Perl Contracts in the City of London

Perl
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 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 111 116 113
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +51
Contract jobs citing Perl 8 11 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.46% 0.50% 1.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.13% 1.48% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 16
10th Percentile £425 £535 £513
25th Percentile £475 £550 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £654 £758 £701
90th Percentile £712 £800 £769
Central London median daily rate £625 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +9.65%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 706 744 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.21% 33.86% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 530 1,040
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £620
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the City of London

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Perl in the City of London

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the City of London

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in the City of London

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (37.50%) Apache
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
1 3 (37.50%) Confluence
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Nutanix
4 2 (25.00%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) IaaS
5 1 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Rubrik
5 1 (12.50%) SaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) Kerberos
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) Big Data
2 3 (37.50%) DB2
2 3 (37.50%) Hadoop
2 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (12.50%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Subversion
2 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Crucible
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Serena SBM
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Angular Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Scala Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
1 3 (37.50%) Spring
1 3 (37.50%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (25.00%) LDAP
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Equities
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Unix
3 2 (25.00%) Solaris
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Windows
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Data Management
3 3 (37.50%) Data Science
3 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Fintech
3 3 (37.50%) Parallel Processing
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
3 3 (37.50%) Scala
3 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
4 2 (25.00%) Bash
4 2 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) Groovy
5 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (12.50%) Ruby
5 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
1 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) NFS
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (12.50%) Veritas File System
2 1 (12.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Control-M
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) QRadar
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Data Guard
3 1 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (12.50%) Netcool
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Sybase
3 3 (37.50%) IBM
4 2 (25.00%) BMC
4 2 (25.00%) CyberArk
4 2 (25.00%) Qualys
4 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (25.00%) Splunk
4 2 (25.00%) VMware
5 1 (12.50%) Bloomberg
5 1 (12.50%) EMC
5 1 (12.50%) SaltStack
5 1 (12.50%) SAP
5 1 (12.50%) Serena
5 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow