The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stevenage region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 20 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 Stevenage region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 33 45 32
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -13
Permanent jobs citing Perl 2 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 1.370% 0.976% 1.093%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.857% 1.258% 1.667%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 2
Average salary £42,500 £22,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+88.88% -43.75%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Stevenage
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
70 159 120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 47.95% 77.56% 65.57%
Number of salaries quoted 26 153 117
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £33,600 £29,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £59,250 £50,000 £56,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Perl
Hertfordshire

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Stevenage Perl Salary Trend

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 7 (46.67%) C++
4 6 (40.00%) SQL
4 6 (40.00%) Windows
4 6 (40.00%) Fortran
4 6 (40.00%) Mac OS X
4 6 (40.00%) JIRA
4 6 (40.00%) Qt
5 5 (33.33%) MATLAB
5 5 (33.33%) ClearCase
6 4 (26.67%) Apache
6 4 (26.67%) LTE
7 3 (20.00%) NAS
7 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (20.00%) Open Source
7 3 (20.00%) Bash shell
7 3 (20.00%) Degree
7 3 (20.00%) LAMP
7 3 (20.00%) Cisco
7 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
7 3 (20.00%) MySQL
8 2 (13.33%) ClearQuest
8 2 (13.33%) 3GPP
8 2 (13.33%) WCDMA
8 2 (13.33%) Handset
8 2 (13.33%) Wireless
8 2 (13.33%) HSPA
9 1 (6.667%) Atmel
9 1 (6.667%) Validation

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 6 (40.00%) Qt
2 3 (20.00%) LAMP
3 1 (6.667%) .NET
3 1 (6.667%) SOAP
3 1 (6.667%) XML
3 1 (6.667%) CORBA
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) LTE
2 3 (20.00%) NAS
3 2 (13.33%) Wireless
3 2 (13.33%) HSPA
3 2 (13.33%) 3GPP
3 2 (13.33%) WCDMA
4 1 (6.667%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.667%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 5 (33.33%) ClearCase
3 2 (13.33%) ClearQuest
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
1 6 (40.00%) C++ Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (6.667%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Senior Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Open Source
2 2 (13.33%) Handset
3 1 (6.667%) Mathematics
3 1 (6.667%) Physics
3 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Mac OS X
2 6 (40.00%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.667%) UNIX
4 1 (6.667%) HPUX
4 1 (6.667%) Solaris
4 1 (6.667%) VxWorks
4 1 (6.667%) pSOS
4 1 (6.667%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (6.667%) UML
1 1 (6.667%) OO
1 1 (6.667%) Validation
1 1 (6.667%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) C++
3 6 (40.00%) Fortran
3 6 (40.00%) SQL
4 5 (33.33%) MATLAB
5 3 (20.00%) Bash shell
6 1 (6.667%) Java
6 1 (6.667%) C
6 1 (6.667%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.667%) QNX
2 1 (6.667%) Atmel
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Experience or knowledge of RTOS (VxWork, Embedded Linux, etc) *Object Oriented Methodology Additional Skills Any of the following would be an advantage: *Experience of developing software using: C#,...
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £20000 - £40000 per annum + Healthcare, Bonus, Pension
Posted: 17 May 2013