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 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 105 100
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 +15
Contract jobs citing Perl 5 5 19
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.39% 0.31% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.57% 1.32% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 14
10th Percentile £277 £220 £306
25th Percentile £361 £250 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £400
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £525 £488 -
90th Percentile £540 £600 £523
South East median daily rate £208 £205 £325
% change year-on-year +1.22% -36.92% -17.98%

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 318 379 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 24.98% 23.57% 20.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 238 278
10th Percentile £363 £390 £350
25th Percentile £413 £432 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £574 £644 £638
90th Percentile £622 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £492 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile £24.38 £50.25 -
25th Percentile £32.81 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £47.25 £58.49 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +17.62% -37.84%
75th Percentile £61.31 £69.69 £55.31
90th Percentile £69.53 £77.39 £69.74
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.93% +21.85% -12.12%

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 28 October 2025.

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 28 October 2025. 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
Reading +23 4 £525 +75.00% 2
Windsor -6 1 £223 +11.25%
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 3 (60.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (20.00%) GIS
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) SCADA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Database Tuning
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) ERP
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (60.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 3 (60.00%) SOA
1 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Cartography
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) OOP
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft