Perl Job Trends in London

Perl
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Perl skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 359 402
Rank change year-on-year -45 +43 -6
Permanent jobs citing Perl 14 35 111
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.065% 0.29% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.26% 0.69% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4 31 96
10th Percentile £59,250 £60,000 £40,825
25th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £72,500 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% -10.77% +3.17%
75th Percentile £98,125 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £95,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -28.57% +1.82% +5.77%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,351 5,069 9,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.70% 41.64% 40.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,773 3,523 7,714
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Perl job vacancy trend in London

Perl
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Perl.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Perl

Perl
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl in London over the 6 months to 22 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Perl in London

Perl
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Central London -6 3 - -
Perl
England

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (7.14%) JBoss
1 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
1 1 (7.14%) WebLogic
1 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon EventBridge
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Control Tower
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 4 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) Db2
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (7.14%) Eclipse
3 1 (7.14%) LabVIEW
3 1 (7.14%) NetBeans
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Subversion
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Security Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Senior
1 4 (28.57%) Senior Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Senior Security Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Testing Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Incident Responder
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) AWS CDK
2 2 (14.29%) Middleware
2 2 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) J2EE
3 1 (7.14%) JDBC
3 1 (7.14%) JSP
3 1 (7.14%) Servlets
3 1 (7.14%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Struts
3 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Cloud
1 4 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Unix
4 1 (7.14%) SUSE
4 1 (7.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (35.71%) AI
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 4 (28.57%) Cryptography
3 4 (28.57%) Customer Engagement
3 4 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 4 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 4 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Red Team
3 4 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (21.43%) Application Security
4 3 (21.43%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Tradecraft
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 9 (64.29%) Bash
3 8 (57.14%) Java
4 7 (50.00%) Ruby
5 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
6 4 (28.57%) Go
6 4 (28.57%) PHP
6 4 (28.57%) Rust
7 3 (21.43%) C
7 3 (21.43%) C#
7 3 (21.43%) C++
7 3 (21.43%) Objective-C
8 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
8 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
8 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
8 2 (14.29%) SQL
9 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) Degree
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (21.43%) CCSAM
4 3 (21.43%) CREST Certified
4 3 (21.43%) GPEN
4 3 (21.43%) GXPN
4 3 (21.43%) OSCE
4 3 (21.43%) OSCP
5 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
5 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Sybase
3 1 (7.14%) VMware