The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 24 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 Gloucestershire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 28 22 37
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +15
Contract jobs citing Perl 10 46 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 3.690% 7.143% 2.294%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.042% 12.33% 4.831%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 38 7
Average daily rate £438 £500 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +90.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £400 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £325
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-38.35% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
142 373 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 52.40% 57.92% 47.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 210 90
Average daily rate £400 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +41.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 25 39
Average hourly rate £39.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £25.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Perl
South West

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 29 (100.00%) Linux
1 29 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 29 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (89.66%) C
3 23 (79.31%) Shell Script
4 22 (75.86%) DHCP
4 22 (75.86%) DNS
4 22 (75.86%) UNIX
4 22 (75.86%) Clustering
4 22 (75.86%) Red Hat
5 20 (68.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (24.14%) Python
7 6 (20.69%) C++
7 6 (20.69%) Java
7 6 (20.69%) PHP
7 6 (20.69%) MySQL
7 6 (20.69%) Oracle
7 6 (20.69%) Web Services
7 6 (20.69%) Scrum
7 6 (20.69%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (20.69%) Bash shell
7 6 (20.69%) Regular Expression
8 3 (10.34%) Analytics
9 2 (6.897%) Service Management
9 2 (6.897%) SAN
9 2 (6.897%) NFS
9 2 (6.897%) TCP/IP
9 2 (6.897%) HPUX
9 2 (6.897%) Solaris
10 1 (3.448%) SOA

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 6 (20.69%) Web Services
1 6 (20.69%) Regular Expression
Communications & Networking
1 22 (75.86%) DHCP
1 22 (75.86%) DNS
2 2 (6.897%) SAN
2 2 (6.897%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 22 (75.86%) Linux Engineer
1 22 (75.86%) UNIX Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) C++ Developer
3 1 (3.448%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (3.448%) Administrator
3 1 (3.448%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (3.448%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 22 (75.86%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) Linux
2 22 (75.86%) UNIX
3 20 (68.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.897%) HPUX
4 2 (6.897%) Solaris
5 1 (3.448%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.448%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Scrum
1 6 (20.69%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (10.34%) Analytics
3 2 (6.897%) Service Management
4 1 (3.448%) SOA
4 1 (3.448%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.448%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (89.66%) C
2 23 (79.31%) Shell Script
3 7 (24.14%) Python
4 6 (20.69%) C++
4 6 (20.69%) Java
4 6 (20.69%) PHP
4 6 (20.69%) Bash shell
5 1 (3.448%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 29 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (6.897%) NFS
2 1 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 22 (75.86%) Red Hat
2 6 (20.69%) Oracle
3 1 (3.448%) VMware