Perl Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Perl
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Perl 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 0.96% 2.50% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.26% 8.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £456 -
County Antrim median daily rate - £456 -

All Programming Languages
Belfast

Perl falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 47 45 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 22.49% 28.13% 35.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 30
10th Percentile £309 £293 £200
25th Percentile £400 £434 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +18.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £611 £522 £500
90th Percentile £690 £560 £543
County Antrim median daily rate £456 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -3.95% +18.75% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £16.12
Median % change year-on-year - +163.65% -
County Antrim median hourly rate - £42.50 £16.12
% change year-on-year - +163.65% -

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Perl relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Perl job vacancy trend in Belfast

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Perl.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Perl

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Account Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Account Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle