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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 615 624 396
Rank change year-on-year +9 -228 +79
Permanent jobs citing Perl 94 301 810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.29% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.57% 0.89% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 58 215 356
10th Percentile £36,175 £39,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,125 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% +11.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £122,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,500 £60,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -0.83% +2.13% +17.50%

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 16,594 33,687 41,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.95% 32.62% 42.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,785 25,114 26,852
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +4.76%

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 May 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 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
England -19 83 £70,000 +3.70% 658
UK excluding London +62 51 £59,500 -0.83% 687
Work from Home +44 35 £72,500 - 369
London +37 34 £73,750 -6.79% 59
South East +33 14 £37,000 -38.33% 169
Midlands +85 13 £72,500 +72.62% 127
West Midlands +58 12 £72,500 +72.62% 68
North of England +33 8 £58,000 -43.41% 142
South West +73 7 £80,000 +33.33% 86
Yorkshire +62 7 - - 56
East of England +43 6 £62,000 -46.09% 122
Scotland +110 3 £54,254 -9.58% 44
East Midlands +45 1 £55,000 - 51
North West -12 1 £58,000 -27.04% 68

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 9 (9.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.38%) Confluence
3 2 (2.13%) Apache
4 1 (1.06%) SAS
4 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.06%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.06%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.06%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Fidessa
2 2 (2.13%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.34%) AWS
2 17 (18.09%) Azure
3 12 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (12.77%) Amazon S3
4 9 (9.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (9.57%) Amazon ELB
4 9 (9.57%) Amazon Glacier
4 9 (9.57%) AWS KMS
4 9 (9.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (8.51%) Entra ID
6 7 (7.45%) SaaS
6 7 (7.45%) Serverless
7 6 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.26%) GitHub
9 3 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (3.19%) GCP
10 2 (2.13%) IaaS
11 1 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (23.40%) Firewall
2 16 (17.02%) DNS
2 16 (17.02%) TCP/IP
3 11 (11.70%) FTP
3 11 (11.70%) HTTP
3 11 (11.70%) SMTP
4 10 (10.64%) DHCP
4 10 (10.64%) WAN
5 7 (7.45%) Internet
5 7 (7.45%) Network Security
6 6 (6.38%) LAN
6 6 (6.38%) SSH
6 6 (6.38%) VPN
7 5 (5.32%) FIX Connectivity
8 4 (4.26%) 5G
8 4 (4.26%) SD-WAN
9 3 (3.19%) Multicast
9 3 (3.19%) SSL
9 3 (3.19%) VLAN
10 2 (2.13%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.57%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.38%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.32%) MySQL
3 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.06%) Big Data
4 1 (1.06%) DB2
4 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (26.60%) Git
2 15 (15.96%) Jenkins
3 11 (11.70%) JIRA
4 9 (9.57%) Vagrant
5 4 (4.26%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.19%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.19%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (3.19%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.19%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.06%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.06%) NetBeans
General
1 22 (23.40%) Finance
2 18 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.96%) Telecoms
4 10 (10.64%) Banking
5 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.38%) Billing
7 5 (5.32%) Aerospace
7 5 (5.32%) Military
8 4 (4.26%) Legal
8 4 (4.26%) Marketing
8 4 (4.26%) Spanish Language
9 3 (3.19%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.19%) Law
9 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.13%) Electronics
10 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.06%) Advertising
11 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (12.77%) Analyst
1 12 (12.77%) Linux Engineer
1 12 (12.77%) Software Engineer
2 11 (11.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (11.70%) Platform Engineer
2 11 (11.70%) Support Analyst
3 9 (9.57%) Lead
3 9 (9.57%) Linux Support
3 9 (9.57%) Security Engineer
3 9 (9.57%) Senior
4 6 (6.38%) Applications Support
4 6 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (6.38%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (5.32%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (5.32%) FIX Analyst
5 5 (5.32%) FIX Support Analyst
5 5 (5.32%) SQL Analyst
5 5 (5.32%) SQL Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.38%) .NET
1 6 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (6.38%) LDAP
1 6 (6.38%) REST
2 5 (5.32%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (3.19%) HTML
3 3 (3.19%) JSON
3 3 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.13%) CSS
4 2 (2.13%) LAMP
5 1 (1.06%) FreeSWITCH
5 1 (1.06%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.06%) J2EE
5 1 (1.06%) JDBC
5 1 (1.06%) JSP
5 1 (1.06%) libvirt
5 1 (1.06%) Node.js
5 1 (1.06%) Servlets
5 1 (1.06%) Spring
5 1 (1.06%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.70%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (6.38%) Client/Server
2 6 (6.38%) Equities
2 6 (6.38%) GNSS
2 6 (6.38%) Replication
2 6 (6.38%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (5.32%) Bitcoin
3 5 (5.32%) Derivative
3 5 (5.32%) Eurex
3 5 (5.32%) Fixed Income
4 4 (4.26%) e-Learning
4 4 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.26%) Self-Driving Car
5 3 (3.19%) Clustering
5 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.13%) FPGA
6 2 (2.13%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 62 (65.96%) Linux
2 17 (18.09%) Unix
3 16 (17.02%) Windows
4 11 (11.70%) VMS
5 8 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (7.45%) Windows Server
7 6 (6.38%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (5.32%) CentOS
8 5 (5.32%) Rocky
9 4 (4.26%) Ubuntu
10 3 (3.19%) Solaris
11 1 (1.06%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.53%) DevOps
2 19 (20.21%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (19.15%) Configuration Management
4 17 (18.09%) CI/CD
5 16 (17.02%) Agile
6 14 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (13.83%) Software Engineering
8 12 (12.77%) Cloud Security
8 12 (12.77%) High Availability
8 12 (12.77%) Security Hardening
9 11 (11.70%) Innovative Thinking
10 10 (10.64%) Computer Science
10 10 (10.64%) Patch Management
10 10 (10.64%) SIEM
10 10 (10.64%) Validation
11 8 (8.51%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (8.51%) OO
11 8 (8.51%) Security Operations
11 8 (8.51%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 77 (81.91%) Python
2 40 (42.55%) Bash
3 26 (27.66%) PowerShell
4 19 (20.21%) C++
4 19 (20.21%) SQL
5 17 (18.09%) Java
6 12 (12.77%) C
6 12 (12.77%) Groovy
7 10 (10.64%) Shell Script
8 7 (7.45%) MATLAB
8 7 (7.45%) PHP
8 7 (7.45%) R
9 6 (6.38%) Ruby
10 3 (3.19%) C#
10 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
10 3 (3.19%) Tcl
11 2 (2.13%) VB
12 1 (1.06%) Go
12 1 (1.06%) Objective-C
12 1 (1.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (30.85%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.28%) Degree
3 18 (19.15%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.57%) DV Cleared
5 7 (7.45%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.19%) PhD
8 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.13%) LPIC
8 2 (2.13%) MCSE
8 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.13%) RHCE
9 1 (1.06%) CEH
9 1 (1.06%) CISM
9 1 (1.06%) CISSP
9 1 (1.06%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.06%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.57%) NIST
2 8 (8.51%) GDPR
3 7 (7.45%) Accessibility
3 7 (7.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (4.26%) PMO
5 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.19%) QA
6 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 14 (14.89%) Docker
2 9 (9.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.19%) DFS Replication
3 3 (3.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.13%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (2.13%) Firmware
4 2 (2.13%) GPFS
4 2 (2.13%) Lustre
4 2 (2.13%) NFS
4 2 (2.13%) Postfix
4 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.06%) Corosync
5 1 (1.06%) Kamailio
5 1 (1.06%) KVM
Systems Management
1 19 (20.21%) Ansible
2 15 (15.96%) Terraform
3 12 (12.77%) Grafana
4 8 (8.51%) Kubernetes
5 7 (7.45%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.38%) QRadar
6 6 (6.38%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (5.32%) Nagios
7 5 (5.32%) Proxmox
8 4 (4.26%) Puppet
9 3 (3.19%) Nessus
9 3 (3.19%) Packer
10 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.13%) SCOM
10 2 (2.13%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.06%) Icinga
11 1 (1.06%) Kibana
11 1 (1.06%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 19 (20.21%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.15%) Red Hat
3 10 (10.64%) Atlassian
4 9 (9.57%) ServiceNow
4 9 (9.57%) Splunk
5 8 (8.51%) Oracle
6 5 (5.32%) Bloomberg
6 5 (5.32%) CQG
6 5 (5.32%) ION Trading
6 5 (5.32%) Patsystems
6 5 (5.32%) Reuters
6 5 (5.32%) Trayport
7 4 (4.26%) Okta
7 4 (4.26%) VMware
8 3 (3.19%) AppDynamics
8 3 (3.19%) IBM
8 3 (3.19%) Juniper
9 2 (2.13%) Google
9 2 (2.13%) Green Hills
9 2 (2.13%) SAP