Perl Job Trends in Scotland

Perl
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Perl skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 187 150
Rank change year-on-year +40 -37 +60
Permanent jobs citing Perl 5 8 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.20% 0.19% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.75% 0.44% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £42,625 £47,125 -
25th Percentile £44,688 £52,188 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +33.33% -34.55%
75th Percentile £59,688 £81,362 -
90th Percentile £62,875 £110,812 -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +6.56%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 668 1,826 1,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.16% 42.33% 38.83%
Number of salaries quoted 237 700 827
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,875 £35,733
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,747 £71,966
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Perl in Scotland

Perl
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Perl.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Perl

Perl
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Perl in Scotland

Perl
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Glasgow +68 4 £60,000 -54.00%
Renfrewshire - 1 £42,500 -
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Database Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) DBA
2 3 (60.00%) Python Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) SAP Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (60.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) RHCE
1 1 (20.00%) RHCSA
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) KVM
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) VMware