Perl Jobs in England

Perl
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Perl skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Perl over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 573 403
Rank change year-on-year -3 -170 +70
Permanent jobs citing Perl 83 273 662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.31% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.57% 0.97% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 55 195 319
10th Percentile £36,100 £39,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,250 £106,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £69,099
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.55% +14.21%

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 14,652 28,024 37,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.18% 31.54% 43.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,481 22,545 24,192
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in England

Perl
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Perl in England.

Salary trend for Perl in England

Perl
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

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 29 May 2025. 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
London +24 34 £73,750 -7.52% 102
Midlands +58 13 £72,500 +72.62% 86
South East +42 13 £37,000 -38.33% 125
West Midlands +56 12 £72,500 +72.62% 45
South West +86 8 £80,000 +33.33% 60
North of England +23 8 £58,000 -43.41% 106
Yorkshire +59 7 - - 38
East of England +37 6 £62,000 -46.09% 98
East Midlands +32 1 £55,000 - 35
North West -15 1 £58,000 -27.04% 56
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.23%) Confluence
3 2 (2.41%) Apache
4 1 (1.20%) SAS
4 1 (1.20%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.20%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.20%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Fidessa
2 2 (2.41%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.69%) AWS
2 17 (20.48%) Azure
3 10 (12.05%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (12.05%) Amazon S3
4 9 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (10.84%) Amazon ELB
4 9 (10.84%) Amazon Glacier
4 9 (10.84%) AWS KMS
4 9 (10.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (9.64%) Entra ID
6 7 (8.43%) SaaS
7 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.82%) Serverless
8 3 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (3.61%) GCP
9 2 (2.41%) IaaS
10 1 (1.20%) Google App Engine
10 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (24.10%) Firewall
2 14 (16.87%) DNS
2 14 (16.87%) TCP/IP
3 11 (13.25%) FTP
3 11 (13.25%) HTTP
3 11 (13.25%) SMTP
4 8 (9.64%) DHCP
5 7 (8.43%) Internet
5 7 (8.43%) Network Security
6 6 (7.23%) LAN
6 6 (7.23%) SSH
6 6 (7.23%) VPN
6 6 (7.23%) WAN
7 4 (4.82%) FIX Connectivity
8 3 (3.61%) Multicast
8 3 (3.61%) SSL
8 3 (3.61%) VLAN
9 1 (1.20%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (1.20%) RTP
9 1 (1.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.84%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (7.23%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.82%) MySQL
3 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.20%) Big Data
4 1 (1.20%) DB2
4 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (21.69%) Git
2 13 (15.66%) Jenkins
3 9 (10.84%) JIRA
3 9 (10.84%) Vagrant
4 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (3.61%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.20%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.20%) NetBeans
5 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (24.10%) Finance
2 18 (21.69%) Social Skills
3 15 (18.07%) Telecoms
4 8 (9.64%) Banking
5 7 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.23%) Billing
7 5 (6.02%) Aerospace
7 5 (6.02%) Military
8 4 (4.82%) Legal
9 3 (3.61%) Electronics
9 3 (3.61%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.61%) Law
9 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.61%) Spanish Language
10 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.20%) Advertising
11 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (13.25%) Linux Engineer
1 11 (13.25%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (12.05%) Analyst
2 10 (12.05%) Support Analyst
3 9 (10.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (10.84%) Lead
3 9 (10.84%) Security Engineer
3 9 (10.84%) Senior
4 8 (9.64%) Linux Support
5 7 (8.43%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Applications Support
7 5 (6.02%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (4.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) FIX Support Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) IAM Specialist
8 4 (4.82%) SQL Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) SQL Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) .NET
1 6 (7.23%) LDAP
2 4 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.82%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (4.82%) REST
3 2 (2.41%) HTML
3 2 (2.41%) LAMP
4 1 (1.20%) CSS
4 1 (1.20%) Flutter
4 1 (1.20%) FreeSWITCH
4 1 (1.20%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.20%) J2EE
4 1 (1.20%) JDBC
4 1 (1.20%) JSON
4 1 (1.20%) JSP
4 1 (1.20%) Node.js
4 1 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.20%) Servlets
4 1 (1.20%) Spring
4 1 (1.20%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (7.23%) Client/Server
2 6 (7.23%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (6.02%) Equities
3 5 (6.02%) Replication
4 4 (4.82%) Bitcoin
4 4 (4.82%) Derivative
4 4 (4.82%) e-Learning
4 4 (4.82%) Eurex
4 4 (4.82%) Fixed Income
4 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.61%) Clustering
5 3 (3.61%) FPGA
5 3 (3.61%) GNSS
5 3 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.61%) MicroBlaze
5 3 (3.61%) Satnav
5 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.61%) VHDL
6 2 (2.41%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 53 (63.86%) Linux
2 16 (19.28%) Windows
3 15 (18.07%) Unix
4 11 (13.25%) VMS
5 8 (9.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (8.43%) Windows Server
7 6 (7.23%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (4.82%) CentOS
8 4 (4.82%) Rocky
8 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
9 3 (3.61%) Solaris
10 1 (1.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.51%) DevOps
2 18 (21.69%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (18.07%) CI/CD
4 14 (16.87%) Agile
4 14 (16.87%) Configuration Management
4 14 (16.87%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (14.46%) Cloud Security
6 12 (14.46%) High Availability
7 10 (12.05%) Patch Management
7 10 (12.05%) Security Hardening
8 9 (10.84%) SIEM
9 8 (9.64%) Database Security
9 8 (9.64%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (9.64%) Innovative Thinking
9 8 (9.64%) Software Engineering
9 8 (9.64%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 7 (8.43%) Data Analysis
10 7 (8.43%) Security Operations
10 7 (8.43%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 66 (79.52%) Python
2 34 (40.96%) Bash
3 26 (31.33%) PowerShell
4 17 (20.48%) SQL
5 15 (18.07%) C++
5 15 (18.07%) Java
6 10 (12.05%) Groovy
7 8 (9.64%) C
7 8 (9.64%) MATLAB
7 8 (9.64%) Shell Script
8 7 (8.43%) PHP
8 7 (8.43%) R
9 6 (7.23%) Ruby
10 4 (4.82%) Tcl
11 3 (3.61%) C#
11 3 (3.61%) VB
12 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
13 1 (1.20%) Go
13 1 (1.20%) Rust
13 1 (1.20%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 27 (32.53%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (18.07%) Degree
4 9 (10.84%) DV Cleared
5 7 (8.43%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.61%) PhD
8 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.41%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.20%) LPIC
9 1 (1.20%) MCSE
9 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.20%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) NIST
2 8 (9.64%) GDPR
3 7 (8.43%) Accessibility
3 7 (8.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 13 (15.66%) Docker
2 9 (10.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.61%) DFS Replication
3 3 (3.61%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (3.61%) Firmware
3 3 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.41%) Postfix
4 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.20%) Corosync
5 1 (1.20%) GPFS
5 1 (1.20%) Kamailio
5 1 (1.20%) KVM
5 1 (1.20%) Lustre
5 1 (1.20%) NFS
Systems Management
1 17 (20.48%) Ansible
2 12 (14.46%) Terraform
3 11 (13.25%) Grafana
4 7 (8.43%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.23%) Kubernetes
5 6 (7.23%) QRadar
5 6 (7.23%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (6.02%) Nagios
6 5 (6.02%) Proxmox
7 4 (4.82%) Puppet
8 3 (3.61%) Nessus
9 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.41%) SCOM
9 2 (2.41%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.20%) Icinga
10 1 (1.20%) Kibana
10 1 (1.20%) Pacemaker
10 1 (1.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 19 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.48%) Red Hat
3 9 (10.84%) ServiceNow
3 9 (10.84%) Splunk
4 7 (8.43%) Atlassian
4 7 (8.43%) Oracle
5 4 (4.82%) Bloomberg
5 4 (4.82%) CQG
5 4 (4.82%) ION Trading
5 4 (4.82%) Okta
5 4 (4.82%) Patsystems
5 4 (4.82%) Reuters
5 4 (4.82%) Trayport
5 4 (4.82%) VMware
6 3 (3.61%) Altera
6 3 (3.61%) Green Hills
6 3 (3.61%) Juniper
6 3 (3.61%) Xilinx
7 2 (2.41%) ArcSight
7 2 (2.41%) Google