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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 353 371
Rank change year-on-year -159 +18 -70
Contract jobs citing Perl 79 125 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% 1.54% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 78 118
10th Percentile - £393 £420
25th Percentile £204 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £636
90th Percentile £571 £638 £805
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% -3.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £75.90 - £49.35
25th Percentile £77.00 - £54.00
Median hourly rate £80.50 £65.00 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% +2.36% +20.95%
75th Percentile £83.13 - £67.00
90th Percentile £84.00 - £68.05
UK median hourly rate £78.75 £70.00 £63.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% +10.24% +10.43%

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 10,724 8,133 10,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.60% 33.72% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,080 5,646 7,855
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -2.48%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £659
90th Percentile £720 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 209 441
10th Percentile £41.94 £26.31 £38.39
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.11 £50.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.07%

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 13 May 2026.

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
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 13 May 2026. 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
South East -52 25 £208 -59.63% 8
London -95 22 £525 -2.89% 7
North of England -90 12 £531 -1.21% 1
Midlands -50 11 £465 -8.10% 3
West Midlands -51 11 £465 - 2
East of England -26 9 - - 7
Yorkshire -61 9 £531 -3.45%
North West -42 3 £460 +17.05% 1
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 9 (11.39%) Confluence
2 6 (7.59%) Apache
2 6 (7.59%) WebLogic
3 4 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.06%) WebSphere
3 4 (5.06%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.53%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (2.53%) JBoss
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (2.53%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (12.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.27%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Front Arena
1 2 (2.53%) Global One
1 2 (2.53%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.53%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.53%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.72%) AWS
2 9 (11.39%) Azure
3 7 (8.86%) SaaS
4 6 (7.59%) Sauce Labs
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.06%) AWS KMS
5 4 (5.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.53%) Azure API Management
6 2 (2.53%) GCP
6 2 (2.53%) GitHub
6 2 (2.53%) OCI
6 2 (2.53%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.27%) IaaS
7 1 (1.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.39%) Firewall
2 4 (5.06%) DNS
2 4 (5.06%) HTTP
2 4 (5.06%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.80%) SAN
3 3 (3.80%) SSL
4 2 (2.53%) DHCP
4 2 (2.53%) FTP
4 2 (2.53%) InfiniBand
4 2 (2.53%) VLAN
5 1 (1.27%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.27%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.27%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.27%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.27%) LAN
5 1 (1.27%) Network Security
5 1 (1.27%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.27%) SSH
5 1 (1.27%) VSAN
5 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.85%) Relational Database
2 21 (26.58%) MySQL
3 8 (10.13%) Oracle Database
4 6 (7.59%) Metadata
4 6 (7.59%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (5.06%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (5.06%) RDBMS
6 4 (5.06%) SQLPlus
7 2 (2.53%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (2.53%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.53%) Tableau
8 1 (1.27%) DB2
8 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.27%) KDB
8 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.27%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (17.72%) JIRA
2 12 (15.19%) Git
3 11 (13.92%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.59%) Android Studio
4 6 (7.59%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (7.59%) Eclipse
4 6 (7.59%) Xcode
5 5 (6.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (5.06%) Toad
7 2 (2.53%) GitLab
7 2 (2.53%) Introscope
8 1 (1.27%) Ant
8 1 (1.27%) JUnit
8 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.92%) Finance
3 10 (12.66%) Banking
4 9 (11.39%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (10.13%) Publishing
6 7 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.06%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.53%) Back Office
9 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.53%) Front Office
9 2 (2.53%) Law
9 2 (2.53%) Legal
10 1 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (20.25%) Technical Support
2 14 (17.72%) Developer
3 10 (12.66%) Support Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Lead
4 8 (10.13%) Technical Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Technical Support Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Perl Developer
5 6 (7.59%) Software Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) UX Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Applications Support
6 5 (6.33%) Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Senior
6 5 (6.33%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Administrator
7 4 (5.06%) DBA
7 4 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Middleware Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Oracle Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (3.80%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) Ajax
1 9 (11.39%) YAML
2 8 (10.13%) Middleware
3 7 (8.86%) AngularJS
3 7 (8.86%) React
4 6 (7.59%) CSS
4 6 (7.59%) GraphQL
4 6 (7.59%) Spring
5 5 (6.33%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.06%) Kafka
6 4 (5.06%) LAMP
7 2 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.53%) FIXML
7 2 (2.53%) IBM Integration Bus
7 2 (2.53%) JDBC
7 2 (2.53%) JMS
7 2 (2.53%) SOAP
7 2 (2.53%) Web Services
7 2 (2.53%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (2.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.86%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.59%) Clustering
3 6 (7.59%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.59%) Mobile App
4 5 (6.33%) Reference Data
5 4 (5.06%) Derivative
5 4 (5.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (5.06%) Replication
6 3 (3.80%) CMDB
6 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.53%) Eurex
7 2 (2.53%) Fixed Income
7 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.53%) Swaptions
8 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.27%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.27%) PKI
8 1 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 55 (69.62%) Linux
2 39 (49.37%) Unix
3 21 (26.58%) Windows
4 18 (22.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (10.13%) CentOS
5 8 (10.13%) Ubuntu
6 6 (7.59%) Android
7 5 (6.33%) AIX
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (2.53%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.53%) Solaris
9 2 (2.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.91%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (26.58%) DevOps
3 19 (24.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (22.78%) CI/CD
5 17 (21.52%) OO
5 17 (21.52%) Performance Tuning
6 16 (20.25%) Process Improvement
7 14 (17.72%) Agile
7 14 (17.72%) OOP
8 13 (16.46%) Computer Science
8 13 (16.46%) Migration
9 12 (15.19%) ITSM
9 12 (15.19%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (13.92%) Software Engineering
11 9 (11.39%) ITIL
12 8 (10.13%) Data Modelling
12 8 (10.13%) RBAC
12 8 (10.13%) Scrum
13 7 (8.86%) Disaster Recovery
13 7 (8.86%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 51 (64.56%) Python
2 39 (49.37%) SQL
3 36 (45.57%) Java
4 20 (25.32%) JavaScript
5 16 (20.25%) PowerShell
6 13 (16.46%) Shell Script
7 12 (15.19%) Bash
8 10 (12.66%) PL/SQL
8 10 (12.66%) Ruby
9 7 (8.86%) C#
9 7 (8.86%) PHP
10 4 (5.06%) Groovy
11 2 (2.53%) C
11 2 (2.53%) Jython
11 2 (2.53%) Korn
12 1 (1.27%) C++
12 1 (1.27%) Scala
12 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) Degree
2 14 (17.72%) Security Cleared
3 13 (16.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (16.46%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.13%) RHCE
5 4 (5.06%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.06%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.27%) CCDP
6 1 (1.27%) CCNA
6 1 (1.27%) CCNP
6 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) GDPR
1 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.27%) QA
1 1 (1.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (6.33%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.80%) Firmware
2 3 (3.80%) PowerHA
3 2 (2.53%) GPFS
3 2 (2.53%) Lustre
3 2 (2.53%) NFS
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.27%) Ceph
4 1 (1.27%) iptables
4 1 (1.27%) KVM
4 1 (1.27%) Postfix
4 1 (1.27%) Samba
4 1 (1.27%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.27%) Varnish
4 1 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (25.32%) Ansible
2 9 (11.39%) Puppet
3 7 (8.86%) Terraform
4 6 (7.59%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.06%) Grafana
5 4 (5.06%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (5.06%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.53%) CA Wily
6 2 (2.53%) Control-M
6 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (2.53%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.53%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.27%) BladeLogic
7 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.27%) SCCM
7 1 (1.27%) SCOM
7 1 (1.27%) SELinux
Vendors
1 32 (40.51%) Oracle
2 20 (25.32%) Red Hat
3 11 (13.92%) Microsoft
4 10 (12.66%) IBM
5 9 (11.39%) Splunk
6 7 (8.86%) ServiceNow
7 5 (6.33%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.53%) Bloomberg
8 2 (2.53%) MarketAxess
8 2 (2.53%) Murex
8 2 (2.53%) Tradeweb
8 2 (2.53%) VMware
9 1 (1.27%) Citrix
9 1 (1.27%) Dell
9 1 (1.27%) F5
9 1 (1.27%) HP
9 1 (1.27%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.27%) Sybase
9 1 (1.27%) Veeam