The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 17 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 Sussex 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank - 40 -
Contract jobs citing Perl 0 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex - 0.917% -
As % of the Programming Languages category - 2.308% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £200 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £408 £308
% change year-on-year
-14.11% +32.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £37.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-39.18% +8.82%
All Programming Languages
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
88 130 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 38.43% 39.76% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 52 43
Average daily rate £335 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.07% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £205 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Average hourly rate - £27.88 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +106.48%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Perl
South East

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
1 2 (100.00%) SQLite
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Mason
1 2 (100.00%) XQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Publishing
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Mason
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Perl Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) XQuery
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle