The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Watford 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
Rank - 19 17
Contract jobs citing Perl 0 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford - 2.857% 4.054%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 7.895% 9.677%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £301
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £323
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +24.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £35.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-36.61% +2.89%
All Programming Languages
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
26 38 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 35.14% 36.19% 41.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 14
Average daily rate £325 £363 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.34% +7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £280 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £455 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
Perl
Hertfordshire

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Perl Daily Rate Trend

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Watford Perl Hourly Rate Trend

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (100.00%) EJB
1 6 (100.00%) JDBC
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) Servlets
1 6 (100.00%) Struts
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) HPUX
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) UML
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) RAD
1 6 (100.00%) XHTML
1 6 (100.00%) MQSeries
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (100.00%) RDBMS

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) EJB
1 6 (100.00%) JDBC
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) Servlets
1 6 (100.00%) Struts
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
1 6 (100.00%) XHTML
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
1 6 (100.00%) XMLBeans
1 6 (100.00%) Ajax
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 6 (100.00%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (100.00%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (100.00%) Log4j
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
2 5 (83.33%) Games
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) HPUX
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) UML
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) RAD
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) XPath
1 6 (100.00%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) Interwoven
1 6 (100.00%) Blue Martini
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Path
1 6 (100.00%) ATG