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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 379 333
Rank change year-on-year +23 -46 +77
Permanent jobs citing Perl 21 53 122
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.15% 0.34% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.48% 0.83% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 13 36 104
10th Percentile £55,750 £50,000 £49,125
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 £80,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £83,250 £90,000 £107,750
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 4,343 6,360 8,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.42% 41.05% 43.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,060 4,083 7,208
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £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 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
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 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 17 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 17 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 +34 3 - - 3
South London - 2 - - 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 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (9.52%) nginx
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Solr
3 1 (4.76%) IIS
3 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) AWS KMS
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) DNS
2 3 (14.29%) FTP
3 2 (9.52%) DHCP
3 2 (9.52%) HTTP
3 2 (9.52%) Internet
3 2 (9.52%) LAN
3 2 (9.52%) NAS
3 2 (9.52%) SAN
3 2 (9.52%) SMTP
3 2 (9.52%) SNMP
3 2 (9.52%) SSH
3 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
3 2 (9.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.52%) Big Data
2 2 (9.52%) Informix
2 2 (9.52%) MySQL
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.76%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Subversion
2 2 (9.52%) Vagrant
3 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.52%) Law
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) DBA
5 2 (9.52%) Developer
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Incident Responder
5 2 (9.52%) Informix DBA
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Senior DBA
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Informix DBA
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.76%) Data Quality Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Integration Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Pentaho Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Kafka
1 2 (9.52%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) LAMP
2 1 (4.76%) Node.js
2 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (9.52%) FPGA
1 2 (9.52%) IoT
1 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 17 (80.95%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Windows
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Unix
4 2 (9.52%) CentOS
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (9.52%) VMS
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.76%) Solaris
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
1 10 (47.62%) DevOps
2 8 (38.10%) Platform Engineering
2 8 (38.10%) Security Hardening
3 7 (33.33%) Data Security
4 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (14.29%) Data Transformation
5 3 (14.29%) OO
6 2 (9.52%) AI
6 2 (9.52%) Analytics
6 2 (9.52%) Data Analytics
6 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning
6 2 (9.52%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Process Improvement
6 2 (9.52%) Project Management
6 2 (9.52%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) Python
2 11 (52.38%) Bash
3 6 (28.57%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (9.52%) C
5 2 (9.52%) C#
5 2 (9.52%) Groovy
5 2 (9.52%) PHP
5 2 (9.52%) Ruby
6 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CISM
2 1 (4.76%) CISSP
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) GCFA
2 1 (4.76%) GCFE
2 1 (4.76%) GCIH
2 1 (4.76%) GIAC
2 1 (4.76%) GPEN
2 1 (4.76%) MCP
2 1 (4.76%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) GDPR
1 8 (38.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Ansible
2 9 (42.86%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (14.29%) Terraform
4 2 (9.52%) CSIRT
4 2 (9.52%) Grafana
4 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.52%) Nagios
4 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (4.76%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Red Hat
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle
3 4 (19.05%) HP
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.52%) Dell
5 2 (9.52%) EMC
5 2 (9.52%) IBM
6 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.76%) Splunk
6 1 (4.76%) VMware