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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the North West region.

 Perl
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank697794
Rank change year-on-year
Up+8Up+17
Matching contract IT job ads372346
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West1.631 %1.010 %1.163 %
As % of the Programming Languages category5.226 %3.177 %3.780 %
Daily rates quoted16515
Average daily rate£290£475£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.94 %+58.33 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£223£430£234
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£330£500£350
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£306£350
% change year-on-year
+6.120 %-12.50 %
Hourly rates quoted012
Average hourly rate-£7.00£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--78.46 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.50£35.00£34.00
% change year-on-year
-4.280 %+2.940 %
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
7087241217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West31.22 %31.78 %30.76 %
Daily rates quoted293169236
Average daily rate£275£325£320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38 %+1.560 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£188£200£230
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£388£450£433
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted5691124
Average hourly rate£22.50£30.00£28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00 %+5.260 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£16.05£15.80
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.50£35.00£38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.25£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.780 %-13.57 %
Perl EnglandPerl
England

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.

Perl
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Perl across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

North West Perl Demand Trend

Perl
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Perl across the North West region.

North West Perl Daily Rate Trend

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Perl across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

North West Perl Daily Rate Histogram

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Perl across the North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
ManchesterDown-122£250-48.71 %
CheshireDown-811£295-26.25 %
LancashireNew entry-1£220-
Perl EnglandPerl
England

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

128 (50.00 %)UNIX
224 (42.86 %)Linux
322 (39.29 %)SQL
421 (37.50 %)HTML
520 (35.71 %)JavaScript
520 (35.71 %)MySQL
619 (33.93 %)CSS
718 (32.14 %)PHP
815 (26.79 %)XHTML
815 (26.79 %)Ruby
815 (26.79 %)Ruby on Rails
913 (23.21 %)HP
1011 (19.64 %)Shell Script
119 (16.07 %)Informatics
127 (12.50 %)Computer Science
127 (12.50 %)Solaris
127 (12.50 %)Oracle
136 (10.71 %)C
136 (10.71 %)XML
136 (10.71 %)HPUX
136 (10.71 %)Data Mining
136 (10.71 %)Tivoli
136 (10.71 %)IBM
136 (10.71 %)OpenView
136 (10.71 %)Taxonomies
136 (10.71 %)Text Mining
145 (8.929 %)Statistics
145 (8.929 %)Data Integration
145 (8.929 %)Degree
145 (8.929 %)Life Science

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

North West IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
121 (37.50 %)HTML
219 (33.93 %)CSS
315 (26.79 %)XHTML
315 (26.79 %)Ruby on Rails
46 (10.71 %)XML
54 (7.143 %)POSIX
54 (7.143 %)CGI
63 (5.357 %).NET
72 (3.571 %)WMI
81 (1.786 %)Grails
81 (1.786 %)AJAX
81 (1.786 %)LAMP
81 (1.786 %)Spring
81 (1.786 %)ASP
81 (1.786 %)ASP.NET
81 (1.786 %)JSP
81 (1.786 %)SOAP
81 (1.786 %)XSLT
81 (1.786 %)Middleware
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (7.143 %)IIS
23 (5.357 %)Apache
31 (1.786 %)LiveLink
31 (1.786 %)Lotus Domino
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (7.143 %)MS Excel
21 (1.786 %)MS Project
21 (1.786 %)MS Office
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (1.786 %)Oracle Applications
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (5.357 %)Firewall
13 (5.357 %)DHCP
13 (5.357 %)HTTP
13 (5.357 %)DNS
21 (1.786 %)Intranet
21 (1.786 %)Internet
21 (1.786 %)3G
21 (1.786 %)LDAP
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
120 (35.71 %)MySQL
26 (10.71 %)Data Mining
26 (10.71 %)Text Mining
32 (3.571 %)SQL Server
41 (1.786 %)Oracle 11g
41 (1.786 %)Oracle 9i
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (5.357 %)QuickTest Pro
21 (1.786 %)Oracle Forms
21 (1.786 %)PowerBuilder
21 (1.786 %)ClearQuest
North West IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15 (8.929 %)Pharmaceutical
24 (7.143 %)Finance
32 (3.571 %)Health
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
130 (53.57 %)Developer
215 (26.79 %)Web Developer
37 (12.50 %)Perl Developer
46 (10.71 %)Ruby on Rails Developer
54 (7.143 %)Analyst
54 (7.143 %)Performance Engineer
63 (5.357 %)Administrator
72 (3.571 %)Tivoli Specialist
72 (3.571 %)Programmer
72 (3.571 %)OpenView Engineer
72 (3.571 %)Consultant
72 (3.571 %)AIX Administrator
81 (1.786 %)Oracle Applications Support
81 (1.786 %)Linux Consultant
81 (1.786 %)Excel Developer
81 (1.786 %)Systems Administrator
81 (1.786 %)Project Manager
81 (1.786 %)Software Engineer
81 (1.786 %)IT Project Manager
81 (1.786 %)UNIX Administrator
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
19 (16.07 %)Informatics
27 (12.50 %)Computer Science
36 (10.71 %)Taxonomies
45 (8.929 %)Statistics
45 (8.929 %)Data Integration
45 (8.929 %)Life Science
54 (7.143 %)Firmware
61 (1.786 %)Ontologies
61 (1.786 %)Replication
61 (1.786 %)PMI
61 (1.786 %)Open Source
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
128 (50.00 %)UNIX
224 (42.86 %)Linux
37 (12.50 %)Solaris
46 (10.71 %)HPUX
55 (8.929 %)Red Hat Linux
64 (7.143 %)Windows
64 (7.143 %)AIX
73 (5.357 %)Windows Server 2003
73 (5.357 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
81 (1.786 %)Windows 2000 Server
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14 (7.143 %)Capacity Planning
23 (5.357 %)Knowledge Management
23 (5.357 %)Bioinformatics
32 (3.571 %)Rapid Prototyping
32 (3.571 %)Business Analysis
32 (3.571 %)Statistical Analysis
32 (3.571 %)Project Management
41 (1.786 %)Performance Management
41 (1.786 %)Supplier Management
41 (1.786 %)Data Analysis
41 (1.786 %)ITSM
41 (1.786 %)Agile Software Development
41 (1.786 %)RUP
41 (1.786 %)UML
41 (1.786 %)ITIL
41 (1.786 %)PRINCE2
41 (1.786 %)Benchmarking
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
122 (39.29 %)SQL
220 (35.71 %)JavaScript
318 (32.14 %)PHP
415 (26.79 %)Ruby
511 (19.64 %)Shell Script
66 (10.71 %)C
74 (7.143 %)Java
74 (7.143 %)VB
83 (5.357 %)PL/SQL
92 (3.571 %)VBScript
92 (3.571 %)VB6
101 (1.786 %)Groovy
101 (1.786 %)Korn
101 (1.786 %)VB.NET
101 (1.786 %)VBA
101 (1.786 %)C#
101 (1.786 %)C++
101 (1.786 %)Python
101 (1.786 %)Assembly Language
101 (1.786 %)Bash shell
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
15 (8.929 %)Degree
21 (1.786 %)PhD
21 (1.786 %)PMI Certification
North West IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (3.571 %)Active Directory
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
16 (10.71 %)Tivoli
16 (10.71 %)OpenView
24 (7.143 %)BMC PATROL
24 (7.143 %)OVOU
24 (7.143 %)BMC Performance Manager
24 (7.143 %)OVPI
24 (7.143 %)OVPM
33 (5.357 %)Tivoli Monitoring
33 (5.357 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
42 (3.571 %)Cacti
42 (3.571 %)HP NNM
51 (1.786 %)AssetCenter
51 (1.786 %)SCOM
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
113 (23.21 %)HP
27 (12.50 %)Oracle
36 (10.71 %)IBM
45 (8.929 %)Red Hat
54 (7.143 %)Sun
54 (7.143 %)BMC
62 (3.571 %)Novell
71 (1.786 %)BladeLogic
71 (1.786 %)SAP
71 (1.786 %)Peregrine
71 (1.786 %)Lotus
71 (1.786 %)Citrix