Perl Contracts in Berkshire

Perl
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Perl skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Perl over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 116 102
Rank change year-on-year +43 -14 +13
Contract jobs citing Perl 14 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.24% 0.052% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.24% 0.27% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 9
10th Percentile £493 - £254
25th Percentile - - £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.85%
75th Percentile £550 - £575
90th Percentile £552 - £760
South East median daily rate £514 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.10% +5.00% +28.21%

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 330 369 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 29.31% 19.14% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 253 299
10th Percentile £400 £325 £360
25th Percentile £454 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £624
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £505 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +0.80% -4.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 13
10th Percentile £39.74 £56.37 £22.55
25th Percentile £53.97 £56.65 £56.88
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -3.45%
75th Percentile £68.51 £66.03 £79.19
90th Percentile £73.72 £68.38 £80.93
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +57.14%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in Berkshire

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Perl in Berkshire

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in Berkshire

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in Berkshire

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 29 May 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 - 8 £550 - 8
Wokingham -5 6 £500 -
Perl
South East

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (21.43%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) GIS
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Consultant
1 5 (35.71%) Solutions Consultant
2 4 (28.57%) Tester
3 3 (21.43%) DBA
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (14.29%) SCADA Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (78.57%) SCADA
2 7 (50.00%) Operational Technology
3 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Cartography
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (28.57%) Test Assurance
1 4 (28.57%) Test Management
1 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
1 4 (28.57%) Validation
2 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (21.43%) Database Tuning
2 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (21.43%) ERP
2 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (21.43%) Proactive Monitoring
2 3 (21.43%) SOA
2 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
2 3 (21.43%) Workflow
3 2 (14.29%) System Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft