Perl Job Trends in Yorkshire

Perl
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Perl skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 136 164
Rank change year-on-year -14 +28 +60
Permanent jobs citing Perl 9 17 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.27% 0.54% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 2.16% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - - £44,500
25th Percentile - £76,727 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £85,253 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +55.00% -20.80%
75th Percentile - £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £58,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +3.57% -3.45%

All Programming Languages
Yorkshire

Perl falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 719 786 1,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.44% 25.02% 35.18%
Number of salaries quoted 519 388 951
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,978 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,875 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £87,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Perl relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Perl job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Perl
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Perl.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Perl

Perl
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Yorkshire - 6 - - 1
West Yorkshire -26 3 - - 2
Perl
England

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Pulumi
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Public Speaking
3 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) NestJS
2 1 (11.11%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (11.11%) Hackathon
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (88.89%) Project Management
2 6 (66.67%) Change Management
2 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 6 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 6 (66.67%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Business Development
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 2 (22.22%) Information Security
3 2 (22.22%) Objectives and Key Results
3 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Presales
3 2 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (22.22%) Red Team
3 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Social Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (11.11%) Case Management
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 6 (66.67%) C
3 6 (66.67%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Ruby
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Degree
2 6 (66.67%) HND
2 6 (66.67%) Master's Degree
3 2 (22.22%) CEH
3 2 (22.22%) CISA
3 2 (22.22%) CISSP
3 2 (22.22%) OSCP
4 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Allen-Bradley
1 6 (66.67%) Siemens
1 6 (66.67%) Toshiba