Perl Contracts with Work from Home Options

Perl
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 266 396
Rank change year-on-year +33 +130 -82
Contract jobs citing Perl 114 207 236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 0.82% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.26% 2.21% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 131 166
10th Percentile £407 £425 £375
25th Percentile £450 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% +5.05%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £587
90th Percentile £795 £738 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £62.20 £47.21 -
25th Percentile £62.88 £51.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £65.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.76% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £67.88 £55.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £68.40 £63.93 -
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £57.50 £49.54
% change year-on-year +10.43% +16.07% +8.28%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,049 9,363 16,804
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.45% 37.27% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,659 6,853 12,474
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 203 186
10th Percentile £35.00 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.00 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

Perl
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Perl trend for jobs with a WFH option

Perl
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Perl.

Perl daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Perl over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Perl daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Perl.

Perl hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (2.63%) JBoss
2 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.75%) CMS
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.88%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.88%) nginx
3 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 28 (24.56%) AWS
2 16 (14.04%) OpenShift
3 12 (10.53%) Azure
4 10 (8.77%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (7.89%) GCP
6 7 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (5.26%) IaaS
8 3 (2.63%) Datadog
8 3 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.75%) GitHub
10 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.16%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (7.89%) 802.11
3 7 (6.14%) Firewall
4 6 (5.26%) BGP
4 6 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (5.26%) EIGRP
4 6 (5.26%) HSRP
4 6 (5.26%) IPsec
4 6 (5.26%) NetScaler
4 6 (5.26%) OSPF
4 6 (5.26%) SNMP
4 6 (5.26%) Spanning Tree
5 4 (3.51%) DHCP
5 4 (3.51%) DNS
6 3 (2.63%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.88%) 5G
7 1 (0.88%) NAS
7 1 (0.88%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.14%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.26%) MySQL
3 5 (4.39%) Sybase ASE
4 4 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.51%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.63%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.75%) Big Data
7 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.88%) HBase
7 1 (0.88%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (22.81%) Git
2 19 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.77%) GitLab
4 7 (6.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (6.14%) JIRA
5 4 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (3.51%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.63%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (2.63%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (2.63%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.63%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.88%) Subversion
General
1 32 (28.07%) Finance
1 32 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.28%) Banking
3 9 (7.89%) Investment Banking
4 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.51%) Front Office
6 4 (3.51%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.88%) French Language
8 1 (0.88%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (20.18%) Developer
2 20 (17.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (12.28%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (12.28%) Software Engineer
4 13 (11.40%) Network Engineer
4 13 (11.40%) Python Engineer
5 11 (9.65%) C++ Software Engineer
5 11 (9.65%) Senior
6 10 (8.77%) SQL Developer
7 7 (6.14%) Analyst
7 7 (6.14%) Perl Developer
7 7 (6.14%) Unix Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Linux Scripter
8 6 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Consultant
10 4 (3.51%) DBA
10 4 (3.51%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.89%) 802.1X
2 8 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.26%) Jinja
3 6 (5.26%) Middleware
4 4 (3.51%) Catalyst
4 4 (3.51%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (3.51%) XML
5 3 (2.63%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.63%) Spring
5 3 (2.63%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.75%) .NET
6 2 (1.75%) CSS
6 2 (1.75%) Guice
6 2 (1.75%) HTML
6 2 (1.75%) Kafka
6 2 (1.75%) REST
6 2 (1.75%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.75%) Ultra Messaging
7 1 (0.88%) Node.js
7 1 (0.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.26%) Equities
1 6 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (3.51%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (3.51%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.51%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (3.51%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (3.51%) Fixed Income
2 4 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.63%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.63%) Replication
4 2 (1.75%) Clustering
4 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.75%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (40.35%) Linux
2 25 (21.93%) Unix
3 18 (15.79%) Windows
4 6 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.51%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.33%) DevOps
2 31 (27.19%) Agile
3 26 (22.81%) CI/CD
4 24 (21.05%) OO
5 18 (15.79%) Software Engineering
6 17 (14.91%) Computer Science
7 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (13.16%) Task Automation
8 12 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (9.65%) Data Modelling
9 11 (9.65%) Open Source
10 10 (8.77%) Containerisation
11 9 (7.89%) Analytics
12 8 (7.02%) Configuration Management
12 8 (7.02%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (7.02%) ITIL
12 8 (7.02%) Migration
12 8 (7.02%) Physical Data Model
12 8 (7.02%) Test Automation
13 7 (6.14%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 78 (68.42%) Python
2 24 (21.05%) Bash
3 20 (17.54%) C++
4 19 (16.67%) Java
5 16 (14.04%) Tcl
6 15 (13.16%) SQL
7 14 (12.28%) C
8 9 (7.89%) Ruby
9 8 (7.02%) C#
9 8 (7.02%) Shell Script
10 7 (6.14%) Go
11 6 (5.26%) PowerShell
12 5 (4.39%) JavaScript
13 4 (3.51%) VBA
14 3 (2.63%) Rust
15 2 (1.75%) AWK
15 2 (1.75%) Korn
16 1 (0.88%) Scala
16 1 (0.88%) Solidity
16 1 (0.88%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 18 (15.79%) Degree
2 10 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.89%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.02%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.14%) CCNA
5 7 (6.14%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.39%) CCNP
7 4 (3.51%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.75%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.88%) EMIR
2 1 (0.88%) FATCA
2 1 (0.88%) GDPR
2 1 (0.88%) ISO 8583
2 1 (0.88%) MiFID
System Software
1 11 (9.65%) Docker
2 9 (7.89%) Firmware
3 7 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.51%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.88%) Postfix
5 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (21.05%) Ansible
2 20 (17.54%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.89%) Puppet
4 8 (7.02%) Terraform
5 7 (6.14%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.63%) Kibana
6 3 (2.63%) Nagios
6 3 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (1.75%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.75%) Grafana
7 2 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (1.75%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.75%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.88%) SELinux
Vendors
1 10 (8.77%) Splunk
2 9 (7.89%) Red Hat
2 9 (7.89%) Sybase
3 8 (7.02%) Cisco
3 8 (7.02%) VMware
4 7 (6.14%) SolarWinds
5 6 (5.26%) Citrix
5 6 (5.26%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.63%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.63%) New Relic
6 3 (2.63%) SAP
6 3 (2.63%) Veritas
7 2 (1.75%) BMC
7 2 (1.75%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.75%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.75%) Murex
7 2 (1.75%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.75%) Solace
7 2 (1.75%) Sun
7 2 (1.75%) TIBCO