Perl Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Perl
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 176 154
Rank change year-on-year -10 -22 +83
Permanent jobs citing Perl 6 24 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.16% 0.55% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.02% 1.84% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 17
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £43,911 £48,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £55,100
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +27.04% +12.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £71,250
90th Percentile - - £82,250
South East median annual salary £58,000 £62,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.20% +25.00% -2.44%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 588 1,301 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.42% 29.56% 43.17%
Number of salaries quoted 377 733 1,022
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £89,875
South East median annual salary £55,000 £56,525 £57,250
% change year-on-year -2.70% -1.27% -0.12%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Perl job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Perl
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Perl.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Perl

Perl
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Oxfordshire +14 3 - -
Berkshire -22 3 £90,000 -14.29% 2
Perl
South East

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) DHCP
2 3 (50.00%) InfiniBand
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) FTP
3 2 (33.33%) HTTP
3 2 (33.33%) SMTP
3 2 (33.33%) SSH
4 1 (16.67%) 4G
4 1 (16.67%) 5G
4 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (33.33%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) FPGA
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) PCIe
2 1 (16.67%) Smart City
2 1 (16.67%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (33.33%) VMS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (50.00%) Data Management
1 3 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) Groovy
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (50.00%) LPIC
2 3 (50.00%) MCSE
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (50.00%) RHCE
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) GPFS
1 3 (50.00%) Lustre
1 3 (50.00%) NFS
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) DFS Replication
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow