Perl Contracts in England

Perl
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Perl skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Perl over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 309 437
Rank change year-on-year -53 +128 -80
Contract jobs citing Perl 170 391 377
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.81% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.56% 2.31% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 241 253
10th Percentile £425 £425 £384
25th Percentile £475 £488 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.63% +13.16%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £613
90th Percentile £806 £775 £748
UK median daily rate £550 £558 £525
% change year-on-year -1.35% +6.19% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £49.35 £31.65 £41.40
25th Percentile £54.00 £37.80 £41.63
Median hourly rate £63.50 £52.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.95% +14.13% -12.38%
75th Percentile £67.00 £53.75 £50.73
90th Percentile £68.05 £59.98 £51.16
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £52.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year +20.95% +18.64% -23.04%

All Programming Languages
England

Perl is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,903 16,906 25,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.95% 34.89% 36.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,919 12,370 19,191
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 404 450
10th Percentile £37.59 £25.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.53 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.64
Median % change year-on-year - +23.43% +19.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £79.59 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £60.70 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.73% +21.16% +17.03%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in England

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in England.

Daily rate trend for Perl in England

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in England

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in England.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in England

Perl
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Perl in England

Perl
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -44 108 £600 - 41
North of England +18 23 £514 -2.14% 13
South East +16 22 £525 -4.55% 19
North West +8 17 £515 +3.00% 10
Midlands +17 9 £359 -15.96% 9
East Midlands +22 6 £356 -25.83% 5
Yorkshire +18 6 £445 -31.54% 3
West Midlands +15 3 £494 +31.67% 4
South West +9 3 £525 -26.32% 21
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.94%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.94%) JBoss
2 3 (1.76%) CMS
3 1 (0.59%) Apache
3 1 (0.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.59%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.59%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.59%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.59%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Global One
2 2 (1.18%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (1.18%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.59%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.47%) AWS
2 13 (7.65%) Azure
3 12 (7.06%) OpenShift
4 8 (4.71%) GCP
5 5 (2.94%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.35%) Datadog
6 4 (2.35%) Serverless
7 3 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.76%) GitHub
7 3 (1.76%) IaaS
7 3 (1.76%) PaaS
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.59%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.59%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.53%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (10.59%) Firewall
3 15 (8.82%) BGP
3 15 (8.82%) Cisco ASA
3 15 (8.82%) IPsec
3 15 (8.82%) OSPF
4 13 (7.65%) Spanning Tree
5 12 (7.06%) Cisco Firepower
5 12 (7.06%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (7.06%) EIGRP
5 12 (7.06%) HSRP
5 12 (7.06%) NetScaler
5 12 (7.06%) SNMP
6 8 (4.71%) 802.11
7 7 (4.12%) SSH
8 5 (2.94%) TCP/IP
9 4 (2.35%) DHCP
10 3 (1.76%) Broadband
10 3 (1.76%) Kerberos
10 3 (1.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.59%) Relational Database
1 18 (10.59%) Sybase ASE
2 11 (6.47%) RDBMS
3 9 (5.29%) MySQL
4 8 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (4.71%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (3.53%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.94%) DB2
7 4 (2.35%) Big Data
8 3 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.18%) Data Mart
9 2 (1.18%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.18%) HBase
9 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.18%) Parquet
9 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (20.59%) Git
2 26 (15.29%) Jenkins
3 16 (9.41%) JIRA
4 8 (4.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (3.53%) CA Release Automation
5 6 (3.53%) JUnit
6 5 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (2.94%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.94%) GitLab
6 5 (2.94%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.94%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.35%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.76%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.18%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (1.18%) Subversion
General
1 46 (27.06%) Finance
1 46 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (7.65%) Banking
4 9 (5.29%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.53%) Front Office
5 6 (3.53%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Retail
9 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.59%) Aviation
9 1 (0.59%) Electronics
9 1 (0.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (27.06%) Developer
2 21 (12.35%) Senior
3 18 (10.59%) Perl Developer
4 17 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 16 (9.41%) Software Engineer
6 15 (8.82%) Network Engineer
7 13 (7.65%) DBA
7 13 (7.65%) Sybase DBA
8 11 (6.47%) SQL Developer
9 10 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) Support Engineer
11 8 (4.71%) Analyst
11 8 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.71%) Senior Network Engineer
11 8 (4.71%) Sybase Engineer
12 7 (4.12%) Administrator
12 7 (4.12%) Consultant
12 7 (4.12%) Linux Engineer
13 6 (3.53%) Applications Support
13 6 (3.53%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.65%) Kafka
1 13 (7.65%) REST
1 13 (7.65%) XML
2 12 (7.06%) Jinja
3 11 (6.47%) Spring
4 10 (5.88%) JSON
5 8 (4.71%) 802.1X
5 8 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (4.12%) .NET
6 7 (4.12%) CSS
6 7 (4.12%) HTML
6 7 (4.12%) Web Services
7 6 (3.53%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.53%) SOAP
7 6 (3.53%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (2.94%) Hibernate
8 5 (2.94%) J2EE
8 5 (2.94%) JPA
9 4 (2.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.94%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (5.88%) Replication
3 9 (5.29%) Algorithms
3 9 (5.29%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.71%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.53%) Equities
6 5 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.35%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.35%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.76%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.76%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.76%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.76%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.18%) Clustering
9 2 (1.18%) CMDB
9 2 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.18%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 60 (35.29%) Linux
1 60 (35.29%) Unix
2 23 (13.53%) Windows
3 13 (7.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.35%) Solaris
5 3 (1.76%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.18%) CentOS
6 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.24%) Agile
2 43 (25.29%) DevOps
3 42 (24.71%) CI/CD
4 32 (18.82%) ITIL
5 30 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (12.94%) Software Engineering
7 20 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 20 (11.76%) Migration
8 19 (11.18%) Computer Science
9 18 (10.59%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (10.59%) OO
10 15 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (8.82%) Scrum
10 15 (8.82%) Test Automation
11 14 (8.24%) Change Management
11 14 (8.24%) Task Automation
12 13 (7.65%) Data Modelling
12 13 (7.65%) ITSM
12 13 (7.65%) SDLC
13 12 (7.06%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 120 (70.59%) Python
2 58 (34.12%) Java
3 42 (24.71%) SQL
4 31 (18.24%) Bash
5 23 (13.53%) C++
6 21 (12.35%) PowerShell
6 21 (12.35%) Tcl
7 19 (11.18%) Shell Script
8 17 (10.00%) C
9 12 (7.06%) C#
9 12 (7.06%) JavaScript
9 12 (7.06%) Ruby
10 9 (5.29%) T-SQL
11 6 (3.53%) AWK
12 5 (2.94%) Go
12 5 (2.94%) Korn
12 5 (2.94%) PHP
13 4 (2.35%) VBA
14 2 (1.18%) Lua
14 2 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.94%) Degree
3 20 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 15 (8.82%) CCNA
4 15 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (7.06%) CCNP
5 12 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.94%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.76%) CISSP
7 3 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.76%) OSCP
8 2 (1.18%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.18%) RHCE
8 2 (1.18%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.59%) ECIH
9 1 (0.59%) ECSA
9 1 (0.59%) GAWN
9 1 (0.59%) GREM
9 1 (0.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.82%) QA
2 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.18%) GDPR
2 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.59%) DO-178B
3 1 (0.59%) EMIR
3 1 (0.59%) FATCA
3 1 (0.59%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.59%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (9.41%) Docker
2 13 (7.65%) Firmware
3 8 (4.71%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.94%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.18%) NFS
5 2 (1.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.18%) vSphere
6 1 (0.59%) Ceph
6 1 (0.59%) iptables
6 1 (0.59%) KVM
6 1 (0.59%) Lustre
6 1 (0.59%) Samba
6 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (25.88%) Ansible
2 23 (13.53%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.65%) Puppet
4 10 (5.88%) Terraform
5 9 (5.29%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.94%) Kibana
7 4 (2.35%) Nagios
7 4 (2.35%) Opsgenie
7 4 (2.35%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.76%) Control-M
8 3 (1.76%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.76%) NetBackup
8 3 (1.76%) SELinux
8 3 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.76%) yum
9 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (1.18%) Oracle ZFS
9 2 (1.18%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.59%) Consul
10 1 (0.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (15.88%) Sybase
2 22 (12.94%) Cisco
3 14 (8.24%) SolarWinds
3 14 (8.24%) Splunk
4 13 (7.65%) Red Hat
5 12 (7.06%) Citrix
5 12 (7.06%) Palo Alto
6 11 (6.47%) SAP
7 10 (5.88%) Veritas
8 7 (4.12%) EMC
8 7 (4.12%) Oracle
8 7 (4.12%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.53%) Murex
10 5 (2.94%) AppDynamics
10 5 (2.94%) IBM
10 5 (2.94%) Sun
11 4 (2.35%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.35%) New Relic
11 4 (2.35%) PagerDuty
12 3 (1.76%) TIBCO