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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 395 473
Rank change year-on-year -190 +78 -32
Permanent jobs citing Perl 317 832 1,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.84% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.95% 1.93% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 211 382 550
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 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.79% -5.10%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £84,688
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 33,218 43,078 87,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,863 27,599 43,697
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,375 £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 20 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 20 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 -160 277 £70,000 +3.70% 100
UK excluding London -231 198 £60,000 -1.93% 76
Work from Home -64 136 £72,500 +7.41% 38
London -7 110 £77,500 - 39
South East -28 72 £60,000 +33.33% 21
South West -31 38 £60,000 -25.00% 19
North of England -123 31 £102,500 +67.54% 12
North West -55 24 £79,500 +67.37% 10
Midlands -32 16 £42,000 -37.78% 7
Northern Ireland +24 14 £52,500 -27.59% 1
Scotland -103 13 £60,000 -29.41% 6
West Midlands +4 12 £42,000 -37.78% 3
East of England -20 11 £115,000 +80.39% 8
Yorkshire -34 7 £130,446 +113.22% 2
Wales -22 4 £130,446 - 2
East Midlands -34 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 16 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.21%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.89%) Confluence
3 6 (1.89%) nginx
4 5 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.26%) Apache
6 3 (0.95%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.42%) Simulink
1 14 (4.42%) Stateflow
2 7 (2.21%) CANalyzer
3 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.63%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 16 (5.05%) Fidessa
2 6 (1.89%) Elite 3E
2 6 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.26%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 64 (20.19%) AWS
2 53 (16.72%) Azure
3 46 (14.51%) Serverless
4 16 (5.05%) GCP
5 15 (4.73%) IaaS
6 14 (4.42%) GitHub
6 14 (4.42%) Nutanix
7 11 (3.47%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.89%) SaaS
10 5 (1.58%) Cloud Composer
10 5 (1.58%) dbt
10 5 (1.58%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.95%) OCI
13 2 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.63%) Google Docs
13 2 (0.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (17.98%) TCP/IP
2 52 (16.40%) DNS
3 45 (14.20%) Firewall
4 27 (8.52%) WAN
5 26 (8.20%) SNMP
6 24 (7.57%) DHCP
7 18 (5.68%) LAN
8 16 (5.05%) FIX Connectivity
8 16 (5.05%) SSH
9 14 (4.42%) J1939
10 11 (3.47%) Internet
10 11 (3.47%) tcpdump
11 10 (3.15%) 5G
11 10 (3.15%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (2.84%) SD-WAN
13 8 (2.52%) Wireshark
14 7 (2.21%) VPN
15 6 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
16 4 (1.26%) SAN
17 3 (0.95%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (20.82%) Relational Database
2 59 (18.61%) MySQL
3 37 (11.67%) RDBMS
4 36 (11.36%) Oracle Database
4 36 (11.36%) SQL Server
5 15 (4.73%) MongoDB
6 14 (4.42%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.58%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.58%) InfluxDB
9 5 (1.58%) Looker
9 5 (1.58%) MariaDB
9 5 (1.58%) Power BI
9 5 (1.58%) Tableau
10 3 (0.95%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.63%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 67 (21.14%) Git
2 36 (11.36%) JDeveloper
2 36 (11.36%) JIRA
3 34 (10.73%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.36%) Visual Studio
5 16 (5.05%) Eclipse
6 14 (4.42%) ClearCase
6 14 (4.42%) GitLab
6 14 (4.42%) Plastic SCM
7 7 (2.21%) ClearQuest
8 6 (1.89%) Subversion
9 3 (0.95%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.63%) JUnit
11 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.32%) JMeter
11 1 (0.32%) JProfiler
11 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.32%) Maven
11 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 77 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.66%) Finance
3 51 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (11.67%) Banking
5 29 (9.15%) Electronics
6 22 (6.94%) Telecoms
7 17 (5.36%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.42%) Automotive
8 14 (4.42%) Marketing
9 11 (3.47%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.84%) Legal
11 8 (2.52%) Retail
12 7 (2.21%) Front Office
13 6 (1.89%) Billing
13 6 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.58%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.32%) Games
16 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (28.39%) Senior
2 87 (27.44%) Software Engineer
3 46 (14.51%) Developer
4 36 (11.36%) Ruby Engineer
5 32 (10.09%) Linux Engineer
6 28 (8.83%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (7.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 23 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 20 (6.31%) Administrator
9 20 (6.31%) Analyst
10 19 (5.99%) Systems Administrator
11 17 (5.36%) Perl Developer
11 17 (5.36%) Support Analyst
12 16 (5.05%) Applications Support
12 16 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (4.73%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (4.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 14 (4.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (4.42%) Support Engineer
15 13 (4.10%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (16.72%) Node.js
2 38 (11.99%) React
3 26 (8.20%) XML
4 24 (7.57%) Web Services
5 22 (6.94%) REST
6 21 (6.62%) SOAP
7 20 (6.31%) HTML
8 16 (5.05%) FIX Protocol
9 15 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (4.10%) Ajax
10 13 (4.10%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.10%) CSS
10 13 (4.10%) JDBC
10 13 (4.10%) JSON
10 13 (4.10%) ODBC
10 13 (4.10%) XHTML
11 10 (3.15%) LDAP
11 10 (3.15%) YAML
12 8 (2.52%) Hibernate
12 8 (2.52%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.26%) Algorithms
2 21 (6.62%) GNSS
3 19 (5.99%) IoT
4 17 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (5.05%) Eurex
6 13 (4.10%) CMDB
6 13 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (4.10%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.79%) Clustering
7 12 (3.79%) Linux Command Line
7 12 (3.79%) VHDL
8 11 (3.47%) FPGA
8 11 (3.47%) Legacy Applications
9 10 (3.15%) Wiki
10 8 (2.52%) MicroBlaze
11 7 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.89%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.89%) CUDA
12 6 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 171 (53.94%) Linux
2 106 (33.44%) Windows
3 57 (17.98%) Unix
4 37 (11.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (11.04%) CentOS
6 16 (5.05%) Ubuntu
7 13 (4.10%) Solaris
7 13 (4.10%) Windows 10
8 11 (3.47%) 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 (1.58%) SUSE
11 5 (1.58%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.95%) FreeBSD
12 3 (0.95%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.95%) VMS
13 2 (0.63%) Android
13 2 (0.63%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (37.22%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (29.97%) DevOps
3 90 (28.39%) Software Engineering
4 74 (23.34%) Agile
5 53 (16.72%) Configuration Management
5 53 (16.72%) Containerisation
6 49 (15.46%) Continuous Integration
6 49 (15.46%) ITIL
7 48 (15.14%) Open Source
8 46 (14.51%) Computer Science
9 45 (14.20%) Code Quality
9 45 (14.20%) Microservices
10 43 (13.56%) CI/CD
11 40 (12.62%) Unit Testing
12 36 (11.36%) Actionable Insight
12 36 (11.36%) Clean Code
12 36 (11.36%) Design Patterns
12 36 (11.36%) Test Automation
13 30 (9.46%) Task Automation
14 29 (9.15%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 281 (88.64%) Python
2 158 (49.84%) Bash
3 100 (31.55%) Java
4 88 (27.76%) Ruby
5 87 (27.44%) PowerShell
6 84 (26.50%) JavaScript
7 61 (19.24%) C
8 40 (12.62%) SQL
9 39 (12.30%) C++
9 39 (12.30%) Go
10 23 (7.26%) MATLAB
11 21 (6.62%) Shell Script
12 18 (5.68%) Tcl
13 15 (4.73%) Embedded C
14 11 (3.47%) VB
15 9 (2.84%) Korn
16 7 (2.21%) Fortran
16 7 (2.21%) PHP
17 5 (1.58%) C#
18 4 (1.26%) Lua
Qualifications
1 79 (24.92%) Degree
2 31 (9.78%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.36%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.47%) HND
5 10 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.89%) PhD
8 3 (0.95%) RHCE
9 2 (0.63%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.51%) QA
2 15 (4.73%) MISRA
3 14 (4.42%) Automotive SPICE
3 14 (4.42%) AUTOSAR
3 14 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 14 (4.42%) ISO 26262
4 13 (4.10%) PMO
5 6 (1.89%) JTAG
5 6 (1.89%) SLA
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) GDPR
6 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (13.88%) Docker
2 31 (9.78%) Active Directory
3 26 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (5.99%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (5.68%) Firmware
6 13 (4.10%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.52%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (1.89%) KVM
9 5 (1.58%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (1.58%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.95%) Ceph
10 3 (0.95%) Gluster
10 3 (0.95%) oVirt
11 2 (0.63%) Lustre
11 2 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.63%) XenApp
11 2 (0.63%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.32%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.32%) Postfix
12 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (22.40%) Ansible
2 49 (15.46%) Puppet
3 42 (13.25%) Kubernetes
4 35 (11.04%) Terraform
5 20 (6.31%) Progress Chef
6 17 (5.36%) Grafana
7 13 (4.10%) Nagios
7 13 (4.10%) WMI
8 11 (3.47%) Prometheus
9 9 (2.84%) Graphite
9 9 (2.84%) HAProxy
9 9 (2.84%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (2.84%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 9 (2.84%) Salt
9 9 (2.84%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.89%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.58%) Rundeck
11 5 (1.58%) SCCM
12 4 (1.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 87 (27.44%) Oracle
2 50 (15.77%) Red Hat
3 30 (9.46%) VMware
4 29 (9.15%) Microsoft
5 18 (5.68%) Splunk
6 17 (5.36%) IBM
7 16 (5.05%) Bloomberg
7 16 (5.05%) Cisco
7 16 (5.05%) CQG
7 16 (5.05%) ION Trading
7 16 (5.05%) Patsystems
7 16 (5.05%) Reuters
7 16 (5.05%) Trayport
8 14 (4.42%) Lauterbach
9 12 (3.79%) Facebook
9 12 (3.79%) Fortinet
9 12 (3.79%) ServiceNow
10 9 (2.84%) TOWER Software
11 8 (2.52%) Green Hills
11 8 (2.52%) Motorola