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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 235 219
Rank change year-on-year +19 -16 +71
Permanent jobs citing Perl 11 13 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.14% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 0.76% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile - £50,000 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,875 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +53.33% -37.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,875 £42,749
90th Percentile - £67,250 £59,250
England median annual salary £58,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +3.57% -3.45%

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 1,141 1,706 1,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.53% 26.68% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 930 926 1,624
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,001 £64,500
90th Percentile £78,754 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Perl job vacancy trend 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 15 January 2026.

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 15 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
West Midlands +23 9 £50,000 -16.67% 3
East Midlands -17 2 - - 6
Perl
England

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon ELB
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon Glacier
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon S3
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) AWS KMS
1 5 (45.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
1 5 (45.45%) FTP
1 5 (45.45%) HTTP
1 5 (45.45%) SMTP
1 5 (45.45%) SSH
2 3 (27.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
1 5 (45.45%) Vagrant
2 3 (27.27%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) Subversion
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Applications Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Applications Support
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) XML
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) VMS
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Change Management
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Security
1 5 (45.45%) Configuration Management
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Process Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) Project Management
3 3 (27.27%) Patch Management
3 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) OO
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Java
3 5 (45.45%) Groovy
4 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
5 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
6 2 (18.18%) C
6 2 (18.18%) C#
6 2 (18.18%) Ruby
6 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) HND
2 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Grafana
2 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
3 2 (18.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 2 (18.18%) Allen-Bradley
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Siemens
2 2 (18.18%) Toshiba