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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 114 136
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 -10
Contract jobs citing Perl 6 10 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.48% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 1.35% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 10
10th Percentile £382 £468 £428
25th Percentile £474 £503 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £638 £613
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +4.08% -2.00%
75th Percentile £775 £725 £704
90th Percentile - £753 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £638 £613
% change year-on-year -13.73% +4.08% -2.00%

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 662 739 1,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.96% 35.39% 38.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 505 797
10th Percentile £385 £403 £413
25th Percentile £463 £484 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £605
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -2.07% +0.83%
75th Percentile £688 £710 £734
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £580 £579 £600
% change year-on-year +0.22% -3.54% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £22.05 - -
25th Percentile £26.00 £36.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +208.00% -76.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £12.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.72 £40.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year +6.80% +220.00% -76.19%

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
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 13 September 2025.

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 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) NetScaler
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (16.67%) Law
4 1 (16.67%) Military
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Angular Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Scala
4 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CREST Certified
1 1 (16.67%) OSCP
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Exabeam
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Sybase