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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 350 397
Rank change year-on-year -41 +47 +5
Permanent jobs citing Perl 13 35 110
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.062% 0.29% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.25% 0.72% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 32 96
10th Percentile £59,250 £60,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £66,875 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £75,000 £79,875
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.10% -0.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £89,000 £95,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% - +7.11%

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 5,266 4,864 9,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.26% 40.51% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,729 3,518 7,556
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,313 £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 £120,000 £132,500 £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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -5 5 - - 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) nginx
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Internet
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) NAS
2 1 (7.69%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) SNMP
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Informix
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) SAP HANA
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) LabVIEW
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Testing Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Incident Responder
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Informix DBA
3 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Informix DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (30.77%) Public Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 3 (23.08%) Security Posture
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (7.69%) FPGA
4 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (7.69%) IoT
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Unix
4 1 (7.69%) CentOS
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (7.69%) SUSE
4 1 (7.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
2 5 (38.46%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (38.46%) Red Team
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (23.08%) Application Security
4 3 (23.08%) Ethical Hacking
4 3 (23.08%) Information Security
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) Offensive Security
4 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 3 (23.08%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Security Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Test Strategy
4 3 (23.08%) Tradecraft
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) Incident Response
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Bash
2 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 5 (38.46%) Java
4 4 (30.77%) C
4 4 (30.77%) Go
4 4 (30.77%) Rust
5 3 (23.08%) C#
5 3 (23.08%) C++
5 3 (23.08%) Objective-C
5 3 (23.08%) Ruby
5 3 (23.08%) SQL
6 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
6 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) GPEN
2 4 (30.77%) OSCP
3 3 (23.08%) CCSAM
3 3 (23.08%) CREST Certified
3 3 (23.08%) GXPN
3 3 (23.08%) OSCE
4 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
4 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.69%) CISM
5 1 (7.69%) CISSP
5 1 (7.69%) GCFA
5 1 (7.69%) GCFE
5 1 (7.69%) GCIH
5 1 (7.69%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (7.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) CSIRT
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) HP
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) EMC
4 1 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk