Perl
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 583 421
Rank change year-on-year +8 -162 +20
Permanent jobs citing Perl 109 323 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.33% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.70% 0.97% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 70 218 410
10th Percentile £37,375 £39,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £49,813 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -10.00% +14.79%
75th Percentile £92,833 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £112,974
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £56,500 £61,180
% change year-on-year +9.73% -7.65% +22.36%

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 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Perl.

Salary trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Perl in the UK

Perl
Top 14 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 30 April 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
England +14 98 £73,750 +18.00% 145
UK excluding London +74 59 £62,000 +9.73% 87
Work from Home +81 42 £85,253 +31.16% 73
London +26 41 £80,000 +1.91% 66
South East +56 18 £80,000 +33.33% 23
North of England +70 14 £85,253 +50.89% 14
South West +94 12 £61,250 +2.08% 11
Yorkshire +76 12 £85,253 +45.11% 4
Midlands +51 7 £56,250 +33.93% 7
East of England +52 6 £62,000 -46.09% 22
West Midlands +43 5 - - 5
Scotland +119 3 £48,507 -19.16% 11
East Midlands +47 2 £56,250 - 1
North West +13 2 £55,000 -2.65% 10

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.92%) Drupal
3 1 (0.92%) SAS
3 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.92%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.92%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.92%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (7.34%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.83%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (1.83%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.43%) Azure
2 13 (11.93%) AWS
3 8 (7.34%) Entra ID
3 8 (7.34%) GitHub
3 8 (7.34%) Serverless
4 7 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (6.42%) Amazon S3
4 7 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (5.50%) SaaS
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (2.75%) AWS KMS
7 3 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.83%) IaaS
8 2 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (23.85%) Firewall
2 23 (21.10%) TCP/IP
3 15 (13.76%) WAN
4 14 (12.84%) DNS
5 12 (11.01%) HTTP
6 11 (10.09%) DHCP
6 11 (10.09%) LAN
7 10 (9.17%) VPN
8 9 (8.26%) Network Security
9 8 (7.34%) FIX Connectivity
9 8 (7.34%) FTP
10 7 (6.42%) Internet
11 6 (5.50%) SMTP
12 5 (4.59%) SSL
13 4 (3.67%) 5G
13 4 (3.67%) SD-WAN
14 3 (2.75%) Multicast
14 3 (2.75%) SSH
14 3 (2.75%) VLAN
15 2 (1.83%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.34%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.50%) MySQL
3 6 (5.50%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.92%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.92%) Big Data
6 1 (0.92%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.92%) DB2
6 1 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (17.43%) Git
2 13 (11.93%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.59%) JIRA
4 4 (3.67%) Artifactory
4 4 (3.67%) Cucumber
4 4 (3.67%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.67%) Spinnaker
4 4 (3.67%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.75%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (2.75%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.92%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.92%) GitLab
6 1 (0.92%) NetBeans
General
1 26 (23.85%) Finance
2 22 (20.18%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.51%) Banking
4 14 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.84%) Telecoms
5 8 (7.34%) Electronics
6 6 (5.50%) Billing
7 5 (4.59%) Aerospace
7 5 (4.59%) Military
8 4 (3.67%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.67%) Marketing
8 4 (3.67%) Spanish Language
9 3 (2.75%) Law
9 3 (2.75%) Legal
10 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.92%) Advertising
11 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (18.35%) Senior
1 20 (18.35%) Software Engineer
2 16 (14.68%) Analyst
3 14 (12.84%) Support Analyst
4 13 (11.93%) Principal Engineer
5 11 (10.09%) Linux Engineer
6 10 (9.17%) Applications Support
7 9 (8.26%) Lead
7 9 (8.26%) Linux Support
7 9 (8.26%) Principal Software Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Applications Support Analyst
8 8 (7.34%) FPGA Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Security Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Senior FPGA Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Senior VHDL Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) VHDL Engineer
9 6 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) FIX Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.34%) FIX Protocol
1 8 (7.34%) LDAP
2 7 (6.42%) Flutter
2 7 (6.42%) REST
3 6 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.50%) HTML
3 6 (5.50%) XML
4 5 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (3.67%) .NET
5 4 (3.67%) CSS
5 4 (3.67%) JSON
5 4 (3.67%) React
5 4 (3.67%) SOAP
5 4 (3.67%) XSLT
6 3 (2.75%) LAMP
6 3 (2.75%) Node.js
7 2 (1.83%) EDI
7 2 (1.83%) JDBC
7 2 (1.83%) Loki
8 1 (0.92%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) GNSS
2 11 (10.09%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (7.34%) Client/Server
3 8 (7.34%) Eurex
3 8 (7.34%) FPGA
3 8 (7.34%) MicroBlaze
3 8 (7.34%) Satnav
3 8 (7.34%) VHDL
4 7 (6.42%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (5.50%) Equities
6 5 (4.59%) Bitcoin
6 5 (4.59%) Derivative
6 5 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.59%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.59%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.59%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.67%) Self-Driving Car
8 3 (2.75%) Clustering
8 3 (2.75%) Replication
8 3 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 66 (60.55%) Linux
2 26 (23.85%) Unix
2 26 (23.85%) Windows
3 10 (9.17%) CentOS
4 8 (7.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (6.42%) Ubuntu
6 6 (5.50%) Solaris
7 5 (4.59%) Rocky
7 5 (4.59%) VMS
7 5 (4.59%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.83%) AIX
8 2 (1.83%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.92%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (22.02%) DevOps
2 20 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (18.35%) Software Engineering
3 19 (17.43%) Agile
3 19 (17.43%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (14.68%) Microservices
5 15 (13.76%) Computer Science
5 15 (13.76%) Innovative Thinking
6 14 (12.84%) CI/CD
7 12 (11.01%) B2B
7 12 (11.01%) Configuration Management
7 12 (11.01%) Creative Thinking
7 12 (11.01%) Defect Tracking
7 12 (11.01%) High Availability
7 12 (11.01%) Requirements Analysis
7 12 (11.01%) Roadmaps
7 12 (11.01%) Signal Processing
8 11 (10.09%) Security Hardening
9 10 (9.17%) ITIL
9 10 (9.17%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 81 (74.31%) Python
2 47 (43.12%) Bash
3 35 (32.11%) C++
4 31 (28.44%) C
5 27 (24.77%) SQL
6 26 (23.85%) PowerShell
7 15 (13.76%) Ruby
8 14 (12.84%) Java
9 13 (11.93%) JavaScript
9 13 (11.93%) MATLAB
10 10 (9.17%) PHP
10 10 (9.17%) Shell Script
11 9 (8.26%) Rust
11 9 (8.26%) Tcl
12 8 (7.34%) Groovy
12 8 (7.34%) VB
13 7 (6.42%) Go
13 7 (6.42%) R
14 4 (3.67%) C#
14 4 (3.67%) Jython
Qualifications
1 23 (21.10%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.18%) Degree
3 13 (11.93%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.09%) DV Cleared
5 7 (6.42%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.75%) PhD
7 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.92%) CEH
8 1 (0.92%) CISM
8 1 (0.92%) CISSP
8 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.92%) GIAC
8 1 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 8 (7.34%) NIST
3 7 (6.42%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.59%) GDPR
5 4 (3.67%) PMO
5 4 (3.67%) QA
6 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.92%) JTAG
7 1 (0.92%) MISRA
System Software
1 14 (12.84%) Docker
2 8 (7.34%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (7.34%) Firmware
3 4 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.67%) Postfix
4 3 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.83%) KVM
5 2 (1.83%) Sendmail
5 2 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (17.43%) Ansible
2 16 (14.68%) Terraform
3 15 (13.76%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.42%) Grafana
4 7 (6.42%) Nagios
5 6 (5.50%) QRadar
6 5 (4.59%) Nessus
6 5 (4.59%) Proxmox
6 5 (4.59%) Puppet
7 4 (3.67%) Packer
7 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (2.75%) ZABBIX
9 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.83%) SCOM
10 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.27%) Red Hat
3 12 (11.01%) Oracle
4 11 (10.09%) Atlassian
5 8 (7.34%) Altera
5 8 (7.34%) Bloomberg
5 8 (7.34%) CQG
5 8 (7.34%) Green Hills
5 8 (7.34%) ION Trading
5 8 (7.34%) Patsystems
5 8 (7.34%) Reuters
5 8 (7.34%) Splunk
5 8 (7.34%) Trayport
5 8 (7.34%) VMware
5 8 (7.34%) Xilinx
6 6 (5.50%) IBM
7 4 (3.67%) AppDynamics
7 4 (3.67%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.67%) Okta
8 3 (2.75%) Juniper