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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 342 355
Rank change year-on-year -146 +13 -45
Contract jobs citing Perl 100 125 183
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 1.51% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 81 123
10th Percentile £204 £393 £414
25th Percentile £355 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £647
90th Percentile £550 £738 £812
UK median daily rate £450 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -16.20% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile - £63.65 £41.25
25th Percentile £74.26 £63.88 £49.69
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% -17.81%
75th Percentile £82.25 £66.13 £63.94
90th Percentile £84.00 £66.35 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% -7.69%

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 10,920 8,259 10,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.86% 33.86% 28.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,280 5,686 7,810
10th Percentile £352 £362 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.61%
75th Percentile £610 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 519 212 426
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.31 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.40 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.32
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.03% -3.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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
London -86 27 £450 -18.18% 8
South East -45 26 £208 -59.63% 14
North of England -72 25 £537 -0.09% 9
North West -36 16 £550 +39.95% 4
West Midlands -52 12 £460 - 1
Midlands -56 12 £460 -9.09% 4
East of England -23 9 - - 13
Yorkshire -63 8 £531 -3.45% 4
North East - 4 £550 - 1
South West -32 1 £513 -26.79% 6
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 10 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.00%) WebLogic
3 6 (6.00%) Confluence
3 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (5.00%) Apache
5 2 (2.00%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (2.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (2.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (2.00%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (2.00%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (2.00%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.00%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (2.00%) Front Arena
2 2 (2.00%) Global One
2 2 (2.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.00%) AWS
2 10 (10.00%) Azure
3 8 (8.00%) SaaS
4 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.00%) Sauce Labs
5 5 (5.00%) Azure API Management
6 3 (3.00%) GCP
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.00%) GitHub
7 2 (2.00%) OCI
7 2 (2.00%) Serverless
7 2 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.00%) Firewall
2 8 (8.00%) HTTP
2 8 (8.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.00%) BGP
3 7 (7.00%) VLAN
4 6 (6.00%) WebEx
5 5 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (4.00%) DNS
6 4 (4.00%) Wireless
7 3 (3.00%) DHCP
7 3 (3.00%) SAN
7 3 (3.00%) SNMP
7 3 (3.00%) SSL
7 3 (3.00%) VPN
8 2 (2.00%) FTP
8 2 (2.00%) InfiniBand
8 2 (2.00%) LAN
8 2 (2.00%) WAN
9 1 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (1.00%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.00%) Relational Database
2 22 (22.00%) MySQL
3 11 (11.00%) Oracle Database
4 7 (7.00%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.00%) Metadata
6 4 (4.00%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.00%) SQLPlus
7 3 (3.00%) Oracle Database 10g
7 3 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.00%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (2.00%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.00%) Tableau
9 1 (1.00%) Big Data
9 1 (1.00%) DB2
9 1 (1.00%) GIS
9 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.00%) KDB
9 1 (1.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (13.00%) JIRA
2 12 (12.00%) Git
3 9 (9.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.00%) Android Studio
4 6 (6.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (6.00%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (6.00%) Eclipse
4 6 (6.00%) Xcode
5 5 (5.00%) Toad
6 4 (4.00%) GitLab
7 3 (3.00%) Ant
7 3 (3.00%) JUnit
7 3 (3.00%) SoapUI
7 3 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.00%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.00%) Introscope
9 1 (1.00%) Subversion
9 1 (1.00%) TestDirector
General
1 34 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (17.00%) Finance
3 13 (13.00%) Banking
4 10 (10.00%) Legal
5 9 (9.00%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (8.00%) Publishing
7 5 (5.00%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.00%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.00%) Back Office
9 2 (2.00%) Front Office
9 2 (2.00%) Law
10 1 (1.00%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.00%) French Language
Job Titles
1 18 (18.00%) Developer
2 17 (17.00%) Technical Support
3 11 (11.00%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (8.00%) Lead
4 8 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 7 (7.00%) Software Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Administrator
6 6 (6.00%) Network Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Perl Developer
6 6 (6.00%) Technical Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Technical Support Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) UX Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.00%) Senior
7 5 (5.00%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.00%) Architect
8 4 (4.00%) Oracle Developer
8 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow Architect
9 3 (3.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (3.00%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.00%) Ajax
2 8 (8.00%) Middleware
2 8 (8.00%) YAML
3 7 (7.00%) AngularJS
3 7 (7.00%) Kafka
3 7 (7.00%) React
3 7 (7.00%) Spring
4 6 (6.00%) CSS
4 6 (6.00%) GraphQL
4 6 (6.00%) SOAP
4 6 (6.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (6.00%) XMPP
5 5 (5.00%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (5.00%) XML
6 4 (4.00%) LAMP
7 2 (2.00%) EDI
7 2 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.00%) JDBC
7 2 (2.00%) JMS
7 2 (2.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.00%) Clustering
4 6 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.00%) Mobile App
5 5 (5.00%) CMDB
5 5 (5.00%) Reference Data
6 4 (4.00%) Derivative
6 4 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.00%) Eurex
8 2 (2.00%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.00%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.00%) Swaptions
8 2 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.00%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.00%) Replication
9 1 (1.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 70 (70.00%) Linux
2 43 (43.00%) Unix
3 41 (41.00%) Windows
4 29 (29.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (11.00%) Windows Server
6 8 (8.00%) AIX
6 8 (8.00%) CentOS
6 8 (8.00%) Ubuntu
7 6 (6.00%) Android
8 3 (3.00%) Solaris
9 2 (2.00%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (24.00%) ITSM
3 21 (21.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (19.00%) OO
5 18 (18.00%) CI/CD
6 17 (17.00%) DevOps
6 17 (17.00%) Process Improvement
7 14 (14.00%) Computer Science
7 14 (14.00%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (13.00%) Agile
8 13 (13.00%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (13.00%) Software Engineering
9 12 (12.00%) Change Control
9 12 (12.00%) High Availability
9 12 (12.00%) OOP
9 12 (12.00%) Scrum
10 11 (11.00%) ITIL
10 11 (11.00%) Migration
11 10 (10.00%) Knowledge Management
11 10 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 64 (64.00%) Python
2 44 (44.00%) SQL
3 39 (39.00%) Java
4 29 (29.00%) PowerShell
5 27 (27.00%) Bash
6 20 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 14 (14.00%) PL/SQL
8 11 (11.00%) Ruby
9 10 (10.00%) Shell Script
10 8 (8.00%) C#
11 7 (7.00%) PHP
12 5 (5.00%) Korn
13 2 (2.00%) C
13 2 (2.00%) C++
13 2 (2.00%) Jython
14 1 (1.00%) Scala
14 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (16.00%) Degree
4 11 (11.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.00%) CCDP
5 9 (9.00%) CCNA
5 9 (9.00%) CCNP
5 9 (9.00%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (8.00%) RHCE
7 3 (3.00%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.00%) GDPR
1 2 (2.00%) QA
1 2 (2.00%) SEPA
2 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.00%) Docker
3 3 (3.00%) Firmware
3 3 (3.00%) PowerHA
4 2 (2.00%) GPFS
4 2 (2.00%) Lustre
4 2 (2.00%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.00%) Ceph
5 1 (1.00%) iptables
5 1 (1.00%) KVM
5 1 (1.00%) NFS
5 1 (1.00%) Samba
5 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (18.00%) Ansible
2 9 (9.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.00%) Puppet
3 5 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (4.00%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (3.00%) Terraform
6 2 (2.00%) CA Wily
6 2 (2.00%) Control-M
6 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (2.00%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.00%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.00%) SELinux
6 2 (2.00%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.00%) BladeLogic
7 1 (1.00%) Consul
7 1 (1.00%) SCCM
7 1 (1.00%) SCOM
7 1 (1.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (39.00%) Oracle
2 29 (29.00%) Red Hat
3 20 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 15 (15.00%) VMware
5 12 (12.00%) Cisco
6 11 (11.00%) IBM
7 10 (10.00%) Citrix
8 9 (9.00%) Splunk
9 8 (8.00%) ServiceNow
10 5 (5.00%) AppDynamics
11 4 (4.00%) SolarWinds
12 3 (3.00%) Juniper
12 3 (3.00%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (2.00%) Bloomberg
13 2 (2.00%) MarketAxess
13 2 (2.00%) Murex
13 2 (2.00%) Palo Alto
13 2 (2.00%) Tradeweb
14 1 (1.00%) Perforce
14 1 (1.00%) Veeam