The first table below looks at the demand for CPAN skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CPAN over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Application Development category.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
Rank 861 821 803
Rank change year-on-year
-40 -18
Permanent jobs citing CPAN 7 64 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.053% 0.062%
As % of the Application Development category 0.016% 0.127% 0.153%
Number of salaries quoted 6 39 78
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £42,000 £34,250
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £60,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £39,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-23.07% +30.00%
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43829 50279 51552
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.24% 41.72% 40.16%
Number of salaries quoted 38095 44608 45685
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%

CPAN
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing CPAN within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

CPAN Jobs Demand Trend

CPAN
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CPAN within the UK.

CPAN Salary Trend

CPAN
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CPAN over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

CPAN Salary Histogram

CPAN
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CPAN within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London -18 6 £45,000 -5.26% 1
England -33 6 £45,000 -5.26% 3
City of London +1 3 £45,000 -
Kingston Upon Thames -1 1 £40,000 -15.78%
Edinburgh - 1 £30,000 -
Scotland - 1 £30,000 -

CPAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing CPAN 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 CPAN.

1 26 (100.00%) Perl
2 21 (80.77%) MySQL
3 20 (76.92%) JavaScript
4 19 (73.08%) Linux
5 18 (69.23%) Apache
6 17 (65.38%) HTML
6 17 (65.38%) CSS
7 14 (53.85%) Git (software)
8 13 (50.00%) Subversion
9 12 (46.15%) XML
10 10 (38.46%) PHP
10 10 (38.46%) Web Development
11 9 (34.62%) JSON
12 8 (30.77%) JIRA
12 8 (30.77%) OO
13 7 (26.92%) Marketing
13 7 (26.92%) jQuery
14 6 (23.08%) UNIX
15 5 (19.23%) SQL
15 5 (19.23%) Oracle
15 5 (19.23%) SSH
15 5 (19.23%) Ruby
15 5 (19.23%) Kanban
15 5 (19.23%) Google
15 5 (19.23%) Confluence
15 5 (19.23%) Hudson
15 5 (19.23%) Big Data
15 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
16 4 (15.38%) Digital Media
16 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration

CPAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing CPAN 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 CPAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (65.38%) HTML
1 17 (65.38%) CSS
2 12 (46.15%) XML
3 9 (34.62%) JSON
4 7 (26.92%) jQuery
5 4 (15.38%) Ajax
5 4 (15.38%) XHTML
6 3 (11.54%) CGI
6 3 (11.54%) SOAP
6 3 (11.54%) Web Services
6 3 (11.54%) LAMP
6 3 (11.54%) RESTful
6 3 (11.54%) Mason
6 3 (11.54%) FastCGI
7 2 (7.692%) X-Windows
8 1 (3.846%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (3.846%) YUI
8 1 (3.846%) REST
Application Platforms
1 18 (69.23%) Apache
2 5 (19.23%) Confluence
3 4 (15.38%) nginx
4 2 (7.692%) WebLogic
4 2 (7.692%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) SSH
2 3 (11.54%) SMTP
2 3 (11.54%) FTP
2 3 (11.54%) HTTP
2 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.54%) Internet
3 2 (7.692%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (7.692%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (7.692%) Firewall
3 2 (7.692%) DNS
3 2 (7.692%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (80.77%) MySQL
2 5 (19.23%) Big Data
3 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (3.846%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.846%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) Git (software)
2 13 (50.00%) Subversion
3 8 (30.77%) JIRA
4 5 (19.23%) Hudson
4 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
5 3 (11.54%) Selenium
6 2 (7.692%) Trac
6 2 (7.692%) Gradle
6 2 (7.692%) Ant
6 2 (7.692%) IntelliJ
7 1 (3.846%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (3.846%) SVK
General
1 7 (26.92%) Marketing
2 2 (7.692%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.846%) Retail
3 1 (3.846%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (92.31%) Developer
2 21 (80.77%) Perl Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Web Developer
4 2 (7.692%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (7.692%) Administrator
4 2 (7.692%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.846%) Web Designer
5 1 (3.846%) Perl Programmer
5 1 (3.846%) Programmer
5 1 (3.846%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Digital Media
2 3 (11.54%) Open Source
3 2 (7.692%) Wiki
3 2 (7.692%) Clustering
4 1 (3.846%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.846%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (73.08%) Linux
2 6 (23.08%) UNIX
3 3 (11.54%) Windows
4 2 (7.692%) CentOS
4 2 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.692%) AIX
4 2 (7.692%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Web Development
2 8 (30.77%) OO
3 5 (19.23%) Kanban
4 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (15.38%) Scrum
5 3 (11.54%) Content Management
5 3 (11.54%) TDD
5 3 (11.54%) Multivariate Testing
5 3 (11.54%) Analytics
5 3 (11.54%) Web Application Development
6 2 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (3.846%) OOP
7 1 (3.846%) Business Analysis
7 1 (3.846%) Project Management
7 1 (3.846%) Unit Testing
7 1 (3.846%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Perl
2 20 (76.92%) JavaScript
3 10 (38.46%) PHP
4 5 (19.23%) SQL
4 5 (19.23%) Ruby
5 3 (11.54%) Python
5 3 (11.54%) Java
5 3 (11.54%) C
5 3 (11.54%) PHP5
5 3 (11.54%) PHP4
6 2 (7.692%) Korn
6 2 (7.692%) C-shell
6 2 (7.692%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.692%) Xen
1 2 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (7.692%) Sendmail
1 2 (7.692%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Nagios
2 2 (7.692%) YUM
2 2 (7.692%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle
1 5 (19.23%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) Sybase
2 3 (11.54%) Facebook
2 3 (11.54%) Twitter
3 2 (7.692%) Cisco
3 2 (7.692%) Sun
3 2 (7.692%) HP
3 2 (7.692%) Dell
3 2 (7.692%) BEA
3 2 (7.692%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.692%) VMware
3 2 (7.692%) Vignette
4 1 (3.846%) Zend
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