Perl Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Perl
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 452 374
Rank change year-on-year +97 -78 +115
Permanent jobs citing Perl 42 140 329
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.41% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.70% 1.02% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 29 88 189
10th Percentile £51,446 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £54,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +31.16% -6.40% +6.84%
75th Percentile £112,500 £81,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £117,236
UK median annual salary £71,250 £62,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +14.00% -10.00% +14.79%

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 5,974 13,779 21,042
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.95% 40.72% 49.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,843 11,434 15,507
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Perl
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Perl trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Perl
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Perl.

Perl salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Perl
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Perl over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Perl salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (7.14%) Apache
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.38%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) GitHub
3 4 (9.52%) AWS
3 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.14%) Serverless
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.43%) WAN
2 8 (19.05%) TCP/IP
3 6 (14.29%) Firewall
3 6 (14.29%) HTTP
4 5 (11.90%) LAN
5 4 (9.52%) 5G
5 4 (9.52%) DNS
5 4 (9.52%) SD-WAN
5 4 (9.52%) VPN
6 2 (4.76%) DHCP
6 2 (4.76%) FTP
6 2 (4.76%) HTTPS
6 2 (4.76%) SSH
6 2 (4.76%) SSL
7 1 (2.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.90%) MySQL
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.38%) Big Data
4 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Git
2 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.52%) Spinnaker
3 4 (9.52%) Visual Studio
4 3 (7.14%) Artifactory
4 3 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 3 (7.14%) JIRA
4 3 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (30.95%) Finance
2 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Banking
2 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Marketing
4 3 (7.14%) Legal
5 2 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.76%) Law
5 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.38%) Advertising
6 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Software Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) Principal Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Principal Software Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Senior
5 6 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) C Software Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) Cloud Specialist
7 4 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) Security Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) IAM Specialist
9 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (2.38%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Flutter
2 6 (14.29%) REST
2 6 (14.29%) XML
3 5 (11.90%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (9.52%) HTML
4 4 (9.52%) React
4 4 (9.52%) SOAP
4 4 (9.52%) XSLT
5 3 (7.14%) JSON
5 3 (7.14%) LAMP
5 3 (7.14%) Node.js
5 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.76%) .NET
6 2 (4.76%) EDI
6 2 (4.76%) Loki
7 1 (2.38%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.52%) GNSS
2 4 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (9.52%) Self-Driving Car
3 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.14%) Replication
4 2 (4.76%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.76%) Clustering
4 2 (4.76%) e-Learning
4 2 (4.76%) Life Science
4 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 27 (64.29%) Linux
2 9 (21.43%) Windows
3 8 (19.05%) Unix
4 4 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 3 (7.14%) Solaris
6 2 (4.76%) AIX
6 2 (4.76%) CentOS
6 2 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) DevOps
2 13 (30.95%) Software Engineering
3 11 (26.19%) Roadmaps
4 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 10 (23.81%) Microservices
4 10 (23.81%) Security Hardening
5 9 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 7 (16.67%) Validation
7 6 (14.29%) Agile
7 6 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 6 (14.29%) High Availability
7 6 (14.29%) Innovative Thinking
7 6 (14.29%) OO
7 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (14.29%) Project Management
8 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
8 5 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (11.90%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 38 (90.48%) Python
2 19 (45.24%) C
3 17 (40.48%) Bash
4 14 (33.33%) C++
5 7 (16.67%) Go
5 7 (16.67%) PHP
5 7 (16.67%) Ruby
5 7 (16.67%) Rust
6 6 (14.29%) SQL
7 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
8 4 (9.52%) Jython
8 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
9 3 (7.14%) Groovy
9 3 (7.14%) Java
9 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
10 2 (4.76%) AWK
10 2 (4.76%) Korn
10 2 (4.76%) MATLAB
10 2 (4.76%) R
11 1 (2.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) CEH
4 1 (2.38%) CISM
4 1 (2.38%) CISSP
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) GIAC
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (11.90%) GDPR
3 4 (9.52%) NIST
3 4 (9.52%) PMO
4 3 (7.14%) QA
5 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) KVM
2 2 (4.76%) Postfix
2 2 (4.76%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Ansible
1 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
2 10 (23.81%) Terraform
3 4 (9.52%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (7.14%) Packer
5 2 (4.76%) Grafana
5 2 (4.76%) Nagios
5 2 (4.76%) Nessus
5 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.76%) Puppet
5 2 (4.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Red Hat
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.90%) IBM
4 4 (9.52%) Dynatrace
4 4 (9.52%) Okta
4 4 (9.52%) VMware
5 3 (7.14%) AppDynamics
5 3 (7.14%) Atlassian
5 3 (7.14%) Oracle
6 2 (4.76%) ArcSight
6 2 (4.76%) SAP
6 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.76%) Splunk
6 2 (4.76%) Tenable
7 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.38%) Vertica