The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 39 46 47
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +1
Contract jobs citing Perl 4 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.911% 1.610% 0.390%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.008% 4.098% 1.379%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
Average daily rate £425 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £300 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £300 £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £325
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £33.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-38.35% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
133 244 145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 30.30% 39.29% 28.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 137 90
Average daily rate £325 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £225 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 £31.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.35% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Perl
West Midlands

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Perl across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Birmingham Perl Jobs Demand Trend

Perl
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Perl across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Perl Daily Rate Trend

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Perl across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Perl also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Perl.

1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (60.00%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (60.00%) Financial Institution
3 3 (60.00%) Front Office
3 3 (60.00%) Derivative
3 3 (60.00%) Fixed Income
3 3 (60.00%) Equities
3 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 3 (60.00%) ION Trading
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) ION MarketView
5 1 (20.00%) soapUI
5 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (20.00%) WCF
5 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
5 1 (20.00%) .NET
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (20.00%) C#
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (20.00%) Windows

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Perl also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Perl. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (20.00%) soapUI
2 1 (20.00%) WCF
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) ION MarketView
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Financial Institution
2 3 (60.00%) Front Office
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Billing
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Support Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Derivative
1 3 (60.00%) Fixed Income
1 3 (60.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ION Trading
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
You must have a good degree in a numerate discipline with knowledge and experience of programming in at least one language such as Perl, Java, Delphi, C# or...
University Hospital Birmingham
Rate: Excellent salary plus benefits
Posted: 29 April 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
You will be responsible for providing dedicated back end electronic trading systems application support to the global Equities, Fixed Income, Commodities and Derivatives businesses which are made up...
Hatstand Limited
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013