Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

LinkPractical Extraction and Report Language (Perl)
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank8310072
Rank change year-on-year
Up+17Down-28
Matching contract IT job ads8417001646
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK1.921 %1.522 %2.011 %
As % of the Programming Languages category5.073 %4.885 %5.771 %
Daily rates quoted390288592
Average daily rate£425£400£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.250 %-11.11 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£258£261£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£305£325£350
% change year-on-year
-6.150 %-7.140 %
Hourly rates quoted292680
Average hourly rate£33.50£35.00£34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.280 %+2.940 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£19.54£21.82£15.10
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.95£47.00£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.25£37.75£35.00
% change year-on-year
-14.56 %+7.850 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
165781433028524
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK37.87 %31.16 %34.85 %
Daily rates quoted807247888851
Average daily rate£401£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.57 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£305£325
% change year-on-year
-1.630 %-6.150 %
Hourly rates quoted83212302017
Average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.690 %-1.510 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.88£16.00£19.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.50£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.00£32.50£33.50
% change year-on-year
-13.84 %-2.980 %

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.

Perl
Demand Trend

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

Perl Demand Trend

Perl
Daily Rate Trend

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

Perl Daily Rate Trend

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Perl within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

Perl Daily Rate Histogram

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Perl within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

Perl Hourly Rate Histogram

Perl
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+13804£425+6.25 %
LondonUp+3606£450+12.50 %
City of LondonDown-17187£491+15.41 %
South WestUp+3974£338+2.27 %
South EastUp+2371£325+10.63 %
BerkshireUp+2625£325+4.00 %
ScotlandDown-1524£310-6.06 %
East of EnglandUp+422£290+1.75 %
GloucestershireUp+3021£375-11.81 %
HampshireUp+1518£315-20.00 %
Docklands, LondonDown-1118£450+12.50 %
DevonUp+215£255-21.53 %
OxfordshireUp+1213--
BristolUp+213£263-20.45 %
WiltshireUp+2011£339-20.76 %
ReadingUp+1411£500+81.81 %
CambridgeUp+1311£280+1.81 %
CambridgeshireUp+1111£280+1.81 %
Canary WharfDown-2611£500+42.85 %
OxfordUp+1610--
West MidlandsUp+1410£210+16.80 %
CheltenhamUp+219£375-11.81 %
ExeterUp+28£255-27.14 %
North WestNo change08£220-53.68 %
SurreyDown-28£350-22.22 %
East MidlandsDown-88£175-36.36 %
South WalesUp+137£245-6.66 %
WalesUp+137£245-6.66 %
HertfordshireUp+67£315-25.88 %
SolihullNew entry-7£211-

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1953 (60.70 %)UNIX
2541 (34.46 %)SQL
3538 (34.27 %)Java
4505 (32.17 %)Linux
5457 (29.11 %)Banking
6439 (27.96 %)Oracle
7333 (21.21 %)C++
7333 (21.21 %)Finance
7333 (21.21 %)Investment Banking
8325 (20.70 %)Sybase
9288 (18.34 %)Windows
10274 (17.45 %)Shell Script
11271 (17.26 %)Solaris
12246 (15.67 %)Python
13229 (14.59 %)XML
14193 (12.29 %)SQL Server
15162 (10.32 %)HTML
16158 (10.06 %)MySQL
17152 (9.682 %).NET
18150 (9.554 %)OO
19148 (9.427 %)C
19148 (9.427 %)JavaScript
20147 (9.363 %)Apache
21143 (9.108 %)C#
22142 (9.045 %)Red Hat Linux
23140 (8.917 %)PHP
24136 (8.662 %)Derivative
25133 (8.471 %)J2EE
26130 (8.280 %)Front Office
27123 (7.834 %)Red Hat

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1229 (14.59 %)XML
2162 (10.32 %)HTML
3152 (9.682 %).NET
4133 (8.471 %)J2EE
5110 (7.006 %)CSS
681 (5.159 %)STL
774 (4.713 %)Web Services
868 (4.331 %)Spring
959 (3.758 %)AJAX
1053 (3.376 %)WebSphere
1151 (3.248 %)JSP
1249 (3.121 %)XSLT
1347 (2.994 %)ASP.NET
1442 (2.675 %)Middleware
1540 (2.548 %)LAMP
1540 (2.548 %)Hibernate
1638 (2.420 %)SOAP
1736 (2.293 %)Struts
1835 (2.229 %)Swing
1835 (2.229 %)Flash
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1147 (9.363 %)Apache
281 (5.159 %)Tomcat
346 (2.930 %)WebLogic
441 (2.611 %)IIS
536 (2.293 %)Rendezvous
627 (1.720 %)MQSeries
627 (1.720 %)WebSphere MQ
724 (1.529 %)CMS
811 (0.701 %)Tuxedo
910 (0.637 %)Drupal
910 (0.637 %)MS Exchange
109 (0.573 %)WordPress
118 (0.510 %)TIBCO EMS
127 (0.446 %)Lotus Notes
127 (0.446 %)Oracle Workflow
136 (0.382 %)WebLogic Portal
136 (0.382 %)WebSphere Application Server
145 (0.318 %)Lotus Domino
145 (0.318 %)iPlanet
145 (0.318 %)WebSphere Message Broker
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
137 (2.357 %)MS Excel
216 (1.019 %)MS Office
35 (0.318 %)MS Visio
35 (0.318 %)MATLAB
44 (0.255 %)MS Project
44 (0.255 %)Photoshop
52 (0.127 %)Spreadsheet
61 (0.064 %)Fireworks
61 (0.064 %)ImageReady
61 (0.064 %)CATIA
61 (0.064 %)Adobe Illustrator
61 (0.064 %)MS PowerPoint
61 (0.064 %)Doxygen
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
118 (1.146 %)Singl.eView
216 (1.019 %)RMDS
39 (0.573 %)Global One
48 (0.510 %)TIBCO iProcess
48 (0.510 %)BusinessWorks
56 (0.382 %)GL Clearvision
64 (0.255 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
73 (0.191 %)3000 Xtra
73 (0.191 %)Summit
82 (0.127 %)HiPortfolio
82 (0.127 %)Endur
91 (0.064 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
91 (0.064 %)KBM
91 (0.064 %)Oracle Applications
91 (0.064 %)Oracle General Ledger
91 (0.064 %)Oracle BRM
91 (0.064 %)Sophis VALUE
91 (0.064 %)ENOVIA
91 (0.064 %)Minerva
91 (0.064 %)Sophis RISQUE
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
187 (5.541 %)TCP/IP
274 (4.713 %)DNS
369 (4.395 %)Firewall
464 (4.076 %)SAN
551 (3.248 %)HTTP
649 (3.121 %)LDAP
740 (2.548 %)Internet
838 (2.420 %)SNMP
934 (2.166 %)DHCP
1033 (2.102 %)WAN
1130 (1.911 %)LAN
1225 (1.592 %)SMTP
1316 (1.019 %)SS7
1316 (1.019 %)Wireless
1414 (0.892 %)NAS
1513 (0.828 %)3GPP
1513 (0.828 %)SSL
1612 (0.764 %)SSH
1612 (0.764 %)Network Security
1711 (0.701 %)SMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1193 (12.29 %)SQL Server
2158 (10.06 %)MySQL
373 (4.650 %)RDBMS
468 (4.331 %)OLTP
561 (3.885 %)ETL
645 (2.866 %)Datawarehouse
738 (2.420 %)Oracle 10g
837 (2.357 %)SQL Server 2005
926 (1.656 %)BusinessObjects
926 (1.656 %)Oracle 8/8i
1025 (1.592 %)Sybase ASE
1120 (1.274 %)DB2
1216 (1.019 %)SQL Server 2008
1216 (1.019 %)SQL Server 2000
1315 (0.955 %)Sybase IQ
1413 (0.828 %)KDB
1510 (0.637 %)Oracle 11g
169 (0.573 %)Oracle 9i
169 (0.573 %)OLAP
178 (0.510 %)SQL Server Integration Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1101 (6.433 %)ClearCase
261 (3.885 %)Subversion
331 (1.975 %)Ant
429 (1.847 %)JUnit
519 (1.210 %)Maven
618 (1.146 %)JIRA
618 (1.146 %)ClearQuest
717 (1.083 %)QuickTest Pro
815 (0.955 %)CruiseControl
914 (0.892 %)Eclipse
1013 (0.828 %)LoadRunner
1013 (0.828 %)JMeter
1110 (0.637 %)NUnit
129 (0.573 %)IntelliJ
129 (0.573 %)Selenium
138 (0.510 %)WinRunner
147 (0.446 %)TestDirector
155 (0.318 %)JCAPS
155 (0.318 %)FitNesse
164 (0.255 %)VSS/SourceSafe
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1457 (29.11 %)Banking
2333 (21.21 %)Finance
2333 (21.21 %)Investment Banking
3130 (8.280 %)Front Office
485 (5.414 %)Telecoms
544 (2.803 %)Back Office
640 (2.548 %)Government
735 (2.229 %)Financial Institution
822 (1.401 %)Games
920 (1.274 %)Retail
1018 (1.146 %)Billing
1115 (0.955 %)Insurance
1212 (0.764 %)Electric
1212 (0.764 %)Health
1311 (0.701 %)Multimedia
149 (0.573 %)Education
158 (0.510 %)Retail Banking
158 (0.510 %)Publishing
167 (0.446 %)Law
176 (0.382 %)Marketing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1735 (46.82 %)Developer
2213 (13.57 %)Analyst
3132 (8.408 %)C++ Developer
4126 (8.025 %)Java Developer
5125 (7.962 %)Perl Developer
6106 (6.752 %)Administrator
797 (6.178 %)Support Analyst
874 (4.713 %)Consultant
966 (4.204 %)Senior Developer
1061 (3.885 %)Applications Support
1150 (3.185 %)Systems Administrator
1246 (2.930 %)Sybase Developer
1342 (2.675 %)DBA
1440 (2.548 %)UNIX Administrator
1539 (2.484 %)Architect
1539 (2.484 %)Software Engineer
1638 (2.420 %)Linux Administrator
1737 (2.357 %)Web Developer
1836 (2.293 %)C# Developer
1932 (2.038 %)Applications Support Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1136 (8.662 %)Derivative
2107 (6.815 %)Equities
378 (4.968 %)Fixed Income
470 (4.459 %)Equity Derivative
544 (2.803 %)Open Source
642 (2.675 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
737 (2.357 %)Multithreading
737 (2.357 %)Replication
834 (2.166 %)Clustering
928 (1.783 %)Credit Risk
1018 (1.146 %)Client/Server
1117 (1.083 %)PKI
1216 (1.019 %)Market Risk
1315 (0.955 %)Firmware
1414 (0.892 %)Computer Science
1513 (0.828 %)CLARiiON
1513 (0.828 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1513 (0.828 %)Credit Derivative
1611 (0.701 %)HACMP
1710 (0.637 %)Wiki
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1953 (60.70 %)UNIX
2505 (32.17 %)Linux
3288 (18.34 %)Windows
4271 (17.26 %)Solaris
5142 (9.045 %)Red Hat Linux
651 (3.248 %)HPUX
651 (3.248 %)Windows Server 2003
750 (3.185 %)AIX
844 (2.803 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
928 (1.783 %)Windows 2000
1022 (1.401 %)CentOS
1116 (1.019 %)Windows Server 2008
1116 (1.019 %)SUSE
1212 (0.764 %)Windows Vista
1310 (0.637 %)Windows 2000 Server
1310 (0.637 %)Windows XP
149 (0.573 %)Fedora
157 (0.446 %)NetWare
166 (0.382 %)Windows NT
175 (0.318 %)Debian
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1150 (9.554 %)OO
274 (4.713 %)Unit Testing
274 (4.713 %)Agile Software Development
368 (4.331 %)Web Development
458 (3.694 %)UML
551 (3.248 %)Migration
649 (3.121 %)Risk Management
747 (2.994 %)Configuration Management
842 (2.675 %)E-Commerce
940 (2.548 %)Project Management
1039 (2.484 %)Data Modelling
1138 (2.420 %)Regression Testing
1138 (2.420 %)TDD
1237 (2.357 %)Software Engineering
1335 (2.229 %)Scrum
1335 (2.229 %)Validation
1433 (2.102 %)User Acceptance Testing
1531 (1.975 %)ITIL
1531 (1.975 %)Release Management
1630 (1.911 %)Software Testing
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1541 (34.46 %)SQL
2538 (34.27 %)Java
3333 (21.21 %)C++
4274 (17.45 %)Shell Script
5246 (15.67 %)Python
6148 (9.427 %)C
6148 (9.427 %)JavaScript
7143 (9.108 %)C#
8140 (8.917 %)PHP
9120 (7.643 %)PL/SQL
9120 (7.643 %)Korn
1090 (5.732 %)Bash shell
1170 (4.459 %)VB
1263 (4.013 %)AWK
1352 (3.312 %)VBA
1451 (3.248 %)Ruby
1538 (2.420 %)VBScript
1634 (2.166 %)T-SQL
1719 (1.210 %)ActionScript
1816 (1.019 %)Tcl
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
193 (5.924 %)Security Cleared
253 (3.376 %)SC Cleared
346 (2.930 %)Degree
434 (2.166 %)DV Cleared
511 (0.701 %)Cisco Certification
610 (0.637 %)CISSP
79 (0.573 %)ISEB
79 (0.573 %)CCNA
88 (0.510 %)CISA
88 (0.510 %)CISM
88 (0.510 %)RHCE
96 (0.382 %)BC Cleared
103 (0.191 %)MCSE
103 (0.191 %)MCP
103 (0.191 %)Sun Certification
103 (0.191 %)Microsoft Certification
103 (0.191 %)PRINCE2 Certification
103 (0.191 %)RHCT
112 (0.127 %)CTC Cleared
112 (0.127 %)CCIE
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
124 (1.529 %)QA
212 (0.764 %)ISO27001
37 (0.446 %)SLA
44 (0.255 %)WCAG
44 (0.255 %)WAI
52 (0.127 %)JSP 440
52 (0.127 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
52 (0.127 %)ISO17799
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
137 (2.357 %)VMware Infrastructure
231 (1.975 %)Active Directory
330 (1.911 %)NetBackup
427 (1.720 %)VMware ESX
524 (1.529 %)NFS
620 (1.274 %)Veritas Cluster Server
717 (1.083 %)Oracle RAC
813 (0.828 %)Oracle RMAN
910 (0.637 %)Squid
106 (0.382 %)Veritas Volume Manager
106 (0.382 %)Veritas File System
106 (0.382 %)Sendmail
115 (0.318 %)MSMQ
124 (0.255 %)AquaLogic
124 (0.255 %)Xen
124 (0.255 %)SRDF
124 (0.255 %)Samba
124 (0.255 %)Backup Exec
133 (0.191 %)EMC RecoverPoint
142 (0.127 %)Snort
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
165 (4.140 %)AutoSys
251 (3.248 %)Tivoli
323 (1.465 %)Tivoli Monitoring
416 (1.019 %)Data Guard
416 (1.019 %)Nagios
514 (0.892 %)OpenView
613 (0.828 %)BMC PATROL
79 (0.573 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
79 (0.573 %)HP NNM
88 (0.510 %)Oracle Statspack
97 (0.446 %)BMC Performance Manager
106 (0.382 %)TIBCO Hawk
115 (0.318 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
115 (0.318 %)OVPM
115 (0.318 %)EMC NetWorker
124 (0.255 %)OVOU
124 (0.255 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
124 (0.255 %)CA Endevor
124 (0.255 %)OVPI
124 (0.255 %)ServiceCenter
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1439 (27.96 %)Oracle
2325 (20.70 %)Sybase
3123 (7.834 %)Red Hat
482 (5.223 %)HP
574 (4.713 %)TIBCO
662 (3.949 %)VMware
662 (3.949 %)Sun
758 (3.694 %)IBM
854 (3.439 %)Microsoft
948 (3.057 %)Veritas
1037 (2.357 %)EMC
1133 (2.102 %)Informatica
1232 (2.038 %)JBoss
1329 (1.847 %)Murex
1426 (1.656 %)Business Objects
1518 (1.146 %)Fidessa
1617 (1.083 %)BMC
1714 (0.892 %)Brocade
1714 (0.892 %)NetApp
1714 (0.892 %)SmartStream