Perl Contract Job Trends in England

Perl
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 348 326
Rank change year-on-year -27 -22 -5
Contract jobs citing Perl 171 153 227
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.54% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.75% 1.67% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 99 175
10th Percentile - £203 £314
25th Percentile £204 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £550 £744 £750
90th Percentile £600 £810 £823
UK median daily rate £460 £556 £550
% change year-on-year -17.39% +1.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £72.56 - £43.38
25th Percentile £74.26 £63.50 £54.06
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% -17.81%
75th Percentile £82.25 £66.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £84.00 - £63.50
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% +8.33% -17.81%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,790 9,185 11,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.96% 32.55% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,514 5,952 8,061
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £768
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 219 391
10th Percentile £36.86 £25.26 £35.50
25th Percentile £52.00 £43.25 £46.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.47%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -0.13%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Perl job vacancy trend in England

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Perl

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in England

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Perl

Perl
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Perl in England

Perl
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
London -41 59 £480 -28.89% 18
South East -2 43 £208 +1.22% 43
North of England -29 36 £537 +26.35% 27
North West -7 24 £550 +29.41% 9
West Midlands -18 16 £475 +11.50% 14
Midlands -33 16 £475 +11.50% 28
East of England -17 10 £613 +2.08% 33
Yorkshire -41 8 £531 -21.33% 17
North East - 7 £550 - 1
South West 0 5 £513 -34.92% 11
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (7.02%) Confluence
2 10 (5.85%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.75%) JBoss
4 3 (1.75%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.17%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.58%) Apache
6 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.58%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.17%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 41 (23.98%) AWS
2 24 (14.04%) Azure
2 24 (14.04%) SaaS
3 21 (12.28%) Sauce Labs
4 14 (8.19%) GCP
5 11 (6.43%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (6.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 9 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.68%) Amazon ELB
8 7 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (4.09%) Amazon Glacier
8 7 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.09%) AWS KMS
8 7 (4.09%) GitHub
9 6 (3.51%) Azure API Management
9 6 (3.51%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.92%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.34%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (18.13%) Firewall
2 22 (12.87%) TCP/IP
3 21 (12.28%) Wireless
4 20 (11.70%) DNS
4 20 (11.70%) HTTP
5 15 (8.77%) BGP
6 8 (4.68%) SSH
6 8 (4.68%) SSL
7 7 (4.09%) FTP
7 7 (4.09%) SMTP
7 7 (4.09%) VLAN
8 6 (3.51%) OSPF
8 6 (3.51%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (3.51%) WebEx
9 5 (2.92%) DHCP
9 5 (2.92%) EIGRP
9 5 (2.92%) HTTPS
9 5 (2.92%) IPsec
9 5 (2.92%) LAN
9 5 (2.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (28.65%) Relational Database
2 43 (25.15%) MySQL
3 13 (7.60%) Oracle Database
4 11 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (5.26%) RDBMS
6 7 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.92%) Metadata
7 5 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.34%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (2.34%) SQLPlus
9 3 (1.75%) Big Data
9 3 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.17%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.17%) Oracle BI EE
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.58%) Parquet
11 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (18.13%) Git
2 22 (12.87%) Browser DevTools
3 21 (12.28%) Android Studio
3 21 (12.28%) Eclipse
3 21 (12.28%) Jenkins
3 21 (12.28%) Xcode
4 19 (11.11%) JIRA
5 7 (4.09%) GitLab
5 7 (4.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (4.09%) TeamCity
5 7 (4.09%) Vagrant
6 6 (3.51%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.92%) Subversion
7 5 (2.92%) Toad
8 4 (2.34%) Ant
8 4 (2.34%) JUnit
8 4 (2.34%) Liquibase
8 4 (2.34%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.34%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 72 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.37%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (14.04%) Finance
4 17 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.02%) Banking
6 10 (5.85%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.26%) Legal
8 6 (3.51%) Publishing
9 4 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.17%) French Language
10 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.17%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.58%) German Language
11 1 (0.58%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.58%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.58%) Law
11 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 42 (24.56%) Technical Support
2 23 (13.45%) Support Engineer
3 22 (12.87%) Technical Engineer
3 22 (12.87%) Technical Support Engineer
3 22 (12.87%) UX Engineer
4 21 (12.28%) Developer
5 18 (10.53%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 18 (10.53%) Network Engineer
6 16 (9.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (9.36%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (8.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.43%) AWS DevOps
8 11 (6.43%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) Administrator
10 7 (4.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) Perl Developer
12 5 (2.92%) Linux Administrator
12 5 (2.92%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.20%) Ajax
2 25 (14.62%) AngularJS
2 25 (14.62%) CSS
2 25 (14.62%) React
3 22 (12.87%) GraphQL
4 12 (7.02%) Kafka
5 10 (5.85%) Node.js
6 7 (4.09%) SOAP
7 6 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (3.51%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (3.51%) Middleware
7 6 (3.51%) XMPP
8 5 (2.92%) XML
9 4 (2.34%) REST
9 4 (2.34%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.75%) .NET
10 3 (1.75%) Electron
10 3 (1.75%) HTML
10 3 (1.75%) JNI
10 3 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.62%) Mobile App
2 12 (7.02%) Replication
3 11 (6.43%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.85%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.68%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.09%) Private Cloud
7 6 (3.51%) Clustering
7 6 (3.51%) PKI
8 5 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.92%) Reference Data
9 4 (2.34%) CMDB
9 4 (2.34%) FPGA
9 4 (2.34%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.75%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.75%) RISC-V
10 3 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 2 (1.17%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.17%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 113 (66.08%) Linux
2 79 (46.20%) Unix
3 74 (43.27%) Windows
4 24 (14.04%) Android
5 23 (13.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (5.85%) Windows Server
7 8 (4.68%) CentOS
8 7 (4.09%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (4.09%) VMS
9 6 (3.51%) Solaris
10 5 (2.92%) AIX
10 5 (2.92%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.75%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (25.73%) OO
2 36 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (20.47%) DevOps
4 27 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 26 (15.20%) User Experience
6 25 (14.62%) ITSM
7 22 (12.87%) Computer Science
7 22 (12.87%) Mobile Application Development
8 21 (12.28%) High Availability
8 21 (12.28%) Process Improvement
9 20 (11.70%) OOP
10 18 (10.53%) Agile
11 17 (9.94%) Containerisation
11 17 (9.94%) Platform Engineering
12 16 (9.36%) Configuration Management
13 15 (8.77%) Service Management
14 14 (8.19%) Change Control
14 14 (8.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (7.02%) Performance Tuning
15 12 (7.02%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 142 (83.04%) Python
2 82 (47.95%) Java
3 51 (29.82%) Bash
4 48 (28.07%) JavaScript
5 46 (26.90%) SQL
6 38 (22.22%) PowerShell
7 18 (10.53%) Shell Script
8 14 (8.19%) PL/SQL
9 11 (6.43%) Go
10 10 (5.85%) C++
11 9 (5.26%) C#
11 9 (5.26%) Ruby
12 7 (4.09%) Groovy
12 7 (4.09%) Korn
13 6 (3.51%) C
14 4 (2.34%) Assembly Language
14 4 (2.34%) PHP
14 4 (2.34%) SystemVerilog
15 3 (1.75%) TypeScript
16 2 (1.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 36 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 34 (19.88%) SC Cleared
3 24 (14.04%) Degree
4 19 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (9.94%) CCNP
5 17 (9.94%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (7.02%) CCDP
7 9 (5.26%) CCNA
8 5 (2.92%) JNCIA
8 5 (2.92%) JNCIS
8 5 (2.92%) RHCE
9 4 (2.34%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.17%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.51%) GDPR
2 4 (2.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.75%) SEPA
4 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 28 (16.37%) Docker
2 19 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 16 (9.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.09%) DFS Replication
5 6 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.92%) Firmware
6 5 (2.92%) NFS
7 4 (2.34%) KVM
7 4 (2.34%) Veritas File System
7 4 (2.34%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (2.34%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.75%) QEMU
9 2 (1.17%) GPFS
9 2 (1.17%) Lustre
9 2 (1.17%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (1.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.58%) Ceph
10 1 (0.58%) iptables
10 1 (0.58%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (17.54%) Ansible
2 23 (13.45%) Terraform
3 22 (12.87%) Kubernetes
4 8 (4.68%) Grafana
4 8 (4.68%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.51%) Puppet
5 6 (3.51%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (2.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.92%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.34%) QRadar
8 3 (1.75%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.75%) Kibana
8 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.75%) Packer
9 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 2 (1.17%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (1.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (1.17%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (1.17%) SELinux
10 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (37.43%) Oracle
2 41 (23.98%) Microsoft
3 38 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 38 (22.22%) Splunk
4 28 (16.37%) Red Hat
5 22 (12.87%) Cisco
6 21 (12.28%) VMware
7 11 (6.43%) F5
8 9 (5.26%) Citrix
9 8 (4.68%) IBM
9 8 (4.68%) Juniper
10 7 (4.09%) SolarWinds
11 6 (3.51%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.92%) AppDynamics
13 4 (2.34%) CyberArk
13 4 (2.34%) Qualys
13 4 (2.34%) SaltStack
14 3 (1.75%) LogicMonitor
14 3 (1.75%) Meraki
15 2 (1.17%) Tradeweb