Perl Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Perl
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Perl skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 459 520
Rank change year-on-year -42 +61 -105
Permanent jobs citing Perl 46 67 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.60% 0.75% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 41 34 122
10th Percentile £46,250 £33,125 £37,558
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £67,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.07% +14.89% -9.62%
75th Percentile £59,500 £112,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £63,750 - £83,750
UK median annual salary £58,000 £72,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% +9.43% -8.62%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7,709 8,883 19,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.75% 31.55% 33.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,492 5,840 15,494
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,976 £43,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK 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 UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Perl relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Perl job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Perl
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Perl.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Perl

Perl
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +5 39 £58,000 -44.76% 21
North of England -46 5 £80,000 -6.16% 17
Yorkshire -50 5 £80,000 -6.16% 10
Scotland -15 1 - - 4
South West -28 1 - - 9
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (47.83%) Exchange Server 2003
1 22 (47.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Photoshop
1 1 (2.17%) Siemens NX
1 1 (2.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) SaaS
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (2.17%) AWS
2 1 (2.17%) Azure
2 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.17%) Pulumi
2 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (67.39%) DNS
2 22 (47.83%) DHCP
3 9 (19.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (47.83%) Oracle Database
1 22 (47.83%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (2.17%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) GitLab
1 3 (6.52%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) Subversion
General
1 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.35%) Finance
2 2 (4.35%) Marketing
2 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (4.35%) Public Speaking
3 1 (2.17%) Advertising
3 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) Systems Support
2 21 (45.65%) 3rd Line Support
3 15 (32.61%) Linux Engineer
4 12 (26.09%) Support Engineer
5 11 (23.91%) Linux Support
5 11 (23.91%) Linux Support Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Senior
7 4 (8.70%) Implementation Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Implementation Specialist
7 4 (8.70%) Linux Specialist
7 4 (8.70%) Product Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Product Specialist
7 4 (8.70%) Products Support Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Products Support Specialist
7 4 (8.70%) Support Specialist
8 3 (6.52%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Administrator
9 2 (4.35%) Project Leader
9 2 (4.35%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) CSS
1 2 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (2.17%) NestJS
2 1 (2.17%) RESTful
2 1 (2.17%) SOAP
2 1 (2.17%) SvelteKit
2 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
1 4 (8.70%) Video on Demand
1 4 (8.70%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (4.35%) Clustering
2 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.17%) Hackathon
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.17%) Replication
3 1 (2.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 22 (47.83%) HPUX
1 22 (47.83%) Solaris
1 22 (47.83%) Unix
1 22 (47.83%) Windows
1 22 (47.83%) Windows 7
1 22 (47.83%) Windows Server 2003
1 22 (47.83%) Windows Server 2008
2 18 (39.13%) Linux
3 13 (28.26%) CentOS
3 13 (28.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) Incident Management
2 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (19.57%) Migration
4 4 (8.70%) High Availability
5 3 (6.52%) CI/CD
5 3 (6.52%) Containerisation
5 3 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (6.52%) ITIL
5 3 (6.52%) ITSM
5 3 (6.52%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (4.35%) Customer Experience
6 2 (4.35%) Customer Service
6 2 (4.35%) Data Modelling
6 2 (4.35%) Objectives and Key Results
6 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (4.35%) Presales
6 2 (4.35%) Project Delivery
6 2 (4.35%) Project Management
6 2 (4.35%) Red Team
6 2 (4.35%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) PowerShell
2 20 (43.48%) Python
3 9 (19.57%) PHP
4 7 (15.22%) Bash
5 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.35%) C++
7 2 (4.35%) Java
7 2 (4.35%) Ruby
8 1 (2.17%) C
8 1 (2.17%) SQL
8 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (52.17%) DV Cleared
1 24 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 22 (47.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 3 (6.52%) LPIC
5 2 (4.35%) CEH
5 2 (4.35%) CISA
5 2 (4.35%) CISSP
5 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.35%) Linux+ Certification
5 2 (4.35%) OSCP
6 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.17%) OCA
6 1 (2.17%) OCP
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (47.83%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (47.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Terraform
2 3 (6.52%) Ansible
2 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (52.17%) Oracle
2 22 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 22 (47.83%) VMware
3 3 (6.52%) HP
4 2 (4.35%) Siemens