Suffolk Perl Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl) skills within the Suffolk region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl)
Location Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Ipswich Kent Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Salford Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West Southend-on-Sea Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	6	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	21.43 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£300	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£360
% change on same period last year	-1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.14	£32.26
% change on same period last year	+15.12 %
Programming Languages Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	28	69
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.068 %
Daily rates quoted	6	10
Average minimum daily rate	£247	£309
Average daily rate	£255	£316
% change on same period last year	-19.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£263	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£41.25	£30.25
Average hourly rate	£41.88	£30.50
% change on same period last year	+37.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.50	£30.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.18	£32.81
% change on same period last year	+1.13 %
Perl East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Perl
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Perl across the Suffolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Perl
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Perl across the Suffolk region.

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Perl across the Suffolk region.

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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Ipswich	-	1	£300	-

Perl East of England

Perl
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 10 (90.91 %) SQL 1 10 (90.91 %) Solaris 1 10 (90.91 %) Linux 1 10 (90.91 %) TCP/IP 1 10 (90.91 %) SAN 1 10 (90.91 %) NetApp 1 10 (90.91 %) VMware 1 10 (90.91 %) iSCSI 1 10 (90.91 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 7 (63.64 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (63.64 %) Clustering 2 7 (63.64 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 7 (63.64 %) MCSE 2 7 (63.64 %) NFS 3 3 (27.27 %) MS Project

3 3 (27.27 %) MS Office 4 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 4 1 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (9.091 %) Telecoms 4 1 (9.091 %) SLA

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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.

Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Project 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 10 (90.91 %) TCP/IP 1 10 (90.91 %) SAN 1 10 (90.91 %) iSCSI
General 1 1 (9.091 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 10 (90.91 %) Storage Engineer 2 1 (9.091 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 7 (63.64 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 10 (90.91 %) Solaris 1 10 (90.91 %) Linux 2 1 (9.091 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 10 (90.91 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 7 (63.64 %) MCSE 1 7 (63.64 %) Microsoft Certification 1 7 (63.64 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (9.091 %) SLA
System Software 1 10 (90.91 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 7 (63.64 %) NFS	Vendors 1 10 (90.91 %) NetApp 1 10 (90.91 %) VMware