Perl Contracts in Cheshire

Perl
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 56 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Perl 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% 0.40% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.51% 1.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £392 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £497 - -
North West median daily rate £393 £515 £646
% change year-on-year -23.69% -20.31% +5.51%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 133 129 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.62% 25.60% 35.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 103 146
10th Percentile £323 £311 £315
25th Percentile £358 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -2.20% +23.15%
75th Percentile £500 £582 £575
90th Percentile £600 £610 £638
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile - £41.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% +6.25% +63.27%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Perl in Cheshire

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Perl in Cheshire

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in Cheshire

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Perl in Cheshire

Perl
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Knutsford -1 5 £393 -
Chester - 1 £600 - 3
Perl
North West

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (83.33%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) BGP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (16.67%) DMZ
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) DWDM
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
1 1 (16.67%) IPsec
1 1 (16.67%) L2TP
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) Multicast
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) OSPF
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (83.33%) RDBMS
1 5 (83.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (83.33%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
1 5 (83.33%) SonarQube
1 5 (83.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (83.33%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Build Automation
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Code Quality
1 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (83.33%) Deployment Automation
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Observability
3 3 (50.00%) Runbook
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) B2B
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCIE
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kibana
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
2 5 (83.33%) AppDynamics
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
3 3 (50.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (16.67%) Arista
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (16.67%) McAfee