Perl Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Perl
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 57 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Perl 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.14% 0.20% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.98% 0.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £284 - -
25th Percentile £322 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% - -
75th Percentile £394 - -
90th Percentile £405 - -
North West median daily rate £550 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +45.48%

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 201 118 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 28.67% 23.05% 26.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 83 77
10th Percentile £313 £324 £425
25th Percentile £356 £358 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £477 £551 £583
90th Percentile £575 £638 £612
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £44.30 £73.50 -
25th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £80.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +100.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £86.00 £85.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £92.75 £86.50 £68.00
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £49.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +51.55% +6.11% +22.17%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Perl job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Perl.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Perl

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Perl.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Perl

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 15 November 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 -16 6 £363 +1.97%
Warrington - 2 - - 1
Perl
North West

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) BGP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) NX-OS
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (62.50%) JIRA
3 4 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 4 (50.00%) TeamCity
4 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
4 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (37.50%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 4 (50.00%) Runbook
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Build Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Observability
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Change Control
5 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) CCDP
1 2 (25.00%) CCNP
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Kibana
2 4 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 4 (50.00%) Cloudera
1 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) Meraki
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft