Perl Job Trends in the South East

Perl
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Perl skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 244 279
Rank change year-on-year +10 +35 +32
Permanent jobs citing Perl 38 23 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.31% 0.32% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% 0.97% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 38 18 63
10th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,125 £40,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £105,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.76% +75.00% +29.73%
75th Percentile £59,500 £112,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £115,000 -
England median annual salary £58,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +3.57% -1.75%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,934 2,383 4,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.75% 33.07% 30.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,484 1,562 3,734
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,600 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Perl job vacancy trend in the South East

Perl
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Perl.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Perl

Perl
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl in the South East over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Perl in the South East

Perl
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Hampshire - 22 £58,000 - 5
Surrey -11 11 £47,500 +46.15% 1
West Sussex -5 3 £62,500 +13.64% 1
Middlesex - 2 £47,500 -
Perl
England

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 22 (57.89%) Exchange Server 2003
1 22 (57.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.89%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (81.58%) DNS
2 22 (57.89%) DHCP
3 9 (23.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (57.89%) Oracle Database
1 22 (57.89%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) GitLab
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 22 (57.89%) Systems Support
2 21 (55.26%) 3rd Line Support
3 13 (34.21%) Linux Engineer
4 12 (31.58%) Support Engineer
5 11 (28.95%) Linux Support
5 11 (28.95%) Linux Support Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Implementation Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Implementation Specialist
6 4 (10.53%) Linux Specialist
6 4 (10.53%) Product Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Product Specialist
6 4 (10.53%) Products Support Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Products Support Specialist
6 4 (10.53%) Support Specialist
7 3 (7.89%) Senior
8 2 (5.26%) Lead
8 2 (5.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 2 (5.26%) Project Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Project Leader
8 2 (5.26%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
1 4 (10.53%) Video on Demand
1 4 (10.53%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (5.26%) Clustering
2 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (57.89%) HPUX
1 22 (57.89%) Solaris
1 22 (57.89%) Unix
1 22 (57.89%) Windows
1 22 (57.89%) Windows 7
1 22 (57.89%) Windows Server 2003
1 22 (57.89%) Windows Server 2008
2 16 (42.11%) Linux
3 13 (34.21%) CentOS
3 13 (34.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (57.89%) Incident Management
2 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (23.68%) Migration
4 4 (10.53%) High Availability
5 3 (7.89%) CI/CD
5 3 (7.89%) Containerisation
5 3 (7.89%) ITIL
5 3 (7.89%) ITSM
6 2 (5.26%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (5.26%) Project Delivery
7 1 (2.63%) Computer Science
7 1 (2.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (2.63%) DevOps
7 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (2.63%) People Management
7 1 (2.63%) Proactive Monitoring
7 1 (2.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (2.63%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (57.89%) PowerShell
2 16 (42.11%) Python
3 9 (23.68%) PHP
4 7 (18.42%) Bash
5 4 (10.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (57.89%) DV Cleared
1 22 (57.89%) SC Cleared
1 22 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) LPIC
3 2 (5.26%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (57.89%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (57.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Ansible
1 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.89%) Puppet
1 3 (7.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (57.89%) Microsoft
1 22 (57.89%) Oracle
1 22 (57.89%) VMware
2 3 (7.89%) HP