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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 352 359
Rank change year-on-year -34 +7 +49
Permanent jobs citing Perl 12 50 125
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.071% 0.37% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.25% 0.89% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4 41 110
10th Percentile £56,625 £60,000 £49,875
25th Percentile £62,813 £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -14.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £75,313 £90,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £75,875 £95,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +3.57% -

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 4,744 5,606 8,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.88% 41.75% 41.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,330 3,987 7,652
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £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 16 March 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 16 March 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 +4 3 - - 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 2 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) nginx
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Solr
2 1 (8.33%) IIS
2 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Internet
1 2 (16.67%) LAN
1 2 (16.67%) NAS
1 2 (16.67%) SAN
1 2 (16.67%) SNMP
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Big Data
1 2 (16.67%) Informix
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) LabVIEW
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (16.67%) Law
3 2 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) DBA
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Incident Responder
2 2 (16.67%) Informix DBA
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior DBA
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Informix DBA
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) LDAP
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (16.67%) FPGA
1 2 (16.67%) IoT
1 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Unix
3 2 (16.67%) CentOS
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) SUSE
4 1 (8.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Purple Team
4 2 (16.67%) Red Team
4 2 (16.67%) Security Hardening
4 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 2 (16.67%) SIEM
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Bash
3 4 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) C
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) PHP
5 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CISM
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) GCFA
2 1 (8.33%) GCFE
2 1 (8.33%) GCIH
2 1 (8.33%) GIAC
2 1 (8.33%) GPEN
2 1 (8.33%) OSCP
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (8.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (16.67%) CSIRT
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) HP
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
1 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (16.67%) Dell
2 2 (16.67%) EMC
2 2 (16.67%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk