North West Perl Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl) skills within the North West 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl)
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hull Ilford Ipswich Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	104	71
Rank change on same period last year	-33
Matching contract IT job ads	23	82
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.083 %
As % of the category below	1.884 %	5.964 %
Daily rates quoted	4	24
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£291
Average daily rate	£363	£309
% change on same period last year	+17.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£342
% change on same period last year	-1.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	16
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£22.22
Average hourly rate	-	£22.22
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£22.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.11	£32.83
% change on same period last year	+6.94 %
Programming Languages North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1221	1375
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.719 %	1.390 %
Daily rates quoted	236	226
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£314
Average daily rate	£303	£331
% change on same period last year	-8.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£319	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	160	157
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.79	£26.09
Average hourly rate	£28.87	£27.59
% change on same period last year	+4.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.95	£29.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.24	£32.80
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Perl England

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 North West 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 North West region.

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 10 October 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 North West region.

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 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheshire	-2	12	£350	+1.81 %
Manchester	-10	8	£375	-11.76 %
Merseyside	-5	1	-	-

Perl England

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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.

1 106 (86.89 %) UNIX 2 84 (68.85 %) AIX 3 83 (68.03 %) Tivoli 4 75 (61.48 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 74 (60.66 %) HACMP 5 74 (60.66 %) TCP/IP 6 70 (57.38 %) Middleware 7 69 (56.56 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8 67 (54.92 %) SNA 9 65 (53.28 %) Solaris 10 63 (51.64 %) Korn 11 59 (48.36 %) VERITAS 12 58 (47.54 %) HPUX 13 24 (19.67 %) Finance 14 20 (16.39 %) Linux

15 17 (13.93 %) Shell Script 16 15 (12.30 %) Java 17 12 (9.836 %) C 17 12 (9.836 %) Oracle 17 12 (9.836 %) Tivoli Monitoring 18 11 (9.016 %) IBM 19 10 (8.197 %) Apache 20 8 (6.557 %) Tomcat 20 8 (6.557 %) C++ 20 8 (6.557 %) OO 20 8 (6.557 %) Pharmaceutical 20 8 (6.557 %) Migration 20 8 (6.557 %) Ruby 20 8 (6.557 %) Degree 20 8 (6.557 %) Computer Science

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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.

Application Development 1 70 (57.38 %) Middleware 2 7 (5.738 %) .NET 3 5 (4.098 %) HTML 3 5 (4.098 %) XML 4 4 (3.279 %) ASP 4 4 (3.279 %) CSS 5 3 (2.459 %) WebServices 5 3 (2.459 %) J2EE 5 3 (2.459 %) XSLT 6 1 (0.820 %) Hibernate 6 1 (0.820 %) Spring 6 1 (0.820 %) AJAX 6 1 (0.820 %) WebSphere 6 1 (0.820 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (0.820 %) JSP 6 1 (0.820 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 10 (8.197 %) Apache 2 8 (6.557 %) Tomcat 3 3 (2.459 %) WebLogic 4 1 (0.820 %) IIS 4 1 (0.820 %) JBoss 4 1 (0.820 %) SAS
Communications & Networking 1 74 (60.66 %) TCP/IP 2 67 (54.92 %) SNA 3 7 (5.738 %) Firewall 4 6 (4.918 %) SAN 4 6 (4.918 %) LDAP 5 5 (4.098 %) Kerberos 5 5 (4.098 %) SSH 6 4 (3.279 %) FTP 7 1 (0.820 %) HTTP 7 1 (0.820 %) SMS 7 1 (0.820 %) SMTP 7 1 (0.820 %) DNS 7 1 (0.820 %) SSL 7 1 (0.820 %) IMAP 7 1 (0.820 %) SNMP 7 1 (0.820 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (4.918 %) Oracle 10g 2 5 (4.098 %) MySQL 3 4 (3.279 %) SQL Server 4 1 (0.820 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 3 (2.459 %) yacc 2 1 (0.820 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.820 %) Eclipse 2 1 (0.820 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 24 (19.67 %) Finance 2 8 (6.557 %) Pharmaceutical 3 5 (4.098 %) Banking 4 4 (3.279 %) Retail 5 3 (2.459 %) Telecoms 6 2 (1.639 %) Government 6 2 (1.639 %) Retail Banking 7 1 (0.820 %) Marketing 7 1 (0.820 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 47 (38.52 %) Administrator 2 35 (28.69 %) AIX Administrator 3 27 (22.13 %) Systems Administrator 4 16 (13.11 %) Technical Specialist 5 12 (9.836 %) UNIX Specialist 6 11 (9.016 %) Developer 7 8 (6.557 %) UNIX Administrator 8 6 (4.918 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 9 5 (4.098 %) UNIX Technical Specialist 10 4 (3.279 %) Java Developer 10 4 (3.279 %) Consultant 11 3 (2.459 %) Analyst 11 3 (2.459 %) Analyst Programmer 11 3 (2.459 %) Programmer 12 2 (1.639 %) Solaris Administrator 12 2 (1.639 %) MySQL Developer 13 1 (0.820 %) UNIX Consultant 13 1 (0.820 %) Senior Programmer 13 1 (0.820 %) UNIX Systems Engineer 13 1 (0.820 %) Tivoli Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 74 (60.66 %) HACMP 2 8 (6.557 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 106 (86.89 %) UNIX 2 84 (68.85 %) AIX 3 65 (53.28 %) Solaris 4 58 (47.54 %) HPUX 5 20 (16.39 %) Linux 6 6 (4.918 %) Windows 7 2 (1.639 %) Debian 8 1 (0.820 %) Fedora 8 1 (0.820 %) CentOS 8 1 (0.820 %) Red Hat Linux 8 1 (0.820 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (6.557 %) OO 1 8 (6.557 %) Migration 2 3 (2.459 %) Change Management 2 3 (2.459 %) Configuration Management 2 3 (2.459 %) Bioinformatics 2 3 (2.459 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (1.639 %) ITIL 3 2 (1.639 %) Performance Testing 3 2 (1.639 %) RAD 3 2 (1.639 %) Disaster Recovery 3 2 (1.639 %) Validation 4 1 (0.820 %) Extreme Programming 4 1 (0.820 %) Information Management 4 1 (0.820 %) Service Management 4 1 (0.820 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 63 (51.64 %) Korn 2 17 (13.93 %) Shell Script 3 15 (12.30 %) Java 4 12 (9.836 %) C 5 8 (6.557 %) Ruby 5 8 (6.557 %) C++ 6 7 (5.738 %) SQL 7 6 (4.918 %) C# 7 6 (4.918 %) JavaScript 8 3 (2.459 %) VB.NET 9 1 (0.820 %) Python 9 1 (0.820 %) PHP 9 1 (0.820 %) PL/SQL 9 1 (0.820 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 8 (6.557 %) Degree 2 2 (1.639 %) ISEB 2 2 (1.639 %) ISEB Practitioner
System Software 1 69 (56.56 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler	Systems Management 1 83 (68.03 %) Tivoli 2 75 (61.48 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 12 (9.836 %) Tivoli Monitoring 4 5 (4.098 %) OpenView 5 2 (1.639 %) Nagios
Vendors 1 59 (48.36 %) VERITAS 2 12 (9.836 %) Oracle 3 11 (9.016 %) IBM 4 4 (3.279 %) HP 5 3 (2.459 %) Sun 6 2 (1.639 %) FileNet 6 2 (1.639 %) Dell 6 2 (1.639 %) Sybase 7 1 (0.820 %) Microsoft 7 1 (0.820 %) NetApp 7 1 (0.820 %) Red Hat 7 1 (0.820 %) Google 7 1 (0.820 %) Spotfire 7 1 (0.820 %) IronPort