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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 87 108
Rank change year-on-year -26 +21 -11
Contract jobs citing Perl 2 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.11% 0.73% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.65% 2.84% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile - £361 -
25th Percentile - £513 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -15.38% +62.50%
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - £559 -
South East median daily rate £208 £208 £205
% change year-on-year - +1.22% -34.92%

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 306 317 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.79% 25.88% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 196 242
10th Percentile £336 £359 £381
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £582
Median % change year-on-year +4.25% -14.13% +5.86%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £638
90th Percentile £675 £620 £663
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +3.00% -2.72% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 8
10th Percentile £39.91 - £47.44
25th Percentile £62.18 £18.75 £55.87
Median hourly rate £71.00 £19.50 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +264.10% -66.66% +17.62%
75th Percentile £82.81 £20.25 £70.98
90th Percentile £84.88 - £78.66
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

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
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 (100.00%) JBoss
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat