The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex 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 Middlesex 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 22 27 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing Perl 3 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.500% 1.618% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.660% 8.621% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £300 £306 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.04% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £325
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-38.35% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
53 58 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 26.50% 18.77% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 42
Average daily rate £338 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 8
Average hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +34.48%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Perl
South East

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) SNMP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) DSL
3 1 (33.33%) TELNET
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) SLA
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) Symantec
3 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (33.33%) AppSense
3 1 (33.33%) SCOM
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (33.33%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VoIP
1 2 (66.67%) SNMP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) DSL
2 1 (33.33%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) AppSense
2 1 (33.33%) Lumension