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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 113 119
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +35
Contract jobs citing Perl 9 13 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.61% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 1.66% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 11
10th Percentile £425 £477 £513
25th Percentile £475 £550 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £654 £725 £703
90th Percentile £712 £772 £750
Central London median daily rate £625 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -1.96% +10.87% -8.00%

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 724 784 1,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.82% 36.76% 40.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 545 916
10th Percentile £404 £403 £420
25th Percentile £467 £475 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £698 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £808 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £20.20 - £23.95
25th Percentile £25.75 £46.75 £41.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% -26.79% +26.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £84.06
90th Percentile £78.75 - £84.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £48.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +6.06% -26.79% +26.19%

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 6 July 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (22.22%) Confluence
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (11.11%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) HTTP
3 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Big Data
1 3 (33.33%) DB2
1 3 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) Crucible
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
2 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Front Office
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Angular Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Scala Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 3 (33.33%) React
1 3 (33.33%) RESTful
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
1 3 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) LDAP
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Solaris
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) SDLC
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Data Management
3 3 (33.33%) Data Science
3 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Fintech
3 3 (33.33%) Parallel Processing
3 3 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
3 3 (33.33%) Scala
3 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (11.11%) Bash
5 1 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (11.11%) C++
5 1 (11.11%) Groovy
5 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CEH
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) CREST Certified
1 1 (11.11%) OSCP
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) NFS
2 1 (11.11%) Veritas File System
2 1 (11.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Control-M
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) QRadar
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Netcool
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (11.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Sybase
3 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 2 (22.22%) Splunk
4 1 (11.11%) Bloomberg
4 1 (11.11%) BMC
4 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
4 1 (11.11%) Exabeam
4 1 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (11.11%) Qualys
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) SaltStack
4 1 (11.11%) VMware