6 (4.688%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.688%) Sendmail
2 6 (4.688%) SpamAssassin
2 6 (4.688%) FreeRADIUS
3 5 (3.906%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (5.469%) Nagios
2 6 (4.688%) Cacti
2 6 (4.688%) SolarWinds Orion
2 6 (4.688%) OpenView
Vendors
1 22 (17.19%) HP
1 22 (17.19%) VMware
2 20 (15.63%) IBM
3 15 (11.72%) Red Hat
4 13 (10.16%) Oracle
5 6 (4.688%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.688%) Cisco
5 6 (4.688%) SolarWinds
6 5 (3.906%) Ab Initio
6 5 (3.906%) Teradata
6 5 (3.906%) Siebel
7 4 (3.125%) Northgate
7 4 (3.125%) Civica
8 2 (1.563%) Symbian
9 1 (0.781%) Business Objects
9 1 (0.781%) Dell
9 1 (0.781%) EMC
9 1 (0.781%) Intel
9 1 (0.781%) NetApp
9 1 (0.781%) JD Edwards
Stockport, North West
Essential Skills: - C++ - Database Knowledge (ideally SQL or Oracle) Desirable Skills: - Java - Agile - Unit Testing - MS Window, Solaris, HR-UX - Agile software development process - TCP / IP - Perl or...
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Salary: £30000 - £37000 per annum
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Salary: £30000 - £37000 per annum
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Senior Java / Web Developer -Stockport- £40,000 - £47,000 My international client is now urgently looking for an experienced Java software developer to join their team of highly...
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