Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 16 March 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 for the West Yorkshire region.

 Perl
Location
3 months to
16 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank636385
Rank change year-on-year
No change0Up+22
Matching contract IT job ads365
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire0.294 %0.676 %0.278 %
As % of the Programming Languages category0.850 %2.500 %1.031 %
Daily rates quoted001
Average daily rate--£325
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£313£350
% change year-on-year
+4.000 %-10.71 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.50£36.50£34.00
% change year-on-year
-8.210 %+7.350 %
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
353240485
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire34.61 %27.06 %26.96 %
Daily rates quoted14253120
Average daily rate£250£300£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£175£200£240
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£375£400£435
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted282756
Average hourly rate£20.00£26.00£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.07 %+4.000 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.25£11.45£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£31.50£35.00£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£31.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-8.060 %-11.42 %
Perl YorkshirePerl
Yorkshire

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

West Yorkshire 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 across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Perl Daily Rate Trend

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Perl Hourly Rate Trend

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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 16 March 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
LeedsUp+21--
PudseyNew entry-1--
Perl YorkshirePerl
Yorkshire

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

16 (85.71 %)UNIX
23 (42.86 %)HPUX
23 (42.86 %)Solaris
23 (42.86 %)Linux
23 (42.86 %)Shell Script
23 (42.86 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
23 (42.86 %)Penetration Testing
32 (28.57 %)ISO27001
32 (28.57 %)ITIL
32 (28.57 %)Windows Server 2003
32 (28.57 %)Finance
32 (28.57 %)Firewall
32 (28.57 %)Windows
32 (28.57 %)Windows XP
32 (28.57 %)ISO17799
32 (28.57 %)Microsoft
41 (14.29 %)TestDirector
41 (14.29 %)NHS
41 (14.29 %)HTTP
41 (14.29 %)TCP/IP
41 (14.29 %)WAN
41 (14.29 %)Apache
41 (14.29 %)C
41 (14.29 %)IIS
41 (14.29 %)ASP
41 (14.29 %)XML
41 (14.29 %)XSLT
41 (14.29 %)Banking
41 (14.29 %)Management Information System
41 (14.29 %)Government

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (14.29 %)ASP
11 (14.29 %)XML
11 (14.29 %)XSLT
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (14.29 %)Apache
11 (14.29 %)IIS
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (28.57 %)Firewall
21 (14.29 %)HTTP
21 (14.29 %)TCP/IP
21 (14.29 %)WAN
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (14.29 %)TestDirector
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (28.57 %)Finance
21 (14.29 %)Banking
21 (14.29 %)Government
21 (14.29 %)Auditing
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12 (28.57 %)IT Security Engineer
12 (28.57 %)Administrator
12 (28.57 %)Security Engineer
12 (28.57 %)Security Administrator
21 (14.29 %)Security Analyst
21 (14.29 %)UNIX Administrator
21 (14.29 %)Analyst
21 (14.29 %)Test Manager
21 (14.29 %)Systems Engineer
21 (14.29 %)Support Analyst
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (14.29 %)NHS
11 (14.29 %)Management Information System
11 (14.29 %)Mainframe
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (85.71 %)UNIX
23 (42.86 %)HPUX
23 (42.86 %)Solaris
23 (42.86 %)Linux
32 (28.57 %)Windows Server 2003
32 (28.57 %)Windows
32 (28.57 %)Windows XP
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (42.86 %)Penetration Testing
22 (28.57 %)ITIL
31 (14.29 %)Migration
31 (14.29 %)Web Design
31 (14.29 %)Service Delivery
31 (14.29 %)Test Management
31 (14.29 %)Software Testing
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13 (42.86 %)Shell Script
21 (14.29 %)C
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (42.86 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
22 (28.57 %)ISO27001
22 (28.57 %)ISO17799
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (28.57 %)Microsoft