Perl Contracts in Scotland

Perl
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Perl skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Perl over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 86 147
Rank change year-on-year +15 +61 -24
Contract jobs citing Perl 58 85 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.65% 3.03% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.87% 8.71% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 50 13
10th Percentile £401 £453 £403
25th Percentile £508 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £704 £575 £515
90th Percentile £780 £638 £525
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% -25.50%
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £57.50 £49.54
% change year-on-year +10.43% +16.07% +8.28%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

Perl is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 654 976 963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 29.89% 34.75% 27.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 710 660
10th Percentile £363 £407 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +4.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £576 £562 £550
90th Percentile £650 £673 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.43 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £51.25 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +25.60% +8.05%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.75 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.28 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.20% +20.55% +14.94%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in Scotland

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Perl in Scotland

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in Scotland over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in Scotland

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in Scotland

Perl
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +4 51 £575 -
Edinburgh +18 5 £463 -10.63% 2
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.62%) SAS
2 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.97%) AWS
2 9 (15.52%) Azure
3 8 (13.79%) OpenShift
4 7 (12.07%) IaaS
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.24%) TCP/IP
2 9 (15.52%) HTTP
2 9 (15.52%) SSL
3 8 (13.79%) SAN
4 7 (12.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 7 (12.07%) NetScaler
5 6 (10.34%) DHCP
5 6 (10.34%) DNS
6 5 (8.62%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (8.62%) iSCSI
7 4 (6.90%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) DB2
2 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (31.03%) Git
2 15 (25.86%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.62%) JIRA
General
1 24 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 21 (36.21%) Finance
3 17 (29.31%) Banking
4 9 (15.52%) Investment Banking
5 8 (13.79%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 22 (37.93%) Python Engineer
2 20 (34.48%) Linux Engineer
3 15 (25.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (22.41%) Developer
5 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (13.79%) Unix Engineer
7 8 (13.79%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 7 (12.07%) Hardware Engineer
8 7 (12.07%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 7 (12.07%) Linux Scripter
8 7 (12.07%) Linux/Unix DevOps
9 6 (10.34%) Java Developer
9 6 (10.34%) Network Engineer
9 6 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (10.34%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 6 (10.34%) VMware Engineer
10 5 (8.62%) Python Developer
11 4 (6.90%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.41%) REST
2 7 (12.07%) Middleware
3 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.62%) Flash
3 5 (8.62%) POSIX
3 5 (8.62%) Twisted
4 3 (5.17%) Spring
5 2 (3.45%) Redfish
6 1 (1.72%) .NET
6 1 (1.72%) CSS
6 1 (1.72%) Guice
6 1 (1.72%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.62%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (8.62%) NVMe
4 4 (6.90%) Client/Server
5 3 (5.17%) Mainframe
5 3 (5.17%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.45%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.72%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (74.14%) Linux
2 28 (48.28%) Unix
3 10 (17.24%) Windows
4 8 (13.79%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.90%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) Agile
2 18 (31.03%) DevOps
2 18 (31.03%) OO
3 15 (25.86%) CI/CD
4 14 (24.14%) Data Protection
4 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure Automation
5 13 (22.41%) Computer Science
6 10 (17.24%) High Availability
7 9 (15.52%) Observability
8 7 (12.07%) Containerisation
8 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (12.07%) Investment Management
8 7 (12.07%) Task Automation
8 7 (12.07%) Wealth Management
9 6 (10.34%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (10.34%) Low Latency
9 6 (10.34%) Migration
9 6 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (10.34%) SDLC
9 6 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (91.38%) Python
2 17 (29.31%) Java
3 9 (15.52%) Bash
4 6 (10.34%) SQL
5 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.17%) C
7 2 (3.45%) Rust
8 1 (1.72%) PHP
8 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (10.34%) Degree
2 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (8.62%) NFS
3 4 (6.90%) Docker
3 4 (6.90%) GPFS
4 3 (5.17%) Firmware
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.62%) Ansible
2 5 (8.62%) NetBackup
2 5 (8.62%) Terraform
3 4 (6.90%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 3 (5.17%) Grafana
4 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.45%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) Veritas
2 7 (12.07%) F5
2 7 (12.07%) VMware
3 4 (6.90%) Brocade
3 4 (6.90%) EMC
3 4 (6.90%) Google
3 4 (6.90%) IBM
3 4 (6.90%) NetApp
3 4 (6.90%) Sybase
4 2 (3.45%) BMC
4 2 (3.45%) HP
5 1 (1.72%) Dell