The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 22 58 54
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -4
Contract jobs citing Perl 82 2 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 8.705% 0.259% 1.286%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.21% 0.727% 2.848%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 0 2
Average daily rate £400 - £409
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 - £392
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 - £426
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £408 £308
% change year-on-year
-14.11% +32.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £37.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-39.18% +8.82%
All Programming Languages
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
577 275 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 61.25% 35.62% 45.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 138 206
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £266 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £395 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 7
Average hourly rate £12.18 £20.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.11% -33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.86 £11.00 £14.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.23 £20.00 £94.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Perl
Scotland

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 81 (72.97%) Java
2 77 (69.37%) C#
3 55 (49.55%) SQL
4 50 (45.05%) UNIX
5 46 (41.44%) Finance
6 44 (39.64%) C++
7 40 (36.04%) Banking
8 39 (35.14%) XML
9 37 (33.33%) Multithreading
10 33 (29.73%) OO
11 30 (27.03%) Sybase
12 29 (26.13%) Fixed Income
13 28 (25.23%) WPF
14 25 (22.52%) Oracle
14 25 (22.52%) Linux
15 24 (21.62%) Shell Script
16 20 (18.02%) Python
17 18 (16.22%) Spring
18 17 (15.32%) Agile Software Development
19 16 (14.41%) OOP
20 14 (12.61%) JavaScript
20 14 (12.61%) ION Trading
21 12 (10.81%) CruiseControl
21 12 (10.81%) CSS
21 12 (10.81%) JMS
21 12 (10.81%) WebSphere
21 12 (10.81%) Selenium
22 11 (9.910%) Spring MVC
22 11 (9.910%) iBATIS
22 11 (9.910%) Spring Web Flow

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 39 (35.14%) XML
2 28 (25.23%) WPF
3 18 (16.22%) Spring
4 12 (10.81%) WebSphere
4 12 (10.81%) JMS
4 12 (10.81%) CSS
5 11 (9.910%) JDBC
5 11 (9.910%) JSP
5 11 (9.910%) J2EE
5 11 (9.910%) XSLT
5 11 (9.910%) Struts
5 11 (9.910%) Ajax
5 11 (9.910%) iBATIS
5 11 (9.910%) Spring MVC
5 11 (9.910%) Spring Web Flow
5 11 (9.910%) GWT
6 10 (9.009%) .NET
7 8 (7.207%) SOAP
8 7 (6.306%) Hibernate
9 4 (3.604%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.802%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.901%) Mule
2 1 (0.901%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (2.703%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.901%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.802%) SAN
2 1 (0.901%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.703%) DB2
1 3 (2.703%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (2.703%) Data Mining
1 3 (2.703%) RDBMS
1 3 (2.703%) KDB
2 2 (1.802%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.802%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.901%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (10.81%) CruiseControl
1 12 (10.81%) Selenium
2 3 (2.703%) Subversion
2 3 (2.703%) MSBuild
3 2 (1.802%) Bugzilla
3 2 (1.802%) JBehave
4 1 (0.901%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.901%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.901%) Ant
4 1 (0.901%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 46 (41.44%) Finance
2 40 (36.04%) Banking
3 10 (9.009%) Investment Banking
4 5 (4.505%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 81 (72.97%) Developer
2 39 (35.14%) Java Developer
3 27 (24.32%) C++ Developer
4 19 (17.12%) C# Developer
5 12 (10.81%) C++/Java Developer
6 11 (9.910%) WPF Developer
7 6 (5.405%) Analyst
8 5 (4.505%) .NET Developer
8 5 (4.505%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.604%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (3.604%) Administrator
9 4 (3.604%) Test Analyst
9 4 (3.604%) UNIX Systems Administrator
9 4 (3.604%) UNIX Administrator
9 4 (3.604%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (3.604%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (3.604%) Systems Integration Engineer
10 3 (2.703%) C# Software Engineer
10 3 (2.703%) Junior Developer
10 3 (2.703%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 29 (26.13%) Fixed Income
2 6 (5.405%) Derivative
3 5 (4.505%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (1.802%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.901%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (0.901%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.901%) Mathematics
5 1 (0.901%) Grid Computing
5 1 (0.901%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 50 (45.05%) UNIX
2 25 (22.52%) Linux
3 9 (8.108%) Solaris
3 9 (8.108%) Windows
4 5 (4.505%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.802%) AIX
5 2 (1.802%) HPUX
5 2 (1.802%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.802%) SUSE
5 2 (1.802%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.901%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.901%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 33 (29.73%) OO
3 17 (15.32%) Agile Software Development
4 16 (14.41%) OOP
5 11 (9.910%) MVC
5 11 (9.910%) Unit Testing
5 11 (9.910%) Web Application Development
5 11 (9.910%) Analytics
6 6 (5.405%) Risk Management
7 5 (4.505%) Test Automation
8 4 (3.604%) Manual Testing
8 4 (3.604%) Software Testing
8 4 (3.604%) Regression Testing
9 3 (2.703%) Scrum
9 3 (2.703%) Data Modelling
9 3 (2.703%) SOA
9 3 (2.703%) ETL
9 3 (2.703%) Business Analysis
9 3 (2.703%) TDD
10 2 (1.802%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 81 (72.97%) Java
2 77 (69.37%) C#
3 55 (49.55%) SQL
4 44 (39.64%) C++
5 24 (21.62%) Shell Script
6 20 (18.02%) Python
7 14 (12.61%) JavaScript
8 11 (9.910%) PL/SQL
8 11 (9.910%) C++/CLI
9 9 (8.108%) Scala
10 6 (5.405%) VB
11 5 (4.505%) VBA
12 4 (3.604%) VBScript
13 2 (1.802%) Bourne shell
13 2 (1.802%) Groovy
13 2 (1.802%) Ruby
13 2 (1.802%) Korn
14 1 (0.901%) Smalltalk
14 1 (0.901%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (3.604%) Degree
2 2 (1.802%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.901%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.306%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (3.604%) Control-M
2 2 (1.802%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.901%) HP Operations Orchestration
3 1 (0.901%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.901%) HP SiteScope
3 1 (0.901%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 30 (27.03%) Sybase
2 25 (22.52%) Oracle
3 14 (12.61%) ION Trading
4 5 (4.505%) Sun
5 4 (3.604%) HP
6 3 (2.703%) TIBCO
6 3 (2.703%) IBM
7 1 (0.901%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.901%) JBoss
7 1 (0.901%) Informatica
7 1 (0.901%) Sencha
7 1 (0.901%) Lumension
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