Perl
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Perl skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Perl over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 412 444
Rank change year-on-year -177 +32 -33
Permanent jobs citing Perl 321 791 1,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.76% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.97% 1.74% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 216 412 552
10th Percentile £39,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,724 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% +14.30% -2.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,813
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £61,180 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.65% +22.36% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
UK

Perl is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Perl.

Salary trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Perl in the UK

Perl
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -137 281 £62,500 -10.00% 86
UK excluding London -194 192 £56,500 -7.65% 66
Work from Home -76 142 £62,500 -10.00% 34
London +8 118 £78,000 +0.65% 25
South East -6 75 £60,000 +33.33% 15
South West -12 32 £60,000 -25.00% 22
North of England -101 28 £56,500 -7.65% 8
North West -28 22 £56,500 +18.95% 6
Midlands -10 17 £42,000 -34.12% 7
Northern Ireland +32 13 £52,500 -27.59%
West Midlands +16 13 £42,000 -37.78% 3
East of England -21 12 £115,000 +113.95% 12
Scotland -93 12 £60,000 -29.41% 4
Yorkshire -23 6 £58,750 -6.00% 2
Wales -10 4 £24,000 - 2
East Midlands -22 4 - - 4

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.18%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.87%) Confluence
4 5 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.56%) nginx
5 3 (0.93%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.36%) Simulink
1 14 (4.36%) Stateflow
2 7 (2.18%) CANalyzer
3 6 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.62%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 16 (4.98%) Fidessa
2 9 (2.80%) Elite 3E
2 9 (2.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 78 (24.30%) AWS
2 55 (17.13%) Azure
3 47 (14.64%) Serverless
4 20 (6.23%) GitHub
5 17 (5.30%) GCP
6 16 (4.98%) IaaS
7 15 (4.67%) Nutanix
8 13 (4.05%) Amazon S3
9 11 (3.43%) SaaS
10 9 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.56%) Cloud Composer
11 5 (1.56%) dbt
11 5 (1.56%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.25%) OCI
13 3 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.62%) Google Docs
14 2 (0.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (16.82%) DNS
1 54 (16.82%) TCP/IP
2 46 (14.33%) Firewall
3 29 (9.03%) WAN
4 26 (8.10%) SNMP
5 20 (6.23%) DHCP
6 18 (5.61%) LAN
7 16 (4.98%) FIX Connectivity
7 16 (4.98%) SSH
8 14 (4.36%) J1939
9 12 (3.74%) 5G
9 12 (3.74%) Internet
10 11 (3.43%) Intrusion Detection
10 11 (3.43%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.12%) tcpdump
12 7 (2.18%) HTTP
13 6 (1.87%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.87%) VPN
13 6 (1.87%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.93%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (21.81%) Relational Database
2 63 (19.63%) MySQL
3 39 (12.15%) SQL Server
4 37 (11.53%) Oracle Database
4 37 (11.53%) RDBMS
5 16 (4.98%) MongoDB
6 15 (4.67%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.56%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.56%) InfluxDB
10 5 (1.56%) Looker
10 5 (1.56%) MariaDB
10 5 (1.56%) Power BI
10 5 (1.56%) Tableau
11 3 (0.93%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.62%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.62%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 76 (23.68%) Git
2 36 (11.21%) JDeveloper
3 35 (10.90%) JIRA
4 32 (9.97%) Jenkins
5 20 (6.23%) GitLab
6 17 (5.30%) Visual Studio
7 16 (4.98%) Eclipse
8 14 (4.36%) ClearCase
8 14 (4.36%) Plastic SCM
9 7 (2.18%) ClearQuest
10 6 (1.87%) Subversion
11 4 (1.25%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.93%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.62%) JUnit
13 2 (0.62%) SonarQube
14 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.31%) JMeter
14 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
14 1 (0.31%) Maven
14 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 84 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 78 (24.30%) Finance
3 53 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (11.84%) Banking
5 28 (8.72%) Electronics
6 23 (7.17%) Telecoms
7 21 (6.54%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.36%) Automotive
8 14 (4.36%) Marketing
9 12 (3.74%) Legal
10 11 (3.43%) Public Sector
10 11 (3.43%) Retail
11 9 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.49%) Aerospace
13 7 (2.18%) Front Office
14 6 (1.87%) Billing
15 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.62%) Games
17 1 (0.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 89 (27.73%) Senior
2 86 (26.79%) Software Engineer
3 36 (11.21%) Ruby Engineer
4 35 (10.90%) Developer
5 33 (10.28%) Linux Engineer
6 29 (9.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (9.03%) Senior Software Engineer
7 27 (8.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (6.85%) Administrator
9 20 (6.23%) Analyst
9 20 (6.23%) Systems Administrator
10 18 (5.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (5.30%) Support Analyst
12 16 (4.98%) Applications Support
12 16 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (4.98%) Senior DevOps
12 16 (4.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 15 (4.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (4.36%) Architect
14 14 (4.36%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (16.82%) Node.js
2 38 (11.84%) React
3 30 (9.35%) XML
4 27 (8.41%) Web Services
5 26 (8.10%) REST
6 24 (7.48%) HTML
6 24 (7.48%) SOAP
7 18 (5.61%) JSON
8 16 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (4.98%) FIX Protocol
9 14 (4.36%) CSS
10 13 (4.05%) Ajax
10 13 (4.05%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.05%) JDBC
10 13 (4.05%) ODBC
10 13 (4.05%) XHTML
11 11 (3.43%) YAML
12 8 (2.49%) Hibernate
12 8 (2.49%) OpenMP
12 8 (2.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.17%) Algorithms
2 20 (6.23%) GNSS
2 20 (6.23%) IoT
3 17 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.98%) Eurex
4 16 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (4.98%) Management Information System
5 15 (4.67%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (4.05%) Clustering
6 13 (4.05%) CMDB
7 11 (3.43%) VHDL
7 11 (3.43%) Wiki
8 9 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.80%) Video\Live Streaming
9 8 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.49%) FPGA
10 7 (2.18%) MicroBlaze
11 6 (1.87%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.87%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 180 (56.07%) Linux
2 113 (35.20%) Windows
3 56 (17.45%) Unix
4 49 (15.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (11.84%) CentOS
6 16 (4.98%) Windows Server
7 14 (4.36%) Ubuntu
8 13 (4.05%) Solaris
8 13 (4.05%) Windows 10
9 8 (2.49%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.56%) SUSE
11 5 (1.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.93%) FreeBSD
12 3 (0.93%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.93%) VMS
13 2 (0.62%) Android
13 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (37.38%) Problem-Solving
2 107 (33.33%) DevOps
3 90 (28.04%) Software Engineering
4 81 (25.23%) Agile
5 54 (16.82%) CI/CD
5 54 (16.82%) Containerisation
6 53 (16.51%) Configuration Management
7 50 (15.58%) ITIL
8 49 (15.26%) Continuous Integration
9 48 (14.95%) Code Quality
9 48 (14.95%) Open Source
10 47 (14.64%) Microservices
11 44 (13.71%) Computer Science
11 44 (13.71%) Test Automation
12 42 (13.08%) Unit Testing
13 37 (11.53%) Design Patterns
14 36 (11.21%) Actionable Insight
14 36 (11.21%) Clean Code
15 32 (9.97%) Infrastructure as Code
16 31 (9.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 296 (92.21%) Python
2 160 (49.84%) Bash
3 100 (31.15%) Java
4 94 (29.28%) Ruby
5 91 (28.35%) PowerShell
6 88 (27.41%) JavaScript
7 57 (17.76%) C
8 42 (13.08%) SQL
9 39 (12.15%) Go
10 36 (11.21%) C++
11 23 (7.17%) Shell Script
12 22 (6.85%) MATLAB
13 17 (5.30%) Tcl
14 15 (4.67%) Embedded C
15 14 (4.36%) Korn
16 13 (4.05%) PHP
17 11 (3.43%) VB
18 7 (2.18%) Fortran
19 5 (1.56%) C#
20 4 (1.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 77 (23.99%) Degree
2 34 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.92%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.43%) HND
5 9 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.49%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.87%) PhD
8 3 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.31%) OCA
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.31%) RHCE
9 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.64%) QA
2 15 (4.67%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.67%) MISRA
3 14 (4.36%) Automotive SPICE
3 14 (4.36%) AUTOSAR
3 14 (4.36%) ISO 26262
4 13 (4.05%) PMO
5 6 (1.87%) JTAG
5 6 (1.87%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (14.33%) Docker
2 36 (11.21%) Active Directory
3 23 (7.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (5.61%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (5.30%) Firmware
6 14 (4.36%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.18%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (1.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (1.56%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.25%) KVM
10 3 (0.93%) Ceph
10 3 (0.93%) Gluster
10 3 (0.93%) oVirt
11 2 (0.62%) Lustre
11 2 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.31%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.31%) Postfix
12 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (23.36%) Ansible
2 55 (17.13%) Puppet
3 43 (13.40%) Kubernetes
4 38 (11.84%) Terraform
5 21 (6.54%) Progress Chef
6 15 (4.67%) Grafana
7 14 (4.36%) Red Hat Satellite
8 13 (4.05%) WMI
9 12 (3.74%) Nagios
9 12 (3.74%) Salt
10 10 (3.12%) Graphite
10 10 (3.12%) HAProxy
10 10 (3.12%) vCenter Server
11 7 (2.18%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 6 (1.87%) Prometheus
12 6 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.56%) SCCM
13 5 (1.56%) ZABBIX
14 4 (1.25%) Rundeck
14 4 (1.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 89 (27.73%) Oracle
2 49 (15.26%) Red Hat
3 32 (9.97%) Microsoft
4 27 (8.41%) VMware
5 18 (5.61%) IBM
6 16 (4.98%) Bloomberg
6 16 (4.98%) Cisco
6 16 (4.98%) CQG
6 16 (4.98%) ION Trading
6 16 (4.98%) Patsystems
6 16 (4.98%) Reuters
6 16 (4.98%) Splunk
6 16 (4.98%) Trayport
7 14 (4.36%) Lauterbach
7 14 (4.36%) ServiceNow
7 14 (4.36%) TOWER Software
8 13 (4.05%) Sun
9 12 (3.74%) Facebook
9 12 (3.74%) Fortinet
10 10 (3.12%) HP