The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset 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 Dorset 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 32 25 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Contract jobs citing Perl 1 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 0.472% 3.309% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.099% 12.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
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
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
91 74 102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 42.92% 27.21% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 46 53
Average daily rate £328 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.66% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £350 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £410 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 4
Average hourly rate £32.00 £40.00 £41.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -2.43%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Perl
South West

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bournemouth -3 1 - -
Perl
South West

Perl
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (100.00%) Java EE
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Server Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat