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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 350 354
Rank change year-on-year -137 +4 -48
Contract jobs citing Perl 87 128 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.52% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.80% 1.54% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 81 127
10th Percentile - £393 £416
25th Percentile £204 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.75% -3.41% -8.33%
75th Percentile £532 £594 £626
90th Percentile £560 £670 £806
UK median daily rate £427 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -19.10% -3.98% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £75.90 £63.65 £41.25
25th Percentile £77.00 £63.88 £49.69
Median hourly rate £80.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £83.13 £66.13 £63.94
90th Percentile £84.00 £66.35 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £78.75 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +21.15% +8.33% +4.35%

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 10,940 8,305 10,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.44% 33.78% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,274 5,736 7,900
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -2.78% -4.42%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 523 215 436
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.68 £47.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.12% -0.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £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% -1.92%

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 25 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 25 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 -91 28 £500 -9.09% 3
South East -61 27 £208 -59.71% 6
West Midlands -50 12 £460 -
Midlands -53 12 £460 -9.09%
North of England -86 11 £531 -1.21% 1
East of England -36 9 - - 7
Yorkshire -69 8 £531 -3.45% 1
North West -46 3 £460 +17.05%
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 (10.34%) Confluence
2 7 (8.05%) WebLogic
3 5 (5.75%) Apache
4 4 (4.60%) SharePoint
4 4 (4.60%) WebSphere
4 4 (4.60%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (2.30%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (2.30%) JBoss
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (2.30%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.15%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (2.30%) Front Arena
2 2 (2.30%) Global One
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.69%) AWS
2 12 (13.79%) Azure
3 8 (9.20%) SaaS
4 6 (6.90%) Sauce Labs
5 5 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.75%) Azure API Management
5 5 (5.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.45%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.45%) GCP
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.30%) GitHub
7 2 (2.30%) OCI
7 2 (2.30%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.64%) Firewall
2 7 (8.05%) HTTP
3 4 (4.60%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.45%) DNS
4 3 (3.45%) SAN
4 3 (3.45%) SSL
5 2 (2.30%) DHCP
5 2 (2.30%) FTP
5 2 (2.30%) InfiniBand
5 2 (2.30%) VLAN
5 2 (2.30%) Wireless
6 1 (1.15%) BGP
6 1 (1.15%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.15%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.15%) LAN
6 1 (1.15%) Network Security
6 1 (1.15%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (1.15%) SSH
6 1 (1.15%) VSAN
6 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (26.44%) Relational Database
2 22 (25.29%) MySQL
3 11 (12.64%) Oracle Database
4 7 (8.05%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.90%) Metadata
6 5 (5.75%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.60%) RDBMS
7 4 (4.60%) SQLPlus
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.45%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (2.30%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (2.30%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (2.30%) Tableau
10 1 (1.15%) Big Data
10 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.15%) KDB
10 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.15%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (18.39%) JIRA
2 14 (16.09%) Git
3 11 (12.64%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.90%) Android Studio
4 6 (6.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (6.90%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (6.90%) Eclipse
4 6 (6.90%) Xcode
5 5 (5.75%) Toad
6 4 (4.60%) GitLab
7 3 (3.45%) Ant
7 3 (3.45%) JUnit
7 3 (3.45%) SoapUI
7 3 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.30%) Introscope
9 1 (1.15%) Subversion
9 1 (1.15%) TestDirector
General
1 31 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.39%) Finance
3 13 (14.94%) Banking
4 9 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.20%) Publishing
6 5 (5.75%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.30%) Back Office
8 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.30%) Front Office
8 2 (2.30%) Law
8 2 (2.30%) Legal
9 1 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (19.54%) Developer
1 17 (19.54%) Technical Support
2 9 (10.34%) Support Engineer
3 8 (9.20%) Lead
4 7 (8.05%) Software Engineer
4 7 (8.05%) Technical Engineer
4 7 (8.05%) Technical Support Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) Perl Developer
5 6 (6.90%) UX Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Administrator
6 5 (5.75%) Applications Support
6 5 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Senior
6 5 (5.75%) Software Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Middleware Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Oracle Developer
7 4 (4.60%) ServiceNow Architect
8 3 (3.45%) IAM Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.64%) Ajax
2 10 (11.49%) Middleware
3 8 (9.20%) YAML
4 7 (8.05%) AngularJS
4 7 (8.05%) Kafka
4 7 (8.05%) React
4 7 (8.05%) Spring
5 6 (6.90%) CSS
5 6 (6.90%) GraphQL
5 6 (6.90%) Spring Boot
6 5 (5.75%) IBM Integration Bus
6 5 (5.75%) SOAP
6 5 (5.75%) XML
7 4 (4.60%) LAMP
8 2 (2.30%) EDI
8 2 (2.30%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (2.30%) FIXML
8 2 (2.30%) JMS
8 2 (2.30%) Node.js
8 2 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Data Centre
1 8 (9.20%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.90%) Clustering
2 6 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.90%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.75%) CMDB
3 5 (5.75%) Reference Data
4 4 (4.60%) Derivative
4 4 (4.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.45%) Replication
6 2 (2.30%) Eurex
6 2 (2.30%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.30%) Swaptions
6 2 (2.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.15%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.15%) PKI
7 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 60 (68.97%) Linux
2 43 (49.43%) Unix
3 26 (29.89%) Windows
4 20 (22.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (9.20%) AIX
5 8 (9.20%) CentOS
5 8 (9.20%) Ubuntu
6 6 (6.90%) Android
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (3.45%) Solaris
8 2 (2.30%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (25.29%) DevOps
3 20 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (20.69%) CI/CD
4 18 (20.69%) OO
5 17 (19.54%) Process Improvement
6 16 (18.39%) Agile
6 16 (18.39%) Performance Tuning
7 14 (16.09%) ITSM
8 13 (14.94%) OOP
9 12 (13.79%) Computer Science
9 12 (13.79%) Software Engineering
10 11 (12.64%) ITIL
10 11 (12.64%) Migration
10 11 (12.64%) Scrum
11 9 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (9.20%) Data Modelling
12 8 (9.20%) Microservices
12 8 (9.20%) RBAC
13 7 (8.05%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 52 (59.77%) Python
2 43 (49.43%) SQL
3 42 (48.28%) Java
4 20 (22.99%) JavaScript
5 18 (20.69%) PowerShell
6 13 (14.94%) Bash
6 13 (14.94%) PL/SQL
6 13 (14.94%) Shell Script
7 11 (12.64%) Ruby
8 7 (8.05%) C#
8 7 (8.05%) PHP
9 5 (5.75%) Korn
10 3 (3.45%) Groovy
11 2 (2.30%) C
11 2 (2.30%) Jython
12 1 (1.15%) C++
12 1 (1.15%) Scala
12 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.09%) Degree
3 13 (14.94%) SC Cleared
4 12 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (9.20%) RHCE
6 5 (5.75%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.15%) CCDP
8 1 (1.15%) CCNA
8 1 (1.15%) CCNP
8 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.30%) GDPR
1 2 (2.30%) QA
1 2 (2.30%) SEPA
2 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (6.90%) Docker
2 3 (3.45%) Firmware
2 3 (3.45%) PowerHA
2 3 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.30%) GPFS
3 2 (2.30%) Lustre
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (2.30%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.15%) Ceph
4 1 (1.15%) iptables
4 1 (1.15%) KVM
4 1 (1.15%) NFS
4 1 (1.15%) Samba
4 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (22.99%) Ansible
2 9 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.34%) Puppet
3 6 (6.90%) Terraform
4 4 (4.60%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (3.45%) Grafana
5 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.30%) CA Wily
6 2 (2.30%) Control-M
6 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.30%) SELinux
6 2 (2.30%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.15%) BladeLogic
7 1 (1.15%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.15%) SCCM
7 1 (1.15%) SCOM
7 1 (1.15%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 39 (44.83%) Oracle
2 22 (25.29%) Red Hat
3 13 (14.94%) IBM
4 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
5 10 (11.49%) ServiceNow
6 9 (10.34%) Splunk
7 5 (5.75%) AppDynamics
8 3 (3.45%) SolarWinds
8 3 (3.45%) VMware
9 2 (2.30%) Bloomberg
9 2 (2.30%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (2.30%) MarketAxess
9 2 (2.30%) Murex
9 2 (2.30%) Tradeweb
10 1 (1.15%) Citrix
10 1 (1.15%) Dell
10 1 (1.15%) HP
10 1 (1.15%) Perforce
10 1 (1.15%) Symantec
10 1 (1.15%) Veritas