Perl
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Perl skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 569 610
Rank change year-on-year -98 +41 -160
Permanent jobs citing Perl 66 95 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.40% 0.68% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 46 60 223
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,225 £39,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £55,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £68,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% +10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62,500 £80,625 £92,500
90th Percentile £81,875 £90,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% - +9.09%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,544 13,968 34,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.84% 31.45% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11,653 9,191 25,656
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.92% -0.91%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Perl job vacancy trend in the UK

Perl
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Perl.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Perl

Perl
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Perl in the UK

Perl
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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
England -93 54 £50,000 -28.57% 17
UK excluding London -74 43 £48,750 -18.75% 13
South East -10 17 £50,000 +35.14% 3
Work from Home -19 14 £52,250 -27.93% 7
London -37 11 £81,250 +12.07% 7
South West -51 10 £30,000 -62.50% 7
Yorkshire -35 9 £80,000 -
North of England -37 9 £80,000 +37.93% 2
East of England -14 7 £50,000 -19.35% 1
Scotland +13 1 - -

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (3.03%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.52%) Apache
2 1 (1.52%) JBoss
2 1 (1.52%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.52%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.52%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 16 (24.24%) AWS
2 11 (16.67%) Azure
3 9 (13.64%) GCP
4 7 (10.61%) SaaS
5 4 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.06%) GitHub
5 4 (6.06%) Serverless
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (27.27%) HTTP
2 8 (12.12%) DNS
2 8 (12.12%) Firewall
2 8 (12.12%) FTP
2 8 (12.12%) LAN
2 8 (12.12%) SMTP
2 8 (12.12%) TCP/IP
2 8 (12.12%) VPN
2 8 (12.12%) WAN
3 3 (4.55%) Network Security
4 2 (3.03%) Internet
5 1 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.12%) Oracle Database
3 6 (9.09%) GIS
4 4 (6.06%) MySQL
4 4 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.06%) SAP HANA
5 3 (4.55%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.52%) Db2
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (31.82%) Git
2 12 (18.18%) Subversion
3 11 (16.67%) Eclipse
4 8 (12.12%) GitLab
5 7 (10.61%) JIRA
6 6 (9.09%) Jenkins
6 6 (9.09%) JUnit
7 4 (6.06%) SonarQube
8 3 (4.55%) Cucumber
9 2 (3.03%) Artifactory
9 2 (3.03%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (1.52%) Burp Suite
10 1 (1.52%) LabVIEW
10 1 (1.52%) Metasploit
10 1 (1.52%) NetBeans
10 1 (1.52%) Selenium
General
1 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (16.67%) Finance
4 8 (12.12%) Aerospace
5 5 (7.58%) Legal
6 4 (6.06%) Marketing
6 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.06%) Retail
7 3 (4.55%) Banking
7 3 (4.55%) Local Government
8 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.52%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Developer
2 15 (22.73%) Linux Engineer
3 11 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 10 (15.15%) Junior
4 10 (15.15%) Junior Developer
4 10 (15.15%) Junior Java Developer
5 9 (13.64%) Consultant
5 9 (13.64%) Senior
6 8 (12.12%) Analyst
6 8 (12.12%) SOC Analyst
6 8 (12.12%) Support Engineer
7 7 (10.61%) Linux Support
7 7 (10.61%) Linux Support Engineer
8 6 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
9 5 (7.58%) Linux Systems Engineer
10 4 (6.06%) Lead
10 4 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
11 3 (4.55%) Python Developer
11 3 (4.55%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.21%) Web Services
2 11 (16.67%) J2EE
2 11 (16.67%) React
2 11 (16.67%) Struts
3 10 (15.15%) RESTful
4 9 (13.64%) JSON
5 8 (12.12%) LDAP
6 6 (9.09%) XML
7 5 (7.58%) HTML
7 5 (7.58%) REST
8 4 (6.06%) CSS
9 3 (4.55%) EDI
10 2 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (3.03%) LAMP
10 2 (3.03%) Middleware
10 2 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (3.03%) Spring
10 2 (3.03%) YAML
11 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
11 1 (1.52%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Client/Server
1 8 (12.12%) Security Operations Centre
2 7 (10.61%) SCADA
3 6 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 6 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 6 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.06%) Blog
5 4 (6.06%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (6.06%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.55%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (3.03%) Clustering
7 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.03%) MISP
7 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 36 (54.55%) Linux
2 9 (13.64%) CentOS
2 9 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (13.64%) Unix
3 4 (6.06%) Windows
4 2 (3.03%) Debian
4 2 (3.03%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.52%) Android
5 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.52%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.52%) SUSE
5 1 (1.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (51.52%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (21.21%) Computer Science
3 12 (18.18%) Agile
3 12 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 12 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 11 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (15.15%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 10 (15.15%) Security Operations
5 10 (15.15%) SIEM
6 8 (12.12%) Migration
6 8 (12.12%) Software Engineering
6 8 (12.12%) Use Case
7 7 (10.61%) Data Modelling
7 7 (10.61%) DevOps
7 7 (10.61%) Penetration Testing
7 7 (10.61%) Test Automation
8 6 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 6 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 58 (87.88%) Python
2 23 (34.85%) C++
3 19 (28.79%) Java
4 18 (27.27%) Bash
5 16 (24.24%) JavaScript
6 14 (21.21%) PowerShell
7 9 (13.64%) PHP
8 6 (9.09%) VB
9 5 (7.58%) C
9 5 (7.58%) Ruby
9 5 (7.58%) Shell Script
10 4 (6.06%) C#
10 4 (6.06%) Go
10 4 (6.06%) Groovy
10 4 (6.06%) Rust
11 3 (4.55%) ABAP
11 3 (4.55%) Objective-C
12 2 (3.03%) PL/SQL
12 2 (3.03%) SQL
13 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 18 (27.27%) Degree
3 12 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (16.67%) CREST Certified
5 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
6 9 (13.64%) CEH
7 8 (12.12%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (9.09%) DV Cleared
8 6 (9.09%) OSCP
9 5 (7.58%) GPEN
10 4 (6.06%) GXPN
11 3 (4.55%) CCSAM
11 3 (4.55%) CISSP
11 3 (4.55%) OSCE
12 2 (3.03%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (3.03%) LPIC
12 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
13 1 (1.52%) GCFA
13 1 (1.52%) GCIH
13 1 (1.52%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (4.55%) GDPR
2 3 (4.55%) HIPAA
2 3 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (12.12%) Docker
2 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.52%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.67%) Terraform
3 10 (15.15%) Ansible
4 8 (12.12%) QRadar
5 2 (3.03%) CSIRT
5 2 (3.03%) Packer
5 2 (3.03%) Puppet
6 1 (1.52%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.15%) Oracle
3 8 (12.12%) Splunk
4 4 (6.06%) SAP
5 3 (4.55%) AppDynamics
5 3 (4.55%) OpenText
6 2 (3.03%) IBM
6 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.52%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.52%) Siemens
7 1 (1.52%) Sybase
7 1 (1.52%) VMware