The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 18 June 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 of England 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 80 81 93
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +12
Contract jobs citing Perl 41 54 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.830% 1.786% 1.419%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.437% 4.259% 3.721%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 9
Average daily rate £355 £425 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.47% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £302 £371 £329
10% offered a daily rate of more than £371 £430 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £338
% change year-on-year
- +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 5
Average hourly rate £35.50 £40.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.25% +23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-17.85% -
All Programming Languages
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
924 1268 1048
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 41.25% 41.93% 38.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 623 467
Average daily rate £325 £325 £303
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £213 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 121 111
Average hourly rate £35.50 £35.22 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.79% +0.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £20.06 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Perl
England

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England Perl Daily Rate Trend

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Perl across the East of England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

East of England Perl Daily Rate Histogram

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 of England region.

East of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridgeshire +5 26 £350 -17.64% 36
Hertfordshire +12 8 £365 - 6
Essex +1 5 - - 3
Suffolk - 1 - -
Bedfordshire - - - - 1
Perl
England

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 63 (79.75%) Linux
2 35 (44.30%) UNIX
3 32 (40.51%) Java
4 31 (39.24%) Python
5 20 (25.32%) Windows
6 19 (24.05%) Apache
6 19 (24.05%) Subversion
7 18 (22.78%) VMware
7 18 (22.78%) SQL
7 18 (22.78%) Red Hat
8 16 (20.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (18.99%) Biology
9 15 (18.99%) Ruby
9 15 (18.99%) Degree
9 15 (18.99%) Shell Script
9 15 (18.99%) PhD
10 14 (17.72%) DNS
10 14 (17.72%) Bash shell
11 13 (16.46%) Bioinformatics
11 13 (16.46%) DHCP
11 13 (16.46%) XML
12 12 (15.19%) HTML
12 12 (15.19%) Oracle
12 12 (15.19%) IBM
13 11 (13.92%) J2EE
13 11 (13.92%) HPUX
13 11 (13.92%) Solaris
13 11 (13.92%) Git (software)
14 10 (12.66%) Puppet
14 10 (12.66%) WebSphere

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (16.46%) XML
2 12 (15.19%) HTML
3 11 (13.92%) J2EE
4 10 (12.66%) WebSphere
5 8 (10.13%) XSLT
5 8 (10.13%) XHTML
5 8 (10.13%) Web Services
6 6 (7.595%) EJB
6 6 (7.595%) JMS
6 6 (7.595%) JDBC
6 6 (7.595%) JSP
6 6 (7.595%) Servlets
6 6 (7.595%) Struts
6 6 (7.595%) JSTL
6 6 (7.595%) LAMP
6 6 (7.595%) XMLBeans
6 6 (7.595%) Ajax
6 6 (7.595%) Ruby on Rails
7 5 (6.329%) Hibernate
7 5 (6.329%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 19 (24.05%) Apache
2 10 (12.66%) Tomcat
2 10 (12.66%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (8.861%) IIS
4 6 (7.595%) MQSeries
5 4 (5.063%) Amazon AWS
6 3 (3.797%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.532%) CMS
8 1 (1.266%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 1 (1.266%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (7.595%) Tridion
2 3 (3.797%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.532%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.72%) DNS
2 13 (16.46%) DHCP
3 9 (11.39%) SAN
3 9 (11.39%) TCP/IP
3 9 (11.39%) NAS
4 7 (8.861%) Internet
5 6 (7.595%) WAN
5 6 (7.595%) Kerberos
5 6 (7.595%) BIG-IP
6 2 (2.532%) Wireless
7 1 (1.266%) ZigBee
7 1 (1.266%) VPN
7 1 (1.266%) FTP
7 1 (1.266%) HTTP
7 1 (1.266%) MPLS
7 1 (1.266%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.861%) MySQL
2 6 (7.595%) RDBMS
2 6 (7.595%) DB2
3 4 (5.063%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (2.532%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.266%) GIS
5 1 (1.266%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.266%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (24.05%) Subversion
2 11 (13.92%) Git (software)
3 10 (12.66%) Eclipse
4 6 (7.595%) Log4j
4 6 (7.595%) Ant
4 6 (7.595%) JUnit
4 6 (7.595%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
5 4 (5.063%) Maven
6 2 (2.532%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.532%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.532%) GDB
7 1 (1.266%) Rational Application Developer
7 1 (1.266%) Build Forge
7 1 (1.266%) CppUnit
General
1 9 (11.39%) Finance
2 8 (10.13%) Retail
3 5 (6.329%) Games
3 5 (6.329%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.797%) Automotive
4 3 (3.797%) Marketing
5 2 (2.532%) Avionics
5 2 (2.532%) Publishing
5 2 (2.532%) Billing
5 2 (2.532%) Electronics
5 2 (2.532%) Military
6 1 (1.266%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.266%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (22.78%) Developer
2 17 (21.52%) Administrator
3 14 (17.72%) Systems Administrator
4 10 (12.66%) Java Developer
5 6 (7.595%) Programmer
5 6 (7.595%) J2EE Developer
5 6 (7.595%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (7.595%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 5 (6.329%) Senior Programmer
6 5 (6.329%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.063%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (3.797%) Firmware Engineer
8 3 (3.797%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (3.797%) Backup Engineer
8 3 (3.797%) Consultant
8 3 (3.797%) Solaris Administrator
8 3 (3.797%) Perl Developer
9 2 (2.532%) Implementation Manager
9 2 (2.532%) UNIX Administrator
9 2 (2.532%) Release Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.99%) Biology
2 9 (11.39%) Computer Science
3 6 (7.595%) Web 2.0
4 5 (6.329%) Informatics
5 3 (3.797%) PKI
5 3 (3.797%) Firmware
6 2 (2.532%) Animation
6 2 (2.532%) Life Science
6 2 (2.532%) LIMS
6 2 (2.532%) E-Learning
7 1 (1.266%) Verilog
7 1 (1.266%) Equities
7 1 (1.266%) ASIC Verification
7 1 (1.266%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 1 (1.266%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.266%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (1.266%) Clustering
7 1 (1.266%) Visualisation
7 1 (1.266%) Open Source
7 1 (1.266%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 63 (79.75%) Linux
2 35 (44.30%) UNIX
3 20 (25.32%) Windows
4 16 (20.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (13.92%) HPUX
5 11 (13.92%) Solaris
6 9 (11.39%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (7.595%) SUSE
7 6 (7.595%) Debian
8 2 (2.532%) VMS
9 1 (1.266%) AIX
9 1 (1.266%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (16.46%) Bioinformatics
2 9 (11.39%) UML
2 9 (11.39%) OO
2 9 (11.39%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (10.13%) ITIL
3 8 (10.13%) Content Management
4 7 (8.861%) Migration
4 7 (8.861%) E-Commerce
5 6 (7.595%) RAD
5 6 (7.595%) Unit Testing
5 6 (7.595%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (6.329%) Data Analysis
6 5 (6.329%) TDD
6 5 (6.329%) ERP
6 5 (6.329%) MVC
6 5 (6.329%) Configuration Management
7 4 (5.063%) Information Management
8 3 (3.797%) Data Modelling
9 2 (2.532%) CRM
9 2 (2.532%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.51%) Java
2 31 (39.24%) Python
3 18 (22.78%) SQL
4 15 (18.99%) Shell Script
4 15 (18.99%) Ruby
5 14 (17.72%) Bash shell
6 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.595%) C
7 6 (7.595%) XPath
8 5 (6.329%) C#
8 5 (6.329%) C++
9 4 (5.063%) PHP
9 4 (5.063%) Lisp
10 3 (3.797%) Embedded C
10 3 (3.797%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.532%) MATLAB
11 2 (2.532%) Assembly Language
11 2 (2.532%) R
12 1 (1.266%) Tcl
12 1 (1.266%) Lua
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) PhD
1 15 (18.99%) Degree
2 9 (11.39%) RHCE
3 4 (5.063%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.063%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.797%) RHCT
4 3 (3.797%) OCP
4 3 (3.797%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.266%) CCNP
5 1 (1.266%) CCNA
5 1 (1.266%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.266%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.266%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.266%) SLA
1 1 (1.266%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (11.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (8.861%) Postfix
3 6 (7.595%) Sendmail
3 6 (7.595%) Hyper-V
3 6 (7.595%) Active Directory
4 5 (6.329%) VMware ESX
4 5 (6.329%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (6.329%) vSphere
5 1 (1.266%) Varnish
5 1 (1.266%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 10 (12.66%) Puppet
2 8 (10.13%) Nagios
3 6 (7.595%) Red Hat Satellite
3 6 (7.595%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 5 (6.329%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (6.329%) Tivoli
4 5 (6.329%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (2.532%) SCOM
6 1 (1.266%) Ionix
6 1 (1.266%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Red Hat
1 18 (22.78%) VMware
2 12 (15.19%) Oracle
2 12 (15.19%) IBM
3 6 (7.595%) EMC
3 6 (7.595%) JBoss
3 6 (7.595%) Blue Martini
3 6 (7.595%) Elastic Path
3 6 (7.595%) ATG
3 6 (7.595%) Interwoven
4 5 (6.329%) SAP
5 4 (5.063%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.063%) Sun
6 3 (3.797%) NetApp
6 3 (3.797%) Akamai
7 1 (1.266%) Veritas
7 1 (1.266%) Citrix
7 1 (1.266%) Cisco
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