Perl Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Perl
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 87 123
Rank change year-on-year -11 +36 -15
Contract jobs citing Perl 14 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.86% 0.78% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.88% 2.67% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 5
10th Percentile - - £343
25th Percentile £204 £200 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £300 £400
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% -25.00% -21.95%
75th Percentile £452 £444 -
90th Percentile £514 £583 -
South East median daily rate £208 £338 £400
% change year-on-year -38.52% -15.63% -20.00%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 361 375 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.09% 29.16% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 231 252
10th Percentile £335 £390 £350
25th Percentile £403 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £571 £638 £638
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £490 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.67% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 15
10th Percentile £39.25 - £48.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £55.36
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.25 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +24.49% +3.34% -16.71%
75th Percentile £82.00 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £84.40 £71.40 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year -10.57% +5.49% +6.00%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Perl job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Perl

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in Berkshire over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in Berkshire

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Perl.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Perl

Perl
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Windsor +10 9 £208 +3.75%
Reading +7 4 £497 +65.67% 1
Wokingham -36 1 - -
Perl
South East

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (14.29%) WebLogic
2 1 (7.14%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) OCI
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) MySQL
2 9 (64.29%) Relational Database
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
4 1 (7.14%) GIS
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Technical Support
2 2 (14.29%) DBA
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS Architect
3 1 (7.14%) SCADA Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Ajax
1 1 (7.14%) LAMP
1 1 (7.14%) MERN Stack
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) CMDB
1 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
1 1 (7.14%) Replication
1 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
1 11 (78.57%) Unix
2 10 (71.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Computer Science
1 9 (64.29%) OO
1 9 (64.29%) OOP
1 9 (64.29%) Process Improvement
2 3 (21.43%) ERP
3 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (14.29%) Database Tuning
3 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (14.29%) SOA
3 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Workflow
4 1 (7.14%) Agile
4 1 (7.14%) Cartography
4 1 (7.14%) ITSM
4 1 (7.14%) Scrum
4 1 (7.14%) Software Deployment
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) SQL
2 10 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 10 (71.43%) Python
3 9 (64.29%) Java
4 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (64.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow