The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London 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 21 21 25
Rank change year-on-year
0 +4
Contract jobs citing Perl 9 10 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 5.263% 4.739% 6.468%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.85% 15.15% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 12
Average daily rate £500 £475 £384
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% +23.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £385 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £520 £570
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £325
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-38.35% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
65 66 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 38.01% 31.28% 49.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 38 131
Average daily rate £450 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £360 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +6.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Perl
London

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 10 (83.33%) UNIX
1 10 (83.33%) Banking
2 9 (75.00%) Linux
3 7 (58.33%) Shell Script
3 7 (58.33%) Equities
3 7 (58.33%) Investment Banking
4 5 (41.67%) Java
5 4 (33.33%) Oracle
5 4 (33.33%) LDAP
5 4 (33.33%) NFS
5 4 (33.33%) DNS
5 4 (33.33%) SAN
5 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
5 4 (33.33%) Solaris
5 4 (33.33%) SUSE
5 4 (33.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 3 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
6 3 (25.00%) Bash shell
6 3 (25.00%) Confluence
6 3 (25.00%) Derivative
6 3 (25.00%) Retail Banking
6 3 (25.00%) JIRA
6 3 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (25.00%) QA
6 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
6 3 (25.00%) TDD
6 3 (25.00%) Retail
6 3 (25.00%) Scrum
6 3 (25.00%) Automated Testing
6 3 (25.00%) IBM

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 3 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) XML
2 2 (16.67%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Confluence
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) LDAP
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (83.33%) Banking
2 7 (58.33%) Investment Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Retail Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) UNIX Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Developer
3 2 (16.67%) QA Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Equities
2 3 (25.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) UNIX
2 9 (75.00%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Solaris
3 4 (33.33%) SUSE
4 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (25.00%) TDD
1 3 (25.00%) Scrum
1 3 (25.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (25.00%) Change Management
1 3 (25.00%) Regression Testing
1 3 (25.00%) OO
2 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (8.333%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Shell Script
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) Bash shell
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) C
3 3 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) C++
4 2 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Ruby
5 1 (8.333%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) NFS
1 4 (33.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
1 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (25.00%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) Cognos
3 1 (8.333%) Sybase