The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 20 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 Cambridge 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 29 25 22
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -3
Contract jobs citing Perl 10 24 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 2.976% 5.783% 4.527%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.464% 8.989% 7.534%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
Average daily rate £330 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.35% +41.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £408 £305
% change year-on-year
-14.11% +33.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
Average hourly rate £35.50 £40.00 £42.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.25% -4.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £35.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-36.61% +4.41%
All Programming Languages
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
183 267 146
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 54.46% 64.34% 60.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 140 72
Average daily rate £300 £305 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.63% +1.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £214 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £413 £411
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 29 26
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +11.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £20.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £60.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Perl
Cambridgeshire

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 23 (82.14%) Linux
2 20 (71.43%) Apache
3 17 (60.71%) DHCP
3 17 (60.71%) DNS
3 17 (60.71%) VMware
4 14 (50.00%) Oracle
5 11 (39.29%) Java
5 11 (39.29%) SQL
5 11 (39.29%) Tomcat
5 11 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (35.71%) Red Hat
6 10 (35.71%) Active Directory
7 9 (32.14%) EMC
7 9 (32.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 9 (32.14%) ERP
7 9 (32.14%) ITIL
7 9 (32.14%) UNIX
7 9 (32.14%) SAP
7 9 (32.14%) EMC NetWorker
7 9 (32.14%) Oracle RMAN
8 8 (28.57%) TCP/IP
8 8 (28.57%) Shell Script
9 7 (25.00%) JBoss
9 7 (25.00%) RHCE
9 7 (25.00%) Web Services
9 7 (25.00%) IIS
9 7 (25.00%) Python
9 7 (25.00%) HPUX
9 7 (25.00%) BIG-IP
9 7 (25.00%) VMware ESX

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 7 (25.00%) Web Services
2 4 (14.29%) J2EE
2 4 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 4 (14.29%) Spring
2 4 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (14.29%) JSON
2 4 (14.29%) RESTful
2 4 (14.29%) Swing
2 4 (14.29%) Middleware
3 2 (7.143%) XML
4 1 (3.571%) XSLT
4 1 (3.571%) HTML
4 1 (3.571%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 20 (71.43%) Apache
2 11 (39.29%) Tomcat
3 7 (25.00%) IIS
4 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (3.571%) SharePoint
6 1 (3.571%) CMS
6 1 (3.571%) SugarCRM
Business Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.571%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (60.71%) DHCP
1 17 (60.71%) DNS
2 8 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 7 (25.00%) BIG-IP
4 4 (14.29%) NAS
4 4 (14.29%) SAN
5 1 (3.571%) Wireless
5 1 (3.571%) WAN
5 1 (3.571%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) MySQL
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Subversion
1 5 (17.86%) Git (software)
2 4 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (3.571%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (3.571%) Electronics
1 1 (3.571%) Finance
1 1 (3.571%) Multimedia
1 1 (3.571%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Administrator
2 16 (57.14%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (21.43%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.143%) Perl Developer
7 1 (3.571%) Performance Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Information Architect
7 1 (3.571%) Architect
7 1 (3.571%) Author
7 1 (3.571%) Technical Author
7 1 (3.571%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Performance Test Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Verification Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
2 4 (14.29%) PKI
2 4 (14.29%) Informatics
3 2 (7.143%) Biology
3 2 (7.143%) LIMS
4 1 (3.571%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.571%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (3.571%) E-Learning
4 1 (3.571%) Verilog
4 1 (3.571%) ASIC Verification
4 1 (3.571%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 1 (3.571%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.571%) Animation
4 1 (3.571%) Wiki
4 1 (3.571%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 23 (82.14%) Linux
2 9 (32.14%) UNIX
3 7 (25.00%) HPUX
3 7 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (17.86%) Windows
5 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.571%) VMS
6 1 (3.571%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) ITIL
1 9 (32.14%) ERP
2 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 6 (21.43%) Data Analysis
3 6 (21.43%) Migration
4 5 (17.86%) Information Management
5 4 (14.29%) MVC
5 4 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (14.29%) TDD
5 4 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
6 3 (10.71%) E-business
7 1 (3.571%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (3.571%) Data Modelling
7 1 (3.571%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (3.571%) OO
7 1 (3.571%) CRM
7 1 (3.571%) Performance Testing
7 1 (3.571%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Java
1 11 (39.29%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 7 (25.00%) Python
4 6 (21.43%) T-SQL
4 6 (21.43%) Ruby
5 4 (14.29%) Lisp
5 4 (14.29%) C#
6 1 (3.571%) C++
6 1 (3.571%) PHP
6 1 (3.571%) Assembly Language
6 1 (3.571%) Tcl
6 1 (3.571%) C
6 1 (3.571%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) RHCE
2 6 (21.43%) OCP
2 6 (21.43%) Oracle Certification
3 5 (17.86%) Degree
4 4 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.143%) GAMP
1 2 (7.143%) GxP
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (35.71%) Active Directory
3 9 (32.14%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (25.00%) vSphere
4 7 (25.00%) VMware ESX
5 1 (3.571%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.571%) Postfix
5 1 (3.571%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 9 (32.14%) EMC NetWorker
2 4 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (3.571%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (3.571%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) VMware
2 14 (50.00%) Oracle
3 10 (35.71%) Red Hat
4 9 (32.14%) EMC
4 9 (32.14%) SAP
5 7 (25.00%) JBoss
6 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
7 4 (14.29%) NetApp
8 3 (10.71%) Akamai
9 2 (7.143%) Citrix
10 1 (3.571%) Sage