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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 391 434
Rank change year-on-year -50 +43 -41
Permanent jobs citing Perl 8 37 75
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.035% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.13% 0.66% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 5 24 59
10th Percentile - £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £65,938 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.17% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £76,250 £115,625
90th Percentile £73,750 £90,000 £130,446
UK median annual salary £47,250 £71,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -33.68% +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 6,065 5,564 9,649
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.83% 33.75% 38.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,560 3,833 7,546
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,287
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 7 August 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Local Government
2 3 (37.50%) Marketing
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Testing Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) EDI
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Blog
1 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
1 3 (37.50%) Security Posture
1 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (37.50%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (37.50%) Application Security
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
3 3 (37.50%) Ethical Hacking
3 3 (37.50%) Information Security
3 3 (37.50%) Marketing Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Offensive Security
3 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
3 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) Tradecraft
3 3 (37.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Go
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) Bash
3 3 (37.50%) C
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) C++
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) Objective-C
3 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 3 (37.50%) Ruby
3 3 (37.50%) Rust
4 1 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CCSAM
1 3 (37.50%) CREST Certified
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) GPEN
1 3 (37.50%) GXPN
1 3 (37.50%) OSCE
1 3 (37.50%) OSCP
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) AppDynamics
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