The first 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 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 North West 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 97 91 95
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +4
Contract jobs citing Perl 21 41 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.901% 1.318% 1.016%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.752% 3.958% 3.452%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 22
Average daily rate £226 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.66% -11.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £198 £120 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £372 £440
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
763 1036 898
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 32.73% 33.30% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 568 497
Average daily rate £315 £315 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £238 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 54 44
Average hourly rate £34.50 £21.86 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.82% -20.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.90 £15.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £37.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Perl
England

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 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 North West region.

North West Perl Daily Rate Trend

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Perl across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West Perl Daily Rate Histogram

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend

This 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 24 May 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
Manchester +5 7 - -
Cheshire -7 5 £180 +50.00%
Merseyside +6 4 £325 +4.00%
Lancashire -5 3 - -
Perl
England

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 37 (77.08%) UNIX
2 28 (58.33%) IBM
3 26 (54.17%) Linux
4 22 (45.83%) Java
4 22 (45.83%) JavaScript
5 20 (41.67%) Solaris
6 17 (35.42%) HPUX
7 14 (29.17%) Retail
8 12 (25.00%) WebSphere
8 12 (25.00%) HTML
8 12 (25.00%) DB2
8 12 (25.00%) LDAP
9 11 (22.92%) Ant
9 11 (22.92%) C
9 11 (22.92%) SQL
9 11 (22.92%) Windows
9 11 (22.92%) AIX
9 11 (22.92%) Subversion
10 10 (20.83%) Bash shell
10 10 (20.83%) XML
10 10 (20.83%) WebSphere Application Server
10 10 (20.83%) JDBC
10 10 (20.83%) J2EE
10 10 (20.83%) E-Commerce
10 10 (20.83%) XHTML
10 10 (20.83%) OO
10 10 (20.83%) RDBMS
10 10 (20.83%) Tivoli
10 10 (20.83%) Finance
11 9 (18.75%) ATG

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 12 (25.00%) WebSphere
1 12 (25.00%) HTML
2 10 (20.83%) XML
2 10 (20.83%) JDBC
2 10 (20.83%) J2EE
2 10 (20.83%) XHTML
3 9 (18.75%) Middleware
3 9 (18.75%) JSP
3 9 (18.75%) Servlets
3 9 (18.75%) EJB
3 9 (18.75%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
3 9 (18.75%) Ajax
4 8 (16.67%) JSTL
4 8 (16.67%) XMLBeans
4 8 (16.67%) XSLT
4 8 (16.67%) Struts
4 8 (16.67%) JMS
5 6 (12.50%) SPNEGO
6 3 (6.250%) CSS
6 3 (6.250%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 10 (20.83%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (16.67%) MQSeries
2 8 (16.67%) Apache
3 4 (8.333%) IIS
4 3 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (6.250%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 3 (6.250%) MS Exchange
5 1 (2.083%) Apache Solr
5 1 (2.083%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (16.67%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.00%) LDAP
2 9 (18.75%) Internet
3 6 (12.50%) X.509
3 6 (12.50%) DNS
3 6 (12.50%) SMS
3 6 (12.50%) Kerberos
3 6 (12.50%) Network Security
4 4 (8.333%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.333%) Firewall
4 4 (8.333%) SAN
5 3 (6.250%) NAS
5 3 (6.250%) SMTP
5 3 (6.250%) SSL
6 1 (2.083%) LTE
6 1 (2.083%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (2.083%) RNC
6 1 (2.083%) RANAP
6 1 (2.083%) NBAP
6 1 (2.083%) SS7
6 1 (2.083%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.00%) DB2
2 10 (20.83%) RDBMS
3 5 (10.42%) Informix
4 2 (4.167%) MySQL
5 1 (2.083%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.083%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.083%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Ant
1 11 (22.92%) Subversion
2 9 (18.75%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 9 (18.75%) Eclipse
2 9 (18.75%) JUnit
3 8 (16.67%) Log4j
4 2 (4.167%) PVCS
4 2 (4.167%) TestDirector
General
1 14 (29.17%) Retail
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
3 8 (16.67%) Banking
4 7 (14.58%) Games
4 7 (14.58%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.083%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Developer
2 9 (18.75%) Support Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Java Developer
3 8 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 8 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Systems Support
3 8 (16.67%) J2EE Developer
3 8 (16.67%) Systems Support Engineer
4 4 (8.333%) C Developer
5 3 (6.250%) Identity Management Specialist
5 3 (6.250%) Uniface Developer
5 3 (6.250%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (4.167%) UNIX Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.167%) UNIX Engineer
6 2 (4.167%) UNIX Support Engineer
6 2 (4.167%) Change Manager
6 2 (4.167%) Configuration Manager
6 2 (4.167%) Consultant
6 2 (4.167%) Support Technician
6 2 (4.167%) UNIX Support
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Web 2.0
2 6 (12.50%) Wiki
3 3 (6.250%) Blackberry
3 3 (6.250%) Clustering
4 1 (2.083%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 37 (77.08%) UNIX
2 26 (54.17%) Linux
3 20 (41.67%) Solaris
4 17 (35.42%) HPUX
5 11 (22.92%) Windows
5 11 (22.92%) AIX
6 4 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.83%) E-Commerce
1 10 (20.83%) OO
2 9 (18.75%) Identity Management
2 9 (18.75%) RAD
2 9 (18.75%) UML
2 9 (18.75%) Content Management
3 7 (14.58%) Migration
4 6 (12.50%) Change Management
5 4 (8.333%) ITIL
5 4 (8.333%) Configuration Management
6 3 (6.250%) Unit Testing
6 3 (6.250%) Load Balancing
7 2 (4.167%) Service Management
8 1 (2.083%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (2.083%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (2.083%) Capacity Management
8 1 (2.083%) Incident Management
8 1 (2.083%) BPR
8 1 (2.083%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 22 (45.83%) Java
1 22 (45.83%) JavaScript
2 11 (22.92%) C
2 11 (22.92%) SQL
3 10 (20.83%) Bash shell
4 9 (18.75%) Shell Script
5 8 (16.67%) XPath
6 6 (12.50%) Ruby
7 5 (10.42%) PHP
8 4 (8.333%) Uniface
9 3 (6.250%) PowerShell
9 3 (6.250%) VB.NET
10 2 (4.167%) VB
10 2 (4.167%) Python
11 1 (2.083%) Jython
11 1 (2.083%) ActionScript
11 1 (2.083%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (6.250%) MCTS
1 3 (6.250%) MCITP
1 3 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (6.250%) MCSE
1 3 (6.250%) MCSA
2 1 (2.083%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.250%) QA
2 1 (2.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.083%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.250%) Postfix
2 3 (6.250%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 1 (2.083%) XenApp
3 1 (2.083%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Tivoli
2 9 (18.75%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 8 (16.67%) Puppet
3 8 (16.67%) Nagios
3 8 (16.67%) Netcool
4 3 (6.250%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 3 (6.250%) BladeLogic
4 3 (6.250%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (2.083%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 28 (58.33%) IBM
2 9 (18.75%) ATG
2 9 (18.75%) Blue Martini
3 8 (16.67%) Elastic Path
3 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (16.67%) Interwoven
4 7 (14.58%) Red Hat
5 4 (8.333%) Oracle
6 3 (6.250%) IronPort
6 3 (6.250%) Symantec
7 2 (4.167%) Sun
8 1 (2.083%) Brocade
8 1 (2.083%) CA
8 1 (2.083%) Ericsson
8 1 (2.083%) Hitachi
8 1 (2.083%) AppSense
8 1 (2.083%) Adobe
8 1 (2.083%) HP
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