Perl Job Trends in England

Perl
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Perl skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 516 514
Rank change year-on-year -74 -2 -75
Permanent jobs citing Perl 59 112 289
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.089% 0.29% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.49% 0.84% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 47 75 230
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £60,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £59,500 £93,778 £90,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.54% -10.34%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,013 13,330 25,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.16% 34.55% 34.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8,738 9,372 21,819
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Perl job vacancy trend in England

Perl
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Perl.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Perl

Perl
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Perl in England

Perl
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the England region over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. 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
South East +5 39 £58,000 -44.76% 21
London -24 12 £70,000 -3.45% 9
North of England -45 6 £80,000 -6.16% 13
Yorkshire -49 6 £80,000 -6.16% 8
South West -34 1 - - 8
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 22 (37.29%) Exchange Server 2003
1 22 (37.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.08%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.39%) Apache
3 2 (3.39%) nginx
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.69%) IIS
4 1 (1.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Siemens NX
1 1 (1.69%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.73%) SaaS
2 7 (11.86%) Azure
3 5 (8.47%) AWS
4 2 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.39%) GCP
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.69%) GitHub
5 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.69%) Pulumi
5 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (57.63%) DNS
2 24 (40.68%) DHCP
3 10 (16.95%) HTTP
4 2 (3.39%) Internet
4 2 (3.39%) LAN
4 2 (3.39%) NAS
4 2 (3.39%) SAN
4 2 (3.39%) SNMP
4 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (40.68%) Oracle Database
2 22 (37.29%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (3.39%) Big Data
3 2 (3.39%) Informix
3 2 (3.39%) MySQL
4 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.69%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) GitLab
2 3 (5.08%) Git
3 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) JIRA
4 1 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.69%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.69%) Selenium
4 1 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.17%) Finance
3 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.39%) Law
4 2 (3.39%) Legal
4 2 (3.39%) Marketing
4 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Public Speaking
5 1 (1.69%) Advertising
5 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Linux Engineer
1 22 (37.29%) Systems Support
2 21 (35.59%) 3rd Line Support
3 13 (22.03%) Support Engineer
4 12 (20.34%) Linux Support
4 12 (20.34%) Linux Support Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Senior
6 4 (6.78%) Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Implementation Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Implementation Specialist
6 4 (6.78%) Lead
6 4 (6.78%) Linux Specialist
6 4 (6.78%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Product Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Product Specialist
6 4 (6.78%) Products Support Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Products Support Specialist
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Support Specialist
6 4 (6.78%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) CSS
1 2 (3.39%) HTML
1 2 (3.39%) LDAP
2 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.69%) Kafka
2 1 (1.69%) LAMP
2 1 (1.69%) Middleware
2 1 (1.69%) NestJS
2 1 (1.69%) Node.js
2 1 (1.69%) RESTful
2 1 (1.69%) SOAP
2 1 (1.69%) SvelteKit
2 1 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Onboarding
1 4 (6.78%) Video on Demand
1 4 (6.78%) Video\Live Streaming
2 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.39%) Clustering
3 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.39%) FPGA
3 2 (3.39%) IoT
3 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.69%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (52.54%) Linux
2 26 (44.07%) Unix
3 24 (40.68%) Windows
4 22 (37.29%) HPUX
4 22 (37.29%) Solaris
4 22 (37.29%) Windows 7
4 22 (37.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 22 (37.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 18 (30.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (28.81%) CentOS
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
8 1 (1.69%) Debian
8 1 (1.69%) SUSE
8 1 (1.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.29%) Incident Management
2 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (16.95%) Migration
4 8 (13.56%) CI/CD
5 5 (8.47%) Computer Science
5 5 (8.47%) Containerisation
5 5 (8.47%) DevOps
5 5 (8.47%) High Availability
6 4 (6.78%) Agile
6 4 (6.78%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (6.78%) Red Team
7 3 (5.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (5.08%) ITIL
7 3 (5.08%) ITSM
7 3 (5.08%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (5.08%) Project Delivery
7 3 (5.08%) Test Automation
8 2 (3.39%) OO
Programming Languages
1 34 (57.63%) Python
2 26 (44.07%) PowerShell
3 12 (20.34%) Bash
4 11 (18.64%) PHP
5 6 (10.17%) Shell Script
6 5 (8.47%) Java
7 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.08%) SQL
8 2 (3.39%) C
8 2 (3.39%) Ruby
9 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.69%) Rust
9 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (44.07%) Security Cleared
2 25 (42.37%) DV Cleared
3 23 (38.98%) SC Cleared
4 7 (11.86%) Degree
5 3 (5.08%) CISSP
5 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.08%) LPIC
5 3 (5.08%) Master's Degree
5 3 (5.08%) OSCP
6 2 (3.39%) CEH
6 2 (3.39%) CISA
6 2 (3.39%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.69%) CISM
7 1 (1.69%) GCFA
7 1 (1.69%) GCIH
7 1 (1.69%) GIAC
7 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.69%) OCA
7 1 (1.69%) OCP
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (37.29%) SLA
2 2 (3.39%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (38.98%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.17%) Docker
3 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Ansible
2 5 (8.47%) Terraform
3 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.08%) Puppet
4 3 (5.08%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (3.39%) CSIRT
5 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (1.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 27 (45.76%) Oracle
2 26 (44.07%) Microsoft
3 24 (40.68%) VMware
4 7 (11.86%) HP
5 4 (6.78%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.39%) Dell
6 2 (3.39%) EMC
6 2 (3.39%) IBM
7 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.69%) SAP
7 1 (1.69%) Siemens
7 1 (1.69%) Splunk