The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 66 76 68
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -8
Contract jobs citing Perl 17 4 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 1.356% 0.292% 1.148%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.439% 0.985% 3.563%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
Average daily rate £319 £331 £336
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.77% -1.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £316 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £334 £346 £380
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
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
383 406 449
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 30.54% 29.61% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 205 167
Average daily rate £314 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.00% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £413 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 47
Average hourly rate £20.50 £17.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.14% -46.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £8.50 £18.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £42.75 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Perl
England

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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
Nottinghamshire - 3 £300 -
Northamptonshire - 1 £338 -
Perl
England

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 15 (65.22%) SQL
1 15 (65.22%) Bash shell
2 14 (60.87%) Oracle
3 13 (56.52%) DB2
3 13 (56.52%) WebSphere Application Server
3 13 (56.52%) UNIX
3 13 (56.52%) WebSphere
4 12 (52.17%) Content Management
4 12 (52.17%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (52.17%) XML
4 12 (52.17%) EJB
4 12 (52.17%) CSS
4 12 (52.17%) JDBC
4 12 (52.17%) JSP
4 12 (52.17%) Servlets
4 12 (52.17%) UML
4 12 (52.17%) OO
4 12 (52.17%) RAD
4 12 (52.17%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 12 (52.17%) Eclipse
4 12 (52.17%) JUnit
4 12 (52.17%) J2EE
4 12 (52.17%) HTML
4 12 (52.17%) Java
4 12 (52.17%) JavaScript
4 12 (52.17%) MVC
4 12 (52.17%) XHTML
4 12 (52.17%) RDBMS
4 12 (52.17%) IBM
5 11 (47.83%) Sun

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 13 (56.52%) WebSphere
2 12 (52.17%) XML
2 12 (52.17%) EJB
2 12 (52.17%) CSS
2 12 (52.17%) JDBC
2 12 (52.17%) JSP
2 12 (52.17%) Servlets
2 12 (52.17%) J2EE
2 12 (52.17%) HTML
2 12 (52.17%) XHTML
3 6 (26.09%) REST
4 5 (21.74%) WPF
4 5 (21.74%) Web Services
4 5 (21.74%) .NET
5 2 (8.696%) WinForms
6 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET
6 1 (4.348%) DHTML
6 1 (4.348%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 13 (56.52%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (8.696%) WebLogic
3 1 (4.348%) Commerce Server
3 1 (4.348%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (4.348%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) SAN
2 1 (4.348%) WAN
2 1 (4.348%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.348%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) DB2
2 12 (52.17%) RDBMS
3 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.696%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (4.348%) MySQL
5 1 (4.348%) VLDB
5 1 (4.348%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 12 (52.17%) Eclipse
1 12 (52.17%) JUnit
2 1 (4.348%) Ant
General
1 10 (43.48%) Investment Banking
1 10 (43.48%) Banking
2 1 (4.348%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Developer
2 12 (52.17%) WebSphere Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Developer
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Administrator
4 2 (8.696%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (8.696%) .NET Developer
4 2 (8.696%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Database Developer
5 1 (4.348%) WebSphere Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) DBA
5 1 (4.348%) Programmer
5 1 (4.348%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (4.348%) SQL Database Developer
5 1 (4.348%) MySQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) UNIX
2 10 (43.48%) Linux
3 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.348%) Windows
4 1 (4.348%) AIX
4 1 (4.348%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Content Management
1 12 (52.17%) Continuous Integration
1 12 (52.17%) UML
1 12 (52.17%) OO
1 12 (52.17%) RAD
1 12 (52.17%) MVC
2 5 (21.74%) Multithreading
3 2 (8.696%) Software Deployment
4 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.348%) Project Management
4 1 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (4.348%) Business Analysis
4 1 (4.348%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) SQL
1 15 (65.22%) Bash shell
2 12 (52.17%) Java
2 12 (52.17%) JavaScript
3 5 (21.74%) C#
4 4 (17.39%) Python
5 2 (8.696%) Ruby
5 2 (8.696%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.348%) ActionScript
6 1 (4.348%) JCL
6 1 (4.348%) REXX
6 1 (4.348%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Sun Certification
2 2 (8.696%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.696%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.696%) RHCE
3 1 (4.348%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (4.348%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Oracle
2 12 (52.17%) IBM
3 11 (47.83%) Sun
4 2 (8.696%) Primavera
4 2 (8.696%) HP
5 1 (4.348%) VMware