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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 345 431
Rank change year-on-year -26 +86 -30
Permanent jobs citing Perl 14 43 137
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.083% 0.34% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.30% 0.75% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 8 32 108
10th Percentile £39,000 £52,625 £49,625
25th Percentile £49,125 £67,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £87,626 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.10% +16.84% +8.00%
75th Percentile £69,688 £112,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,125 £114,750 £104,750
UK median annual salary £58,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +16.00% -13.79%

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 4,620 5,771 13,230
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.39% 44.97% 42.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,368 4,516 11,474
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
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 3 April 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 3 (21.43%) OpenStack
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) nginx
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) DHCP
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) LAN
2 2 (14.29%) NAS
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) SNMP
2 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 2 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 3 (21.43%) Git
3 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) Burp Suite
4 1 (7.14%) LabVIEW
4 1 (7.14%) Metasploit
4 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.14%) Subversion
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Linux Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Testing Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Project Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Project Leader
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Project Leader
4 2 (14.29%) Team Leader
5 1 (7.14%) Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Integrator
5 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) LAMP
1 2 (14.29%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Clustering
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 2 (14.29%) FPGA
4 1 (7.14%) Blog
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.14%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) Windows
3 4 (28.57%) CentOS
3 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Debian
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 2 (14.29%) Unix
5 1 (7.14%) Android
5 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (7.14%) Kali Linux
5 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
3 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 4 (28.57%) Offensive Security
4 4 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (21.43%) Application Security
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) Ethical Hacking
5 3 (21.43%) Information Security
5 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) Red Team
5 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 3 (21.43%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
5 3 (21.43%) Tradecraft
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Bash
2 6 (42.86%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) C
3 4 (28.57%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) C++
3 4 (28.57%) Ruby
3 4 (28.57%) Rust
4 3 (21.43%) Go
4 3 (21.43%) Objective-C
4 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
5 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 1 (7.14%) Groovy
6 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) GPEN
2 4 (28.57%) GXPN
2 4 (28.57%) OSCP
3 3 (21.43%) CCSAM
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (21.43%) CREST Certified
3 3 (21.43%) LPIC
3 3 (21.43%) OSCE
4 2 (14.29%) Linux+ Certification
4 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) CISSP
5 1 (7.14%) GWAPT
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Ansible
2 6 (42.86%) Terraform
3 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 3 (21.43%) Puppet
5 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (7.14%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Dell
1 2 (14.29%) HP
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) VMware