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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 83 110
Rank change year-on-year -39 +27 -7
Contract jobs citing Perl 4 13 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.21% 1.08% 0.057%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 4.06% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
South East median daily rate £208 £500 £205
% change year-on-year -58.50% +143.90% -43.06%

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 338 320 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.32% 26.69% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 191 233
10th Percentile £319 £380 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -13.79% +5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £683 £700 £651
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +2.80% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 9
10th Percentile £62.80 - £50.55
25th Percentile £71.00 £30.25 £58.49
Median hourly rate £81.50 £31.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +158.73% -48.86% +4.85%
75th Percentile £83.62 £32.75 £69.69
90th Percentile £84.25 - £79.50
South East median hourly rate £63.48 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.91% -19.23% +18.18%

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
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 7 August 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
Bracknell - 2 - -
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 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (50.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (50.00%) JBoss
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Introscope
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Middleware Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Middleware
2 2 (50.00%) JDBC
2 2 (50.00%) JMS
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Jython
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) CA Wily
2 2 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle