The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Maidenhead region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 22 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 Maidenhead 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 17 12 12
Rank change year-on-year
-5 0
Contract jobs citing Perl 1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Maidenhead 1.266% 2.532% 2.174%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.226% 16.67% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £323
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +24.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £35.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-36.61% +2.89%
All Programming Languages
Maidenhead
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
31 12 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Maidenhead 39.24% 15.19% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 9
Average daily rate £325 £375 £289
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +29.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £105
10% offered a daily rate of more than £392 £425 £381
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
Perl
Berkshire

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidenhead 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 Maidenhead region.

Maidenhead 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 Maidenhead region.

Maidenhead Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Maidenhead 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 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) HNC
1 4 (100.00%) HND
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) 2G
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) LTE
2 2 (50.00%) 4G
2 2 (50.00%) 3G
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) MS Access
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) SGSN

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Maidenhead 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 4 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) 2G
1 2 (50.00%) LTE
1 2 (50.00%) 4G
1 2 (50.00%) 3G
2 1 (25.00%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MS Access
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Databuild Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Build Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Build Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) HNC
1 4 (100.00%) HND
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification