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 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 118 115
Rank change year-on-year -20 -3 +18
Contract jobs citing Perl 1 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.042% 0.43% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.15% 1.10% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 9
10th Percentile - £425 £461
25th Percentile - £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £588 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -6.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile - £638 £725
90th Percentile - £706 £735
Central London median daily rate - £588 £600
% change year-on-year - -2.08% -4.38%

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 648 726 759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.97% 38.89% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 490 522
10th Percentile £365 £404 £400
25th Percentile £457 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £709
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 0
10th Percentile £26.32 £21.13 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £56.11 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £65.83 £76.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +30.39% -3.00% -37.36%

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
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PCRE
1 1 (100.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Content Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk