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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 632 382 475
Rank change year-on-year -250 +93 -30
Permanent jobs citing Perl 289 795 1,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.84% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.85% 1.98% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 214 349 545
10th Percentile £39,500 £40,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,351 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +8.02% +0.83%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £100,341 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,050 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.99% +10.10% -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 33,900 40,052 91,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.30% 42.32% 54.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,257 26,577 43,330
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £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 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -203 261 £68,750 +5.77% 59
UK excluding London -255 173 £60,000 +8.99% 48
London +11 110 £80,000 +3.23% 20
Work from Home -127 95 £70,000 +7.11% 19
South East -50 68 £60,000 +33.33% 11
South West -36 37 £60,000 -25.00% 10
North of England -130 24 £102,500 +67.54% 6
North West -57 20 £79,500 +67.37% 4
Midlands -40 13 £42,000 -30.00% 7
West Midlands -22 12 £42,000 -37.78% 3
Northern Ireland +11 11 £52,500 -27.59%
East of England -28 10 £115,000 +80.39% 5
Scotland -104 10 £60,000 -29.41% 9
Yorkshire -47 4 £130,446 +113.22% 2
Wales -25 1 £130,446 - 1
East Midlands -37 1 - - 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 17 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.42%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.08%) Confluence
3 6 (2.08%) nginx
4 5 (1.73%) Apache
4 5 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.04%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.84%) Simulink
1 14 (4.84%) Stateflow
2 7 (2.42%) CANalyzer
3 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.69%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (5.88%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.73%) Elite 3E
2 5 (1.73%) Oracle Cash Management
2 5 (1.73%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 65 (22.49%) AWS
2 53 (18.34%) Azure
3 16 (5.54%) GCP
4 14 (4.84%) GitHub
4 14 (4.84%) IaaS
4 14 (4.84%) Nutanix
5 11 (3.81%) Serverless
6 10 (3.46%) Amazon S3
6 10 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.08%) SaaS
8 5 (1.73%) Cloud Composer
8 5 (1.73%) dbt
8 5 (1.73%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.04%) OCI
11 2 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.69%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 59 (20.42%) TCP/IP
2 53 (18.34%) DNS
3 45 (15.57%) Firewall
4 27 (9.34%) WAN
5 26 (9.00%) DHCP
6 25 (8.65%) SNMP
7 19 (6.57%) LAN
8 17 (5.88%) FIX Connectivity
8 17 (5.88%) SSH
9 14 (4.84%) J1939
10 11 (3.81%) tcpdump
11 10 (3.46%) Internet
11 10 (3.46%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (3.11%) 5G
12 9 (3.11%) Wireshark
13 8 (2.77%) SD-WAN
14 7 (2.42%) VPN
15 6 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
16 5 (1.73%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (20.07%) MySQL
2 37 (12.80%) SQL Server
3 30 (10.38%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.54%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.84%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.73%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.73%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.73%) InfluxDB
7 5 (1.73%) Looker
7 5 (1.73%) MariaDB
7 5 (1.73%) Power BI
7 5 (1.73%) Tableau
8 3 (1.04%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.69%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 39 (13.49%) JIRA
2 37 (12.80%) Jenkins
3 30 (10.38%) Git
4 17 (5.88%) GitLab
5 16 (5.54%) Eclipse
6 15 (5.19%) Visual Studio
7 14 (4.84%) ClearCase
7 14 (4.84%) Plastic SCM
8 7 (2.42%) ClearQuest
9 6 (2.08%) Subversion
10 4 (1.38%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.04%) JUnit
12 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.69%) Maven
13 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.35%) NeoLoad
13 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 81 (28.03%) Finance
2 78 (26.99%) Social Skills
3 53 (18.34%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (14.53%) Banking
5 29 (10.03%) Electronics
6 22 (7.61%) Telecoms
7 20 (6.92%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.84%) Automotive
9 13 (4.50%) Marketing
10 11 (3.81%) Public Sector
11 9 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (2.77%) Front Office
12 8 (2.77%) Legal
13 7 (2.42%) Retail
14 6 (2.08%) Billing
15 5 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (1.38%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
18 1 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 89 (30.80%) Senior
2 52 (17.99%) Software Engineer
3 51 (17.65%) Developer
4 32 (11.07%) Linux Engineer
5 26 (9.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (9.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 23 (7.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (7.27%) Analyst
8 19 (6.57%) Administrator
9 18 (6.23%) Applications Support
9 18 (6.23%) Perl Developer
9 18 (6.23%) Support Analyst
9 18 (6.23%) Systems Administrator
10 14 (4.84%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (4.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.84%) Support Engineer
11 13 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (4.50%) Senior Technical Engineer
11 13 (4.50%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.00%) XML
2 24 (8.30%) Web Services
3 22 (7.61%) REST
4 21 (7.27%) SOAP
5 20 (6.92%) HTML
6 19 (6.57%) Node.js
7 17 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
8 14 (4.84%) CSS
8 14 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (4.50%) Ajax
9 13 (4.50%) AngularJS
9 13 (4.50%) JDBC
9 13 (4.50%) JSON
9 13 (4.50%) ODBC
9 13 (4.50%) XHTML
10 11 (3.81%) LDAP
11 10 (3.46%) Hibernate
11 10 (3.46%) Spring
12 9 (3.11%) YAML
13 8 (2.77%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.30%) Algorithms
2 20 (6.92%) GNSS
3 19 (6.57%) IoT
4 17 (5.88%) Eurex
4 17 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.50%) CMDB
5 13 (4.50%) FPGA
6 12 (4.15%) Clustering
6 12 (4.15%) Legacy Applications
6 12 (4.15%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.15%) VHDL
7 10 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (3.46%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (3.46%) Wiki
8 8 (2.77%) MicroBlaze
9 7 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.08%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 175 (60.55%) Linux
2 109 (37.72%) Windows
3 63 (21.80%) Unix
4 38 (13.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (12.46%) CentOS
6 17 (5.88%) Ubuntu
7 14 (4.84%) Solaris
7 14 (4.84%) Windows Server
8 13 (4.50%) Windows 10
9 8 (2.77%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.73%) SUSE
11 5 (1.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (1.04%) FreeBSD
12 3 (1.04%) Mac OS X
12 3 (1.04%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (1.04%) VMS
13 2 (0.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (29.76%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (24.91%) Agile
3 59 (20.42%) DevOps
4 55 (19.03%) Software Engineering
5 50 (17.30%) ITIL
6 49 (16.96%) Configuration Management
7 45 (15.57%) Computer Science
8 39 (13.49%) CI/CD
9 35 (12.11%) Task Automation
10 31 (10.73%) Test Automation
11 28 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (9.69%) Mentoring
12 27 (9.34%) Disaster Recovery
13 26 (9.00%) Capacity Planning
13 26 (9.00%) Multithreading
14 25 (8.65%) OO
15 24 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
16 23 (7.96%) B2B
16 23 (7.96%) Project Management
16 23 (7.96%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 250 (86.51%) Python
2 125 (43.25%) Bash
3 89 (30.80%) PowerShell
4 67 (23.18%) Java
5 63 (21.80%) C
6 58 (20.07%) Ruby
7 49 (16.96%) JavaScript
8 43 (14.88%) SQL
9 41 (14.19%) C++
10 23 (7.96%) MATLAB
11 21 (7.27%) Shell Script
12 18 (6.23%) Tcl
13 14 (4.84%) Embedded C
14 12 (4.15%) Korn
14 12 (4.15%) VB
15 7 (2.42%) Fortran
16 6 (2.08%) PHP
17 5 (1.73%) C#
18 4 (1.38%) Lua
19 3 (1.04%) Go
Qualifications
1 78 (26.99%) Degree
2 29 (10.03%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.19%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.81%) HND
5 8 (2.77%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.77%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.08%) PhD
7 4 (1.38%) RHCE
8 3 (1.04%) Linux+ Certification
8 3 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.84%) Automotive SPICE
1 14 (4.84%) AUTOSAR
1 14 (4.84%) Data Quality
1 14 (4.84%) ISO 26262
1 14 (4.84%) MISRA
2 12 (4.15%) PMO
3 11 (3.81%) QA
4 6 (2.08%) JTAG
4 6 (2.08%) SLA
5 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (15.92%) Docker
2 32 (11.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (10.38%) Active Directory
4 20 (6.92%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (6.23%) Firmware
6 12 (4.15%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.77%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (2.42%) KVM
9 6 (2.08%) XenApp
9 6 (2.08%) XenDesktop
10 5 (1.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (1.73%) Hyper-V
11 3 (1.04%) Ceph
11 3 (1.04%) Gluster
11 3 (1.04%) oVirt
12 2 (0.69%) Lustre
12 2 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.35%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.35%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (24.91%) Ansible
2 49 (16.96%) Puppet
3 42 (14.53%) Kubernetes
4 33 (11.42%) Terraform
5 18 (6.23%) Progress Chef
6 17 (5.88%) Grafana
7 13 (4.50%) Nagios
7 13 (4.50%) Prometheus
7 13 (4.50%) WMI
8 12 (4.15%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (3.11%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 8 (2.77%) Graphite
10 8 (2.77%) HAProxy
10 8 (2.77%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.08%) Salt
11 6 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (2.08%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.73%) Rundeck
12 5 (1.73%) SCCM
13 4 (1.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 56 (19.38%) Red Hat
2 52 (17.99%) Oracle
3 36 (12.46%) VMware
4 31 (10.73%) Microsoft
5 19 (6.57%) Splunk
6 17 (5.88%) Bloomberg
6 17 (5.88%) CQG
6 17 (5.88%) IBM
6 17 (5.88%) ION Trading
6 17 (5.88%) Patsystems
6 17 (5.88%) Reuters
6 17 (5.88%) Trayport
7 16 (5.54%) Cisco
8 14 (4.84%) Lauterbach
9 13 (4.50%) Facebook
10 12 (4.15%) Fortinet
11 11 (3.81%) ServiceNow
11 11 (3.81%) TOWER Software
12 8 (2.77%) Altera
12 8 (2.77%) F5