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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 595 423 460
Rank change year-on-year -172 +37 -30
Permanent jobs citing Perl 321 756 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.75% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.97% 1.73% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 217 398 543
10th Percentile £39,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,447 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +12.01% -0.80%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £109,865 £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 33,186 43,722 84,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.45% 43.28% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,983 27,941 43,470
10th Percentile £35,195 £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 £107,000 £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 10 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 10 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 -132 280 £70,000 +0.80% 74
UK excluding London -195 198 £60,000 -1.93% 53
Work from Home -87 141 £75,000 +11.11% 30
London +2 114 £77,500 -3.13% 27
South East -28 72 £60,000 +33.33% 13
South West -24 36 £60,000 -25.00% 20
North of England -96 31 £102,500 +67.54% 7
North West -35 24 £79,500 +67.37% 6
Midlands -32 17 £42,000 -37.78% 3
Northern Ireland +24 14 £52,500 -27.59% 1
Scotland -82 14 £60,000 -29.41% 4
West Midlands -9 13 £42,000 -37.78% 2
East of England -10 11 £115,000 +80.39% 7
Yorkshire -20 7 £130,446 +110.94% 1
Wales -16 4 £130,446 -
East Midlands -23 4 - - 1

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 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.18%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.87%) Confluence
3 6 (1.87%) nginx
4 5 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.25%) Apache
6 3 (0.93%) CloudStack
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (4.36%) Simulink
1 14 (4.36%) Stateflow
2 7 (2.18%) CANalyzer
3 6 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.62%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 16 (4.98%) Fidessa
2 7 (2.18%) Elite 3E
2 7 (2.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.25%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 73 (22.74%) AWS
2 56 (17.45%) Azure
3 46 (14.33%) Serverless
4 17 (5.30%) GCP
4 17 (5.30%) GitHub
5 14 (4.36%) IaaS
6 13 (4.05%) Nutanix
7 12 (3.74%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (2.49%) SaaS
10 5 (1.56%) Cloud Composer
10 5 (1.56%) dbt
10 5 (1.56%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.25%) OCI
12 2 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.62%) Google Docs
12 2 (0.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (17.76%) TCP/IP
2 53 (16.51%) DNS
3 47 (14.64%) Firewall
4 28 (8.72%) WAN
5 26 (8.10%) SNMP
6 23 (7.17%) DHCP
7 18 (5.61%) LAN
8 16 (4.98%) FIX Connectivity
8 16 (4.98%) SSH
9 14 (4.36%) J1939
10 12 (3.74%) Internet
10 12 (3.74%) tcpdump
11 11 (3.43%) 5G
11 11 (3.43%) Intrusion Detection
12 10 (3.12%) SD-WAN
13 8 (2.49%) Wireshark
14 7 (2.18%) VPN
15 6 (1.87%) Cisco ASA
16 5 (1.56%) HTTP
17 3 (0.93%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (20.87%) Relational Database
2 61 (19.00%) MySQL
3 37 (11.53%) Oracle Database
3 37 (11.53%) RDBMS
3 37 (11.53%) SQL Server
4 16 (4.98%) MongoDB
5 14 (4.36%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (1.56%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.56%) InfluxDB
8 5 (1.56%) Looker
8 5 (1.56%) MariaDB
8 5 (1.56%) Power BI
8 5 (1.56%) Tableau
9 3 (0.93%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.62%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.62%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 71 (22.12%) Git
2 36 (11.21%) JDeveloper
3 35 (10.90%) JIRA
4 32 (9.97%) Jenkins
5 17 (5.30%) Visual Studio
6 16 (4.98%) Eclipse
7 15 (4.67%) GitLab
8 14 (4.36%) ClearCase
8 14 (4.36%) Plastic SCM
9 7 (2.18%) ClearQuest
10 6 (1.87%) Subversion
11 3 (0.93%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.62%) JUnit
13 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.31%) JMeter
13 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
13 1 (0.31%) Maven
13 1 (0.31%) NeoLoad
13 1 (0.31%) Vagrant
General
1 83 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 73 (22.74%) Finance
3 52 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (11.53%) Banking
5 29 (9.03%) Electronics
6 23 (7.17%) Telecoms
7 18 (5.61%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.36%) Automotive
8 14 (4.36%) Marketing
9 11 (3.43%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.12%) Legal
11 9 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.80%) Retail
12 7 (2.18%) Front Office
12 7 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.87%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.87%) Billing
14 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.31%) Law
15 1 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (27.73%) Senior
2 86 (26.79%) Software Engineer
3 45 (14.02%) Developer
4 36 (11.21%) Ruby Engineer
5 33 (10.28%) Linux Engineer
6 28 (8.72%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 23 (7.17%) Administrator
8 23 (7.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (6.54%) Systems Administrator
10 20 (6.23%) Analyst
11 18 (5.61%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (5.30%) Perl Developer
12 17 (5.30%) Support Analyst
13 16 (4.98%) Applications Support
13 16 (4.98%) Senior DevOps
13 16 (4.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 15 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
15 14 (4.36%) Support Engineer
16 13 (4.05%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (16.51%) Node.js
2 38 (11.84%) React
3 27 (8.41%) XML
4 25 (7.79%) Web Services
5 23 (7.17%) REST
6 22 (6.85%) HTML
6 22 (6.85%) SOAP
7 16 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
7 16 (4.98%) FIX Protocol
8 14 (4.36%) CSS
8 14 (4.36%) JSON
9 13 (4.05%) Ajax
9 13 (4.05%) AngularJS
9 13 (4.05%) JDBC
9 13 (4.05%) ODBC
9 13 (4.05%) XHTML
10 11 (3.43%) YAML
11 9 (2.80%) LDAP
12 8 (2.49%) OpenMP
12 8 (2.49%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.17%) Algorithms
2 21 (6.54%) GNSS
3 18 (5.61%) IoT
4 17 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (4.98%) Eurex
6 15 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (4.36%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (4.36%) Management Information System
8 13 (4.05%) Clustering
8 13 (4.05%) CMDB
9 12 (3.74%) VHDL
10 11 (3.43%) Wiki
11 10 (3.12%) FPGA
11 10 (3.12%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (2.49%) MicroBlaze
13 7 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (2.18%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (1.87%) CUDA
14 6 (1.87%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 175 (54.52%) Linux
2 107 (33.33%) Windows
3 57 (17.76%) Unix
4 42 (13.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (11.53%) CentOS
6 16 (4.98%) Ubuntu
7 13 (4.05%) Solaris
7 13 (4.05%) Windows 10
8 12 (3.74%) Windows Server
9 8 (2.49%) Embedded Linux
10 6 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (1.56%) SUSE
11 5 (1.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.93%) FreeBSD
12 3 (0.93%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.93%) VMS
13 2 (0.62%) Debian
13 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (38.01%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (30.84%) DevOps
3 89 (27.73%) Software Engineering
4 79 (24.61%) Agile
5 55 (17.13%) Configuration Management
6 54 (16.82%) Containerisation
7 49 (15.26%) CI/CD
7 49 (15.26%) Continuous Integration
8 48 (14.95%) ITIL
8 48 (14.95%) Open Source
9 46 (14.33%) Code Quality
9 46 (14.33%) Computer Science
10 45 (14.02%) Microservices
11 40 (12.46%) Test Automation
11 40 (12.46%) Unit Testing
12 36 (11.21%) Actionable Insight
12 36 (11.21%) Clean Code
12 36 (11.21%) Design Patterns
13 31 (9.66%) Infrastructure as Code
14 29 (9.03%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 286 (89.10%) Python
2 159 (49.53%) Bash
3 100 (31.15%) Java
4 90 (28.04%) Ruby
5 89 (27.73%) PowerShell
6 86 (26.79%) JavaScript
7 59 (18.38%) C
8 41 (12.77%) SQL
9 39 (12.15%) Go
10 38 (11.84%) C++
11 23 (7.17%) MATLAB
12 22 (6.85%) Shell Script
13 18 (5.61%) Tcl
14 15 (4.67%) Embedded C
15 11 (3.43%) VB
16 10 (3.12%) Korn
16 10 (3.12%) PHP
17 7 (2.18%) Fortran
18 5 (1.56%) C#
19 4 (1.25%) Lua
Qualifications
1 79 (24.61%) Degree
2 33 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 18 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.43%) HND
5 10 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.49%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.87%) PhD
9 3 (0.93%) RHCE
10 2 (0.62%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.31%) OCA
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (14.33%) QA
2 15 (4.67%) MISRA
3 14 (4.36%) Automotive SPICE
3 14 (4.36%) AUTOSAR
3 14 (4.36%) ISO 26262
4 13 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.05%) PMO
5 6 (1.87%) JTAG
5 6 (1.87%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (14.02%) Docker
2 32 (9.97%) Active Directory
3 23 (7.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (5.61%) Firmware
4 18 (5.61%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (4.36%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.49%) Embedded Firmware
7 6 (1.87%) KVM
8 5 (1.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (1.56%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.93%) Ceph
9 3 (0.93%) Gluster
9 3 (0.93%) oVirt
10 2 (0.62%) Lustre
10 2 (0.62%) 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 72 (22.43%) Ansible
2 53 (16.51%) Puppet
3 44 (13.71%) Kubernetes
4 36 (11.21%) Terraform
5 22 (6.85%) Progress Chef
6 18 (5.61%) Grafana
7 13 (4.05%) Nagios
7 13 (4.05%) WMI
8 11 (3.43%) Salt
9 10 (3.12%) Graphite
9 10 (3.12%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.12%) Prometheus
9 10 (3.12%) Red Hat Satellite
9 10 (3.12%) vCenter Server
10 8 (2.49%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 6 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.87%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.56%) SCCM
13 4 (1.25%) Rundeck
13 4 (1.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 88 (27.41%) Oracle
2 49 (15.26%) Red Hat
3 30 (9.35%) Microsoft
4 27 (8.41%) VMware
5 18 (5.61%) Splunk
6 17 (5.30%) IBM
7 16 (4.98%) Bloomberg
7 16 (4.98%) Cisco
7 16 (4.98%) CQG
7 16 (4.98%) ION Trading
7 16 (4.98%) Patsystems
7 16 (4.98%) Reuters
7 16 (4.98%) Trayport
8 14 (4.36%) Lauterbach
9 12 (3.74%) Facebook
9 12 (3.74%) Fortinet
9 12 (3.74%) ServiceNow
10 10 (3.12%) TOWER Software
11 9 (2.80%) HP
11 9 (2.80%) Sun