Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Skill Sets
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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Perl skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Perl over the 6 months to 4 July 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Perl
Central London > City of London
6 months to
4 Jul 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 151 149 121
Rank change year-on-year -2 -28 +52
Contract jobs citing Perl 44 19 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.01% 0.59% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.29% 1.26% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 10 14
10th Percentile £500 £414 £388
25th Percentile £503 £434 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £719 £639 £514
90th Percentile £814 £728 £639
Central London median daily rate £625 £475 £506
% change year-on-year +31.58% -6.17% -3.57%

Perl is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,919 1,502 1,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.89% 46.98% 49.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,450 1,148 1,052
10th Percentile £425 £394 £375
25th Percentile £500 £463 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £713 £660 £625
90th Percentile £813 £738 £688
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 9
10th Percentile £36.25 £23.84 £22.54
25th Percentile £42.75 £25.75 £26.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.06% -16.88% +79.07%
75th Percentile £58.50 £36.38 £56.50
90th Percentile £69.35 £37.75 £58.25
Central London median hourly rate £52.50 £26.50 £36.09
% change year-on-year +98.11% -26.57% +64.03%

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 4 July 2022.

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 2022, IT contractor jobs citing Perl also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region with a requirement for Perl.

1 34 (77.27%) Python
2 32 (72.73%) Linux
3 26 (59.09%) Bash
4 24 (54.55%) Java
5 22 (50.00%) AWS
6 21 (47.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (47.73%) Finance
7 19 (43.18%) Red Hat
7 19 (43.18%) DevOps
8 16 (36.36%) Ansible
8 16 (36.36%) Azure
8 16 (36.36%) Windows
8 16 (36.36%) Ruby
9 15 (34.09%) SQL
9 15 (34.09%) Go
10 14 (31.82%) Docker
10 14 (31.82%) Puppet
10 14 (31.82%) JavaScript
10 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
11 12 (27.27%) PowerShell
12 11 (25.00%) Kubernetes
12 11 (25.00%) Git (software)
12 11 (25.00%) C++
12 11 (25.00%) Configuration Management
12 11 (25.00%) Active Directory
12 11 (25.00%) Agile
12 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
12 11 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (22.73%) Project Delivery
13 10 (22.73%) DNS

Perl
Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (15.91%) Apache Pig
1 7 (15.91%) Apache Spark
2 6 (13.64%) Tomcat
3 4 (9.09%) Confluence
4 3 (6.82%) Apache
5 2 (4.55%) IIS
5 2 (4.55%) OpenStack
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (50.00%) AWS
2 16 (36.36%) Azure
3 8 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (15.91%) Amazon S3
4 7 (15.91%) Azure Active Directory
4 7 (15.91%) Azure AKS
4 7 (15.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (15.91%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (15.91%) Azure Functions
4 7 (15.91%) Azure Storage
4 7 (15.91%) Serverless
5 6 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (11.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (9.09%) SaaS
8 3 (6.82%) Nutanix
9 2 (4.55%) GCP
9 2 (4.55%) GitHub
9 2 (4.55%) IaaS
9 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.73%) DNS
2 9 (20.45%) Firewall
3 8 (18.18%) SSL
4 7 (15.91%) VPN
5 5 (11.36%) tcpdump
6 2 (4.55%) FTP
7 1 (2.27%) BGP
7 1 (2.27%) BIG-IP
7 1 (2.27%) EIGRP
7 1 (2.27%) IGMP
7 1 (2.27%) Internet
7 1 (2.27%) IPsec
7 1 (2.27%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.27%) Multicast
7 1 (2.27%) Network Security
7 1 (2.27%) OSPF
7 1 (2.27%) SNMP
7 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.27%) VRRP
7 1 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (15.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 7 (15.91%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (15.91%) Data Lake
1 7 (15.91%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (15.91%) SAP HANA
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (4.55%) Big Data
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database 11g
2 2 (4.55%) PowerCenter
2 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.55%) SAP BW
2 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.27%) DTS
3 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 8 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.36%) JIRA
4 3 (6.82%) git-flow
4 3 (6.82%) RSpec
5 2 (4.55%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.55%) GitLab
5 2 (4.55%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.27%) JBehave
6 1 (2.27%) JUnit
6 1 (2.27%) Maven
6 1 (2.27%) Serena SBM
6 1 (2.27%) Subversion
6 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.27%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (47.73%) Finance
2 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Banking
4 4 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.55%) International Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) Architect
4 7 (15.91%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Developer
6 5 (11.36%) C++ Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Administrator
7 3 (6.82%) Salesforce Architect
7 3 (6.82%) Salesforce Solution Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Linux Administrator
9 1 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) Java Developer
9 1 (2.27%) Network Architect
9 1 (2.27%) Network Engineer
9 1 (2.27%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.18%) Kafka
2 6 (13.64%) RESTful
3 4 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (9.09%) REST
4 3 (6.82%) .NET
4 3 (6.82%) LDAP
5 2 (4.55%) Ajax
5 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.55%) Spring
5 2 (4.55%) Web Services
5 2 (4.55%) XML
5 2 (4.55%) YAML
6 1 (2.27%) CORBA
6 1 (2.27%) DHTML
6 1 (2.27%) HTML
6 1 (2.27%) JSON
6 1 (2.27%) Node.js
6 1 (2.27%) OAuth
6 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.27%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Public Cloud
2 5 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.36%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.27%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.27%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.27%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) PKI
4 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (72.73%) Linux
2 21 (47.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (36.36%) Windows
4 9 (20.45%) CentOS
4 9 (20.45%) Ubuntu
5 7 (15.91%) Debian
6 6 (13.64%) Unix
7 2 (4.55%) Solaris
7 2 (4.55%) Windows 10
7 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
7 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.27%) CoreOS
8 1 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) DevOps
2 11 (25.00%) Agile
2 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 11 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (22.73%) Project Delivery
4 9 (20.45%) Task Automation
5 7 (15.91%) ArchiMate
5 7 (15.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 7 (15.91%) TOGAF
6 5 (11.36%) Analytics
6 5 (11.36%) Microservices
6 5 (11.36%) Migration
6 5 (11.36%) Software Deployment
6 5 (11.36%) Strategic Roadmap
7 4 (9.09%) Project Management
8 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (6.82%) Insurtech
8 3 (6.82%) Release Management
8 3 (6.82%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 34 (77.27%) Python
2 26 (59.09%) Bash
3 24 (54.55%) Java
4 16 (36.36%) Ruby
5 15 (34.09%) Go
5 15 (34.09%) SQL
6 14 (31.82%) JavaScript
7 12 (27.27%) PowerShell
8 11 (25.00%) C++
9 9 (20.45%) C#
10 8 (18.18%) PHP
11 7 (15.91%) T-SQL
12 1 (2.27%) C
12 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) CCNP
1 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.27%) CCIE
2 1 (2.27%) CCNA
2 1 (2.27%) CISSP
2 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) GIAC
2 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (2.27%) OSCP
2 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) PMO
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Docker
2 11 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.27%) NFS
5 1 (2.27%) Platform Symphony
5 1 (2.27%) vCloud
5 1 (2.27%) Veritas File System
5 1 (2.27%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) Ansible
2 14 (31.82%) Puppet
3 11 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 10 (22.73%) Red Hat Satellite
5 7 (15.91%) Terraform
6 5 (11.36%) Opscode Chef
7 4 (9.09%) Icinga
8 3 (6.82%) Consul
8 3 (6.82%) Packer
8 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
8 3 (6.82%) Salt
9 2 (4.55%) Dollar Universe
9 2 (4.55%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (2.27%) Control-M
10 1 (2.27%) Kibana
10 1 (2.27%) logstash
10 1 (2.27%) Mesos
10 1 (2.27%) Rancher
10 1 (2.27%) SCCM
10 1 (2.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 19 (43.18%) Red Hat
2 7 (15.91%) BiZZdesign
2 7 (15.91%) Cloudera
2 7 (15.91%) MuleSoft
2 7 (15.91%) Salesforce.com
2 7 (15.91%) SAP
3 5 (11.36%) Oracle
3 5 (11.36%) VMware
4 4 (9.09%) Splunk
4 4 (9.09%) Sybase
5 3 (6.82%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.82%) Informatica
5 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.55%) Cisco
6 2 (4.55%) IBM
6 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.55%) RedGate
7 1 (2.27%) F5
7 1 (2.27%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.27%) Qualys