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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 124 130
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing Perl 6 10 20
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.32% 0.43% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.88% 1.27% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 10
10th Percentile £355 £391 £471
25th Percentile £408 £516 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £800
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -18.75% +28.00%
75th Percentile £775 £725 -
90th Percentile - £753 £850
London median daily rate £523 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -16.40% +8.70% -4.17%

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 679 787 1,059
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.02% 33.86% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 512 737
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £440 £480 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £576 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -3.96% +1.27%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
London median daily rate £550 £565 £588
% change year-on-year -2.65% -3.83% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 2
10th Percentile £24.83 £38.35 £15.65
25th Percentile £26.31 £40.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +38.33% -42.86%
75th Percentile £60.85 £112.00 £39.75
90th Percentile £66.25 - £45.15
London median hourly rate £44.20 £48.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -8.87% -11.82% -4.35%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Perl relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Perl job vacancy trend 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 29 October 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 29 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
City of London -2 5 £750 +15.38% 8
City of Westminster - 1 £475 -
Perl
London

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) NetScaler
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) ETL Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle ETL Developer
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 2 (33.33%) Low Latency
1 2 (33.33%) SDLC
1 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 2 (33.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
2 1 (16.67%) Fuzz Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Target Operating Model
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CREST Certified
1 1 (16.67%) OSCP
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Exabeam
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Vertica