Perl Contracts in the East of England

Perl
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Perl 6 0 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.64% - 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.43% - 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £109 - £548
25th Percentile £174 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 - £661
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.21%
75th Percentile £391 - £675
90th Percentile £457 - £676
England median daily rate £531 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.41% -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £73.00
75th Percentile - - £74.88
90th Percentile - - £75.55
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +17.12% +5.71% +14.13%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 247 419 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.33% 21.95% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 183 344
10th Percentile £315 £308 £289
25th Percentile £406 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £572 £563 £575
90th Percentile £675 £635 £684
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 145 99
10th Percentile £32.65 £52.50 £48.50
25th Percentile £59.00 £60.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £88.75 £77.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the East of England

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Perl in the East of England

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the East of England

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in the East of England

Perl
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 5 £283 - 20
Norfolk - 1 - - 2
Perl
England

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Workload Management
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Security Patching
3 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) Tcl
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Synopsys
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle