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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 525 429
Rank change year-on-year +3 -96 +26
Permanent jobs citing Perl 80 154 248
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.15% 0.32% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.78% 0.93% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 58 79 191
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,911 £39,720
25th Percentile £53,500 £55,000 £49,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £72,500 £68,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +6.62% -6.21%

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 10,196 16,541 18,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.57% 33.95% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7,688 9,726 15,182
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,625 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +14 33 £58,000 -44.76% 33
London +28 26 £72,500 - 14
Midlands +22 12 £54,500 -5.22% 20
West Midlands +29 10 £54,500 -9.17% 12
North of England -1 9 - - 17
Yorkshire -15 9 - - 10
East Midlands -10 2 - - 7
South West -7 1 - - 9
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 23 (28.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (27.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (5.00%) Confluence
4 3 (3.75%) Apache
5 2 (2.50%) nginx
6 1 (1.25%) Apache Solr
6 1 (1.25%) IIS
6 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.25%) Siemens NX
1 1 (1.25%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.25%) AWS
2 8 (10.00%) SaaS
3 7 (8.75%) Azure
4 6 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
5 5 (6.25%) Amazon Glacier
5 5 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.25%) AWS KMS
5 5 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.50%) GCP
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.25%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.25%) Pulumi
8 1 (1.25%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (41.25%) DNS
2 24 (30.00%) DHCP
3 8 (10.00%) HTTP
4 6 (7.50%) FTP
4 6 (7.50%) SSH
5 5 (6.25%) SMTP
6 4 (5.00%) Firewall
7 3 (3.75%) Internet
7 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.75%) WAN
8 2 (2.50%) LAN
8 2 (2.50%) NAS
8 2 (2.50%) SAN
8 2 (2.50%) SNMP
9 1 (1.25%) 4G
9 1 (1.25%) 5G
9 1 (1.25%) DMARC
9 1 (1.25%) Network Security
9 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (30.00%) Oracle Database
2 22 (27.50%) Oracle Database 10g
3 5 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.00%) MySQL
5 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.50%) Big Data
6 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.50%) Informix
7 1 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.25%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Git
2 6 (7.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.25%) JIRA
3 5 (6.25%) Vagrant
4 2 (2.50%) GitLab
4 2 (2.50%) Subversion
5 1 (1.25%) Android Studio
5 1 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.25%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.25%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.25%) Xcode
General
1 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.75%) Law
4 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.50%) Banking
5 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.50%) Legal
5 2 (2.50%) Marketing
5 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Public Speaking
6 1 (1.25%) Advertising
6 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) Systems Support
2 21 (26.25%) 3rd Line Support
3 20 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
4 19 (23.75%) Senior
5 17 (21.25%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (13.75%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (10.00%) Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
8 7 (8.75%) Support Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) Applications Support
10 5 (6.25%) Linux Support
10 5 (6.25%) Linux Support Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Applications Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Implementation Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Implementation Specialist
11 4 (5.00%) Linux Specialist
11 4 (5.00%) Products Support Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Products Support Specialist
11 4 (5.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) CSS
2 4 (5.00%) XML
3 3 (3.75%) LDAP
4 2 (2.50%) HTML
4 2 (2.50%) Kafka
4 2 (2.50%) LAMP
4 2 (2.50%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.50%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.25%) Ajax
5 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.25%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.25%) NestJS
5 1 (1.25%) Node.js
5 1 (1.25%) React
5 1 (1.25%) REST
5 1 (1.25%) RESTful
5 1 (1.25%) SOAP
5 1 (1.25%) SvelteKit
5 1 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.00%) Video on Demand
2 4 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.75%) FPGA
3 3 (3.75%) IoT
3 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Clustering
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.25%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) PCIe
5 1 (1.25%) Smart City
5 1 (1.25%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 46 (57.50%) Linux
2 28 (35.00%) Unix
2 28 (35.00%) Windows
3 24 (30.00%) Solaris
4 22 (27.50%) HPUX
4 22 (27.50%) Windows 7
4 22 (27.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 22 (27.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (13.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (12.50%) CentOS
7 5 (6.25%) VMS
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (2.50%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
10 1 (1.25%) Android
10 1 (1.25%) Debian
10 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.75%) Incident Management
2 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (23.75%) DevOps
4 13 (16.25%) CI/CD
4 13 (16.25%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (15.00%) Computer Science
5 12 (15.00%) Project Management
6 11 (13.75%) Change Management
6 11 (13.75%) Process Improvement
7 10 (12.50%) Data Security
7 10 (12.50%) Security Hardening
8 8 (10.00%) Cloud Security
8 8 (10.00%) Project Delivery
9 7 (8.75%) Configuration Management
10 6 (7.50%) Agile
10 6 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (7.50%) ITIL
10 6 (7.50%) Penetration Testing
11 5 (6.25%) High Availability
11 5 (6.25%) OO
Programming Languages
1 50 (62.50%) Python
2 29 (36.25%) PowerShell
3 20 (25.00%) Bash
4 19 (23.75%) Java
5 13 (16.25%) SQL
6 10 (12.50%) C
7 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.25%) Groovy
8 5 (6.25%) PHP
8 5 (6.25%) Shell Script
9 4 (5.00%) Ruby
10 2 (2.50%) C#
11 1 (1.25%) Bourne shell
11 1 (1.25%) C++
11 1 (1.25%) C-shell
11 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.25%) Scala
11 1 (1.25%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 28 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (27.50%) DV Cleared
3 15 (18.75%) Degree
4 9 (11.25%) Master's Degree
5 8 (10.00%) HND
6 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.75%) CISSP
7 3 (3.75%) OSCP
8 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.50%) CEH
8 2 (2.50%) CISA
8 2 (2.50%) MCP
9 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.25%) CISM
9 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.25%) GCFA
9 1 (1.25%) GCFE
9 1 (1.25%) GCIH
9 1 (1.25%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (28.75%) SLA
2 11 (13.75%) GDPR
3 10 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.25%) NIST
4 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 27 (33.75%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.75%) Docker
3 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (21.25%) Ansible
2 11 (13.75%) Red Hat Satellite
2 11 (13.75%) Terraform
3 5 (6.25%) Grafana
4 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.50%) CSIRT
6 2 (2.50%) Nagios
6 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (1.25%) CASB
7 1 (1.25%) Kibana
7 1 (1.25%) Opsgenie
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (1.25%) Puppet
7 1 (1.25%) QRadar
7 1 (1.25%) SCCM
7 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (37.50%) Oracle
2 28 (35.00%) Microsoft
3 25 (31.25%) VMware
4 14 (17.50%) Red Hat
5 9 (11.25%) Siemens
6 8 (10.00%) Allen-Bradley
6 8 (10.00%) HP
6 8 (10.00%) Toshiba
7 5 (6.25%) Splunk
8 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.75%) EMC
10 2 (2.50%) CyberArk
10 2 (2.50%) Dell
10 2 (2.50%) IBM
10 2 (2.50%) Qualys
11 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 1 (1.25%) Cisco
11 1 (1.25%) Citrix
11 1 (1.25%) Forcepoint
11 1 (1.25%) VocaLink