Perl Job Trends in Birmingham

Perl
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Perl skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 124 95
Rank change year-on-year +24 -29 +50
Permanent jobs citing Perl 7 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.40% 0.054% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 0.18% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 - £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £33,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +62.96% -51.79%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £41,250
90th Percentile - - £41,500
West Midlands median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -9.17% +60.00% -31.82%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

Perl falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 373 569 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.51% 30.77% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 315 251 372
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,625 £40,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Perl relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Perl job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Perl
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Perl.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Perl

Perl
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl in Birmingham over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Perl in Birmingham

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon Glacier
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) AWS KMS
1 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) FTP
1 3 (42.86%) HTTP
1 3 (42.86%) SMTP
1 3 (42.86%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
1 3 (42.86%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Applications Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Applications Support
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) XML
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (42.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Patch Management
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) Groovy
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
1 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow