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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 162 223
Rank change year-on-year -1 +61 -25
Permanent jobs citing Perl 4 9 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.071% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.46% 1.15% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,250 £97,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £107,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.26% +123.96% +12.94%
75th Percentile £83,750 £115,000 £56,500
90th Percentile - £115,750 £78,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -40.63% +33.33% +33.33%

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 871 784 1,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.57% 26.09% 28.90%
Number of salaries quoted 635 533 1,598
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,250 £36,425
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 2 May 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
Berkshire +3 4 £82,500 -21.43%
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) Artifactory
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (50.00%) YAML
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 4 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Security Hardening
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
3 2 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Release Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Groovy
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian