Perl Job Trends in the Midlands

Perl
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Perl skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 268 235
Rank change year-on-year +69 -33 +50
Permanent jobs citing Perl 33 15 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.59% 0.15% 0.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.66% 0.63% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17 7 8
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £56,500 £45,750 £32,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% +44.74% -30.91%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £43,311
90th Percentile - £97,178 £54,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,242 2,365 1,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.15% 23.43% 34.17%
Number of salaries quoted 952 1,419 1,569
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,750 £39,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,617 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -3.85% +1.63%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the Midlands

Perl
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Perl.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Perl

Perl
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Perl in the Midlands

Perl
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
West Midlands +66 31 £72,500 +31.82% 3
East Midlands +26 2 - - 4
Perl
England

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 18 (54.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 23 (69.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 23 (69.70%) Amazon EC2
1 23 (69.70%) Amazon ELB
1 23 (69.70%) Amazon Glacier
1 23 (69.70%) Amazon S3
1 23 (69.70%) AWS
1 23 (69.70%) AWS KMS
1 23 (69.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (63.64%) DNS
2 20 (60.61%) Firewall
3 19 (57.58%) FTP
3 19 (57.58%) HTTP
3 19 (57.58%) SMTP
3 19 (57.58%) SSH
4 3 (9.09%) SSL
5 2 (6.06%) DHCP
5 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (69.70%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (69.70%) Jenkins
1 23 (69.70%) Vagrant
2 18 (54.55%) Git
2 18 (54.55%) JIRA
3 7 (21.21%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (6.06%) Subversion
General
1 18 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 11 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 8 (24.24%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Law
5 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Applications Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Applications Support
4 4 (12.12%) Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) SIEM Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (12.12%) XML
2 2 (6.06%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Replication
2 2 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 31 (93.94%) Linux
2 23 (69.70%) VMS
3 18 (54.55%) Amazon Linux
4 14 (42.42%) Windows
5 3 (9.09%) Ubuntu
6 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (75.76%) Cloud Security
1 25 (75.76%) Configuration Management
2 23 (69.70%) DevOps
3 22 (66.67%) Patch Management
4 19 (57.58%) Change Management
5 17 (51.52%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (27.27%) Agile
7 6 (18.18%) ITIL
7 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (18.18%) Process Improvement
8 5 (15.15%) Servant Leadership
8 5 (15.15%) Workshop Facilitation
9 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (12.12%) Incident Management
9 4 (12.12%) Project Management
9 4 (12.12%) SIEM
10 3 (9.09%) Capacity Management
10 3 (9.09%) Key Management
10 3 (9.09%) Server Management
11 2 (6.06%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) Python
2 25 (75.76%) Java
3 23 (69.70%) Groovy
4 18 (54.55%) PowerShell
5 5 (15.15%) Ruby
6 4 (12.12%) Bash
6 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
7 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
8 2 (6.06%) C
8 2 (6.06%) C#
8 2 (6.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (60.61%) SC Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) AWS Certification
3 8 (24.24%) Degree
4 6 (18.18%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.06%) HND
5 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.06%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (63.64%) Docker
2 20 (60.61%) Active Directory
3 7 (21.21%) DFS Replication
4 3 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (69.70%) Terraform
2 18 (54.55%) Grafana
2 18 (54.55%) Prometheus
3 5 (15.15%) Ansible
3 5 (15.15%) Nagios
4 3 (9.09%) Nessus
4 3 (9.09%) Proxmox
5 2 (6.06%) Kibana
5 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.06%) Puppet
5 2 (6.06%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (60.61%) ServiceNow
2 4 (12.12%) Splunk
3 3 (9.09%) Juniper
4 2 (6.06%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (6.06%) ArcSight
4 2 (6.06%) LogRhythm
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.06%) Siemens
4 2 (6.06%) Toshiba