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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 395 476
Rank change year-on-year -196 +81 -52
Permanent jobs citing Perl 318 819 1,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.83% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.96% 1.91% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 212 382 547
10th Percentile £39,500 £41,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,447 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +13.85% -6.15%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £84,375
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,180 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% +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 33,216 42,952 86,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,477 43,381
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 18 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 18 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 -156 278 £70,000 +3.70% 87
UK excluding London -236 199 £60,000 -1.93% 65
Work from Home -81 136 £75,000 +11.11% 38
London -11 110 £77,500 - 34
South East -33 72 £60,000 +33.33% 16
South West -34 38 £60,000 -25.00% 17
North of England -107 31 £102,500 +67.54% 11
North West -47 24 £79,500 +67.37% 9
Midlands -32 17 £42,000 -37.78% 6
Northern Ireland +15 14 £52,500 -27.59% 1
West Midlands +4 13 £42,000 -37.78% 3
Scotland -99 13 £60,000 -29.41% 6
East of England -21 11 £115,000 +80.39% 7
Yorkshire -31 7 £130,446 +113.22% 2
East Midlands -23 4 - - 3
Wales -23 4 £130,446 - 2

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 16 (5.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.20%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.89%) Confluence
3 6 (1.89%) nginx
4 5 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.26%) Apache
6 3 (0.94%) CloudStack
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 16 (5.03%) Fidessa
2 6 (1.89%) Elite 3E
2 6 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.26%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 66 (20.75%) AWS
2 52 (16.35%) Azure
3 46 (14.47%) Serverless
4 16 (5.03%) GCP
5 15 (4.72%) GitHub
6 14 (4.40%) IaaS
7 13 (4.09%) Nutanix
8 11 (3.46%) Amazon S3
9 9 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.89%) SaaS
11 5 (1.57%) Cloud Composer
11 5 (1.57%) dbt
11 5 (1.57%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (0.94%) OCI
14 2 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.63%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 56 (17.61%) TCP/IP
2 50 (15.72%) DNS
3 46 (14.47%) Firewall
4 27 (8.49%) WAN
5 25 (7.86%) SNMP
6 23 (7.23%) DHCP
7 18 (5.66%) LAN
8 16 (5.03%) FIX Connectivity
8 16 (5.03%) SSH
9 14 (4.40%) J1939
10 11 (3.46%) Internet
10 11 (3.46%) Intrusion Detection
10 11 (3.46%) tcpdump
11 10 (3.14%) 5G
12 9 (2.83%) SD-WAN
13 8 (2.52%) Wireshark
14 7 (2.20%) VPN
15 6 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
16 4 (1.26%) SAN
17 3 (0.94%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (20.75%) Relational Database
2 59 (18.55%) MySQL
3 37 (11.64%) RDBMS
4 36 (11.32%) Oracle Database
4 36 (11.32%) SQL Server
5 15 (4.72%) MongoDB
6 14 (4.40%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.57%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.57%) InfluxDB
9 5 (1.57%) Looker
9 5 (1.57%) MariaDB
9 5 (1.57%) Power BI
9 5 (1.57%) Tableau
10 3 (0.94%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.63%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 69 (21.70%) Git
2 36 (11.32%) JDeveloper
3 35 (11.01%) JIRA
4 34 (10.69%) Jenkins
5 17 (5.35%) Visual Studio
6 16 (5.03%) Eclipse
7 15 (4.72%) GitLab
8 14 (4.40%) ClearCase
8 14 (4.40%) Plastic SCM
9 7 (2.20%) ClearQuest
10 6 (1.89%) Subversion
11 3 (0.94%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.63%) JUnit
13 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.31%) JMeter
13 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
13 1 (0.31%) Maven
13 1 (0.31%) Selenium
13 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 74 (23.27%) Finance
3 51 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (11.95%) Banking
5 29 (9.12%) Electronics
6 22 (6.92%) Telecoms
7 18 (5.66%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.40%) Automotive
8 14 (4.40%) Marketing
9 11 (3.46%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.83%) Legal
11 8 (2.52%) Retail
12 7 (2.20%) Front Office
13 6 (1.89%) Billing
13 6 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.57%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.31%) Law
16 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (27.67%) Senior
2 87 (27.36%) Software Engineer
3 47 (14.78%) Developer
4 36 (11.32%) Ruby Engineer
5 31 (9.75%) Linux Engineer
6 28 (8.81%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
8 23 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (6.60%) Administrator
10 20 (6.29%) Analyst
10 20 (6.29%) Systems Administrator
11 18 (5.66%) Perl Developer
12 17 (5.35%) Support Analyst
13 16 (5.03%) Applications Support
13 16 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (4.72%) Senior DevOps
14 15 (4.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 14 (4.40%) Support Engineer
16 13 (4.09%) Technical Support
16 13 (4.09%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (16.67%) Node.js
2 38 (11.95%) React
3 26 (8.18%) XML
4 24 (7.55%) Web Services
5 22 (6.92%) REST
6 21 (6.60%) HTML
6 21 (6.60%) SOAP
7 16 (5.03%) FIX Protocol
8 15 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (4.40%) CSS
10 13 (4.09%) Ajax
10 13 (4.09%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.09%) JDBC
10 13 (4.09%) JSON
10 13 (4.09%) ODBC
10 13 (4.09%) XHTML
11 10 (3.14%) YAML
12 9 (2.83%) LDAP
13 8 (2.52%) Hibernate
13 8 (2.52%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.23%) Algorithms
2 21 (6.60%) GNSS
3 18 (5.66%) IoT
4 17 (5.35%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (5.03%) Eurex
6 13 (4.09%) CMDB
6 13 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (4.09%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.77%) Clustering
7 12 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
7 12 (3.77%) VHDL
8 11 (3.46%) FPGA
8 11 (3.46%) Legacy Applications
8 11 (3.46%) Wiki
9 8 (2.52%) MicroBlaze
10 7 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.89%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.89%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 172 (54.09%) Linux
2 106 (33.33%) Windows
3 56 (17.61%) Unix
4 38 (11.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (10.69%) CentOS
6 16 (5.03%) Ubuntu
7 13 (4.09%) Solaris
7 13 (4.09%) Windows 10
8 12 (3.77%) Windows Server
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%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.63%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (37.42%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (29.87%) DevOps
3 90 (28.30%) Software Engineering
4 75 (23.58%) Agile
5 53 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 52 (16.35%) Configuration Management
7 49 (15.41%) Continuous Integration
8 48 (15.09%) ITIL
8 48 (15.09%) Open Source
9 46 (14.47%) Computer Science
10 45 (14.15%) Code Quality
10 45 (14.15%) Microservices
11 44 (13.84%) CI/CD
12 40 (12.58%) Unit Testing
13 36 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
13 36 (11.32%) Clean Code
13 36 (11.32%) Design Patterns
13 36 (11.32%) Test Automation
14 29 (9.12%) Task Automation
15 28 (8.81%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 281 (88.36%) Python
2 158 (49.69%) Bash
3 99 (31.13%) Java
4 89 (27.99%) PowerShell
4 89 (27.99%) Ruby
5 85 (26.73%) JavaScript
6 61 (19.18%) C
7 41 (12.89%) SQL
8 39 (12.26%) C++
8 39 (12.26%) Go
9 23 (7.23%) MATLAB
10 21 (6.60%) Shell Script
11 18 (5.66%) Tcl
12 15 (4.72%) Embedded C
13 11 (3.46%) VB
14 10 (3.14%) Korn
15 8 (2.52%) PHP
16 7 (2.20%) Fortran
17 5 (1.57%) C#
18 4 (1.26%) Lua
Qualifications
1 79 (24.84%) Degree
2 31 (9.75%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.35%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.46%) HND
5 10 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.89%) PhD
8 3 (0.94%) RHCE
9 2 (0.63%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.47%) QA
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%) Data Quality
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 44 (13.84%) Docker
2 31 (9.75%) Active Directory
3 25 (7.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (5.66%) Firmware
4 18 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (4.09%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.52%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (1.89%) KVM
8 5 (1.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (1.57%) Hyper-V
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
10 2 (0.63%) XenApp
10 2 (0.63%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.31%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.31%) Postfix
11 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (22.33%) Ansible
2 50 (15.72%) Puppet
3 42 (13.21%) Kubernetes
4 35 (11.01%) Terraform
5 20 (6.29%) Progress Chef
6 17 (5.35%) Grafana
7 13 (4.09%) Nagios
7 13 (4.09%) WMI
8 11 (3.46%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.14%) Red Hat Satellite
10 9 (2.83%) Graphite
10 9 (2.83%) HAProxy
10 9 (2.83%) Salt
10 9 (2.83%) vCenter Server
11 8 (2.52%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 6 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.89%) ZABBIX
13 5 (1.57%) Rundeck
13 5 (1.57%) SCCM
14 4 (1.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 86 (27.04%) Oracle
2 50 (15.72%) Red Hat
3 30 (9.43%) Microsoft
4 29 (9.12%) VMware
5 18 (5.66%) Splunk
6 17 (5.35%) IBM
7 16 (5.03%) Bloomberg
7 16 (5.03%) Cisco
7 16 (5.03%) CQG
7 16 (5.03%) ION Trading
7 16 (5.03%) Patsystems
7 16 (5.03%) Reuters
7 16 (5.03%) Trayport
8 14 (4.40%) Lauterbach
9 12 (3.77%) Facebook
9 12 (3.77%) Fortinet
10 11 (3.46%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.14%) TOWER Software
12 8 (2.52%) Green Hills
12 8 (2.52%) Motorola