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

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 483 369
Rank change year-on-year +60 -114 +133
Permanent jobs citing Perl 34 92 260
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.27% 0.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.48% 0.67% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 20 77 152
10th Percentile £50,875 £47,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £65,175
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -4.10% +8.63%
75th Percentile £84,375 £111,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £130,446 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%

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 7,120 13,644 17,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.60% 40.00% 47.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,464 11,003 13,380
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £40,500
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 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £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 5 July 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 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.82%) Apache
3 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) AWS
1 6 (17.65%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.82%) Serverless
4 2 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) DHCP
1 5 (14.71%) DNS
2 3 (8.82%) InfiniBand
2 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.94%) 5G
3 1 (2.94%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (2.94%) Internet
3 1 (2.94%) RTP
3 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.94%) VoIP
3 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.94%) Big Data
2 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) Artifactory
2 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
2 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 3 (8.82%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Legal
4 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.88%) Law
6 1 (2.94%) Advertising
6 1 (2.94%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (14.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) IAM Specialist
5 4 (11.76%) Security Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Storage Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior
7 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Administrator
8 1 (2.94%) C/C++ Software Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Telecoms Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) REST
2 5 (14.71%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (11.76%) .NET
4 3 (8.82%) JSON
4 3 (8.82%) LAMP
4 3 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.94%) CSS
5 1 (2.94%) FreeSWITCH
5 1 (2.94%) HTML
5 1 (2.94%) libvirt
5 1 (2.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) e-Learning
1 4 (11.76%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Clustering
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Replication
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.94%) GNSS
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 28 (82.35%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Windows
2 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.82%) Solaris
4 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 15 (44.12%) DevOps
3 14 (41.18%) Security Hardening
4 10 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (23.53%) Data Security
5 8 (23.53%) High Availability
5 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (17.65%) Agile
6 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (14.71%) Innovative Thinking
7 5 (14.71%) OO
8 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
8 4 (11.76%) Product Roadmap
8 4 (11.76%) Product Strategy
8 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
8 4 (11.76%) Strategic Roadmap
8 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
8 4 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 31 (91.18%) Python
2 17 (50.00%) Bash
3 7 (20.59%) PHP
4 4 (11.76%) C
4 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.82%) Groovy
5 3 (8.82%) Java
6 2 (5.88%) C++
6 2 (5.88%) MATLAB
6 2 (5.88%) R
7 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) Degree
3 4 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.82%) LPIC
4 3 (8.82%) MCSE
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (8.82%) RHCE
5 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) GDPR
1 9 (26.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (11.76%) NIST
3 3 (8.82%) QA
4 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.94%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) GPFS
1 3 (8.82%) Lustre
1 3 (8.82%) NFS
2 2 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (2.94%) Corosync
3 1 (2.94%) Kamailio
3 1 (2.94%) KVM
Systems Management
1 15 (44.12%) Ansible
2 8 (23.53%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.82%) Packer
4 3 (8.82%) Terraform
5 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.88%) Puppet
5 2 (5.88%) SCOM
6 1 (2.94%) Grafana
6 1 (2.94%) Icinga
6 1 (2.94%) Pacemaker
6 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Red Hat
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Okta
3 3 (8.82%) AppDynamics
3 3 (8.82%) Atlassian
3 3 (8.82%) IBM
4 2 (5.88%) ArcSight
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.88%) Splunk
5 1 (2.94%) SAP
5 1 (2.94%) Vertica