The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 17 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 Somerset 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 29 - 30
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Perl 3 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 1.639% - 1.899%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.348% - 4.412%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £283
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £408 £308
% change year-on-year
-14.11% +32.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £37.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-39.18% +8.82%
All Programming Languages
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
69 88 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 37.70% 51.46% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 53 36
Average daily rate £310 £333 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.76% +14.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £248 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £450 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £32.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.05 - £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Perl
South West

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bath - 2 - -
Weston-super-Mare - 1 - -
Perl
South West

Perl
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) FreeBSD
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X Server
1 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
1 2 (66.67%) nginx
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Support
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) FreeBSD
1 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft