The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 23 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 Oxfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank - 42 37
Contract jobs citing Perl 0 15 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - 2.412% 2.371%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 6.048% 5.473%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 2
Average daily rate - £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £323
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +24.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-36.61% +1.42%
All Programming Languages
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
143 248 201
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 31.71% 39.87% 43.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 127 105
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -0.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £469 £391
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 20 7
Average hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% -25.00%
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 Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Bash shell
3 6 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (60.00%) Migration
4 5 (50.00%) Degree
4 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
5 4 (40.00%) MarkLogic
5 4 (40.00%) Debian
5 4 (40.00%) Veritas
5 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (40.00%) Solaris
5 4 (40.00%) UNIX
6 3 (30.00%) SQL
6 3 (30.00%) Oracle
6 3 (30.00%) ITIL
6 3 (30.00%) NFS
6 3 (30.00%) Ingres
6 3 (30.00%) Six Sigma
6 3 (30.00%) CGI
6 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (30.00%) VMware
6 3 (30.00%) Clustering
6 3 (30.00%) Web Development
6 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (30.00%) Oracle 11g
7 2 (20.00%) C-shell
7 2 (20.00%) Korn
7 2 (20.00%) Subversion
7 2 (20.00%) Lean Six Sigma

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 3 (30.00%) CGI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (20.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MarkLogic
2 3 (30.00%) Ingres
2 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) UNIX Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Database Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Perl Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Clustering
2 2 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Debian
2 4 (40.00%) Solaris
2 4 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (20.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Unit Testing
1 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Six Sigma
3 3 (30.00%) Web Development
4 2 (20.00%) Lean Six Sigma
4 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Security
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C-shell
3 2 (20.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) NFS
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Veritas
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) HP
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