Perl
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Perl skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Perl over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 415 430
Rank change year-on-year -173 +15 -22
Permanent jobs citing Perl 327 797 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.76% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.99% 1.74% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 222 415 546
10th Percentile £39,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,447 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +12.01% +3.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £61,180 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.01% +22.36% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
UK

Perl is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,192 45,823 82,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.81% 43.57% 53.71%
Number of salaries quoted 25,038 29,105 44,126
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +1.85% +8.00%

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 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Perl in the UK

Perl
Top 16 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 25 April 2024. 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 -131 287 £62,500 -10.00% 102
UK excluding London -191 197 £57,500 -6.01% 76
Work from Home -61 149 £65,000 -5.07% 42
London +6 119 £78,000 -0.95% 37
South East -14 78 £60,000 +29.73% 20
South West -31 32 £60,000 -25.00% 24
North of England -109 29 £56,500 -7.65% 6
North West -28 22 £56,500 +18.95% 4
Midlands -10 18 £42,000 -30.00% 6
Northern Ireland +22 13 £52,500 -27.59%
West Midlands +8 13 £42,000 -37.78% 3
East of England -7 13 £115,000 +113.95% 14
Scotland -91 12 £60,000 -29.41% 8
Yorkshire -23 7 £62,500 - 2
East Midlands -22 5 - - 3
Wales -18 4 £24,000 - 2

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 16 (4.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.14%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.83%) Confluence
4 5 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.53%) nginx
5 3 (0.92%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.28%) Simulink
1 14 (4.28%) Stateflow
2 7 (2.14%) CANalyzer
3 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.61%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 16 (4.89%) Fidessa
2 9 (2.75%) Elite 3E
2 9 (2.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.92%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 82 (25.08%) AWS
2 57 (17.43%) Azure
3 47 (14.37%) Serverless
4 21 (6.42%) GitHub
5 18 (5.50%) GCP
6 17 (5.20%) IaaS
7 16 (4.89%) Nutanix
8 14 (4.28%) Amazon S3
9 11 (3.36%) SaaS
10 9 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.53%) Cloud Composer
12 5 (1.53%) dbt
12 5 (1.53%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.22%) OCI
14 3 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.92%) Route 53
15 2 (0.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (17.43%) DNS
2 55 (16.82%) TCP/IP
3 47 (14.37%) Firewall
4 30 (9.17%) WAN
5 27 (8.26%) SNMP
6 20 (6.12%) DHCP
7 18 (5.50%) LAN
8 16 (4.89%) FIX Connectivity
8 16 (4.89%) SSH
9 14 (4.28%) J1939
10 13 (3.98%) 5G
10 13 (3.98%) Internet
11 12 (3.67%) SD-WAN
12 11 (3.36%) Intrusion Detection
12 11 (3.36%) tcpdump
13 8 (2.45%) HTTP
14 6 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (1.83%) VPN
14 6 (1.83%) Wireshark
15 3 (0.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (21.41%) Relational Database
2 63 (19.27%) MySQL
3 39 (11.93%) SQL Server
4 37 (11.31%) Oracle Database
4 37 (11.31%) RDBMS
5 17 (5.20%) MongoDB
6 15 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (4.59%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.53%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.53%) InfluxDB
9 5 (1.53%) Looker
9 5 (1.53%) MariaDB
9 5 (1.53%) Power BI
9 5 (1.53%) Tableau
10 3 (0.92%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.61%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 81 (24.77%) Git
2 38 (11.62%) JIRA
3 36 (11.01%) JDeveloper
3 36 (11.01%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.34%) GitLab
5 17 (5.20%) Visual Studio
6 16 (4.89%) Eclipse
7 14 (4.28%) ClearCase
7 14 (4.28%) Plastic SCM
8 7 (2.14%) ClearQuest
9 6 (1.83%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.83%) Subversion
10 5 (1.53%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.22%) Maven
12 2 (0.61%) JUnit
13 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.31%) JMeter
13 1 (0.31%) JProfiler
13 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
General
1 86 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 80 (24.46%) Finance
3 54 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (11.93%) Banking
5 28 (8.56%) Electronics
6 24 (7.34%) Telecoms
7 22 (6.73%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.28%) Automotive
8 14 (4.28%) Marketing
9 12 (3.67%) Legal
9 12 (3.67%) Retail
10 11 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.36%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.75%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.83%) Billing
12 6 (1.83%) Front Office
13 3 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Games
15 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (27.52%) Senior
2 86 (26.30%) Software Engineer
3 36 (11.01%) Linux Engineer
3 36 (11.01%) Ruby Engineer
4 34 (10.40%) Developer
5 32 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (9.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (8.87%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (7.03%) Administrator
9 21 (6.42%) Systems Administrator
10 20 (6.12%) Analyst
11 19 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (5.50%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (5.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 17 (5.20%) Support Analyst
14 16 (4.89%) Applications Support
14 16 (4.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (4.59%) Support Engineer
16 14 (4.28%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (16.51%) Node.js
2 38 (11.62%) React
3 30 (9.17%) XML
4 27 (8.26%) Web Services
5 26 (7.95%) REST
6 24 (7.34%) HTML
6 24 (7.34%) SOAP
7 19 (5.81%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (5.50%) JSON
9 16 (4.89%) FIX Protocol
10 14 (4.28%) CSS
11 13 (3.98%) Ajax
11 13 (3.98%) AngularJS
11 13 (3.98%) JDBC
11 13 (3.98%) ODBC
11 13 (3.98%) XHTML
12 12 (3.67%) YAML
13 11 (3.36%) LDAP
14 8 (2.45%) OpenMP
15 7 (2.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.03%) Algorithms
2 21 (6.42%) IoT
3 20 (6.12%) GNSS
4 17 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (4.89%) Eurex
5 16 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (4.89%) Management Information System
6 15 (4.59%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (4.28%) Clustering
8 13 (3.98%) CMDB
9 11 (3.36%) VHDL
9 11 (3.36%) Wiki
10 10 (3.06%) Video\Live Streaming
11 9 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.45%) FPGA
13 7 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (2.14%) MicroBlaze
14 6 (1.83%) Cloud Native
14 6 (1.83%) Onboarding
14 6 (1.83%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 186 (56.88%) Linux
2 116 (35.47%) Windows
3 56 (17.13%) Unix
4 51 (15.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (11.93%) CentOS
6 17 (5.20%) Windows Server
7 14 (4.28%) Ubuntu
8 13 (3.98%) Solaris
8 13 (3.98%) Windows 10
9 8 (2.45%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.53%) SUSE
11 5 (1.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.92%) FreeBSD
12 3 (0.92%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.92%) VMS
13 2 (0.61%) Android
13 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (37.31%) Problem-Solving
2 113 (34.56%) DevOps
3 89 (27.22%) Software Engineering
4 81 (24.77%) Agile
5 59 (18.04%) CI/CD
6 55 (16.82%) Containerisation
7 53 (16.21%) Configuration Management
8 51 (15.60%) ITIL
9 49 (14.98%) Code Quality
9 49 (14.98%) Continuous Integration
9 49 (14.98%) Microservices
10 48 (14.68%) Open Source
11 45 (13.76%) Test Automation
12 43 (13.15%) Computer Science
13 42 (12.84%) Unit Testing
14 37 (11.31%) Design Patterns
15 36 (11.01%) Actionable Insight
15 36 (11.01%) Clean Code
16 33 (10.09%) Infrastructure as Code
16 33 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 302 (92.35%) Python
2 163 (49.85%) Bash
3 102 (31.19%) Java
4 95 (29.05%) Ruby
5 92 (28.13%) PowerShell
6 88 (26.91%) JavaScript
7 57 (17.43%) C
8 42 (12.84%) SQL
9 39 (11.93%) Go
10 36 (11.01%) C++
11 24 (7.34%) Shell Script
12 22 (6.73%) MATLAB
13 17 (5.20%) Tcl
14 15 (4.59%) Embedded C
14 15 (4.59%) Korn
15 14 (4.28%) PHP
16 11 (3.36%) VB
17 7 (2.14%) Fortran
18 5 (1.53%) C#
19 4 (1.22%) Lua
Qualifications
1 77 (23.55%) Degree
2 37 (11.31%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.36%) HND
5 9 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.83%) PhD
8 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.31%) OCA
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.31%) RHCE
9 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.29%) QA
2 16 (4.89%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.59%) MISRA
4 14 (4.28%) Automotive SPICE
4 14 (4.28%) AUTOSAR
4 14 (4.28%) ISO 26262
5 13 (3.98%) PMO
6 6 (1.83%) JTAG
6 6 (1.83%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (15.29%) Docker
2 40 (12.23%) Active Directory
3 24 (7.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (5.81%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (5.20%) Firmware
6 15 (4.59%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.14%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (1.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (1.53%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.22%) KVM
10 3 (0.92%) Ceph
10 3 (0.92%) Gluster
10 3 (0.92%) oVirt
11 2 (0.61%) Lustre
11 2 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.31%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.31%) Postfix
12 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (24.16%) Ansible
2 57 (17.43%) Puppet
3 46 (14.07%) Kubernetes
4 42 (12.84%) Terraform
5 21 (6.42%) Progress Chef
6 15 (4.59%) Grafana
6 15 (4.59%) Red Hat Satellite
7 13 (3.98%) Nagios
7 13 (3.98%) WMI
8 12 (3.67%) Salt
9 11 (3.36%) vCenter Server
10 10 (3.06%) Graphite
10 10 (3.06%) HAProxy
11 7 (2.14%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 6 (1.83%) Prometheus
12 6 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.53%) SCCM
13 5 (1.53%) ZABBIX
14 4 (1.22%) Rundeck
14 4 (1.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 89 (27.22%) Oracle
2 50 (15.29%) Red Hat
3 32 (9.79%) Microsoft
4 28 (8.56%) VMware
5 18 (5.50%) IBM
6 16 (4.89%) Bloomberg
6 16 (4.89%) Cisco
6 16 (4.89%) CQG
6 16 (4.89%) ION Trading
6 16 (4.89%) Patsystems
6 16 (4.89%) Reuters
6 16 (4.89%) Splunk
6 16 (4.89%) Trayport
7 15 (4.59%) TOWER Software
8 14 (4.28%) Lauterbach
8 14 (4.28%) ServiceNow
8 14 (4.28%) Sun
9 12 (3.67%) Facebook
9 12 (3.67%) Fortinet
10 10 (3.06%) HP