The first table below looks at the demand for the Perl Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl Developer
Rank 209 239 236
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Perl Developer 20 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.252% 0.068% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.272% 0.073% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 5
Average daily rate £325 £340 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.41% +36.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £328 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £348 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £345 £250
% change year-on-year
-5.79% +38.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7340 9547 9507
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.65% 92.30% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3646 4278 4096
Average daily rate £350 £350 £357
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 732 811
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Perl Developer
England

Perl Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Perl Developer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Perl Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Perl Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Perl Developer across the South East region.

South East Perl Developer Daily Rate Trend

Perl Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Perl Developer across the South East region.

South East Perl Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Perl Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl Developer within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Hampshire +8 10 £335 -4.28%
Berkshire +17 5 £325 -
Kent - 5 £325 -
Perl Developer
England

Perl Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Perl Developer in their job title 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 with Perl Developer in their job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Perl
2 14 (56.00%) Oracle
2 14 (56.00%) Linux
3 12 (48.00%) OO
4 11 (44.00%) XML
4 11 (44.00%) SQL
4 11 (44.00%) JavaScript
5 9 (36.00%) HTML
5 9 (36.00%) Java
5 9 (36.00%) CSS
5 9 (36.00%) UNIX
5 9 (36.00%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (24.00%) Greenplum
6 6 (24.00%) OOP
6 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (24.00%) C#
6 6 (24.00%) C++
7 5 (20.00%) PHP
7 5 (20.00%) Windows
7 5 (20.00%) Subversion
7 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
8 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (16.00%) C
8 4 (16.00%) MySQL
9 3 (12.00%) T-SQL
9 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
9 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
9 3 (12.00%) Web Development
9 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
10 2 (8.000%) Huawei

Perl Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Perl Developer in their job title 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 with Perl Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (44.00%) XML
2 9 (36.00%) HTML
2 9 (36.00%) CSS
3 2 (8.000%) XSLT
3 2 (8.000%) Mason
4 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.000%) .NET
4 1 (4.000%) XML Messaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (4.000%) LTE
1 1 (4.000%) IPv4
1 1 (4.000%) ATM
1 1 (4.000%) HTTP
1 1 (4.000%) 2G
1 1 (4.000%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.00%) MySQL
4 2 (8.000%) SQLite
5 1 (4.000%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.000%) Big Data
5 1 (4.000%) Ingres
5 1 (4.000%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.000%) Finance
3 1 (4.000%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.000%) Open Source
1 1 (4.000%) Computer Science
1 1 (4.000%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Linux
2 9 (36.00%) UNIX
3 5 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) OO
2 6 (24.00%) OOP
3 3 (12.00%) Web Development
3 3 (12.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (4.000%) Network Management
4 1 (4.000%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (4.000%) ITIL
4 1 (4.000%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.000%) ETL
4 1 (4.000%) Migration
4 1 (4.000%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.000%) Use Case
4 1 (4.000%) Content Management
4 1 (4.000%) eTOM
4 1 (4.000%) Fault Management
4 1 (4.000%) Performance Management
4 1 (4.000%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Perl
2 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 11 (44.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (36.00%) Java
4 6 (24.00%) C#
4 6 (24.00%) C++
5 5 (20.00%) PHP
6 4 (16.00%) C
7 3 (12.00%) T-SQL
7 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
8 2 (8.000%) XPath
8 2 (8.000%) XQuery
9 1 (4.000%) Bash shell
9 1 (4.000%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) SLA
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Oracle
2 6 (24.00%) Greenplum
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.000%) Huawei
4 2 (8.000%) Ericsson
4 2 (8.000%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.000%) Business Objects
4 2 (8.000%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 1 (4.000%) Citrix
5 1 (4.000%) NEC