The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 21 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 Scotland 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 36 75 73
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -2
Contract jobs citing Perl 107 34 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 4.328% 1.286% 1.571%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.09% 5.247% 5.322%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 8 16
Average daily rate £376 £390 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.52% +6.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £313 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £310
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £35.50 £33.75
% change year-on-year
-36.61% +5.18%
All Programming Languages
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1060 648 808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 42.88% 24.52% 29.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 299 407
Average daily rate £356 £313 £344
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.00% -9.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 28 20
Average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £31.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -12.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £16.00 £14.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £32.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Perl
UK

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Glasgow +37 85 £400 -
Edinburgh -15 6 - -
Renfrewshire - 2 £513 -
Inverclyde - 1 £378 -
Stirling - 1 - -
Perl
UK

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 100 (67.11%) Java
2 86 (57.72%) C#
3 74 (49.66%) UNIX
4 70 (46.98%) SQL
5 61 (40.94%) Finance
6 52 (34.90%) XML
7 50 (33.56%) C++
8 45 (30.20%) Banking
9 44 (29.53%) Multithreading
10 41 (27.52%) Linux
11 37 (24.83%) Oracle
12 36 (24.16%) OO
13 35 (23.49%) Fixed Income
14 34 (22.82%) Sybase
15 30 (20.13%) WPF
16 29 (19.46%) Shell Script
17 24 (16.11%) Spring
17 24 (16.11%) Windows
18 22 (14.77%) Python
19 20 (13.42%) Agile Software Development
20 17 (11.41%) OOP
20 17 (11.41%) Solaris
20 17 (11.41%) JMS
20 17 (11.41%) .NET
20 17 (11.41%) JavaScript
21 16 (10.74%) CSS
21 16 (10.74%) WebSphere
22 15 (10.07%) JSP
22 15 (10.07%) J2EE
23 14 (9.396%) JDBC

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 52 (34.90%) XML
2 30 (20.13%) WPF
3 24 (16.11%) Spring
4 17 (11.41%) JMS
4 17 (11.41%) .NET
5 16 (10.74%) CSS
5 16 (10.74%) WebSphere
6 15 (10.07%) JSP
6 15 (10.07%) J2EE
7 14 (9.396%) JDBC
7 14 (9.396%) Ajax
7 14 (9.396%) Spring MVC
8 11 (7.383%) Spring Web Flow
8 11 (7.383%) GWT
8 11 (7.383%) iBATIS
8 11 (7.383%) SOAP
8 11 (7.383%) Struts
8 11 (7.383%) XSLT
9 10 (6.711%) HTML
10 8 (5.369%) XML Messaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (4.027%) Tomcat
2 3 (2.013%) IIS
3 2 (1.342%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.671%) CMS
4 1 (0.671%) Apache
4 1 (0.671%) Mule
Applications
1 5 (3.356%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.013%) Fireworks
2 3 (2.013%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.671%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.671%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.685%) SAN
2 2 (1.342%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.342%) DNS
3 1 (0.671%) Firewall
3 1 (0.671%) LAN
3 1 (0.671%) WAN
3 1 (0.671%) DHCP
3 1 (0.671%) HTTP
3 1 (0.671%) NAS
3 1 (0.671%) Network Security
3 1 (0.671%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.356%) RDBMS
1 5 (3.356%) DB2
2 4 (2.685%) KDB
3 3 (2.013%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.013%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.013%) MySQL
4 2 (1.342%) Sybase ASE
4 2 (1.342%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.342%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.342%) MS Access
4 2 (1.342%) DataStage
5 1 (0.671%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.671%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.671%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.054%) Selenium
1 12 (8.054%) CruiseControl
2 5 (3.356%) JUnit
3 3 (2.013%) MSBuild
3 3 (2.013%) Eclipse
3 3 (2.013%) Firebug
3 3 (2.013%) Subversion
4 2 (1.342%) Bugzilla
4 2 (1.342%) JBehave
5 1 (0.671%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (0.671%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.671%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.671%) Ant
5 1 (0.671%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.671%) Cucumber
General
1 61 (40.94%) Finance
2 45 (30.20%) Banking
3 11 (7.383%) Investment Banking
4 8 (5.369%) Front Office
5 3 (2.013%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.013%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.671%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 100 (67.11%) Developer
2 52 (34.90%) Java Developer
3 27 (18.12%) C++ Developer
4 20 (13.42%) C# Developer
5 12 (8.054%) C++/Java Developer
5 12 (8.054%) WPF Developer
6 11 (7.383%) Analyst
7 7 (4.698%) Systems Engineer
7 7 (4.698%) .NET Developer
8 5 (3.356%) Administrator
9 4 (2.685%) Junior Developer
9 4 (2.685%) UNIX Administrator
9 4 (2.685%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (2.685%) Systems Integration Engineer
9 4 (2.685%) UNIX Systems Administrator
9 4 (2.685%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (2.685%) Senior Developer
9 4 (2.685%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (2.685%) Test Analyst
9 4 (2.685%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 35 (23.49%) Fixed Income
2 7 (4.698%) Derivative
2 7 (4.698%) Equity Derivative
3 3 (2.013%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.013%) SaaS
3 3 (2.013%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.342%) Equities
4 2 (1.342%) Mathematics
5 1 (0.671%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.671%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (0.671%) SWIFT
5 1 (0.671%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.671%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 74 (49.66%) UNIX
2 41 (27.52%) Linux
3 24 (16.11%) Windows
4 17 (11.41%) Solaris
5 7 (4.698%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (4.698%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (4.027%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (3.356%) AIX
8 4 (2.685%) Windows XP
9 3 (2.013%) HPUX
10 2 (1.342%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.342%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (29.53%) Multithreading
2 36 (24.16%) OO
3 20 (13.42%) Agile Software Development
4 17 (11.41%) OOP
5 14 (9.396%) MVC
6 11 (7.383%) Web Application Development
6 11 (7.383%) Analytics
6 11 (7.383%) Unit Testing
7 6 (4.027%) Risk Management
8 5 (3.356%) SOA
8 5 (3.356%) ETL
8 5 (3.356%) Test Automation
8 5 (3.356%) Release Management
9 4 (2.685%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (2.685%) Software Testing
9 4 (2.685%) Business Analysis
9 4 (2.685%) Manual Testing
9 4 (2.685%) Security Architecture
9 4 (2.685%) Regression Testing
10 3 (2.013%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (67.11%) Java
2 86 (57.72%) C#
3 70 (46.98%) SQL
4 50 (33.56%) C++
5 29 (19.46%) Shell Script
6 22 (14.77%) Python
7 17 (11.41%) JavaScript
8 11 (7.383%) C++/CLI
8 11 (7.383%) PL/SQL
9 10 (6.711%) Scala
10 8 (5.369%) Korn
10 8 (5.369%) VB
11 7 (4.698%) VBScript
12 6 (4.027%) VBA
13 5 (3.356%) Bourne shell
14 3 (2.013%) Bash shell
14 3 (2.013%) Ruby
15 2 (1.342%) Groovy
16 1 (0.671%) Smalltalk
16 1 (0.671%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (3.356%) Security Cleared
1 5 (3.356%) Degree
2 4 (2.685%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.671%) CISSP
3 1 (0.671%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.671%) CCNP
3 1 (0.671%) CCNA
3 1 (0.671%) CISA
3 1 (0.671%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.698%) QA
2 1 (0.671%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.671%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 3 (2.013%) MetaFrame
2 2 (1.342%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (1.342%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.671%) NFS
3 1 (0.671%) XenApp
3 1 (0.671%) XenServer
3 1 (0.671%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.671%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 5 (3.356%) Tivoli
2 4 (2.685%) Control-M
3 2 (1.342%) NetBackup
3 2 (1.342%) ServiceCenter
3 2 (1.342%) SCCM
3 2 (1.342%) SCOM
3 2 (1.342%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 2 (1.342%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (1.342%) Netcool
3 2 (1.342%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.671%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.671%) HP Operations Orchestration
4 1 (0.671%) HP SiteScope
4 1 (0.671%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 37 (24.83%) Oracle
2 34 (22.82%) Sybase
3 14 (9.396%) ION Trading
4 8 (5.369%) TIBCO
4 8 (5.369%) Sun
5 7 (4.698%) IBM
5 7 (4.698%) HP
6 6 (4.027%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.685%) Citrix
7 4 (2.685%) Lumension
8 2 (1.342%) McAfee
8 2 (1.342%) Intel
9 1 (0.671%) SmartStream
9 1 (0.671%) Informatica
9 1 (0.671%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.671%) JBoss
9 1 (0.671%) Sencha
9 1 (0.671%) Advent
9 1 (0.671%) Alterian
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