The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 24 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 Stirling 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 24 - 15
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Perl 1 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 0.893% - 7.229%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.667% - 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
Average daily rate - - £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £325
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-38.35% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
60 19 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 53.57% 48.72% 26.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 13
Average daily rate £401 £275 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.63% -38.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £194 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £438 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Perl
Scotland

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling Perl Daily Rate Trend

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) JAXB
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) MetaFrame
1 1 (100.00%) Fireworks
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Firebug

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) JAXB
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) Fireworks
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Firebug
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) MetaFrame
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix