Glasgow Perl Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl) skills within the Glasgow region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Crewe Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rochester Salford Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	52
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	6	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	1.942 %	3.890 %
Daily rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£334
Average daily rate	£392	£339
% change on same period last year	+15.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£328
% change on same period last year	+9.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£41.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.94	£35.75
% change on same period last year	+0.53 %
Programming Languages Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	309	437
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.407 %	0.463 %
Daily rates quoted	83	155
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£315
Average daily rate	£324	£330
% change on same period last year	-1.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.88	£28.46
Average hourly rate	£19.19	£32.07
% change on same period last year	-40.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.50	£35.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.23	£33.20
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Perl Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Perl
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Perl across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Perl
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Perl across the Glasgow region.

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Perl across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Perl across the Glasgow region.

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, 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 15 (65.22 %) Unix 2 14 (60.87 %) Solaris 2 14 (60.87 %) Linux 3 13 (56.52 %) Sybase 3 13 (56.52 %) SQL 4 11 (47.83 %) Sybase ASE 5 10 (43.48 %) Replication 5 10 (43.48 %) SAN 5 10 (43.48 %) VERITAS 6 9 (39.13 %) BMC 6 9 (39.13 %) Sun 6 9 (39.13 %) Oracle 7 8 (34.78 %) C 7 8 (34.78 %) Java 7 8 (34.78 %) SSH

8 7 (30.43 %) Subversion 8 7 (30.43 %) ClearCase 9 3 (13.04 %) Finance 9 3 (13.04 %) Banking 9 3 (13.04 %) Investment Banking 9 3 (13.04 %) Shell Script 9 3 (13.04 %) Configuration Management 10 1 (4.348 %) EMC 10 1 (4.348 %) MySQL 10 1 (4.348 %) Red Hat 10 1 (4.348 %) HTTP 10 1 (4.348 %) RDBMS 10 1 (4.348 %) SLA 10 1 (4.348 %) Apache 10 1 (4.348 %) PHP

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, 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 1 (4.348 %) HTML 1 1 (4.348 %) CSS 1 1 (4.348 %) LAMP 1 1 (4.348 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.348 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 10 (43.48 %) SAN 2 8 (34.78 %) SSH 3 1 (4.348 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (47.83 %) Sybase ASE 2 1 (4.348 %) MySQL 2 1 (4.348 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 7 (30.43 %) ClearCase 1 7 (30.43 %) Subversion 2 1 (4.348 %) JIRA 2 1 (4.348 %) CruiseControl 2 1 (4.348 %) Ant 2 1 (4.348 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 3 (13.04 %) Finance 1 3 (13.04 %) Banking 1 3 (13.04 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 11 (47.83 %) DBA 1 11 (47.83 %) Sybase DBA 2 4 (17.39 %) Administrator 3 3 (13.04 %) Configuration Manager 3 3 (13.04 %) Developer 3 3 (13.04 %) Analyst 4 1 (4.348 %) Systems Administrator 4 1 (4.348 %) Database Analyst 4 1 (4.348 %) UNIX Administrator 4 1 (4.348 %) PHP Developer 4 1 (4.348 %) Solaris Systems Administrator 4 1 (4.348 %) Solaris Administrator 4 1 (4.348 %) Process Analyst 4 1 (4.348 %) UNIX Systems Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 10 (43.48 %) Replication 2 1 (4.348 %) Equities
Operating Systems 1 15 (65.22 %) Unix 2 14 (60.87 %) Solaris 2 14 (60.87 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (13.04 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (4.348 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (4.348 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (4.348 %) Risk Management 2 1 (4.348 %) Release Management 2 1 (4.348 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (4.348 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 13 (56.52 %) SQL 2 8 (34.78 %) C 2 8 (34.78 %) Java 3 3 (13.04 %) Shell Script 4 1 (4.348 %) Korn 4 1 (4.348 %) PHP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.348 %) SLA
Vendors 1 13 (56.52 %) Sybase 2 10 (43.48 %) VERITAS 3 9 (39.13 %) Sun 3 9 (39.13 %) Oracle 3 9 (39.13 %) BMC 4 1 (4.348 %) EMC 4 1 (4.348 %) Red Hat 4 1 (4.348 %) VMware