Perl Contracts in the UK excluding London

Perl
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 276 360
Rank change year-on-year -8 +84 -90
Contract jobs citing Perl 112 177 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.75% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.34% 2.60% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 109 89
10th Percentile £358 £413 £350
25th Percentile £425 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £545 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +10.00% +19.28%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £540
90th Percentile £673 £694 £615
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 3
10th Percentile £48.25 £40.49 £42.79
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.25 £45.10
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.50 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year - +14.54% +9.73%
75th Percentile £63.75 £74.50 £53.23
90th Percentile £66.75 - £54.29
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £57.50 £48.10
% change year-on-year +10.43% +19.54% +5.14%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,787 6,816 8,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.37% 29.05% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 4,837 6,106
10th Percentile £316 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 340 327
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.92 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Scotland +10 52 £550 +4.76% 3
North of England +23 23 £514 -18.93% 8
South East +20 23 £525 -4.55% 12
North West +13 17 £515 -20.31% 6
Midlands +36 9 £359 -4.20% 2
East Midlands +29 6 £356 -25.83% 1
Yorkshire +18 6 £445 -31.54% 2
South West +17 5 £463 -35.09% 23
West Midlands +18 3 £494 +31.67% 1
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.46%) JBoss
1 5 (4.46%) SAS
2 3 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.89%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.54%) AWS
2 16 (14.29%) Azure
3 13 (11.61%) OpenShift
4 9 (8.04%) IaaS
5 4 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.68%) Datadog
6 3 (2.68%) GCP
6 3 (2.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (13.39%) NetScaler
3 13 (11.61%) Firewall
4 12 (10.71%) BGP
4 12 (10.71%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (10.71%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (10.71%) Cisco ISE
4 12 (10.71%) EIGRP
4 12 (10.71%) HSRP
4 12 (10.71%) IPsec
4 12 (10.71%) OSPF
4 12 (10.71%) SNMP
4 12 (10.71%) Spanning Tree
5 10 (8.93%) SAN
6 9 (8.04%) 802.11
7 8 (7.14%) DHCP
7 8 (7.14%) DNS
8 7 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (4.46%) iSCSI
10 4 (3.57%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.04%) Relational Database
2 5 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.46%) RDBMS
3 4 (3.57%) DB2
4 3 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.68%) MySQL
5 2 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.79%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.79%) HBase
6 1 (0.89%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.89%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (24.11%) Git
2 23 (20.54%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.82%) JIRA
4 6 (5.36%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (4.46%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (4.46%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.46%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (4.46%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.79%) Subversion
General
1 36 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.54%) Finance
3 19 (16.96%) Banking
4 9 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.04%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.46%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.89%) Aviation
7 1 (0.89%) Legal
7 1 (0.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (20.54%) Linux Engineer
2 21 (18.75%) Python Engineer
3 18 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (16.07%) Network Engineer
3 18 (16.07%) Senior
3 18 (16.07%) Software Engineer
4 13 (11.61%) Developer
5 11 (9.82%) C++ Software Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Unix Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Hardware Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Java Developer
8 7 (6.25%) Linux Scripter
9 6 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.61%) REST
2 12 (10.71%) Jinja
3 9 (8.04%) 802.1X
4 8 (7.14%) Middleware
5 5 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.46%) Flash
5 5 (4.46%) POSIX
5 5 (4.46%) Spring
5 5 (4.46%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.68%) .NET
6 3 (2.68%) CSS
6 3 (2.68%) HTML
7 2 (1.79%) Guice
7 2 (1.79%) Kafka
7 2 (1.79%) Redfish
8 1 (0.89%) Ajax
8 1 (0.89%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.89%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.04%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.36%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (4.46%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.46%) NVMe
5 4 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.57%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.57%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.68%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.68%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.68%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.68%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.68%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.79%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.89%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 53 (47.32%) Linux
2 32 (28.57%) Unix
3 19 (16.96%) Windows
4 11 (9.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (7.14%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.57%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (3.57%) Solaris
7 3 (2.68%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.18%) DevOps
2 27 (24.11%) Agile
3 25 (22.32%) CI/CD
4 24 (21.43%) OO
5 21 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 19 (16.96%) ITIL
7 18 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (16.07%) Software Engineering
8 15 (13.39%) Data Protection
9 14 (12.50%) Change Management
10 12 (10.71%) High Availability
10 12 (10.71%) ITSM
10 12 (10.71%) Network Management
11 11 (9.82%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (9.82%) Scrum
12 10 (8.93%) Build Automation
12 10 (8.93%) Migration
13 9 (8.04%) Containerisation
13 9 (8.04%) Observability
14 8 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (75.00%) Python
2 22 (19.64%) Java
3 21 (18.75%) Bash
3 21 (18.75%) Tcl
4 17 (15.18%) C
5 15 (13.39%) C++
6 13 (11.61%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.36%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.36%) SQL
8 4 (3.57%) C#
8 4 (3.57%) Ruby
9 3 (2.68%) Julia
9 3 (2.68%) PHP
9 3 (2.68%) Rust
10 2 (1.79%) AWK
10 2 (1.79%) Bourne shell
10 2 (1.79%) Korn
10 2 (1.79%) Scala
11 1 (0.89%) Go
11 1 (0.89%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (12.50%) Degree
1 14 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.61%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.82%) CCNA
3 11 (9.82%) CCNP
3 11 (9.82%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.68%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.79%) RHCE
6 2 (1.79%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.89%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.89%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.79%) GDPR
2 1 (0.89%) DO-178B
2 1 (0.89%) IEC 61508
2 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (13.39%) Firmware
2 13 (11.61%) Docker
3 8 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.36%) NFS
5 5 (4.46%) Active Directory
6 4 (3.57%) GPFS
7 2 (1.79%) vSphere
8 1 (0.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (26.79%) Ansible
2 19 (16.96%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.82%) Terraform
4 9 (8.04%) Progress Chef
5 7 (6.25%) NetBackup
6 5 (4.46%) Kibana
6 5 (4.46%) Puppet
7 4 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (3.57%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 3 (2.68%) Grafana
8 3 (2.68%) Nagios
8 3 (2.68%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.79%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.79%) Oracle ZFS
9 2 (1.79%) SELinux
9 2 (1.79%) yum
10 1 (0.89%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 14 (12.50%) SolarWinds
2 13 (11.61%) Veritas
3 12 (10.71%) Cisco
3 12 (10.71%) Citrix
3 12 (10.71%) Palo Alto
4 11 (9.82%) EMC
5 9 (8.04%) Red Hat
5 9 (8.04%) VMware
6 8 (7.14%) Splunk
7 5 (4.46%) AppDynamics
8 4 (3.57%) Brocade
8 4 (3.57%) Google
8 4 (3.57%) IBM
8 4 (3.57%) NetApp
8 4 (3.57%) Sybase
9 3 (2.68%) F5
9 3 (2.68%) New Relic
10 2 (1.79%) BMC
10 2 (1.79%) HP
10 2 (1.79%) Microsoft