Perl Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Perl
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 108 112
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Perl 5 7 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.25% 0.38% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 1.01% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 14
10th Percentile £532 £340 £480
25th Percentile - £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £710
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -22.54% +18.33%
75th Percentile £975 £674 £800
90th Percentile - £713 -
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £675
% change year-on-year +2.73% -18.52% +12.50%

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 593 690 766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 29.93% 37.81% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 439 554
10th Percentile £355 £413 £407
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £644 £690 £700
90th Percentile £773 £794 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £29.70 £51.80 £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 £74.38 £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £112.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +133.33% -12.73%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -12.73%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Perl job vacancy trend in the City of London

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Perl.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Perl

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 25 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the City of London

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Perl.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Perl

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (40.00%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) Toad
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Database Developer
2 1 (20.00%) IAM Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Derivative
1 2 (40.00%) Fixed Income
1 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Change Control
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Release Management
2 2 (40.00%) Resilience Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Tech Ops
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (40.00%) Bloomberg
1 2 (40.00%) MarketAxess
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
1 2 (40.00%) Tradeweb
2 1 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds