Perl Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Perl
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 67 72
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing Perl 8 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.33% 0.33% 0.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.49% 1.00% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £413 £401 £455
25th Percentile £438 £403 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £413 £533
Median % change year-on-year +21.52% -22.64% +6.12%
75th Percentile £534 £428 £545
90th Percentile £549 £434 £556
Scotland median daily rate £425 £438 £531
% change year-on-year -2.86% -17.53% +5.05%

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 229 201 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.98% 33.50% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 115 169
10th Percentile £401 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £528 £550
90th Percentile £625 £552 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £469 £510
% change year-on-year +1.28% -8.04% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile £58.00 - £42.62
25th Percentile £64.38 £21.00 £56.98
Median hourly rate £75.00 £23.77 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +215.56% -60.71% +2.98%
75th Percentile - £43.22 £60.75
90th Percentile - £71.50 £61.05
Scotland median hourly rate £59.36 £22.44 £60.50
% change year-on-year +164.57% -62.91% +7.86%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Perl relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Perl job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Perl.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Perl

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in Edinburgh

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Perl.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Perl

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
2 5 (62.50%) OpenShift
3 4 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (25.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Site Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (62.50%) Unix
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (62.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (62.50%) Observability
4 5 (62.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
5 4 (50.00%) Scrum
6 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
6 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (37.50%) Migration
7 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (25.00%) DevOps
7 2 (25.00%) Kanban
7 2 (25.00%) OO
7 2 (25.00%) OOD
8 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
8 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
8 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bash
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) NCDA
2 1 (12.50%) VCP6
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 4 (50.00%) KVM
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
1 6 (75.00%) Grafana
2 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) Prometheus
3 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (50.00%) Terraform
4 2 (25.00%) Fluentd
4 2 (25.00%) HAProxy
4 2 (25.00%) Nagios
5 1 (12.50%) vMotion
5 1 (12.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Commvault
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
1 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Brocade
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) VMware