Perl
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Perl skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Perl over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 608 415 450
Rank change year-on-year -193 +35 -38
Permanent jobs citing Perl 318 771 1,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.75% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 1.72% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 213 404 549
10th Percentile £39,500 £41,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,447 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.79% -3.20%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £108,500 £109,865 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £61,180 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.01% +22.36% -9.09%

All Programming Languages
UK

Perl is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,195 44,728 84,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.69% 43.23% 53.73%
Number of salaries quoted 24,962 28,546 44,049
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% +7.00%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Perl.

Salary trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Perl over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Perl in the UK

Perl
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
England -134 279 £62,500 -10.00% 93
UK excluding London -206 194 £57,500 -6.01% 67
Work from Home -79 138 £62,500 -7.41% 41
London +7 115 £77,500 -1.59% 29
South East -9 74 £60,000 +33.33% 16
South West -32 35 £60,000 -25.00% 20
North of England -104 27 £56,500 -7.65% 12
North West -26 22 £56,500 +18.95% 8
Midlands 0 17 £42,000 -37.78% 5
Northern Ireland +26 13 £52,500 -27.59% 1
West Midlands +11 13 £42,000 -37.78% 1
Scotland -90 13 £60,000 -29.41% 4
East of England -17 12 £115,000 +109.09% 11
Yorkshire -27 5 £62,500 - 3
Wales -10 4 £24,000 -
East Midlands -19 4 - - 4

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.20%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.89%) Confluence
4 5 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.57%) nginx
5 3 (0.94%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.63%) Apache
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.40%) Simulink
1 14 (4.40%) Stateflow
2 7 (2.20%) CANalyzer
3 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.63%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 15 (4.72%) Fidessa
2 8 (2.52%) Elite 3E
2 8 (2.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 77 (24.21%) AWS
2 57 (17.92%) Azure
3 47 (14.78%) Serverless
4 19 (5.97%) GitHub
5 17 (5.35%) GCP
6 16 (5.03%) IaaS
7 15 (4.72%) Nutanix
8 13 (4.09%) Amazon S3
9 9 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.83%) SaaS
10 5 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.57%) Cloud Composer
10 5 (1.57%) dbt
10 5 (1.57%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.26%) OCI
12 3 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.63%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 54 (16.98%) TCP/IP
2 53 (16.67%) DNS
3 45 (14.15%) Firewall
4 29 (9.12%) WAN
5 26 (8.18%) SNMP
6 20 (6.29%) DHCP
7 18 (5.66%) LAN
8 16 (5.03%) SSH
9 15 (4.72%) FIX Connectivity
10 14 (4.40%) J1939
11 12 (3.77%) 5G
11 12 (3.77%) Internet
12 11 (3.46%) Intrusion Detection
12 11 (3.46%) SD-WAN
12 11 (3.46%) tcpdump
13 7 (2.20%) Wireshark
14 6 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (1.89%) HTTP
14 6 (1.89%) VPN
15 3 (0.94%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (21.38%) Relational Database
2 62 (19.50%) MySQL
3 37 (11.64%) Oracle Database
3 37 (11.64%) RDBMS
3 37 (11.64%) SQL Server
4 16 (5.03%) MongoDB
5 14 (4.40%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (1.57%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.57%) InfluxDB
8 5 (1.57%) Looker
8 5 (1.57%) MariaDB
8 5 (1.57%) Power BI
8 5 (1.57%) Tableau
9 3 (0.94%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.63%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 75 (23.58%) Git
2 36 (11.32%) JDeveloper
2 36 (11.32%) JIRA
3 33 (10.38%) Jenkins
4 18 (5.66%) GitLab
5 17 (5.35%) Visual Studio
6 16 (5.03%) Eclipse
7 14 (4.40%) ClearCase
7 14 (4.40%) Plastic SCM
8 7 (2.20%) ClearQuest
9 6 (1.89%) Subversion
10 4 (1.26%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.94%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.63%) JUnit
12 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.31%) JMeter
13 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
13 1 (0.31%) Selenium
13 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 84 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.58%) Finance
3 54 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (11.32%) Banking
5 29 (9.12%) Electronics
6 23 (7.23%) Telecoms
7 19 (5.97%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.40%) Automotive
8 14 (4.40%) Marketing
9 11 (3.46%) Legal
9 11 (3.46%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.14%) Retail
11 9 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (2.20%) Aerospace
13 7 (2.20%) Front Office
14 6 (1.89%) Billing
15 3 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.63%) Games
17 1 (0.31%) Law
Job Titles
1 90 (28.30%) Senior
2 86 (27.04%) Software Engineer
3 36 (11.32%) Ruby Engineer
4 35 (11.01%) Developer
5 32 (10.06%) Linux Engineer
6 28 (8.81%) Senior Software Engineer
7 27 (8.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (8.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (7.23%) Administrator
9 21 (6.60%) Systems Administrator
10 19 (5.97%) Analyst
10 19 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (5.35%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (5.03%) Senior DevOps
12 16 (5.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 16 (5.03%) Support Analyst
13 15 (4.72%) Applications Support
13 15 (4.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (4.40%) Support Engineer
15 13 (4.09%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (16.67%) Node.js
2 38 (11.95%) React
3 28 (8.81%) XML
4 26 (8.18%) Web Services
5 25 (7.86%) REST
6 23 (7.23%) HTML
6 23 (7.23%) SOAP
7 17 (5.35%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (5.03%) JSON
9 15 (4.72%) FIX Protocol
10 14 (4.40%) CSS
11 13 (4.09%) Ajax
11 13 (4.09%) AngularJS
11 13 (4.09%) JDBC
11 13 (4.09%) ODBC
11 13 (4.09%) XHTML
12 11 (3.46%) YAML
13 8 (2.52%) Hibernate
13 8 (2.52%) LDAP
13 8 (2.52%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.23%) Algorithms
2 21 (6.60%) GNSS
3 20 (6.29%) IoT
4 17 (5.35%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (4.72%) Eurex
6 15 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
6 15 (4.72%) Management Information System
7 13 (4.09%) Clustering
7 13 (4.09%) CMDB
8 12 (3.77%) VHDL
9 11 (3.46%) Wiki
10 9 (2.83%) FPGA
11 8 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.52%) MicroBlaze
11 8 (2.52%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.89%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.89%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 179 (56.29%) Linux
2 111 (34.91%) Windows
3 56 (17.61%) Unix
4 45 (14.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (11.32%) CentOS
6 14 (4.40%) Ubuntu
6 14 (4.40%) Windows Server
7 13 (4.09%) Windows 10
8 12 (3.77%) Solaris
9 8 (2.52%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.57%) SUSE
11 5 (1.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.94%) FreeBSD
12 3 (0.94%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.94%) VMS
13 2 (0.63%) Android
13 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (38.68%) Problem-Solving
2 106 (33.33%) DevOps
3 89 (27.99%) Software Engineering
4 81 (25.47%) Agile
5 54 (16.98%) Configuration Management
5 54 (16.98%) Containerisation
6 53 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 50 (15.72%) Continuous Integration
8 49 (15.41%) ITIL
9 48 (15.09%) Open Source
10 46 (14.47%) Code Quality
10 46 (14.47%) Computer Science
10 46 (14.47%) Microservices
11 43 (13.52%) Test Automation
12 41 (12.89%) Unit Testing
13 36 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
13 36 (11.32%) Clean Code
13 36 (11.32%) Design Patterns
14 33 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (9.43%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 293 (92.14%) Python
2 161 (50.63%) Bash
3 101 (31.76%) Java
4 91 (28.62%) Ruby
5 89 (27.99%) PowerShell
6 86 (27.04%) JavaScript
7 59 (18.55%) C
8 41 (12.89%) SQL
9 39 (12.26%) Go
10 38 (11.95%) C++
11 23 (7.23%) MATLAB
11 23 (7.23%) Shell Script
12 18 (5.66%) Tcl
13 15 (4.72%) Embedded C
14 12 (3.77%) Korn
14 12 (3.77%) VB
15 11 (3.46%) PHP
16 7 (2.20%) Fortran
17 5 (1.57%) C#
18 4 (1.26%) Lua
Qualifications
1 79 (24.84%) Degree
2 34 (10.69%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.46%) HND
5 10 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.83%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.52%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.89%) PhD
9 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.63%) RHCE
10 1 (0.31%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.31%) OCA
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (14.78%) QA
2 15 (4.72%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.72%) MISRA
3 14 (4.40%) Automotive SPICE
3 14 (4.40%) AUTOSAR
3 14 (4.40%) ISO 26262
4 13 (4.09%) PMO
5 6 (1.89%) JTAG
5 6 (1.89%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (14.47%) Docker
2 35 (11.01%) Active Directory
3 24 (7.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (5.97%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (5.66%) Firmware
6 14 (4.40%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.52%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (1.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (1.57%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.57%) KVM
9 3 (0.94%) Ceph
9 3 (0.94%) Gluster
9 3 (0.94%) oVirt
10 2 (0.63%) Lustre
10 2 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.31%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.31%) Postfix
11 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (23.27%) Ansible
2 54 (16.98%) Puppet
3 45 (14.15%) Kubernetes
4 39 (12.26%) Terraform
5 22 (6.92%) Progress Chef
6 17 (5.35%) Grafana
7 13 (4.09%) WMI
8 12 (3.77%) Nagios
8 12 (3.77%) Red Hat Satellite
8 12 (3.77%) Salt
9 10 (3.14%) Graphite
9 10 (3.14%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.14%) vCenter Server
10 8 (2.52%) Prometheus
11 7 (2.20%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 6 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.57%) SCCM
13 5 (1.57%) ZABBIX
14 4 (1.26%) Rundeck
14 4 (1.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 87 (27.36%) Oracle
2 47 (14.78%) Red Hat
3 31 (9.75%) Microsoft
4 28 (8.81%) VMware
5 18 (5.66%) IBM
6 17 (5.35%) Splunk
7 16 (5.03%) Cisco
8 15 (4.72%) Bloomberg
8 15 (4.72%) CQG
8 15 (4.72%) ION Trading
8 15 (4.72%) Patsystems
8 15 (4.72%) Reuters
8 15 (4.72%) Trayport
9 14 (4.40%) Lauterbach
10 13 (4.09%) ServiceNow
11 12 (3.77%) Facebook
11 12 (3.77%) Fortinet
11 12 (3.77%) TOWER Software
12 11 (3.46%) Sun
13 9 (2.83%) HP