Perl Contracts in Edinburgh

Perl
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 63 69 79
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 +45
Contract jobs citing Perl 4 3 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 0.37% 2.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.99% 1.51% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 30
10th Percentile - £411 £459
25th Percentile - £428 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.80% +0.05%
75th Percentile - £503 £550
90th Percentile - £524 £565
Scotland median daily rate £500 £550 £521
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.52% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - - £60.94
% change year-on-year - - +23.01%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 201 199 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.16% 24.42% 37.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 144 384
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £425 £420 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £482 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £536
90th Percentile £550 £631 £589
Scotland median daily rate £470 £484 £493
% change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 4
10th Percentile - £33.20 £42.68
25th Percentile £21.00 £38.00 £48.19
Median hourly rate £23.77 £60.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.71% +15.24% +15.23%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £57.19
90th Percentile £63.00 - £63.38
Scotland median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
% change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in Edinburgh

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Perl in Edinburgh

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in Edinburgh

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) GIS
1 1 (25.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Unix Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) AIX
3 1 (25.00%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Cartography
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) KVM
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Commvault
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto