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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 120 123
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing Perl 3 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.12% 0.36% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.41% 0.99% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 11
10th Percentile - £367 £406
25th Percentile - £438 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £775 £725
90th Percentile - - £750
London median daily rate £465 £550 £591
% change year-on-year -15.45% -6.98% +7.50%

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 737 704 813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 29.87% 36.36% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 500 549
10th Percentile £399 £375 £413
25th Percentile £460 £440 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £577 £578
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -0.17% -4.55%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £710
90th Percentile £766 £775 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 5
10th Percentile £17.40 £22.98 £38.35
25th Percentile £31.03 £26.13 £40.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.72 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +2.94% +232.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £112.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £71.25 -
London median hourly rate £53.75 £43.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +23.56% -8.42% -20.83%

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
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 25 September 2026. 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 -22 3 - - 5
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 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase ASE
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase IQ
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PCRE
1 2 (66.67%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Content Development
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) BCP
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Database Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Sybase