Perl Contracts in Central London

Perl
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 121 131
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 +30
Contract jobs citing Perl 9 14 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.45% 0.59% 1.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 1.61% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 11
10th Percentile £425 £475 £513
25th Percentile £475 £500 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +10.87% -8.00%
75th Percentile £654 £725 £703
90th Percentile £712 £770 £750
London median daily rate £550 £581 £558
% change year-on-year -5.38% +4.26% -3.04%

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 775 870 1,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.54% 36.71% 39.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 619 978
10th Percentile £402 £411 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £693 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £813 £850
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £22.05 - £23.95
25th Percentile £27.41 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £51.44 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £73.75 - £84.63
London median hourly rate £42.82 £49.75 £63.00
% change year-on-year -13.94% -21.03% +24.44%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Perl in Central London

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Perl in Central London

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Perl in Central London

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 6 July 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 0 9 £625 -3.85% 17
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 3 (33.33%) Apache
1 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (22.22%) Confluence
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (11.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) HTTP
3 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Big Data
1 3 (33.33%) DB2
1 3 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) Crucible
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
2 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Front Office
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Angular Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Scala Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 3 (33.33%) React
1 3 (33.33%) RESTful
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
1 3 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) LDAP
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Solaris
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) SDLC
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Data Management
3 3 (33.33%) Data Science
3 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Fintech
3 3 (33.33%) Parallel Processing
3 3 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
3 3 (33.33%) Scala
3 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (11.11%) Bash
5 1 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (11.11%) C++
5 1 (11.11%) Groovy
5 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CEH
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) CREST Certified
1 1 (11.11%) OSCP
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) NFS
2 1 (11.11%) Veritas File System
2 1 (11.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Control-M
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) QRadar
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Netcool
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (11.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Sybase
3 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 2 (22.22%) Splunk
4 1 (11.11%) Bloomberg
4 1 (11.11%) BMC
4 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
4 1 (11.11%) Exabeam
4 1 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (11.11%) Qualys
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) SaltStack
4 1 (11.11%) VMware