The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 17 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 Watford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 27 31 31
Rank change year-on-year
+4 0
Permanent jobs citing Perl 20 33 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 6.944% 9.244% 8.879%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.89% 14.29% 14.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17 2 9
Average salary £51,500 £34,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.36% -14.37%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
144 231 262
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 50.00% 64.71% 61.21%
Number of salaries quoted 118 149 192
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £61,500 £50,750
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 Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Perl Salary Trend

Perl
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Perl across the Watford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Watford Perl Salary Histogram

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 47 (74.60%) Linux
2 37 (58.73%) Windows
2 37 (58.73%) AIX
3 34 (53.97%) DB2
4 33 (52.38%) IBM
4 33 (52.38%) Bash shell
5 32 (50.79%) Java
5 32 (50.79%) SQL
5 32 (50.79%) Oracle
6 31 (49.21%) Finance
6 31 (49.21%) Games
7 29 (46.03%) Retail
7 29 (46.03%) WebSphere
7 29 (46.03%) J2EE
7 29 (46.03%) UNIX
8 28 (44.44%) WebSphere Application Server
9 24 (38.10%) HTTP
10 23 (36.51%) E-Commerce
11 21 (33.33%) JDBC
12 20 (31.75%) Tomcat
13 18 (28.57%) Sun
14 12 (19.05%) Red Hat
15 11 (17.46%) Internet
15 11 (17.46%) OLE
15 11 (17.46%) Solaris
15 11 (17.46%) HTML
15 11 (17.46%) JavaScript
15 11 (17.46%) SUSE
15 11 (17.46%) VMware
16 10 (15.87%) Rational Application Developer

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 29 (46.03%) J2EE
1 29 (46.03%) WebSphere
2 21 (33.33%) JDBC
3 11 (17.46%) HTML
3 11 (17.46%) OLE
4 10 (15.87%) Middleware
4 10 (15.87%) XML
4 10 (15.87%) XHTML
4 10 (15.87%) JSTL
4 10 (15.87%) JSP
4 10 (15.87%) CSS
4 10 (15.87%) Struts
5 7 (11.11%) Servlets
6 2 (3.175%) CGI
7 1 (1.587%) Apache CXF
7 1 (1.587%) REST
7 1 (1.587%) SOAP
7 1 (1.587%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 28 (44.44%) WebSphere Application Server
2 20 (31.75%) Tomcat
3 10 (15.87%) MQSeries
3 10 (15.87%) IBM HTTP Server
3 10 (15.87%) IIS
4 6 (9.524%) Apache
5 1 (1.587%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 10 (15.87%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 24 (38.10%) HTTP
2 11 (17.46%) Internet
3 10 (15.87%) FTP
4 8 (12.70%) DNS
4 8 (12.70%) HTTPS
5 5 (7.937%) SNMP
6 4 (6.349%) TCP/IP
7 3 (4.762%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (53.97%) DB2
2 6 (9.524%) MySQL
2 6 (9.524%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (15.87%) JUnit
1 10 (15.87%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 10 (15.87%) Eclipse
1 10 (15.87%) Rational Application Developer
2 2 (3.175%) Ant
3 1 (1.587%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.587%) Subversion
3 1 (1.587%) Maven
3 1 (1.587%) Git (software)
General
1 31 (49.21%) Games
1 31 (49.21%) Finance
2 29 (46.03%) Retail
3 4 (6.349%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.762%) Advertising
4 3 (4.762%) Electronics
4 3 (4.762%) Multimedia
5 2 (3.175%) Marketing
6 1 (1.587%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 30 (47.62%) Analyst
2 21 (33.33%) Support Analyst
3 16 (25.40%) Developer
4 13 (20.63%) Junior
4 13 (20.63%) Administrator
5 11 (17.46%) Systems Administrator
5 11 (17.46%) Operations Analyst
5 11 (17.46%) Operations Support Analyst
6 10 (15.87%) Developer Analyst
6 10 (15.87%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 10 (15.87%) Java Developer
6 10 (15.87%) J2EE Developer
7 9 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
7 9 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 7 (11.11%) Junior Tester
8 7 (11.11%) Performance Analyst
8 7 (11.11%) Performance Tester
8 7 (11.11%) Tester
8 7 (11.11%) Junior Analyst
9 5 (7.937%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.349%) FMCG
2 3 (4.762%) ASIC
2 3 (4.762%) 3D Graphics
2 3 (4.762%) VHDL
2 3 (4.762%) Verilog
2 3 (4.762%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 2 (3.175%) Online Games
4 1 (1.587%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 47 (74.60%) Linux
2 37 (58.73%) Windows
2 37 (58.73%) AIX
3 29 (46.03%) UNIX
4 11 (17.46%) SUSE
4 11 (17.46%) Solaris
5 3 (4.762%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.587%) Fedora
6 1 (1.587%) CentOS
6 1 (1.587%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) E-Commerce
2 10 (15.87%) RAD
2 10 (15.87%) Service Management
2 10 (15.87%) MVC
2 10 (15.87%) Content Management
2 10 (15.87%) Web Development
2 10 (15.87%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (12.70%) Performance Testing
4 7 (11.11%) ITSM
4 7 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 6 (9.524%) OO
6 3 (4.762%) Validation
6 3 (4.762%) Service Delivery
6 3 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (1.587%) High Availability
7 1 (1.587%) Capacity Management
7 1 (1.587%) Release Management
7 1 (1.587%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (1.587%) Configuration Management
7 1 (1.587%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (52.38%) Bash shell
2 32 (50.79%) Java
2 32 (50.79%) SQL
3 11 (17.46%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.11%) PHP
4 7 (11.11%) VB
4 7 (11.11%) Korn
5 6 (9.524%) C#
6 3 (4.762%) C-shell
6 3 (4.762%) Tcl
6 3 (4.762%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.587%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.587%) AWK
7 1 (1.587%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (15.87%) Sun Certification
2 9 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.587%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (7.937%) Netcool
1 5 (7.937%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 5 (7.937%) Control-M
1 5 (7.937%) Tivoli
2 3 (4.762%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 3 (4.762%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (1.587%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (52.38%) IBM
2 32 (50.79%) Oracle
3 18 (28.57%) Sun
4 12 (19.05%) Red Hat
5 11 (17.46%) VMware
6 10 (15.87%) JBoss
6 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
7 5 (7.937%) BMC
8 1 (1.587%) Endeca
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