The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Manchester 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 57 69 56
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -13
Contract jobs citing Perl 12 14 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.231% 1.135% 1.326%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.509% 2.966% 4.142%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 10
Average daily rate - - £193
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £338
% change year-on-year
- +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-17.85% -
All Programming Languages
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
342 472 338
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 35.08% 38.28% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 260 200
Average daily rate £300 £290 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £400 £436
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 19
Average hourly rate £23.75 £25.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -9.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £15.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £41.40 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Perl
North West

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cheadle - - - -
Oldham - - - -
Stockport - - - -
Perl
North West

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 21 (95.45%) IBM
2 18 (81.82%) UNIX
3 17 (77.27%) JavaScript
4 16 (72.73%) Linux
5 12 (54.55%) LDAP
6 10 (45.45%) Java
7 9 (40.91%) Netcool
7 9 (40.91%) Nagios
7 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
7 9 (40.91%) Red Hat
7 9 (40.91%) C
7 9 (40.91%) Apache
7 9 (40.91%) HPUX
7 9 (40.91%) Solaris
7 9 (40.91%) Ruby
7 9 (40.91%) Wiki
7 9 (40.91%) Puppet
8 8 (36.36%) WebSphere
8 8 (36.36%) Retail
8 8 (36.36%) SQL
9 7 (31.82%) J2EE
9 7 (31.82%) HTML
9 7 (31.82%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (31.82%) JDBC
9 7 (31.82%) XHTML
9 7 (31.82%) E-Commerce
9 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
9 7 (31.82%) MS Visio
9 7 (31.82%) Telecoms
9 7 (31.82%) Bash shell

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 8 (36.36%) WebSphere
2 7 (31.82%) XHTML
2 7 (31.82%) HTML
2 7 (31.82%) J2EE
2 7 (31.82%) JDBC
3 6 (27.27%) JSP
3 6 (27.27%) Servlets
3 6 (27.27%) EJB
3 6 (27.27%) XML
4 5 (22.73%) Ajax
5 4 (18.18%) XSLT
5 4 (18.18%) JMS
5 4 (18.18%) JSTL
5 4 (18.18%) XMLBeans
5 4 (18.18%) Struts
6 3 (13.64%) Middleware
6 3 (13.64%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
6 3 (13.64%) SPNEGO
7 2 (9.091%) jQuery
7 2 (9.091%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 9 (40.91%) Apache
2 7 (31.82%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (18.18%) MQSeries
4 1 (4.545%) Apache Solr
4 1 (4.545%) WebLogic
4 1 (4.545%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (31.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) LDAP
2 5 (22.73%) Internet
3 3 (13.64%) X.509
3 3 (13.64%) Network Security
3 3 (13.64%) SMS
3 3 (13.64%) Kerberos
4 1 (4.545%) SAN
4 1 (4.545%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) DB2
1 6 (27.27%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.545%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) JUnit
1 6 (27.27%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (27.27%) Eclipse
2 4 (18.18%) Log4j
2 4 (18.18%) Subversion
2 4 (18.18%) Ant
General
1 8 (36.36%) Retail
2 7 (31.82%) Telecoms
3 5 (22.73%) Finance
4 4 (18.18%) Games
4 4 (18.18%) Banking
5 1 (4.545%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Support Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Systems Support Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Systems Support
2 9 (40.91%) Systems Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Java Developer
4 5 (22.73%) J2EE Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (9.091%) WebSphere Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) AIX Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Network Support
6 1 (4.545%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Wiki
2 5 (22.73%) Web 2.0
3 1 (4.545%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 18 (81.82%) UNIX
2 16 (72.73%) Linux
3 9 (40.91%) HPUX
3 9 (40.91%) Solaris
4 4 (18.18%) Windows
4 4 (18.18%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) E-Commerce
2 6 (27.27%) UML
2 6 (27.27%) OO
2 6 (27.27%) RAD
2 6 (27.27%) Content Management
3 3 (13.64%) Change Management
3 3 (13.64%) Identity Management
4 2 (9.091%) MVC
4 2 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.545%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (4.545%) Change Control
5 1 (4.545%) ITIL
5 1 (4.545%) Migration
5 1 (4.545%) BPR
5 1 (4.545%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) JavaScript
2 10 (45.45%) Java
3 9 (40.91%) C
3 9 (40.91%) Ruby
4 8 (36.36%) SQL
5 7 (31.82%) Bash shell
6 4 (18.18%) XPath
6 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (9.091%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (4.545%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (4.545%) QA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.545%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Netcool
1 9 (40.91%) Nagios
1 9 (40.91%) Puppet
2 3 (13.64%) Tivoli
2 3 (13.64%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 1 (4.545%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 21 (95.45%) IBM
2 9 (40.91%) Red Hat
3 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
4 5 (22.73%) ATG
4 5 (22.73%) Blue Martini
5 4 (18.18%) Interwoven
5 4 (18.18%) Oracle
5 4 (18.18%) Elastic Path
6 3 (13.64%) Sun
7 1 (4.545%) Hitachi
7 1 (4.545%) Brocade