West Midlands Perl Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl) skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridlington Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London County Antrim County Armagh County Londonderry Coventry Crewe Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Fife Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Grantham Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Huddersfield Hull Humberside Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ripon Royston Rugby Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thame Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Witham Woking Woodbridge York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	115	136
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching permanent IT job ads	125	102
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.067 %	0.043 %
As % of the category below	3.138 %	2.863 %
Salaries quoted	107	93
Average minimum salary	£32,699	£33,032
Average salary	£35,706	£35,200
% change on same period last year	+1.43 %
Average maximum salary	£38,712	£37,368
UK excluding London average salary	£37,368	£35,691
% change on same period last year	+4.69 %
Programming Languages West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	3984	3563
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.144 %	1.485 %
Salaries quoted	3494	3192
Average minimum salary	£29,851	£30,855
Average salary	£32,551	£33,206
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Average maximum salary	£35,252	£35,556
UK excluding London average salary	£35,268	£35,641
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
Perl England

Perl
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Perl across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Perl
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Perl across the West Midlands region.

Perl
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Perl across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Perl
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warwickshire	+29	40	£40,243	+18.36 %
Birmingham	+7	37	£29,250	-17.88 %
Herefordshire	-23	16	£42,357	+1.70 %
Coventry	-5	10	£27,125	-9.58 %
Staffordshire	-5	8	£41,857	+23.33 %
Shropshire	-	3	-	-
Walsall	-4	3	£33,333	+102.02 %

Perl England

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 117 (48.35 %) Linux 2 88 (36.36 %) Oracle 3 83 (34.30 %) UNIX 4 73 (30.17 %) Java 5 71 (29.34 %) C++ 6 67 (27.69 %) HTML 7 61 (25.21 %) XML 8 60 (24.79 %) Shell Script 9 55 (22.73 %) JavaScript 10 54 (22.31 %) SQL 11 51 (21.07 %) Solaris 12 45 (18.60 %) .NET 13 44 (18.18 %) SQL Server 14 36 (14.88 %) C 15 32 (13.22 %) Tcl

15 32 (13.22 %) ASP 15 32 (13.22 %) ASP.NET 15 32 (13.22 %) Oracle 9i 16 30 (12.40 %) PL/SQL 17 29 (11.98 %) PHP 18 28 (11.57 %) VB.NET 18 28 (11.57 %) Windows 18 28 (11.57 %) SharePoint 19 26 (10.74 %) Retail 19 26 (10.74 %) WebSphere 20 25 (10.33 %) XSLT 21 24 (9.917 %) IIS 21 24 (9.917 %) DB2 21 24 (9.917 %) JMS 21 24 (9.917 %) Apache

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 67 (27.69 %) HTML 2 61 (25.21 %) XML 3 45 (18.60 %) .NET 4 32 (13.22 %) ASP 4 32 (13.22 %) ASP.NET 5 26 (10.74 %) WebSphere 6 25 (10.33 %) XSLT 7 24 (9.917 %) CGI 7 24 (9.917 %) JMS 7 24 (9.917 %) JNDI 8 17 (7.025 %) J2EE 9 16 (6.612 %) CSS 10 12 (4.959 %) XHTML 11 5 (2.066 %) Middleware 12 4 (1.653 %) LAMP 12 4 (1.653 %) XMPP 13 3 (1.240 %) SOAP 13 3 (1.240 %) JSON 14 2 (0.826 %) WebServices 14 2 (0.826 %) Ruby on Rails	Application Platforms 1 28 (11.57 %) SharePoint 2 24 (9.917 %) Apache 2 24 (9.917 %) IIS 3 20 (8.264 %) Tomcat 4 17 (7.025 %) CMS 5 9 (3.719 %) JBoss 6 7 (2.893 %) TeamSite 7 6 (2.479 %) Lotus Domino 8 5 (2.066 %) Oracle 10gAS 9 3 (1.240 %) WebLogic Portal 9 3 (1.240 %) WebLogic 10 2 (0.826 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 2 (0.826 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 12 (4.959 %) MS Excel 2 3 (1.240 %) MS Visio 2 3 (1.240 %) MATLAB	Business Applications 1 5 (2.066 %) Oracle 11i 1 5 (2.066 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 24 (9.917 %) LDAP 1 24 (9.917 %) SSH 2 23 (9.504 %) TCP/IP 3 18 (7.438 %) Internet 4 17 (7.025 %) SAN 5 9 (3.719 %) Wireless 6 8 (3.306 %) DNS 6 8 (3.306 %) DHCP 7 5 (2.066 %) SNMP 8 4 (1.653 %) Megaco 8 4 (1.653 %) Ethernet 8 4 (1.653 %) VoIP 8 4 (1.653 %) SMTP 9 3 (1.240 %) SSL 9 3 (1.240 %) BIG-IP 10 2 (0.826 %) Firewall 10 2 (0.826 %) VPN 10 2 (0.826 %) Intranet 11 1 (0.413 %) 3G 11 1 (0.413 %) DSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 44 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2 32 (13.22 %) Oracle 9i 3 24 (9.917 %) DB2 4 21 (8.678 %) MySQL 5 18 (7.438 %) TOAD 6 11 (4.545 %) Oracle 10g 7 2 (0.826 %) RDBMS 7 2 (0.826 %) Informix 7 2 (0.826 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 2 (0.826 %) SQL Server 2005 7 2 (0.826 %) Oracle 11g 8 1 (0.413 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 18 (7.438 %) Subversion 2 6 (2.479 %) OpenDeploy 3 5 (2.066 %) yacc 4 2 (0.826 %) Flash 5 1 (0.413 %) Ant	General 1 26 (10.74 %) Retail 2 14 (5.785 %) Games 2 14 (5.785 %) Pensions 3 13 (5.372 %) Telecoms 4 9 (3.719 %) Finance 5 5 (2.066 %) Insurance 5 5 (2.066 %) Law 6 4 (1.653 %) Banking 7 2 (0.826 %) Education 7 2 (0.826 %) Health 8 1 (0.413 %) Automotive 8 1 (0.413 %) Music
Job Titles 1 97 (40.08 %) Developer 2 43 (17.77 %) Analyst 3 35 (14.46 %) Programmer 4 34 (14.05 %) Analyst Programmer 5 30 (12.40 %) Administrator 6 28 (11.57 %) Software Developer 7 26 (10.74 %) Web Developer 8 25 (10.33 %) Systems Engineer 9 23 (9.504 %) Java Developer 10 20 (8.264 %) Systems Administrator 11 16 (6.612 %) Software Engineer 11 16 (6.612 %) C++ Developer 12 15 (6.198 %) Linux Administrator 13 14 (5.785 %) C++ Software Developer 14 13 (5.372 %) .NET Developer 15 12 (4.959 %) Consultant 16 11 (4.545 %) ASP.NET Developer 16 11 (4.545 %) VB.NET Developer 16 11 (4.545 %) Java Web Developer 16 11 (4.545 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 7 (2.893 %) Thin Client 1 7 (2.893 %) Computer Science 1 7 (2.893 %) Fat Client 2 6 (2.479 %) Clustering 3 5 (2.066 %) VLE 3 5 (2.066 %) Mathematics 4 3 (1.240 %) Physics 5 1 (0.413 %) Smartphone 5 1 (0.413 %) PDA 5 1 (0.413 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 117 (48.35 %) Linux 2 83 (34.30 %) UNIX 3 51 (21.07 %) Solaris 4 28 (11.57 %) Windows 5 19 (7.851 %) Red Hat Linux 6 12 (4.959 %) AIX 7 11 (4.545 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 9 (3.719 %) Windows Server 2003 9 8 (3.306 %) SUSE 10 7 (2.893 %) Windows 2000 11 3 (1.240 %) Debian 11 3 (1.240 %) HPUX 12 1 (0.413 %) FreeBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (8.264 %) OOP 2 12 (4.959 %) OO 3 11 (4.545 %) UML 3 11 (4.545 %) Data Analysis 4 10 (4.132 %) Project Management 5 9 (3.719 %) Content Management 6 7 (2.893 %) Disaster Recovery 7 6 (2.479 %) Software Engineering 7 6 (2.479 %) Problem Management 8 5 (2.066 %) Load Balancing 8 5 (2.066 %) Contact Management 8 5 (2.066 %) Service Delivery 9 4 (1.653 %) OOD 10 3 (1.240 %) Configuration Management 11 2 (0.826 %) ITIL 11 2 (0.826 %) Agile Software Development 11 2 (0.826 %) Test Scripting 11 2 (0.826 %) Systems Analysis 11 2 (0.826 %) Web Development 12 1 (0.413 %) Logistics
Programming Languages 1 73 (30.17 %) Java 2 71 (29.34 %) C++ 3 60 (24.79 %) Shell Script 4 55 (22.73 %) JavaScript 5 54 (22.31 %) SQL 6 36 (14.88 %) C 7 32 (13.22 %) Tcl 8 30 (12.40 %) PL/SQL 9 29 (11.98 %) PHP 10 28 (11.57 %) VB.NET 11 22 (9.091 %) C# 12 9 (3.719 %) Python 13 5 (2.066 %) VBA 14 4 (1.653 %) PHP5 15 2 (0.826 %) Ruby 16 1 (0.413 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 13 (5.372 %) Degree 2 5 (2.066 %) RHCE 3 2 (0.826 %) RHCT 3 2 (0.826 %) OCP 3 2 (0.826 %) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.413 %) QA	System Software 1 11 (4.545 %) NetBackup 2 6 (2.479 %) Oracle RMAN 2 6 (2.479 %) Samba 2 6 (2.479 %) Oracle RAC 3 3 (1.240 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (1.240 %) ISA Server 4 1 (0.413 %) Squid
Systems Management 1 3 (1.240 %) Legato 1 3 (1.240 %) EMC NetWorker	Vendors 1 88 (36.36 %) Oracle 2 19 (7.851 %) Red Hat 3 17 (7.025 %) Interwoven 4 14 (5.785 %) VERITAS 5 11 (4.545 %) VMware 6 10 (4.132 %) HP 7 9 (3.719 %) IBM 8 7 (2.893 %) Microsoft 8 7 (2.893 %) Citrix 9 5 (2.066 %) Hyperion 9 5 (2.066 %) Sun 10 3 (1.240 %) EMC 10 3 (1.240 %) Hitachi 10 3 (1.240 %) MontaVista 11 2 (0.826 %) Remedy 11 2 (0.826 %) Cisco 12 1 (0.413 %) Adobe 12 1 (0.413 %) Symbian