Hybrid/Remote Perl Job Trends

Perl
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Perl skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 399 474
Rank change year-on-year -24 +75 -76
Permanent jobs citing Perl 12 34 90
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.057% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.21% 0.58% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 75
10th Percentile £42,850 £50,875 £47,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £67,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.93% +16.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £69,688 £84,375 £111,250
90th Percentile £87,125 £90,000 £130,446
UK median annual salary £47,500 £68,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -30.91% -1.79% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Perl falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,729 5,899 13,203
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.11% 36.29% 40.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,316 4,115 10,861
10th Percentile £39,219 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,118 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Perl and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Perl job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Perl
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Perl.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Perl

Perl
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Perl over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Perl salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (8.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) Burp Suite
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) LabVIEW
3 1 (8.33%) Metasploit
3 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Local Government
3 3 (25.00%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Testing Manager
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Project Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Integrator
3 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) EDI
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) LAMP
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Blog
1 4 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (8.33%) Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (8.33%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Android
3 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (8.33%) CentOS
3 1 (8.33%) Debian
3 1 (8.33%) Kali Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 4 (33.33%) Offensive Security
3 4 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (25.00%) Application Security
4 3 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) Marketing Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Red Team
4 3 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) Tradecraft
4 3 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) C
2 4 (33.33%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) C++
2 4 (33.33%) Go
2 4 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) Ruby
2 4 (33.33%) Rust
3 3 (25.00%) Objective-C
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) Groovy
5 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) GPEN
2 4 (33.33%) GXPN
2 4 (33.33%) OSCP
3 3 (25.00%) CCSAM
3 3 (25.00%) CREST Certified
3 3 (25.00%) OSCE
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) GWAPT
4 1 (8.33%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (8.33%) LPIC
4 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) Nessus
4 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (8.33%) VMware