The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 42 55 53
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -2
Contract jobs citing Perl 33 12 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 4.465% 1.381% 0.157%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.65% 3.593% 0.472%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 1
Average daily rate £275 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £325
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-38.35% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
310 334 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 41.95% 38.43% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 218 112
Average daily rate £275 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £221 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £390 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 8
Average hourly rate £33.00 £27.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.22% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.10 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £61.25 £33.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Perl
West Yorkshire

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 42 (97.67%) Java
2 33 (76.74%) Linux
3 32 (74.42%) Apache
3 32 (74.42%) Oracle
4 30 (69.77%) Bash shell
5 26 (60.47%) Python
5 26 (60.47%) Web Services
6 24 (55.81%) C++
6 24 (55.81%) PHP
6 24 (55.81%) DNS
7 23 (53.49%) Client/Server
7 23 (53.49%) MySQL
7 23 (53.49%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (53.49%) Amazon S3
7 23 (53.49%) Amazon AWS
7 23 (53.49%) Test Automation
7 23 (53.49%) nginx
7 23 (53.49%) Kanban
7 23 (53.49%) Telecoms
7 23 (53.49%) Ruby
7 23 (53.49%) Node.js
7 23 (53.49%) MongoDB
7 23 (53.49%) Redis
7 23 (53.49%) Route 53
7 23 (53.49%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (48.84%) Configuration Management
9 18 (41.86%) Internet
9 18 (41.86%) J2EE
9 18 (41.86%) UNIX
10 17 (39.53%) Security Testing

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 26 (60.47%) Web Services
2 23 (53.49%) Node.js
3 18 (41.86%) J2EE
4 10 (23.26%) WebSphere
5 7 (16.28%) REST
5 7 (16.28%) CSS3
5 7 (16.28%) SOAP
5 7 (16.28%) CSS
5 7 (16.28%) HTML5
5 7 (16.28%) jQuery
5 7 (16.28%) Hibernate
5 7 (16.28%) Spring
6 5 (11.63%) Middleware
7 4 (9.302%) JDBC
8 3 (6.977%) SGML
8 3 (6.977%) XML
8 3 (6.977%) JSP
8 3 (6.977%) Servlets
8 3 (6.977%) Grails
8 3 (6.977%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 32 (74.42%) Apache
2 23 (53.49%) Amazon EC2
2 23 (53.49%) Amazon S3
2 23 (53.49%) Amazon AWS
2 23 (53.49%) nginx
2 23 (53.49%) Route 53
3 15 (34.88%) Tomcat
4 7 (16.28%) Adobe CQ
4 7 (16.28%) Apache Solr
5 5 (11.63%) WebLogic
6 4 (9.302%) IBM HTTP Server
6 4 (9.302%) IIS
6 4 (9.302%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (9.302%) MQSeries
7 3 (6.977%) ATG Dynamo
8 1 (2.326%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 4 (9.302%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 13 (30.23%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (55.81%) DNS
2 18 (41.86%) Internet
3 16 (37.21%) TCP/IP
3 16 (37.21%) DHCP
3 16 (37.21%) SSL
4 11 (25.58%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (25.58%) HTTP
5 4 (9.302%) FTP
6 1 (2.326%) Firewall
6 1 (2.326%) NetScreen
6 1 (2.326%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (2.326%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (53.49%) MySQL
1 23 (53.49%) MongoDB
1 23 (53.49%) Redis
1 23 (53.49%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (9.302%) DB2
Development Applications
1 11 (25.58%) Maven
2 8 (18.60%) Jenkins
3 7 (16.28%) Git (software)
4 5 (11.63%) Introscope
5 4 (9.302%) Subversion
5 4 (9.302%) Ant
6 3 (6.977%) CruiseControl
General
1 23 (53.49%) Telecoms
2 6 (13.95%) Retail
3 4 (9.302%) Finance
3 4 (9.302%) Games
4 2 (4.651%) Banking
4 2 (4.651%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Developer
1 10 (23.26%) Java Developer
2 9 (20.93%) Operations Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Operations Analyst
3 6 (13.95%) Operations Support Analyst
3 6 (13.95%) Analyst
3 6 (13.95%) Support Analyst
4 3 (6.977%) Administrator
4 3 (6.977%) Configuration Engineer
4 3 (6.977%) Release Engineer
4 3 (6.977%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 3 (6.977%) J2EE Developer
5 2 (4.651%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (4.651%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (2.326%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (2.326%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.326%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (2.326%) Senior Network Security Engineer
6 1 (2.326%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.326%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (53.49%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.326%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 33 (76.74%) Linux
2 18 (41.86%) UNIX
3 13 (30.23%) Windows
4 8 (18.60%) Solaris
5 4 (9.302%) AIX
6 3 (6.977%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.326%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Test Automation
1 23 (53.49%) Kanban
2 21 (48.84%) Configuration Management
3 17 (39.53%) Security Testing
4 16 (37.21%) Capacity Management
4 16 (37.21%) Load Balancing
4 16 (37.21%) Incident Management
5 8 (18.60%) SOA
6 7 (16.28%) BDD
6 7 (16.28%) TDD
6 7 (16.28%) Scrum
6 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
7 6 (13.95%) Performance Testing
8 5 (11.63%) E-Commerce
9 4 (9.302%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (9.302%) ITIL
10 3 (6.977%) Regression Testing
11 1 (2.326%) Capacity Planning
11 1 (2.326%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (97.67%) Java
2 30 (69.77%) Bash shell
3 26 (60.47%) Python
4 24 (55.81%) C++
4 24 (55.81%) PHP
5 23 (53.49%) Ruby
6 11 (25.58%) SQL
7 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
8 5 (11.63%) Shell Script
9 4 (9.302%) AWK
10 3 (6.977%) Groovy
11 2 (4.651%) Jython
12 1 (2.326%) C
12 1 (2.326%) VB
12 1 (2.326%) PL/SQL
12 1 (2.326%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Qualifications
1 1 (2.326%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (2.326%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.326%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.326%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 16 (37.21%) Puppet
2 5 (11.63%) CA Wily
2 5 (11.63%) Splunk
Vendors
1 32 (74.42%) Oracle
2 17 (39.53%) Percona
3 8 (18.60%) JBoss
4 7 (16.28%) Adobe
4 7 (16.28%) hybris
5 5 (11.63%) Red Hat
5 5 (11.63%) IBM
6 4 (9.302%) Terracotta
6 4 (9.302%) Microsoft
7 3 (6.977%) ATG
8 1 (2.326%) McAfee
8 1 (2.326%) Cisco
8 1 (2.326%) Sun
8 1 (2.326%) Juniper
8 1 (2.326%) NetApp
8 1 (2.326%) Blue Coat
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