Perl Contract Job Trends in Central London

Perl
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Perl skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 118 142
Rank change year-on-year -3 +24 -14
Contract jobs citing Perl 7 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.36% 0.52% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.99% 1.49% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 9
10th Percentile £367 £413 £418
25th Percentile £438 £482 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +15.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £775 £725 £705
90th Percentile - £748 £850
London median daily rate £538 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -8.51% +6.82% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 709 808 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.51% 34.75% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 553 818
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £435 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +2.98%
75th Percentile £688 £708 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £831
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £22.98 £37.55 -
25th Percentile £26.13 £38.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £42.72 £41.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +232.00% -76.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £42.00 £12.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £42.15 -
London median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -5.26% -20.83% +13.78%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Perl in Central London

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Perl.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Perl

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in Central London over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in Central London

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Perl.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Perl

Perl
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Central London region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
City of London +5 6 £650 +1.96% 1
City of Westminster - 1 £475 -
Perl
London

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) DB2
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
4 1 (14.29%) Law
4 1 (14.29%) Military
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Python Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Angular Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 1 (14.29%) ETL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle ETL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) SDLC
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 2 (28.57%) Low Latency
2 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Ultra-Low Latency
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Parallel Processing
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Security Management
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Scala
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CEH
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) CREST Certified
1 1 (14.29%) OSCP
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) F5
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Exabeam
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Sybase
3 1 (14.29%) Vertica