The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 22 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 146 110 153
Rank change year-on-year
-36 +43
Permanent jobs citing Perl 107 151 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 1.481% 2.101% 1.158%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.461% 3.440% 2.223%
Number of salaries quoted 99 124 62
Average salary £38,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,750 £46,750 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
4348 4390 3508
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 60.20% 61.07% 52.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3822 3956 3182
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Perl
England

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Perl Salary Trend

Perl
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Perl across the North West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 22 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
Manchester -7 48 £33,000 +13.79%
Cheshire -18 38 £40,000 +14.28%
Merseyside +21 21 £40,000 -
Lancashire +6 1 £30,000 -11.11%
Perl
England

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1 159 (68.53%) Linux
2 144 (62.07%) PHP
3 73 (31.47%) C
4 71 (30.60%) SQL
4 71 (30.60%) XML
5 70 (30.17%) UNIX
6 65 (28.02%) Apache
7 64 (27.59%) HTML
8 60 (25.86%) JavaScript
8 60 (25.86%) MySQL
8 60 (25.86%) Windows
9 57 (24.57%) Finance
10 55 (23.71%) IBM
11 53 (22.84%) Python
11 53 (22.84%) C++
12 50 (21.55%) Configuration Management
13 49 (21.12%) Java
14 47 (20.26%) Web Services
15 45 (19.40%) SAN
16 44 (18.97%) Bash shell
17 43 (18.53%) HP
17 43 (18.53%) Oracle
18 41 (17.67%) Replication
19 40 (17.24%) CSS
19 40 (17.24%) E-Commerce
20 39 (16.81%) AIX
21 36 (15.52%) Red Hat
21 36 (15.52%) WebSphere MQ
21 36 (15.52%) Clustering
21 36 (15.52%) High Availability

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 71 (30.60%) XML
2 64 (27.59%) HTML
3 47 (20.26%) Web Services
4 40 (17.24%) CSS
5 36 (15.52%) WebSphere
6 18 (7.759%) SOAP
7 17 (7.328%) JSP
8 13 (5.603%) Ajax
9 12 (5.172%) WSDL
9 12 (5.172%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 10 (4.310%) .NET
11 9 (3.879%) Qt
11 9 (3.879%) STL
11 9 (3.879%) XML Messaging
12 8 (3.448%) Middleware
13 7 (3.017%) jQuery
13 7 (3.017%) Apache Flex
14 6 (2.586%) LAMP
14 6 (2.586%) cXML
14 6 (2.586%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 65 (28.02%) Apache
2 36 (15.52%) WebSphere MQ
3 35 (15.09%) IIS
4 11 (4.741%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (4.310%) Tomcat
6 6 (2.586%) MS Exchange
6 6 (2.586%) Amazon AWS
7 5 (2.155%) ESB
7 5 (2.155%) Oracle Service Bus
7 5 (2.155%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (2.155%) WebLogic
8 3 (1.293%) Gentran
9 2 (0.862%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.862%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (3.448%) MS Office
2 5 (2.155%) MS Excel
3 3 (1.293%) Fireworks
3 3 (1.293%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (2.586%) assyst
2 2 (0.862%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.431%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 45 (19.40%) SAN
2 24 (10.34%) DNS
3 15 (6.466%) DHCP
4 14 (6.034%) Internet
5 12 (5.172%) Firewall
6 8 (3.448%) VoIP
7 6 (2.586%) SSH
7 6 (2.586%) TACACS
7 6 (2.586%) MRTG
8 4 (1.724%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.724%) FTP
9 3 (1.293%) iSCSI
9 3 (1.293%) NFC
9 3 (1.293%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (1.293%) NAS
9 3 (1.293%) SNMP
9 3 (1.293%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.862%) SSL
10 2 (0.862%) VPN
10 2 (0.862%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (25.86%) MySQL
2 27 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.328%) SQL Server
4 12 (5.172%) DB2
4 12 (5.172%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.741%) Oracle 8/8i
6 8 (3.448%) DataStage
7 6 (2.586%) OLTP
8 5 (2.155%) Oracle 11g
8 5 (2.155%) Oracle 10g
9 4 (1.724%) SQL Server 2000
9 4 (1.724%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.724%) TOAD
10 2 (0.862%) Informix
11 1 (0.431%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (12.07%) Subversion
2 15 (6.466%) Git (software)
3 12 (5.172%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.448%) Selenium
5 7 (3.017%) Ant
5 7 (3.017%) Synon
6 5 (2.155%) JIRA
6 5 (2.155%) Mercurial
6 5 (2.155%) ClearCase
7 4 (1.724%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.724%) PHPUnit
8 3 (1.293%) QUnit
8 3 (1.293%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.862%) Maven
General
1 57 (24.57%) Finance
2 11 (4.741%) Telecoms
3 8 (3.448%) Financial Institution
4 7 (3.017%) Banking
4 7 (3.017%) Billing
5 5 (2.155%) Games
6 3 (1.293%) Marketing
7 2 (0.862%) Electronics
7 2 (0.862%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.862%) Advertising
8 1 (0.431%) Music
8 1 (0.431%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.431%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.431%) Retail
Job Titles
1 106 (45.69%) Developer
2 65 (28.02%) Systems Administrator
2 65 (28.02%) Administrator
3 64 (27.59%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 64 (27.59%) Linux Administrator
4 32 (13.79%) Web Developer
5 30 (12.93%) Perl Developer
6 24 (10.34%) Perl Web Developer
7 19 (8.190%) Analyst
8 15 (6.466%) UNIX Systems Administrator
8 15 (6.466%) UNIX Administrator
9 13 (5.603%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.603%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.741%) Graduate
10 11 (4.741%) Graduate Developer
11 10 (4.310%) C++ Developer
12 9 (3.879%) Software Developer
12 9 (3.879%) Oracle Developer
12 9 (3.879%) Senior Systems Administrator
12 9 (3.879%) Senior Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.67%) Replication
2 36 (15.52%) Clustering
3 26 (11.21%) Open Source
4 12 (5.172%) Computer Science
5 8 (3.448%) Mainframe
5 8 (3.448%) IBM Mainframe
6 6 (2.586%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.586%) Derivative
6 6 (2.586%) iSeries
7 5 (2.155%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.724%) NHS
9 3 (1.293%) Java Card
9 3 (1.293%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (0.862%) Interactive TV
10 2 (0.862%) BBC
10 2 (0.862%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.862%) Social Media
11 1 (0.431%) Streaming Music
11 1 (0.431%) CMDB
11 1 (0.431%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 159 (68.53%) Linux
2 70 (30.17%) UNIX
3 60 (25.86%) Windows
4 39 (16.81%) AIX
5 36 (15.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (9.052%) Windows Server 2003
7 16 (6.897%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (1.724%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.724%) Android
9 3 (1.293%) Solaris
10 2 (0.862%) Debian
11 1 (0.431%) CentOS
11 1 (0.431%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (21.55%) Configuration Management
2 40 (17.24%) E-Commerce
3 36 (15.52%) High Availability
4 28 (12.07%) OO
5 23 (9.914%) ITIL
5 23 (9.914%) Web Development
6 22 (9.483%) Agile Software Development
7 14 (6.034%) Change Management
7 14 (6.034%) Load Balancing
8 13 (5.603%) Multithreading
9 12 (5.172%) Release Management
10 11 (4.741%) Incident Management
10 11 (4.741%) UML
10 11 (4.741%) ETL
11 10 (4.310%) Unit Testing
11 10 (4.310%) Integration Testing
12 9 (3.879%) OOD
12 9 (3.879%) Project Management
12 9 (3.879%) Risk Management
12 9 (3.879%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 144 (62.07%) PHP
2 73 (31.47%) C
3 71 (30.60%) SQL
4 60 (25.86%) JavaScript
5 53 (22.84%) Python
5 53 (22.84%) C++
6 49 (21.12%) Java
7 44 (18.97%) Bash shell
8 33 (14.22%) PL/SQL
9 23 (9.914%) Shell Script
10 14 (6.034%) VB
11 13 (5.603%) C#
12 8 (3.448%) Ruby
12 8 (3.448%) JCL
12 8 (3.448%) COBOL
13 7 (3.017%) RPG/400
13 7 (3.017%) RPG
14 6 (2.586%) VBA
14 6 (2.586%) RPG IV
15 4 (1.724%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 20 (8.621%) Degree
2 13 (5.603%) RHCE
3 12 (5.172%) RHCT
3 12 (5.172%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (5.172%) CCNA
4 2 (0.862%) ISEB
4 2 (0.862%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.431%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.190%) QA
2 3 (1.293%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 16 (6.897%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.586%) NFS
2 6 (2.586%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.586%) Sendmail
2 6 (2.586%) SpamAssassin
2 6 (2.586%) FreeRADIUS
3 5 (2.155%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (3.879%) Nagios
2 6 (2.586%) OpenView
2 6 (2.586%) SolarWinds Orion
2 6 (2.586%) Cacti
3 1 (0.431%) Munin
3 1 (0.431%) Puppet
Vendors
1 55 (23.71%) IBM
2 43 (18.53%) HP
2 43 (18.53%) Oracle
3 36 (15.52%) Red Hat
4 21 (9.052%) VMware
5 12 (5.172%) Microsoft
6 8 (3.448%) Ab Initio
6 8 (3.448%) Teradata
6 8 (3.448%) Siebel
7 7 (3.017%) SolarWinds
7 7 (3.017%) JBoss
7 7 (3.017%) JD Edwards
8 6 (2.586%) Cisco
9 4 (1.724%) Northgate
9 4 (1.724%) Civica
9 4 (1.724%) Zend
10 3 (1.293%) Axway
11 2 (0.862%) Symbian
11 2 (0.862%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.431%) 3PAR
Burnley, Lancashire
Essential skills: Good level of commercial PHP... MySQL. Good knowledge of Javascript... Familiar to Linux... Knowledge of other languages such as Perl, Python, C++. Knowledge of jQuery and...
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Salary: £18k to £22k (doe) + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
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Oliver James Associates
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + car, pension, negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
Northwich, Cheshire
One of Cheshire's leading technical businesses are looking to further expand their IT team with a skilled Database Developer/ DBA who has the ability to play a...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Northwich, Cheshire
Job Title: Database Administrator - DBA - PostgreSQL , PL/pgSQL, OLTP Skills: Cheshire, PostgreSQL Database Administrator, DBA, with ideally experience of PL/pgSQL, OLTP, PL/proxy, PgBouncer, Linux, Perl, PostgreSQL...
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum + Pension+ Medical + Life Assurance
Posted: 17 May 2013
Northwich Cheshire, North West
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Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: £0 - £45,000 per year + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Liverpool, North West
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Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + bens
Posted: 11 May 2013
Liverpool, North West
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Salary: £30000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 8 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
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The Bridge Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
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Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
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Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum + benefits (good pension, good holidays etc)
Posted: 16 May 2013
Stockport, North West
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Salary: £40000 - £47000 per annum
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