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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 166 151
Rank change year-on-year -28 -15 +98
Permanent jobs citing Perl 7 25 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.18% 0.52% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.03% 1.87% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2 16 18
10th Percentile £87,750 £38,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £91,875 £39,500 £48,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £48,000 £55,100
Median % change year-on-year +113.54% -12.89% +12.11%
75th Percentile £111,875 £56,500 £70,313
90th Percentile £115,250 £105,000 £71,250
South East median annual salary £54,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.22% -2.00% -

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 679 1,335 1,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.25% 27.70% 42.18%
Number of salaries quoted 393 833 1,150
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £47,598
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -5.79% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,625
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Perl 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
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Perl in the Thames Valley

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 16 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
Oxfordshire +28 4 £115,000 +155.66%
Berkshire -26 3 £90,000 +87.50% 2
Perl
South East

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon ELB
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Glacier
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) InfiniBand
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) FTP
3 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 2 (28.57%) SMTP
3 2 (28.57%) SSH
4 1 (14.29%) 4G
4 1 (14.29%) 5G
4 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (28.57%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior FPGA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Verification Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) PCIe
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) ASIC
2 1 (14.29%) ASIC Verification
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) FPGA
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) NVMe
2 1 (14.29%) Smart City
2 1 (14.29%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (28.57%) VMS
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
1 3 (42.86%) Data Management
1 3 (42.86%) Low Latency
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) Project Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Servant Leadership
2 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (14.29%) Electronic Design Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
3 1 (14.29%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Groovy
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) SystemVerilog
4 1 (14.29%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (42.86%) LPIC
2 3 (42.86%) MCSE
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (42.86%) RHCE
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) GPFS
1 3 (42.86%) Lustre
1 3 (42.86%) NFS
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) DFS Replication
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Cadence
2 1 (14.29%) Siemens
2 1 (14.29%) Synopsys