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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 247 211
Rank change year-on-year +61 -36 +84
Permanent jobs citing Perl 28 17 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.49% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.41% 0.79% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 17 6 8
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £31,875
25th Percentile £56,500 £51,813 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +57.89% -30.91%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,125 £48,624
90th Percentile - £102,723 £68,875
England median annual salary £59,000 £72,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year -18.62% +5.45% -1.00%

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 1,161 2,146 1,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.45% 24.08% 35.96%
Number of salaries quoted 948 1,179 1,501
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% +1.90%
75th Percentile £67,813 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 7 November 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 7 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
West Midlands +62 26 £72,500 +20.83% 10
East Midlands +21 2 - - 1
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 18 (64.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 20 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
1 20 (71.43%) Amazon ELB
1 20 (71.43%) Amazon Glacier
1 20 (71.43%) Amazon S3
1 20 (71.43%) AWS
1 20 (71.43%) AWS KMS
1 20 (71.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 6 (21.43%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 19 (67.86%) DNS
1 19 (67.86%) FTP
1 19 (67.86%) HTTP
1 19 (67.86%) SMTP
1 19 (67.86%) SSH
2 17 (60.71%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 20 (71.43%) Vagrant
2 18 (64.29%) Git
2 18 (64.29%) JIRA
3 7 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (7.14%) Subversion
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Public Sector
3 8 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 4 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) SIEM Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) XML
2 2 (7.14%) CSS
2 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Replication
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 26 (92.86%) Linux
2 20 (71.43%) VMS
3 18 (64.29%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (32.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) Cloud Security
2 20 (71.43%) Configuration Management
2 20 (71.43%) DevOps
3 19 (67.86%) Change Management
4 17 (60.71%) Patch Management
5 14 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (21.43%) Process Improvement
7 5 (17.86%) Servant Leadership
7 5 (17.86%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (14.29%) Agile
8 4 (14.29%) Incident Management
8 4 (14.29%) ITIL
8 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.29%) Project Management
9 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
9 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (7.14%) OO
9 2 (7.14%) Penetration Testing
9 2 (7.14%) SIEM
9 2 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (78.57%) Java
3 20 (71.43%) Groovy
4 18 (64.29%) PowerShell
5 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.14%) Bash
6 2 (7.14%) C
6 2 (7.14%) C#
6 2 (7.14%) Ruby
6 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 20 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 8 (28.57%) Degree
3 6 (21.43%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.14%) HND
4 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (64.29%) Docker
2 17 (60.71%) Active Directory
3 7 (25.00%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 20 (71.43%) Terraform
2 18 (64.29%) Grafana
2 18 (64.29%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.14%) Kibana
3 2 (7.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.14%) Allen-Bradley
2 2 (7.14%) LogRhythm
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Siemens
2 2 (7.14%) Splunk
2 2 (7.14%) Toshiba