The first table below looks at the demand for Perl skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 17 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 Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Perl
Rank 72 84 77
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -7
Contract jobs citing Perl 41 28 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 2.160% 1.222% 1.321%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.942% 3.704% 3.877%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 14
Average daily rate £275 £300 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -31.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £174 £390
10% offered a daily rate of more than £387 £520 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £408 £308
% change year-on-year
-14.11% +32.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £37.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-39.18% +8.82%
All Programming Languages
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
690 756 619
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 36.35% 32.98% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 441 302
Average daily rate £290 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £409 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 37
Average hourly rate £17.00 £21.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.83% -27.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Perl
England

Perl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Perl Daily Rate Trend

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Perl across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Yorkshire Perl Daily Rate Histogram

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
West Yorkshire +26 35 £275 -12.00%
East Yorkshire -4 1 - -
North Yorkshire - 1 - -
Perl
England

Perl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 51 (73.91%) Linux
2 49 (71.01%) Java
3 46 (66.67%) Oracle
4 41 (59.42%) Bash shell
5 39 (56.52%) Apache
6 37 (53.62%) Python
7 35 (50.72%) UNIX
8 27 (39.13%) Web Services
9 26 (37.68%) PHP
10 25 (36.23%) MySQL
10 25 (36.23%) Client/Server
10 25 (36.23%) Configuration Management
11 24 (34.78%) DNS
11 24 (34.78%) Telecoms
11 24 (34.78%) C++
11 24 (34.78%) Ruby
12 23 (33.33%) Kanban
12 23 (33.33%) Test Automation
12 23 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (33.33%) Amazon S3
12 23 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
12 23 (33.33%) nginx
12 23 (33.33%) MongoDB
12 23 (33.33%) Node.js
12 23 (33.33%) Redis
12 23 (33.33%) Route 53
12 23 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (28.99%) SQL
13 20 (28.99%) Windows
14 19 (27.54%) J2EE

Perl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

Application Development
1 27 (39.13%) Web Services
2 23 (33.33%) Node.js
3 19 (27.54%) J2EE
4 15 (21.74%) WebSphere
5 12 (17.39%) Middleware
6 10 (14.49%) CSS
7 9 (13.04%) jQuery
8 8 (11.59%) HTML5
9 7 (10.14%) REST
9 7 (10.14%) CSS3
9 7 (10.14%) Hibernate
9 7 (10.14%) Spring
9 7 (10.14%) SOAP
9 7 (10.14%) XML
10 5 (7.246%) JDBC
11 4 (5.797%) JSP
11 4 (5.797%) Servlets
11 4 (5.797%) SGML
11 4 (5.797%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (5.797%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 39 (56.52%) Apache
2 23 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 23 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 23 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
2 23 (33.33%) nginx
2 23 (33.33%) Route 53
3 16 (23.19%) Tomcat
4 10 (14.49%) WebLogic
5 8 (11.59%) Adobe CQ
6 7 (10.14%) Apache Solr
6 7 (10.14%) IIS
7 5 (7.246%) WebSphere Application Server
7 5 (7.246%) IBM HTTP Server
7 5 (7.246%) MQSeries
8 3 (4.348%) ATG Dynamo
9 2 (2.899%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (1.449%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (1.449%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (11.59%) MS Office
2 3 (4.348%) MS Project
3 1 (1.449%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.449%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (18.84%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (34.78%) DNS
2 18 (26.09%) Internet
3 16 (23.19%) DHCP
3 16 (23.19%) SSL
3 16 (23.19%) TCP/IP
4 12 (17.39%) HTTP
5 11 (15.94%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (7.246%) FTP
7 2 (2.899%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (1.449%) NAS
8 1 (1.449%) 4G
8 1 (1.449%) Network Security
8 1 (1.449%) SAN
8 1 (1.449%) LDAP
8 1 (1.449%) DVB
8 1 (1.449%) NetScreen
8 1 (1.449%) Firewall
8 1 (1.449%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (36.23%) MySQL
2 23 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 23 (33.33%) Redis
2 23 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (8.696%) DB2
4 4 (5.797%) Oracle 10g
5 3 (4.348%) Oracle OWB
5 3 (4.348%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.899%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.899%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (1.449%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (21.74%) Maven
2 12 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 9 (13.04%) Subversion
4 8 (11.59%) Ant
5 7 (10.14%) Git (software)
6 4 (5.797%) Introscope
7 3 (4.348%) CruiseControl
7 3 (4.348%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (4.348%) StarTeam
8 2 (2.899%) Selenium
General
1 24 (34.78%) Telecoms
2 7 (10.14%) Retail
3 6 (8.696%) Finance
4 4 (5.797%) Games
4 4 (5.797%) Marketing
5 3 (4.348%) Banking
6 2 (2.899%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.449%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) Developer
2 11 (15.94%) Java Developer
3 9 (13.04%) Operations Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Analyst
5 7 (10.14%) Support Analyst
5 7 (10.14%) Release Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Operations Analyst
5 7 (10.14%) Operations Support Analyst
5 7 (10.14%) Configuration Engineer
6 6 (8.696%) Administrator
7 4 (5.797%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 4 (5.797%) J2EE Developer
8 2 (2.899%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (2.899%) Tester
8 2 (2.899%) Software Engineer
8 2 (2.899%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (2.899%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (2.899%) Systems Developer
8 2 (2.899%) Automation Tester
8 2 (2.899%) Middleware Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 25 (36.23%) Client/Server
2 5 (7.246%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.348%) Computer Science
3 3 (4.348%) N-Tier
3 3 (4.348%) MPEG
3 3 (4.348%) STB
3 3 (4.348%) IPTV
4 1 (1.449%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 51 (73.91%) Linux
2 35 (50.72%) UNIX
3 20 (28.99%) Windows
4 12 (17.39%) Solaris
5 5 (7.246%) AIX
6 4 (5.797%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.449%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.449%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.449%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.23%) Configuration Management
2 23 (33.33%) Kanban
2 23 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 18 (26.09%) Incident Management
4 17 (24.64%) Security Testing
5 16 (23.19%) Capacity Management
5 16 (23.19%) Load Balancing
6 9 (13.04%) E-Commerce
6 9 (13.04%) SOA
7 8 (11.59%) Scrum
7 8 (11.59%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (10.14%) BDD
8 7 (10.14%) TDD
8 7 (10.14%) Software Engineering
9 6 (8.696%) Performance Testing
10 5 (7.246%) ITIL
11 4 (5.797%) Regression Testing
12 3 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
12 3 (4.348%) Database Tuning
13 2 (2.899%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (71.01%) Java
2 41 (59.42%) Bash shell
3 37 (53.62%) Python
4 26 (37.68%) PHP
5 24 (34.78%) C++
5 24 (34.78%) Ruby
6 20 (28.99%) SQL
7 10 (14.49%) JavaScript
7 10 (14.49%) Shell Script
8 9 (13.04%) AWK
9 7 (10.14%) Jython
10 5 (7.246%) PL/SQL
11 4 (5.797%) Groovy
12 3 (4.348%) Korn
13 2 (2.899%) PowerShell
13 2 (2.899%) VBScript
13 2 (2.899%) C
13 2 (2.899%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
13 2 (2.899%) Tcl
14 1 (1.449%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (4.348%) HND
1 3 (4.348%) Degree
2 1 (1.449%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.449%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.449%) MCSE
2 1 (1.449%) MCSA
2 1 (1.449%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.449%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.449%) MCTS
2 1 (1.449%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.449%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.899%) vSphere
3 1 (1.449%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.449%) Sendmail
3 1 (1.449%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (23.19%) Puppet
2 4 (5.797%) Splunk
2 4 (5.797%) CA Wily
3 3 (4.348%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.449%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 46 (66.67%) Oracle
2 17 (24.64%) Percona
3 11 (15.94%) IBM
4 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
5 8 (11.59%) JBoss
6 7 (10.14%) Adobe
6 7 (10.14%) hybris
7 6 (8.696%) Red Hat
8 4 (5.797%) VMware
9 3 (4.348%) ATG
9 3 (4.348%) Terracotta
10 2 (2.899%) Endeca
10 2 (2.899%) Cisco
11 1 (1.449%) McAfee
11 1 (1.449%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.449%) Blue Coat
11 1 (1.449%) Sun
11 1 (1.449%) HP
11 1 (1.449%) Citrix
11 1 (1.449%) Juniper
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