Kent Perl Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl) skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury 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 Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rochester Salford Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	38
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	6	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	3.797 %	8.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£298
Average daily rate	£315	£310
% change on same period last year	+1.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£334
% change on same period last year	+11.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£38.75
Average hourly rate	-	£39.38
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.57	£34.72
% change on same period last year	+5.31 %
Programming Languages Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	158	225
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.211 %	0.228 %
Daily rates quoted	48	51
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£278
Average daily rate	£330	£286
% change on same period last year	+15.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£37.08
Average hourly rate	£26.75	£42.80
% change on same period last year	-37.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.50	£48.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
Perl South East

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 Kent 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 Kent region.

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Perl
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Kent region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Rochester	-	1	-	-

Perl South East

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (71.43 %) UNIX 2 10 (47.62 %) XML 2 10 (47.62 %) Oracle 3 9 (42.86 %) Windows 3 9 (42.86 %) Korn 4 8 (38.10 %) SQL 4 8 (38.10 %) C 5 7 (33.33 %) HTML 5 7 (33.33 %) JavaScript 5 7 (33.33 %) MySQL 5 7 (33.33 %) SQL Server 5 7 (33.33 %) CSS 5 7 (33.33 %) OOP 5 7 (33.33 %) Mason 5 7 (33.33 %) Publishing

5 7 (33.33 %) Migration 6 6 (28.57 %) Release Management 6 6 (28.57 %) Data Migration 6 6 (28.57 %) Insurance 6 6 (28.57 %) ProC 6 6 (28.57 %) TELNET 6 6 (28.57 %) Microsoft 6 6 (28.57 %) MS Office 6 6 (28.57 %) PL/SQL 7 5 (23.81 %) IBM 7 5 (23.81 %) Linux 8 4 (19.05 %) Solaris 8 4 (19.05 %) HP 9 3 (14.29 %) CiscoWorks 9 3 (14.29 %) Nortel

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 10 (47.62 %) XML 2 7 (33.33 %) HTML 2 7 (33.33 %) CSS 2 7 (33.33 %) Mason 3 2 (9.524 %) XSL 3 2 (9.524 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 2 (9.524 %) Apache
Applications 1 6 (28.57 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 6 (28.57 %) TELNET 2 3 (14.29 %) Wireless 2 3 (14.29 %) SNMP 2 3 (14.29 %) LAN 2 3 (14.29 %) WLAN 2 3 (14.29 %) WAN 2 3 (14.29 %) TACACS 3 2 (9.524 %) DHCP 3 2 (9.524 %) HTTP 3 2 (9.524 %) SAN 4 1 (4.762 %) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (33.33 %) MySQL 1 7 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 2 (9.524 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 6 (28.57 %) ProC
General 1 7 (33.33 %) Publishing 2 6 (28.57 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 14 (66.67 %) Developer 2 7 (33.33 %) Perl Developer 3 3 (14.29 %) Network Specialist 3 3 (14.29 %) C Developer 3 3 (14.29 %) Oracle Developer 4 2 (9.524 %) Junior 4 2 (9.524 %) Junior Developer 4 2 (9.524 %) Consultant 4 2 (9.524 %) Technical Consultant 4 2 (9.524 %) Junior Perl Developer 5 1 (4.762 %) Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Programmer 5 1 (4.762 %) C# Developer 5 1 (4.762 %) UNIX Administrator
Operating Systems 1 15 (71.43 %) UNIX 2 9 (42.86 %) Windows 3 5 (23.81 %) Linux 4 4 (19.05 %) Solaris 5 3 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (9.524 %) AIX 7 1 (4.762 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (33.33 %) OOP 1 7 (33.33 %) Migration 2 6 (28.57 %) Release Management 2 6 (28.57 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 9 (42.86 %) Korn 2 8 (38.10 %) SQL 2 8 (38.10 %) C 3 7 (33.33 %) JavaScript 4 6 (28.57 %) PL/SQL 5 3 (14.29 %) Shell Script 6 1 (4.762 %) C#	Qualifications 1 3 (14.29 %) CCNA 1 3 (14.29 %) Cisco Certification
System Software 1 2 (9.524 %) NFS 2 1 (4.762 %) Artix	Systems Management 1 3 (14.29 %) OpenView 1 3 (14.29 %) CiscoWorks 1 3 (14.29 %) Tivoli 1 3 (14.29 %) Tivoli NetView 1 3 (14.29 %) NNM
Vendors 1 10 (47.62 %) Oracle 2 6 (28.57 %) Microsoft 3 5 (23.81 %) IBM 4 4 (19.05 %) HP 5 3 (14.29 %) Nortel 5 3 (14.29 %) Cisco 6 2 (9.524 %) VERITAS 7 1 (4.762 %) IONA