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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 98 87 62
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -25
Permanent jobs citing Perl 130 148 199
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 2.478% 2.674% 3.298%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.050% 4.381% 5.814%
Number of salaries quoted 104 127 174
Average salary £41,000 £42,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.52% +23.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,750 £27,500 £25,150
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £50,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
3210 3378 3423
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 61.19% 61.03% 56.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2875 2965 3000
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,127 £25,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £45,500
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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

South 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 South West region.

South West Perl Salary Trend

Perl
Salary Histogram

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

South 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 South West 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
Gloucestershire +7 68 £45,500 -9.00%
Bristol -14 36 £40,000 +23.07%
Wiltshire -2 11 £27,500 -38.88%
Somerset -5 7 £45,000 +12.50%
Devon +7 6 £27,127 +8.04%
Dorset - 1 £25,000 -
Perl
England

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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.

1 243 (77.39%) Linux
2 137 (43.63%) UNIX
3 120 (38.22%) Security Cleared
4 117 (37.26%) SQL
5 114 (36.31%) DV Cleared
6 112 (35.67%) Shell Script
7 111 (35.35%) Python
8 106 (33.76%) C
9 105 (33.44%) DNS
10 101 (32.17%) C++
11 100 (31.85%) Java
12 96 (30.57%) Degree
13 95 (30.25%) Cisco
14 94 (29.94%) Bash shell
15 91 (28.98%) DHCP
16 87 (27.71%) MySQL
17 85 (27.07%) Windows
18 81 (25.80%) Apache
19 73 (23.25%) Solaris
20 71 (22.61%) J2EE
21 64 (20.38%) Software Architecture
22 60 (19.11%) SC Cleared
23 59 (18.79%) Firewall
24 57 (18.15%) Web Development
25 55 (17.52%) Oracle
25 55 (17.52%) HTTP
26 54 (17.20%) OO
26 54 (17.20%) Software Engineering
27 53 (16.88%) VMware
28 51 (16.24%) HPUX

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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 (22.61%) J2EE
2 47 (14.97%) HTML
3 37 (11.78%) CSS
4 31 (9.873%) XML
5 29 (9.236%) LAMP
6 20 (6.369%) Middleware
7 17 (5.414%) JDBC
8 16 (5.096%) WebSphere
9 15 (4.777%) CGI
10 14 (4.459%) Web Services
11 12 (3.822%) XHTML
12 9 (2.866%) JSP
13 8 (2.548%) JSTL
13 8 (2.548%) SOAP
13 8 (2.548%) Struts
14 7 (2.229%) WSDL
15 6 (1.911%) WSH
16 5 (1.592%) jQuery
17 4 (1.274%) Ajax
17 4 (1.274%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 81 (25.80%) Apache
2 44 (14.01%) MS Exchange
3 42 (13.38%) WebLogic
4 16 (5.096%) WebSphere Application Server
5 14 (4.459%) IIS
6 13 (4.140%) Tomcat
7 9 (2.866%) SharePoint
8 8 (2.548%) MQSeries
8 8 (2.548%) IBM HTTP Server
9 4 (1.274%) CMS
10 3 (0.955%) Jetty
10 3 (0.955%) Magento
11 2 (0.637%) WordPress
12 1 (0.318%) SugarCRM
12 1 (0.318%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.318%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.318%) Amazon AWS
12 1 (0.318%) nginx
12 1 (0.318%) CloudFront
Applications
1 23 (7.325%) MS Excel
2 13 (4.140%) MS Office
3 3 (0.955%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.318%) Summit
1 1 (0.318%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 105 (33.44%) DNS
2 91 (28.98%) DHCP
3 59 (18.79%) Firewall
4 55 (17.52%) HTTP
5 51 (16.24%) TCP/IP
6 50 (15.92%) Internet
7 44 (14.01%) SMTP
8 42 (13.38%) SAN
9 40 (12.74%) LDAP
10 19 (6.051%) FTP
10 19 (6.051%) VPN
11 15 (4.777%) DVB
12 14 (4.459%) DLNA
13 12 (3.822%) IGMP
14 10 (3.185%) 3G
15 8 (2.548%) Ethernet
16 7 (2.229%) Wireless
16 7 (2.229%) IPsec
16 7 (2.229%) SSL
16 7 (2.229%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (27.71%) MySQL
2 17 (5.414%) DB2
3 15 (4.777%) RDBMS
3 15 (4.777%) Big Data
4 12 (3.822%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.866%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.866%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.637%) Riak
7 1 (0.318%) Informix
7 1 (0.318%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.318%) TOAD
7 1 (0.318%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.318%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (3.503%) Eclipse
2 8 (2.548%) Rational Application Developer
2 8 (2.548%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 8 (2.548%) JUnit
3 6 (1.911%) Subversion
4 3 (0.955%) LabVIEW
4 3 (0.955%) JIRA
4 3 (0.955%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.637%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 22 (7.006%) Retail
1 22 (7.006%) Electronics
2 21 (6.688%) Finance
2 21 (6.688%) Games
3 16 (5.096%) Telecoms
4 2 (0.637%) Marketing
4 2 (0.637%) Banking
5 1 (0.318%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 83 (26.43%) Software Engineer
2 61 (19.43%) Developer
3 49 (15.61%) Administrator
4 38 (12.10%) Systems Engineer
5 37 (11.78%) Linux Administrator
6 30 (9.554%) UNIX Administrator
6 30 (9.554%) Java Developer
7 29 (9.236%) Systems Administrator
8 23 (7.325%) Test Engineer
9 22 (7.006%) Linux Engineer
10 21 (6.688%) Tester
10 21 (6.688%) Consultant
11 20 (6.369%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 20 (6.369%) UNIX Engineer
12 18 (5.732%) Analyst
13 17 (5.414%) UNIX Systems Administrator
13 17 (5.414%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (4.777%) Linux Consultant
14 15 (4.777%) UNIX Consultant
15 14 (4.459%) Linux Support
Miscellaneous
1 45 (14.33%) Computer Science
2 40 (12.74%) Clustering
3 30 (9.554%) SaaS
4 28 (8.917%) Digital Media
5 18 (5.732%) Mathematics
5 18 (5.732%) Machine Learning
6 14 (4.459%) MPEG
7 13 (4.140%) DTV
7 13 (4.140%) iDTV
7 13 (4.140%) Video on Demand
8 9 (2.866%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.548%) Open Source
10 7 (2.229%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
11 6 (1.911%) Firmware
11 6 (1.911%) Device Driver
12 5 (1.592%) iPad
12 5 (1.592%) iPhone
13 3 (0.955%) Physics
13 3 (0.955%) Enterprise Software
14 2 (0.637%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 243 (77.39%) Linux
2 137 (43.63%) UNIX
3 85 (27.07%) Windows
4 73 (23.25%) Solaris
5 51 (16.24%) HPUX
6 32 (10.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (5.414%) AIX
8 16 (5.096%) Embedded Linux
9 9 (2.866%) Ubuntu
10 8 (2.548%) Android
11 6 (1.911%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (1.911%) CentOS
11 6 (1.911%) Windows 7
11 6 (1.911%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (1.911%) Windows XP
12 5 (1.592%) Apple iOS
13 4 (1.274%) Mac OS
13 4 (1.274%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (20.38%) Software Architecture
2 57 (18.15%) Web Development
3 54 (17.20%) OO
3 54 (17.20%) Software Engineering
4 44 (14.01%) Load Balancing
4 44 (14.01%) ITIL
5 29 (9.236%) Multithreading
6 27 (8.599%) Test Automation
7 25 (7.962%) Agile Software Development
8 23 (7.325%) Scrum
8 23 (7.325%) Kanban
9 22 (7.006%) OOD
10 19 (6.051%) OOA/OOD
10 19 (6.051%) Automated Testing
11 18 (5.732%) Data Management
12 17 (5.414%) UML
12 17 (5.414%) Root Cause Analysis
12 17 (5.414%) Waterfall
13 16 (5.096%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (4.459%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 117 (37.26%) SQL
2 112 (35.67%) Shell Script
3 111 (35.35%) Python
4 106 (33.76%) C
5 101 (32.17%) C++
6 100 (31.85%) Java
7 94 (29.94%) Bash shell
8 51 (16.24%) C#
9 46 (14.65%) PHP
10 36 (11.46%) JavaScript
11 22 (7.006%) Tcl
12 9 (2.866%) AWK
12 9 (2.866%) Ruby
12 9 (2.866%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.866%) sed
13 8 (2.548%) Embedded C
14 6 (1.911%) VB
15 4 (1.274%) Fortran
16 3 (0.955%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.955%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 120 (38.22%) Security Cleared
2 114 (36.31%) DV Cleared
3 96 (30.57%) Degree
4 60 (19.11%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.548%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (2.548%) Sun Certification
6 3 (0.955%) RHCE
7 2 (0.637%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 2 (0.637%) ISEB
7 2 (0.637%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.318%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.732%) QA
2 3 (0.955%) JTAG
3 2 (0.637%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.318%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (13.06%) VMware ESX
1 41 (13.06%) vSphere
2 39 (12.42%) Postfix
3 38 (12.10%) Sendmail
3 38 (12.10%) qmail
3 38 (12.10%) Squid
3 38 (12.10%) ISA Server
4 12 (3.822%) NFS
5 11 (3.503%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (2.548%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.548%) Active Directory
7 6 (1.911%) Xen
8 4 (1.274%) Cygwin
9 3 (0.955%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.637%) Gluster
11 1 (0.318%) Samba
Systems Management
1 41 (13.06%) NetBackup
2 8 (2.548%) Nagios
3 4 (1.274%) Ganglia
3 4 (1.274%) Puppet
4 3 (0.955%) OpenView
4 3 (0.955%) SolarWinds Orion
5 2 (0.637%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.318%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.318%) Legato
Vendors
1 95 (30.25%) Cisco
2 55 (17.52%) Oracle
3 53 (16.88%) VMware
4 50 (15.92%) HP
5 48 (15.29%) Microsoft
6 47 (14.97%) JBoss
7 46 (14.65%) Juniper
8 45 (14.33%) NetApp
9 44 (14.01%) Citrix
10 41 (13.06%) Veritas
10 41 (13.06%) Symantec
10 41 (13.06%) Brocade
11 33 (10.51%) Red Hat
12 16 (5.096%) IBM
13 9 (2.866%) Sun
14 5 (1.592%) Siemens
14 5 (1.592%) Nortel
14 5 (1.592%) Alcatel-Lucent
14 5 (1.592%) Huawei
14 5 (1.592%) ZTE
Bristol, Avon
My client based in Bristol are looking for a Perl / Python Developer to join their established team... The successful candidate will have a strong academic or commercial knowledge...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £22000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Test Engineer (Unix / Linux, Perl / Scripting) - Bristol - 25-40k... The roles will be part of a Scrum team providing functional and non-functional testing, and will involve writing...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £25 - £40 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Gloucestershire
Strong shell scripting experience coupled with experience/exposure to one of the following: Bash, Perl, Python or Expect * Understanding of routing and switching protocols and associated Cisco/Juniper...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, Chippenham, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon,...
C Software Engineer / Programmer / Developer, Linux, Multi-Threading, Multi-Processing, £30-35k dependent on experience, plus benefits, based in Frenchay, North Bristol. Key Skills:- Good C Software development /...
XIST4 Recruitment
Salary: £30-35,000 + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Keywords: Analyst/Programmer, Developer, Perl, C, C++, Java, .Net, C#, OO language... Suitable candidates will have a strong understanding/experience of a development language - ideally OO - such as...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Good Benefits Package
Posted: 22 May 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
One of the UK’s leading financial organisations of its kind is looking for an experienced PHP Developer to join its talented team of Software Developers. As a...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Up to £36,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Implementation and unit testing, mainly in C for Linux... Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or other related discipline... TCP/IP networking. Familiarity with Unix/Linux systems... Unix shell...
Nokia Siemens Networks
Salary: Unspecified Competitive Salary Offered plus excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Somerset
Suitable candidates will have the following experience: * An understanding of Unix/Linux server operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, or OS X Server. * A working knowledge of...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £35000 per annum + Great Benefits Package
Posted: 23 May 2013
Bath, Avon
Bath - £40,000 depending on experience plus exceptional benefits, career progression and autonomy Apple Mac, Solaris, CentOS, Redhat, VMWare, Server, Design, Implementation Market leading organisation is looking for...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
The successful Oracle/Unix specialist will work on the design and second/third-line support of large Oracle 11 databases as well as supporting and managing the clients...
Experis IT
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Therefor ANY knowledge of .Net, Java, C#, Python, C++, Bash, Perl, SQL, etc... People Source specialise in niche technology markets including Information Technology, Digital TV, Digital Marketing, Project...
People Source Consulting
Salary: £27000 - £30000 per annum + Outstanding benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
The team is responsible for developing and maintaining Nokia Siemens Networks' world-class industry-leading Network Directory Server (NDS)... Developing and automating test cases, test scripts... Test Automation...
Nokia Siemens Networks
Salary: Unspecified Competitive Salary Offered plus excellent benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013