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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 381 370
Rank change year-on-year +15 -11 +82
Permanent jobs citing Perl 28 83 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.43% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.60% 1.04% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 24 66 101
10th Percentile £67,875 £40,400 £48,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £64,063 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £81,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -7.98% +5.16%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £121,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +8.33%

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 4,684 7,943 10,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.26% 41.42% 46.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3,155 5,307 8,928
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +1.56%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Perl 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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
South London - 2 - -
Central London +32 1 £90,000 +18.03% 1
Perl
England

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (10.71%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.14%) AWS KMS
3 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.57%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.57%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) FTP
2 3 (10.71%) SSH
3 2 (7.14%) Firewall
3 2 (7.14%) HTTP
3 2 (7.14%) SMTP
3 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.57%) Asterisk PBX
4 1 (3.57%) DHCP
4 1 (3.57%) DMARC
4 1 (3.57%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (3.57%) RTP
4 1 (3.57%) VoIP
4 1 (3.57%) WAN
4 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (3.57%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Subversion
2 2 (7.14%) Vagrant
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 17 (60.71%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Law
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) Linux Engineer
2 15 (53.57%) Platform Engineer
3 14 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Applications Support
5 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Support Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
1 2 (7.14%) REST
1 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (3.57%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) LAMP
2 1 (3.57%) LDAP
2 1 (3.57%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.57%) Bitcoin
2 1 (3.57%) Clustering
2 1 (3.57%) Derivative
2 1 (3.57%) Equities
2 1 (3.57%) Eurex
2 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (82.14%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Unix
3 3 (10.71%) Solaris
3 3 (10.71%) Windows
4 2 (7.14%) VMS
5 1 (3.57%) CentOS
5 1 (3.57%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
1 17 (60.71%) DevOps
2 16 (57.14%) Security Hardening
3 15 (53.57%) Data Security
4 14 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Agile
5 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.71%) Cloud Security
6 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (10.71%) High Availability
6 3 (10.71%) Process Improvement
7 2 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (7.14%) MLOps
7 2 (7.14%) Prototyping
7 2 (7.14%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 2 (7.14%) Task Automation
7 2 (7.14%) Threat Detection
7 2 (7.14%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 23 (82.14%) Python
2 19 (67.86%) Bash
3 5 (17.86%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) Groovy
4 2 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.14%) Ruby
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) Bourne shell
5 1 (3.57%) C-shell
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) PHP
5 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.14%) MCP
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (57.14%) GDPR
1 16 (57.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Corosync
2 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.57%) Kamailio
2 1 (3.57%) KVM
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) Ansible
2 14 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (17.86%) Terraform
4 3 (10.71%) Grafana
5 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
5 2 (7.14%) Nagios
6 1 (3.57%) CASB
6 1 (3.57%) Icinga
6 1 (3.57%) Opsgenie
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (3.57%) Pacemaker
6 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.57%) QRadar
6 1 (3.57%) SCCM
6 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) Red Hat
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Qualys
3 2 (7.14%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Citrix
4 1 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.57%) EMC
4 1 (3.57%) Exabeam
4 1 (3.57%) HP
4 1 (3.57%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.57%) Okta
4 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.57%) Patsystems
4 1 (3.57%) Thales
4 1 (3.57%) Trayport
4 1 (3.57%) VocaLink