Perl Jobs in the UK excluding London

Perl
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Perl skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Perl over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 579 346
Rank change year-on-year +61 -233 +63
Permanent jobs citing Perl 53 188 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.26% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.52% 0.83% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 27 113 182
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,900 £38,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year - -1.93% +22.36%
75th Percentile £69,375 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £122,500 £109,004
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £69,099
% change year-on-year +3.85% -5.93% +14.21%

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 10,207 22,714 23,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.25% 30.84% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,599 16,483 13,211
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,296 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,963
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
South East +34 14 £37,250 -37.92% 128
Midlands +58 13 £72,500 +72.62% 89
West Midlands +64 12 £72,500 +72.62% 48
North of England +22 9 £58,000 -43.41% 109
South West +88 8 £80,000 +33.33% 63
Yorkshire +63 7 - - 39
East of England +39 6 £62,000 -46.09% 103
Scotland +115 3 £54,254 -9.58% 55
North West -19 2 £58,000 -27.04% 57
East Midlands +37 1 £55,000 - 35
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (11.32%) Confluence
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.66%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.42%) AWS
2 10 (18.87%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (18.87%) Amazon S3
3 9 (16.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (16.98%) Amazon ELB
3 9 (16.98%) Amazon Glacier
3 9 (16.98%) AWS KMS
3 9 (16.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (7.55%) Azure
4 4 (7.55%) SaaS
4 4 (7.55%) Serverless
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.89%) GCP
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (28.30%) Firewall
2 12 (22.64%) FTP
2 12 (22.64%) HTTP
3 11 (20.75%) SMTP
4 10 (18.87%) DNS
5 9 (16.98%) TCP/IP
6 7 (13.21%) Network Security
7 6 (11.32%) Internet
7 6 (11.32%) LAN
7 6 (11.32%) SSH
7 6 (11.32%) VPN
7 6 (11.32%) WAN
8 4 (7.55%) SSL
9 3 (5.66%) DHCP
10 1 (1.89%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.89%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (11.32%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.66%) MySQL
4 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (22.64%) Jenkins
2 9 (16.98%) Git
2 9 (16.98%) Vagrant
3 7 (13.21%) JIRA
4 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (5.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.89%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.53%) Telecoms
3 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.32%) Billing
5 5 (9.43%) Aerospace
5 5 (9.43%) Finance
5 5 (9.43%) Military
6 4 (7.55%) Legal
7 3 (5.66%) Electronics
7 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.77%) Law
8 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Banking
9 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (16.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (13.21%) Analyst
2 7 (13.21%) Principal Engineer
2 7 (13.21%) Senior
2 7 (13.21%) Software Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Lead
3 6 (11.32%) Support Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (7.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) IAM Specialist
5 4 (7.55%) Linux Support
6 3 (5.66%) FPGA Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Operations Support Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior FPGA Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior VHDL Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) VHDL Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) LDAP
2 4 (7.55%) .NET
2 4 (7.55%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.66%) LAMP
4 2 (3.77%) Flutter
4 2 (3.77%) Node.js
4 2 (3.77%) React
5 1 (1.89%) EDI
5 1 (1.89%) JSON
5 1 (1.89%) Loki
5 1 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.89%) REST
5 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Client/Server
1 6 (11.32%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (9.43%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (9.43%) Replication
3 4 (7.55%) e-Learning
3 4 (7.55%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.66%) FPGA
4 3 (5.66%) GNSS
4 3 (5.66%) MicroBlaze
4 3 (5.66%) Satnav
4 3 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.66%) VHDL
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.89%) ASIC
5 1 (1.89%) ASIC Verification
5 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Life Science
5 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 37 (69.81%) Linux
2 17 (32.08%) Windows
3 11 (20.75%) VMS
4 8 (15.09%) Unix
5 7 (13.21%) Windows Server
6 6 (11.32%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (9.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (5.66%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.89%) AIX
9 1 (1.89%) CentOS
9 1 (1.89%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.30%) DevOps
1 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (22.64%) Cloud Security
2 12 (22.64%) Configuration Management
3 10 (18.87%) Patch Management
3 10 (18.87%) SIEM
4 9 (16.98%) Agile
4 9 (16.98%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (15.09%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (15.09%) Roadmaps
5 8 (15.09%) Security Operations
5 8 (15.09%) Software Engineering
6 7 (13.21%) Innovative Thinking
6 7 (13.21%) Malware Analysis
6 7 (13.21%) Reverse Engineering
7 6 (11.32%) Change Management
7 6 (11.32%) Computer Science
7 6 (11.32%) Data Analysis
7 6 (11.32%) Use Case
7 6 (11.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 40 (75.47%) Python
2 17 (32.08%) C++
3 15 (28.30%) Bash
4 14 (26.42%) PowerShell
5 12 (22.64%) Java
6 11 (20.75%) C
7 10 (18.87%) Groovy
8 8 (15.09%) SQL
9 7 (13.21%) MATLAB
9 7 (13.21%) PHP
10 6 (11.32%) R
10 6 (11.32%) Ruby
10 6 (11.32%) Shell Script
11 4 (7.55%) Tcl
12 3 (5.66%) C#
12 3 (5.66%) VB
13 2 (3.77%) Go
13 2 (3.77%) Rust
14 1 (1.89%) Korn
14 1 (1.89%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 27 (50.94%) Security Cleared
2 18 (33.96%) SC Cleared
3 15 (28.30%) Degree
4 9 (16.98%) DV Cleared
5 7 (13.21%) Master's Degree
6 4 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (5.66%) PhD
8 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.89%) CEH
9 1 (1.89%) CISM
9 1 (1.89%) CISSP
9 1 (1.89%) GIAC
9 1 (1.89%) LPIC
9 1 (1.89%) MCSE
9 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.89%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) NIST
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 13 (24.53%) Docker
2 9 (16.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.66%) DFS Replication
3 3 (5.66%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (5.66%) Firmware
3 3 (5.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.89%) GPFS
4 1 (1.89%) KVM
4 1 (1.89%) Lustre
4 1 (1.89%) NFS
4 1 (1.89%) Postfix
4 1 (1.89%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 13 (24.53%) Terraform
2 7 (13.21%) Ansible
2 7 (13.21%) Grafana
3 6 (11.32%) Prometheus
3 6 (11.32%) QRadar
4 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
5 4 (7.55%) Nagios
5 4 (7.55%) Nessus
6 3 (5.66%) Proxmox
7 2 (3.77%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.77%) Puppet
7 2 (3.77%) SCOM
8 1 (1.89%) Kibana
8 1 (1.89%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Splunk
2 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) ServiceNow
3 5 (9.43%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.66%) Altera
4 3 (5.66%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.66%) Green Hills
4 3 (5.66%) Juniper
4 3 (5.66%) Xilinx
5 2 (3.77%) ArcSight
5 2 (3.77%) IBM
5 2 (3.77%) SAP
6 1 (1.89%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.89%) Cadence
6 1 (1.89%) Cisco
6 1 (1.89%) Google
6 1 (1.89%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle
6 1 (1.89%) Tenable
6 1 (1.89%) VMware