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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 364 354
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 +59
Permanent jobs citing Perl 16 53 127
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.10% 0.35% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.35% 0.87% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 8 39 108
10th Percentile £52,125 £58,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £64,688 £68,125 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -14.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £98,125
90th Percentile - £90,000 £104,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -27.50% +14.29% -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 4,521 6,115 8,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.43% 40.57% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,183 3,974 7,753
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +0.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +22 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 3 (18.75%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) nginx
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Solr
3 1 (6.25%) IIS
3 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DHCP
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Internet
1 2 (12.50%) LAN
1 2 (12.50%) NAS
1 2 (12.50%) SAN
1 2 (12.50%) SNMP
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Big Data
1 2 (12.50%) Informix
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) LabVIEW
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) Subversion
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (12.50%) Law
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Senior
5 2 (12.50%) DBA
5 2 (12.50%) Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Responder
5 2 (12.50%) Informix DBA
5 2 (12.50%) Lead
5 2 (12.50%) Senior DBA
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Informix DBA
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
6 1 (6.25%) Backend Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Integration Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (6.25%) LAMP
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (12.50%) FPGA
1 2 (12.50%) IoT
1 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
3 2 (12.50%) CentOS
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Security Hardening
3 5 (31.25%) Data Security
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 2 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Purple Team
5 2 (12.50%) Red Team
5 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
5 2 (12.50%) SIEM
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) Bash
3 4 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) C
5 2 (12.50%) PHP
5 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
6 1 (6.25%) Rust
6 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) CISM
3 1 (6.25%) CISSP
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) GCFA
3 1 (6.25%) GCFE
3 1 (6.25%) GCIH
3 1 (6.25%) GIAC
3 1 (6.25%) GPEN
3 1 (6.25%) OSCP
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) GDPR
1 5 (31.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Ansible
2 7 (43.75%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (12.50%) CSIRT
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (25.00%) HP
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) Dell
4 2 (12.50%) EMC
4 2 (12.50%) IBM
4 2 (12.50%) VMware
5 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
5 1 (6.25%) Splunk