Leeds Perl Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl) skills within the Leeds 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl)
Location Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Kent Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Salford Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West Southend-on-Sea Staines Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Watford Wells West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	39
Rank change on same period last year	-27
Matching contract IT job ads	14	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	2.966 %	9.174 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£356
Average daily rate	£273	£356
% change on same period last year	-23.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£284	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£360
% change on same period last year	+1.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£35.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.03	£32.28
% change on same period last year	+17.80 %
Programming Languages Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	472	436
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.629 %	0.435 %
Daily rates quoted	108	54
Average minimum daily rate	£277	£315
Average daily rate	£299	£331
% change on same period last year	-9.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	48
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.70	£30.57
Average hourly rate	£32.03	£32.10
% change on same period last year	-0.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.36	£33.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
Perl West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Perl across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Leeds region.

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 16 (66.67 %) UNIX 2 15 (62.50 %) Shell Script 3 11 (45.83 %) Oracle 4 10 (41.67 %) Internet 5 8 (33.33 %) Telecoms 6 7 (29.17 %) C 6 7 (29.17 %) Solaris 6 7 (29.17 %) Linux 6 7 (29.17 %) DNS 6 7 (29.17 %) Firewall 7 6 (25.00 %) Windows 7 6 (25.00 %) XML 7 6 (25.00 %) Government 7 6 (25.00 %) HTTP 8 5 (20.83 %) TCP/IP

8 5 (20.83 %) PL/SQL 8 5 (20.83 %) SQL 8 5 (20.83 %) Security Cleared 9 4 (16.67 %) NNM 9 4 (16.67 %) OVOW 9 4 (16.67 %) OVIS 9 4 (16.67 %) WebLogic 9 4 (16.67 %) ASP 9 4 (16.67 %) XSL 9 4 (16.67 %) Apache 9 4 (16.67 %) Active Directory 9 4 (16.67 %) OpenView 9 4 (16.67 %) HP 10 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 10 3 (12.50 %) TeamSite

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 6 (25.00 %) XML 2 4 (16.67 %) XSL 2 4 (16.67 %) ASP 3 3 (12.50 %) HTML 3 3 (12.50 %) .NET 4 2 (8.333 %) CSS 4 2 (8.333 %) SOAP 4 2 (8.333 %) XSLT 4 2 (8.333 %) ebXML 5 1 (4.167 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 4 (16.67 %) WebLogic 1 4 (16.67 %) Apache 2 3 (12.50 %) Tomcat 2 3 (12.50 %) TeamSite 3 2 (8.333 %) CMS 3 2 (8.333 %) IIS 4 1 (4.167 %) JBoss 4 1 (4.167 %) JRun 4 1 (4.167 %) ATG Dynamo
Communications & Networking 1 10 (41.67 %) Internet 2 7 (29.17 %) Firewall 2 7 (29.17 %) DNS 3 6 (25.00 %) HTTP 4 5 (20.83 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (4.167 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.333 %) MySQL 1 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (4.167 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) TestDirector 1 2 (8.333 %) ProC	General 1 8 (33.33 %) Telecoms 2 6 (25.00 %) Government 3 2 (8.333 %) Finance 4 1 (4.167 %) Retail 4 1 (4.167 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 7 (29.17 %) Developer 2 4 (16.67 %) Systems Integrator 3 3 (12.50 %) OpenView Engineer 3 3 (12.50 %) UNIX Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) Implementation Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Web Developer 4 2 (8.333 %) Network Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) Systems Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) Senior Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) Oracle Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 5 1 (4.167 %) UNIX Administrator 5 1 (4.167 %) Infrastructure Architect 5 1 (4.167 %) Perl Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) UNIX Systems Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) PHP Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Solaris Systems Administrator 5 1 (4.167 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) NHS 2 1 (4.167 %) PACS
Operating Systems 1 16 (66.67 %) UNIX 2 7 (29.17 %) Solaris 2 7 (29.17 %) Linux 3 6 (25.00 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (20.83 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 3 (12.50 %) Migration 3 2 (8.333 %) Web Design 3 2 (8.333 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (4.167 %) OOD 4 1 (4.167 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (4.167 %) CRM 4 1 (4.167 %) Content Management 4 1 (4.167 %) Software Engineering 4 1 (4.167 %) Release Management 4 1 (4.167 %) Test Management 4 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 15 (62.50 %) Shell Script 2 7 (29.17 %) C 3 5 (20.83 %) PL/SQL 3 5 (20.83 %) SQL 4 2 (8.333 %) C# 4 2 (8.333 %) Java 4 2 (8.333 %) JavaScript 4 2 (8.333 %) PHP 5 1 (4.167 %) AWK	Qualifications 1 1 (4.167 %) CCNA 1 1 (4.167 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (4.167 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (8.333 %) HL7 2 1 (4.167 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (16.67 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 4 (16.67 %) OpenView 1 4 (16.67 %) NNM 1 4 (16.67 %) OVOW 1 4 (16.67 %) OVIS 2 1 (4.167 %) OVPA 2 1 (4.167 %) OVPM	Vendors 1 11 (45.83 %) Oracle 2 4 (16.67 %) HP 3 1 (4.167 %) webMethods 3 1 (4.167 %) ATG 3 1 (4.167 %) Siebel 3 1 (4.167 %) Cisco 3 1 (4.167 %) Sun