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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 390 469
Rank change year-on-year -207 +79 -40
Permanent jobs citing Perl 310 827 1,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.84% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.93% 1.94% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 216 375 551
10th Percentile £39,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £69,447 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +14.79% -3.20%
75th Percentile £90,625 £89,375 £83,750
90th Percentile £121,250 £107,000 £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 33,326 42,611 88,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.02% 43.26% 54.15%
Number of salaries quoted 24,946 27,225 43,437
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £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 23 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 23 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 -155 274 £70,000 +3.70% 81
UK excluding London -230 188 £60,000 -1.93% 60
Work from Home -100 125 £75,000 +11.11% 40
London +3 114 £79,875 -0.16% 28
South East -32 70 £60,000 +33.33% 12
South West -26 38 £60,000 -25.00% 17
North of England -121 28 £102,500 +67.54% 9
North West -54 22 £79,500 +67.37% 7
Midlands -35 15 £42,000 -37.78% 8
Northern Ireland +19 13 £52,500 -27.59% 1
West Midlands -1 12 £42,000 -37.78% 4
Scotland -96 12 £60,000 -29.41% 5
East of England -20 10 £115,000 +80.39% 7
Yorkshire -32 6 £130,446 +113.22% 2
Wales -23 3 £130,446 - 2
East Midlands -23 3 - - 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 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.26%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.94%) Confluence
3 6 (1.94%) nginx
4 5 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.29%) Apache
6 3 (0.97%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.52%) Simulink
1 14 (4.52%) Stateflow
2 7 (2.26%) CANalyzer
3 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.65%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 17 (5.48%) Fidessa
2 6 (1.94%) Elite 3E
2 6 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (1.61%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 65 (20.97%) AWS
2 54 (17.42%) Azure
3 34 (10.97%) Serverless
4 17 (5.48%) GCP
5 15 (4.84%) IaaS
6 14 (4.52%) GitHub
6 14 (4.52%) Nutanix
7 11 (3.55%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.26%) SaaS
10 5 (1.61%) Cloud Composer
10 5 (1.61%) dbt
10 5 (1.61%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.97%) OCI
13 2 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.65%) Google Docs
13 2 (0.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (18.71%) TCP/IP
2 54 (17.42%) DNS
3 46 (14.84%) Firewall
4 28 (9.03%) WAN
5 26 (8.39%) SNMP
6 25 (8.06%) DHCP
7 19 (6.13%) LAN
8 17 (5.48%) FIX Connectivity
8 17 (5.48%) SSH
9 14 (4.52%) J1939
10 11 (3.55%) Internet
10 11 (3.55%) tcpdump
11 10 (3.23%) 5G
11 10 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (2.90%) SD-WAN
13 8 (2.58%) Wireshark
14 7 (2.26%) VPN
15 6 (1.94%) Cisco ASA
16 5 (1.61%) SAN
17 4 (1.29%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (19.03%) MySQL
2 54 (17.42%) Relational Database
3 37 (11.94%) SQL Server
4 25 (8.06%) RDBMS
5 24 (7.74%) Oracle Database
6 15 (4.84%) MongoDB
6 15 (4.84%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.61%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.61%) InfluxDB
9 5 (1.61%) Looker
9 5 (1.61%) MariaDB
9 5 (1.61%) Power BI
9 5 (1.61%) Tableau
10 3 (0.97%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.65%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 55 (17.74%) Git
2 37 (11.94%) JIRA
3 36 (11.61%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.74%) JDeveloper
5 16 (5.16%) Eclipse
5 16 (5.16%) GitLab
5 16 (5.16%) Visual Studio
6 14 (4.52%) ClearCase
6 14 (4.52%) Plastic SCM
7 7 (2.26%) ClearQuest
8 6 (1.94%) Subversion
9 4 (1.29%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.97%) JUnit
11 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.32%) JMeter
12 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.32%) Selenium
12 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 80 (25.81%) Finance
2 78 (25.16%) Social Skills
3 52 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (13.55%) Banking
5 29 (9.35%) Electronics
6 22 (7.10%) Telecoms
7 20 (6.45%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.52%) Automotive
8 14 (4.52%) Marketing
9 11 (3.55%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.90%) Legal
11 8 (2.58%) Front Office
11 8 (2.58%) Retail
12 6 (1.94%) Billing
12 6 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.61%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.32%) Games
15 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (28.71%) Senior
2 75 (24.19%) Software Engineer
3 48 (15.48%) Developer
4 34 (10.97%) Linux Engineer
5 27 (8.71%) Senior Software Engineer
6 25 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (7.74%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (7.74%) Ruby Engineer
8 21 (6.77%) Analyst
9 19 (6.13%) Administrator
10 18 (5.81%) Support Analyst
10 18 (5.81%) Systems Administrator
11 17 (5.48%) Applications Support
11 17 (5.48%) Perl Developer
12 15 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (4.84%) Senior DevOps
12 15 (4.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (4.52%) Support Engineer
14 13 (4.19%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.55%) Node.js
2 27 (8.71%) React
2 27 (8.71%) XML
3 25 (8.06%) Web Services
4 23 (7.42%) REST
5 22 (7.10%) SOAP
6 21 (6.77%) HTML
7 17 (5.48%) FIX Protocol
8 15 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
9 14 (4.52%) CSS
9 14 (4.52%) JSON
10 13 (4.19%) Ajax
10 13 (4.19%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.19%) JDBC
10 13 (4.19%) ODBC
10 13 (4.19%) XHTML
11 11 (3.55%) LDAP
12 10 (3.23%) YAML
13 9 (2.90%) Hibernate
13 9 (2.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.74%) Algorithms
2 21 (6.77%) GNSS
3 19 (6.13%) IoT
4 17 (5.48%) Eurex
4 17 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.19%) CMDB
5 13 (4.19%) FPGA
5 13 (4.19%) Management Information System
6 12 (3.87%) Clustering
6 12 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (3.87%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (3.87%) VHDL
7 11 (3.55%) Legacy Applications
8 10 (3.23%) Wiki
9 8 (2.58%) MicroBlaze
10 7 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.94%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 176 (56.77%) Linux
2 108 (34.84%) Windows
3 60 (19.35%) Unix
4 40 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (11.94%) CentOS
6 17 (5.48%) Ubuntu
7 14 (4.52%) Solaris
8 13 (4.19%) Windows 10
8 13 (4.19%) Windows Server
9 8 (2.58%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.61%) SUSE
11 5 (1.61%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.97%) FreeBSD
12 3 (0.97%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.97%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.97%) VMS
13 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (34.52%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (27.42%) DevOps
3 78 (25.16%) Software Engineering
4 74 (23.87%) Agile
5 52 (16.77%) Configuration Management
6 50 (16.13%) ITIL
7 45 (14.52%) Computer Science
8 42 (13.55%) CI/CD
9 41 (13.23%) Containerisation
10 38 (12.26%) Continuous Integration
11 36 (11.61%) Open Source
12 34 (10.97%) Test Automation
13 33 (10.65%) Code Quality
13 33 (10.65%) Microservices
14 32 (10.32%) Task Automation
15 28 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
15 28 (9.03%) Mentoring
15 28 (9.03%) Unit Testing
16 27 (8.71%) Disaster Recovery
16 27 (8.71%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 274 (88.39%) Python
2 148 (47.74%) Bash
3 91 (29.35%) Java
4 89 (28.71%) PowerShell
5 79 (25.48%) Ruby
6 74 (23.87%) JavaScript
7 61 (19.68%) C
8 42 (13.55%) SQL
9 39 (12.58%) C++
10 27 (8.71%) Go
11 23 (7.42%) MATLAB
12 21 (6.77%) Shell Script
13 18 (5.81%) Tcl
14 14 (4.52%) Embedded C
15 11 (3.55%) Korn
15 11 (3.55%) VB
16 7 (2.26%) Fortran
16 7 (2.26%) PHP
17 4 (1.29%) C#
17 4 (1.29%) Lua
Qualifications
1 77 (24.84%) Degree
2 30 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.16%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.55%) HND
5 10 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.94%) PhD
8 3 (0.97%) RHCE
9 2 (0.65%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.29%) QA
2 14 (4.52%) Automotive SPICE
2 14 (4.52%) AUTOSAR
2 14 (4.52%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.52%) ISO 26262
2 14 (4.52%) MISRA
3 13 (4.19%) PMO
4 6 (1.94%) JTAG
4 6 (1.94%) SLA
5 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (14.84%) Docker
2 31 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 28 (9.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (6.13%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (5.81%) Firmware
6 13 (4.19%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.58%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (1.94%) KVM
9 5 (1.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 5 (1.61%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.29%) XenApp
10 4 (1.29%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.97%) Ceph
11 3 (0.97%) Gluster
11 3 (0.97%) oVirt
12 2 (0.65%) Lustre
12 2 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.32%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.32%) Postfix
13 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (23.87%) Ansible
2 50 (16.13%) Puppet
3 42 (13.55%) Kubernetes
4 36 (11.61%) Terraform
5 19 (6.13%) Progress Chef
6 17 (5.48%) Grafana
7 14 (4.52%) Nagios
8 13 (4.19%) WMI
9 12 (3.87%) Prometheus
10 11 (3.55%) Red Hat Satellite
11 9 (2.90%) Graphite
11 9 (2.90%) HAProxy
11 9 (2.90%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 9 (2.90%) vCenter Server
12 8 (2.58%) Salt
13 6 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (1.94%) ZABBIX
14 5 (1.61%) Rundeck
14 5 (1.61%) SCCM
15 4 (1.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 77 (24.84%) Oracle
2 55 (17.74%) Red Hat
3 32 (10.32%) VMware
4 31 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 18 (5.81%) Splunk
6 17 (5.48%) Bloomberg
6 17 (5.48%) CQG
6 17 (5.48%) IBM
6 17 (5.48%) ION Trading
6 17 (5.48%) Patsystems
6 17 (5.48%) Reuters
6 17 (5.48%) Trayport
7 16 (5.16%) Cisco
8 14 (4.52%) Lauterbach
9 12 (3.87%) Facebook
9 12 (3.87%) Fortinet
9 12 (3.87%) ServiceNow
10 11 (3.55%) TOWER Software
11 8 (2.58%) Green Hills
11 8 (2.58%) Motorola