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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 412 439
Rank change year-on-year -181 +27 -26
Permanent jobs citing Perl 320 779 1,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.75% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 1.73% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 216 410 552
10th Percentile £39,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,938 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,447 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.79% -1.22%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,974 £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 33,278 45,076 83,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.79% 43.37% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 25,047 28,788 44,148
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 £53,750
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.33% +7.50%

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 30 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 30 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 -119 281 £62,500 -10.00% 86
UK excluding London -216 192 £56,500 -7.65% 64
Work from Home -77 140 £65,000 -6.40% 32
London +7 118 £78,000 -0.95% 27
South East -16 74 £60,000 +33.33% 13
South West -13 33 £60,000 -25.00% 22
North of England -107 28 £56,500 -7.65% 8
North West -28 22 £56,500 +18.95% 7
Midlands -21 17 £42,000 -34.12% 6
Northern Ireland +27 13 £52,500 -27.59% 1
West Midlands +11 13 £42,000 -37.78% 2
East of England -21 12 £115,000 +113.95% 11
Scotland -85 12 £60,000 -29.41% 5
Yorkshire -28 6 £58,750 -6.00% 1
Wales -14 4 £24,000 - 1
East Midlands -27 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.19%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.88%) Confluence
4 5 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.56%) nginx
5 3 (0.94%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.38%) Simulink
1 14 (4.38%) Stateflow
2 7 (2.19%) CANalyzer
3 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.63%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 16 (5.00%) Fidessa
2 9 (2.81%) Elite 3E
2 9 (2.81%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 76 (23.75%) AWS
2 55 (17.19%) Azure
3 47 (14.69%) Serverless
4 19 (5.94%) GitHub
5 17 (5.31%) GCP
6 16 (5.00%) IaaS
7 15 (4.69%) Nutanix
8 13 (4.06%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.13%) SaaS
10 9 (2.81%) 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 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.63%) Google Docs
14 2 (0.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (16.88%) DNS
1 54 (16.88%) TCP/IP
2 46 (14.38%) Firewall
3 29 (9.06%) WAN
4 26 (8.13%) SNMP
5 20 (6.25%) DHCP
6 18 (5.63%) LAN
7 16 (5.00%) FIX Connectivity
7 16 (5.00%) SSH
8 14 (4.38%) J1939
9 12 (3.75%) 5G
9 12 (3.75%) Internet
10 11 (3.44%) Intrusion Detection
10 11 (3.44%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.13%) tcpdump
12 7 (2.19%) HTTP
13 6 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (1.88%) VPN
13 6 (1.88%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.94%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (21.88%) Relational Database
2 63 (19.69%) MySQL
3 39 (12.19%) SQL Server
4 37 (11.56%) Oracle Database
4 37 (11.56%) RDBMS
5 16 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 14 (4.38%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.56%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.56%) InfluxDB
9 5 (1.56%) Looker
9 5 (1.56%) MariaDB
9 5 (1.56%) Power BI
9 5 (1.56%) Tableau
10 3 (0.94%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.63%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 77 (24.06%) Git
2 36 (11.25%) JDeveloper
2 36 (11.25%) JIRA
3 33 (10.31%) Jenkins
4 19 (5.94%) GitLab
5 17 (5.31%) Visual Studio
6 16 (5.00%) Eclipse
7 14 (4.38%) ClearCase
7 14 (4.38%) Plastic SCM
8 7 (2.19%) ClearQuest
9 6 (1.88%) Subversion
10 4 (1.25%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.94%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.63%) JUnit
12 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.31%) JMeter
13 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
13 1 (0.31%) Maven
13 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 84 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 78 (24.38%) Finance
3 53 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (11.88%) Banking
5 28 (8.75%) Electronics
6 23 (7.19%) Telecoms
7 20 (6.25%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.38%) Automotive
8 14 (4.38%) Marketing
9 12 (3.75%) Legal
10 11 (3.44%) Public Sector
10 11 (3.44%) Retail
11 9 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.50%) Aerospace
13 7 (2.19%) Front Office
14 6 (1.88%) Billing
15 3 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.63%) Games
17 1 (0.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 88 (27.50%) Senior
2 86 (26.88%) Software Engineer
3 36 (11.25%) Ruby Engineer
4 35 (10.94%) Developer
5 33 (10.31%) Linux Engineer
6 28 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (8.75%) Senior Software Engineer
7 27 (8.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (6.88%) Administrator
9 20 (6.25%) Analyst
9 20 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
10 18 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (5.31%) Support Analyst
12 16 (5.00%) Applications Support
12 16 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
12 16 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 15 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (4.38%) Architect
14 14 (4.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (16.56%) Node.js
2 38 (11.88%) React
3 30 (9.38%) XML
4 27 (8.44%) Web Services
5 26 (8.13%) REST
6 24 (7.50%) HTML
6 24 (7.50%) SOAP
7 18 (5.63%) JSON
8 17 (5.31%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
10 14 (4.38%) CSS
11 13 (4.06%) Ajax
11 13 (4.06%) AngularJS
11 13 (4.06%) JDBC
11 13 (4.06%) ODBC
11 13 (4.06%) XHTML
12 11 (3.44%) YAML
13 8 (2.50%) Hibernate
13 8 (2.50%) OpenMP
13 8 (2.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.19%) Algorithms
2 20 (6.25%) GNSS
2 20 (6.25%) IoT
3 17 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (5.00%) Eurex
4 16 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 15 (4.69%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (4.06%) Clustering
6 13 (4.06%) CMDB
7 11 (3.44%) VHDL
7 11 (3.44%) Wiki
8 9 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.50%) FPGA
9 8 (2.50%) Video\Live Streaming
10 7 (2.19%) MicroBlaze
11 6 (1.88%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.88%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 180 (56.25%) Linux
2 112 (35.00%) Windows
3 57 (17.81%) Unix
4 47 (14.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (11.56%) CentOS
6 15 (4.69%) Windows Server
7 14 (4.38%) Ubuntu
8 13 (4.06%) Solaris
8 13 (4.06%) Windows 10
9 8 (2.50%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (1.88%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.56%) SUSE
11 5 (1.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.94%) FreeBSD
12 3 (0.94%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.94%) VMS
13 2 (0.63%) Android
13 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (37.81%) Problem-Solving
2 107 (33.44%) DevOps
3 90 (28.13%) Software Engineering
4 81 (25.31%) Agile
5 54 (16.88%) CI/CD
5 54 (16.88%) Containerisation
6 53 (16.56%) Configuration Management
7 50 (15.63%) ITIL
8 49 (15.31%) Continuous Integration
9 48 (15.00%) Open Source
10 47 (14.69%) Code Quality
11 46 (14.38%) Microservices
12 45 (14.06%) Computer Science
13 43 (13.44%) Test Automation
14 42 (13.13%) Unit Testing
15 37 (11.56%) Design Patterns
16 36 (11.25%) Actionable Insight
16 36 (11.25%) Clean Code
17 33 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
18 30 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 295 (92.19%) Python
2 161 (50.31%) Bash
3 101 (31.56%) Java
4 93 (29.06%) Ruby
5 90 (28.13%) PowerShell
6 88 (27.50%) JavaScript
7 58 (18.13%) C
8 42 (13.13%) SQL
9 39 (12.19%) Go
10 37 (11.56%) C++
11 23 (7.19%) Shell Script
12 22 (6.88%) MATLAB
13 17 (5.31%) Tcl
14 15 (4.69%) Embedded C
15 13 (4.06%) Korn
16 12 (3.75%) PHP
17 11 (3.44%) VB
18 7 (2.19%) Fortran
19 5 (1.56%) C#
20 4 (1.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 78 (24.38%) Degree
2 35 (10.94%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.44%) HND
5 10 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.88%) PhD
9 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.31%) OCA
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.31%) RHCE
10 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.69%) QA
2 15 (4.69%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.69%) MISRA
3 14 (4.38%) Automotive SPICE
3 14 (4.38%) AUTOSAR
3 14 (4.38%) ISO 26262
4 13 (4.06%) PMO
5 6 (1.88%) JTAG
5 6 (1.88%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (14.38%) Docker
2 35 (10.94%) Active Directory
3 23 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (5.31%) Firmware
6 14 (4.38%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.19%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (1.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (1.56%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.25%) KVM
10 3 (0.94%) Ceph
10 3 (0.94%) Gluster
10 3 (0.94%) oVirt
11 2 (0.63%) Lustre
11 2 (0.63%) 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 74 (23.13%) Ansible
2 54 (16.88%) Puppet
3 44 (13.75%) Kubernetes
4 39 (12.19%) Terraform
5 21 (6.56%) Progress Chef
6 16 (5.00%) Grafana
7 13 (4.06%) Red Hat Satellite
7 13 (4.06%) WMI
8 12 (3.75%) Nagios
8 12 (3.75%) Salt
9 10 (3.13%) Graphite
9 10 (3.13%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.13%) vCenter Server
10 7 (2.19%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.19%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 6 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.56%) SCCM
12 5 (1.56%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.25%) Rundeck
13 4 (1.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 89 (27.81%) Oracle
2 48 (15.00%) Red Hat
3 31 (9.69%) Microsoft
4 27 (8.44%) VMware
5 18 (5.63%) IBM
6 16 (5.00%) Bloomberg
6 16 (5.00%) Cisco
6 16 (5.00%) CQG
6 16 (5.00%) ION Trading
6 16 (5.00%) Patsystems
6 16 (5.00%) Reuters
6 16 (5.00%) Splunk
6 16 (5.00%) Trayport
7 14 (4.38%) Lauterbach
7 14 (4.38%) ServiceNow
8 13 (4.06%) TOWER Software
9 12 (3.75%) Facebook
9 12 (3.75%) Fortinet
9 12 (3.75%) Sun
10 10 (3.13%) HP