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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 383 349
Rank change year-on-year +12 -34 +59
Permanent jobs citing Perl 18 55 122
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.12% 0.35% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.40% 0.87% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11 39 102
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -14.71% +9.68%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £109,250
England median annual salary £58,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +3.57% -3.45%

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 4,450 6,302 8,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.04% 40.62% 43.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,125 4,032 7,651
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,458 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 29 January 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 29 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
Central London +28 3 - - 3
South London - 1 - -
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 3 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (11.11%) nginx
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Solr
3 1 (5.56%) IIS
3 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) AWS KMS
4 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) DHCP
2 2 (11.11%) FTP
2 2 (11.11%) Internet
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) NAS
2 2 (11.11%) SAN
2 2 (11.11%) SNMP
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (5.56%) HTTP
3 1 (5.56%) SMTP
3 1 (5.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Big Data
1 2 (11.11%) Informix
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Subversion
2 1 (5.56%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (11.11%) Law
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) DBA
5 2 (11.11%) Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Responder
5 2 (11.11%) Informix DBA
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Senior DBA
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Informix DBA
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Applications Support
6 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Data Quality Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Pentaho Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Kafka
1 2 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (5.56%) LAMP
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (11.11%) FPGA
1 2 (11.11%) IoT
1 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) CentOS
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Unix
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) VMS
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (33.33%) Data Security
3 6 (33.33%) Security Hardening
4 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (16.67%) Data Transformation
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) AI
6 2 (11.11%) Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
6 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.11%) OO
6 2 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Purple Team
6 2 (11.11%) Red Team
6 2 (11.11%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) Bash
3 5 (27.78%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) C
5 2 (11.11%) PHP
6 1 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) Groovy
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.56%) Ruby
6 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.56%) CISM
1 1 (5.56%) CISSP
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) GCFA
1 1 (5.56%) GCFE
1 1 (5.56%) GCIH
1 1 (5.56%) GIAC
1 1 (5.56%) GPEN
1 1 (5.56%) MCP
1 1 (5.56%) OSCP
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) GDPR
1 6 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Ansible
2 8 (44.44%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (11.11%) CSIRT
3 2 (11.11%) Grafana
3 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 2 (11.11%) Terraform
4 1 (5.56%) Nagios
4 1 (5.56%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle
3 4 (22.22%) HP
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.11%) Dell
5 2 (11.11%) EMC
5 2 (11.11%) IBM
6 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
6 1 (5.56%) Splunk
6 1 (5.56%) VMware