Perl Job Trends in London

Perl
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Perl skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 360 357
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +99
Permanent jobs citing Perl 24 77 110
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.20% 0.45% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.53% 1.05% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 20 60 94
10th Percentile £66,000 £53,375 £46,125
25th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% -7.35% +11.48%
75th Percentile £77,813 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £122,500 £101,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £72,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year -18.62% +5.45% -1.00%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,513 7,324 8,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 37.08% 42.33% 45.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,981 4,812 7,571
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Perl job vacancy trend in London

Perl
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Perl.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Perl

Perl
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl in London over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Perl in London

Perl
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the London region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
South London - 2 - - 3
Perl
England

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Solr
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.33%) AWS KMS
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.17%) Mimecast
4 1 (4.17%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
1 3 (12.50%) FTP
1 3 (12.50%) SSH
2 2 (8.33%) HTTP
2 2 (8.33%) SMTP
3 1 (4.17%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (4.17%) DMARC
3 1 (4.17%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) RTP
3 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.17%) VoIP
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (4.17%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Subversion
2 2 (8.33%) Vagrant
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (58.33%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (54.17%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Quality Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Integration Developer
6 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) IT Security Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Pentaho Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms Administrator
6 1 (4.17%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (8.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.17%) CSS
2 1 (4.17%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (4.17%) HTML
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) LAMP
2 1 (4.17%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) libvirt
2 1 (4.17%) Node.js
2 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) Clustering
2 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Windows
3 3 (12.50%) Unix
4 2 (8.33%) Solaris
4 2 (8.33%) VMS
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 15 (62.50%) DevOps
2 13 (54.17%) Data Security
2 13 (54.17%) Security Hardening
3 12 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Agile
6 3 (12.50%) AI
6 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 3 (12.50%) OO
6 3 (12.50%) Process Improvement
7 2 (8.33%) Anomaly Detection
7 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 2 (8.33%) Prototyping
7 2 (8.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 2 (8.33%) Threat Detection
7 2 (8.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (79.17%) Python
2 15 (62.50%) Bash
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) Groovy
4 2 (8.33%) Java
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.33%) PHP
4 2 (8.33%) Ruby
4 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.17%) Bourne shell
5 1 (4.17%) C-shell
5 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.33%) MCP
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (54.17%) GDPR
1 13 (54.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Corosync
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.17%) Kamailio
2 1 (4.17%) KVM
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (62.50%) Ansible
2 12 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (20.83%) Terraform
4 2 (8.33%) Grafana
4 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (8.33%) Nagios
5 1 (4.17%) CASB
5 1 (4.17%) Icinga
5 1 (4.17%) Opsgenie
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (4.17%) Pacemaker
5 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.17%) QRadar
5 1 (4.17%) SCCM
5 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Qualys
3 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.17%) EMC
4 1 (4.17%) Exabeam
4 1 (4.17%) Forcepoint
4 1 (4.17%) HP
4 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Thales
4 1 (4.17%) VocaLink