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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 404 385
Rank change year-on-year +28 -19 +59
Permanent jobs citing Perl 25 63 112
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.32% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.54% 0.76% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 21 36 79
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,125 £38,084
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £76,250 £112,500 £83,750
90th Percentile - £120,000 £88,500
UK median annual salary £60,750 £72,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year -16.21% +9.85% -1.12%

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 4,653 8,273 10,436
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 29.14% 41.65% 47.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,287 5,248 8,803
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.63%

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 November 2025.

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 2 (8.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DHCP
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
1 3 (12.00%) InfiniBand
2 1 (4.00%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (4.00%) RTP
2 1 (4.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
General
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Linux Engineer
2 12 (48.00%) Automation Engineer
2 12 (48.00%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Applications Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Applications Support
5 3 (12.00%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Backend Developer
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) IAM Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Integration Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Perl Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) XML
2 2 (8.00%) LAMP
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) CSS
3 1 (4.00%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (4.00%) HTML
3 1 (4.00%) libvirt
3 1 (4.00%) Node.js
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Solaris
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) DevOps
3 13 (52.00%) Security Hardening
4 12 (48.00%) Data Security
4 12 (48.00%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (16.00%) ITIL
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.00%) Data Management
6 3 (12.00%) High Availability
6 3 (12.00%) Low Latency
6 3 (12.00%) Project Planning
7 2 (8.00%) OO
8 1 (4.00%) AI
8 1 (4.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (4.00%) Image Processing
8 1 (4.00%) Machine Learning
8 1 (4.00%) Software Engineering
8 1 (4.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) Python
2 17 (68.00%) Bash
3 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) PHP
5 1 (4.00%) C
5 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
1 3 (12.00%) LPIC
1 3 (12.00%) MCSE
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (12.00%) RHCE
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (52.00%) GDPR
1 13 (52.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) GPFS
1 3 (12.00%) Lustre
1 3 (12.00%) NFS
2 2 (8.00%) Docker
3 1 (4.00%) Corosync
3 1 (4.00%) Kamailio
3 1 (4.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 14 (56.00%) Ansible
2 12 (48.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (4.00%) Icinga
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Pacemaker
3 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) SAP