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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 341 338
Rank change year-on-year -31 -3 -13
Contract jobs citing Perl 168 165 257
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.54% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.71% 1.65% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 116 200
10th Percentile £204 £203 £308
25th Percentile £221 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £550 £716 £709
90th Percentile £600 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £475 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -10.38% -3.64% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £68.30 £59.30 £43.38
25th Percentile £72.13 £62.00 £54.06
Median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% +8.33% -17.81%
75th Percentile - £66.50 £61.25
90th Percentile - - £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 9,799 9,977 12,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.25% 32.36% 31.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,535 6,488 8,912
10th Percentile £350 £353 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% -1.95% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 248 416
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.00 £32.32
25th Percentile £49.81 £46.18 £47.50
Median hourly rate £63.32 £65.00 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +4.42% -0.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year - +3.31% +0.83%

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 19 November 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
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 19 November 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 -30 64 £480 -20.00% 39
North of England -12 36 £550 +15.79% 5
South East +7 35 £208 +1.22% 23
North West -1 26 £550 +29.41% 2
West Midlands -16 19 £475 +12.29% 4
Midlands -24 19 £475 +12.29% 4
North East - 8 £550 -
South West +6 7 £513 -27.05% 7
Yorkshire -42 5 £559 +1.64% 3
East of England -25 4 £613 +2.08% 2
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 20 (11.90%) Confluence
2 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.98%) JBoss
5 3 (1.79%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.19%) Apache
6 2 (1.19%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.19%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.60%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 60 (35.71%) AWS
2 29 (17.26%) Azure
3 20 (11.90%) SaaS
4 19 (11.31%) GCP
5 18 (10.71%) Sauce Labs
6 17 (10.12%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (8.93%) Amazon S3
9 13 (7.74%) Amazon ELB
10 12 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (7.14%) Amazon Glacier
10 12 (7.14%) AWS KMS
11 9 (5.36%) GitHub
12 8 (4.76%) Entra ID
13 7 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (4.17%) OpenShift
14 6 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (21.43%) Firewall
2 26 (15.48%) DNS
3 23 (13.69%) HTTP
4 21 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 21 (12.50%) Wireless
5 16 (9.52%) BGP
6 12 (7.14%) FTP
6 12 (7.14%) SMTP
6 12 (7.14%) SSH
7 8 (4.76%) SSL
8 7 (4.17%) OSPF
9 6 (3.57%) EIGRP
9 6 (3.57%) HTTPS
9 6 (3.57%) IPsec
9 6 (3.57%) Network Security
9 6 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (3.57%) VLAN
9 6 (3.57%) WebEx
10 4 (2.38%) DHCP
10 4 (2.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (23.21%) Relational Database
2 36 (21.43%) MySQL
3 16 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.17%) Oracle Database
5 7 (4.17%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.79%) Big Data
6 3 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.79%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.19%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.19%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.60%) Parquet
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (23.21%) Git
2 33 (19.64%) Jenkins
3 29 (17.26%) JIRA
4 19 (11.31%) Browser DevTools
5 18 (10.71%) Android Studio
5 18 (10.71%) Eclipse
5 18 (10.71%) Xcode
6 14 (8.33%) Vagrant
7 9 (5.36%) Liquibase
7 9 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (5.36%) TeamCity
8 8 (4.76%) Bitbucket
9 7 (4.17%) GitLab
10 5 (2.98%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.98%) Subversion
11 4 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.38%) CA Release Automation
11 4 (2.38%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.79%) Ant
12 3 (1.79%) SoapUI
General
1 69 (41.07%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (13.69%) Public Sector
3 22 (13.10%) Finance
4 10 (5.95%) Legal
5 8 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 7 (4.17%) Banking
7 2 (1.19%) French Language
7 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.60%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.60%) German Language
8 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.60%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.60%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (20.24%) Technical Support
2 27 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (11.90%) Support Engineer
4 19 (11.31%) Network Engineer
4 19 (11.31%) Technical Engineer
4 19 (11.31%) Technical Support Engineer
4 19 (11.31%) UX Engineer
5 18 (10.71%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 17 (10.12%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (8.33%) Developer
7 14 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.36%) Administrator
11 8 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.76%) Linux Administrator
12 7 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 5 (2.98%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.29%) CSS
2 22 (13.10%) AngularJS
2 22 (13.10%) React
3 21 (12.50%) Ajax
4 19 (11.31%) GraphQL
5 16 (9.52%) Kafka
6 11 (6.55%) Node.js
7 8 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (3.57%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.57%) XMPP
9 5 (2.98%) HTML
9 5 (2.98%) SOAP
10 4 (2.38%) IBM Integration Bus
10 4 (2.38%) Middleware
10 4 (2.38%) REST
11 3 (1.79%) .NET
11 3 (1.79%) Electron
11 3 (1.79%) JNI
11 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.10%) Mobile App
2 17 (10.12%) Replication
3 11 (6.55%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.95%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.17%) PKI
5 7 (4.17%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.57%) Clustering
7 4 (2.38%) FPGA
7 4 (2.38%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.79%) RISC-V
9 2 (1.19%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.19%) CMDB
9 2 (1.19%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.60%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.60%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 106 (63.10%) Linux
2 75 (44.64%) Windows
3 60 (35.71%) Unix
4 24 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (12.50%) Android
6 12 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (7.14%) VMS
7 10 (5.95%) Windows Server
8 7 (4.17%) CentOS
9 6 (3.57%) Solaris
10 4 (2.38%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.79%) AIX
11 3 (1.79%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.79%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (26.79%) DevOps
2 36 (21.43%) OO
3 33 (19.64%) CI/CD
4 28 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (13.69%) Agile
5 23 (13.69%) Configuration Management
5 23 (13.69%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (13.69%) User Experience
6 20 (11.90%) Change Management
6 20 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (11.90%) ITSM
7 19 (11.31%) Computer Science
7 19 (11.31%) High Availability
7 19 (11.31%) Mobile Application Development
8 17 (10.12%) Containerisation
9 16 (9.52%) TDD
10 15 (8.93%) Continuous Deployment
10 15 (8.93%) OOP
10 15 (8.93%) Patch Management
10 15 (8.93%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 154 (91.67%) Python
2 85 (50.60%) Java
3 59 (35.12%) Bash
4 43 (25.60%) JavaScript
5 40 (23.81%) PowerShell
6 35 (20.83%) SQL
7 17 (10.12%) Go
7 17 (10.12%) Shell Script
8 15 (8.93%) C++
9 12 (7.14%) Groovy
10 11 (6.55%) PL/SQL
11 9 (5.36%) C
12 6 (3.57%) Ruby
13 5 (2.98%) Korn
14 4 (2.38%) Assembly Language
14 4 (2.38%) C#
14 4 (2.38%) SystemVerilog
15 3 (1.79%) TypeScript
16 2 (1.19%) PHP
16 2 (1.19%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 48 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 47 (27.98%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.50%) Degree
4 18 (10.71%) CCNP
4 18 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (7.14%) CCDP
7 9 (5.36%) CCNA
8 6 (3.57%) JNCIA
8 6 (3.57%) JNCIS
9 4 (2.38%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.19%) RHCE
10 2 (1.19%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.60%) CEH
11 1 (0.60%) CISSP
11 1 (0.60%) ISACA
11 1 (0.60%) OSCP
11 1 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) GDPR
2 6 (3.57%) QA
3 4 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.19%) SEPA
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (25.00%) Docker
2 27 (16.07%) Active Directory
3 18 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (7.14%) DFS Replication
5 6 (3.57%) Firmware
5 6 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.38%) NFS
6 4 (2.38%) Veritas File System
6 4 (2.38%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.79%) KVM
7 3 (1.79%) QEMU
8 2 (1.19%) GPFS
8 2 (1.19%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.60%) Lustre
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.60%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 28 (16.67%) Terraform
3 27 (16.07%) Ansible
4 13 (7.74%) Grafana
4 13 (7.74%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.36%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.57%) QRadar
6 6 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (2.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.98%) Kibana
7 5 (2.98%) Puppet
8 3 (1.79%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.79%) Packer
8 3 (1.79%) Salt
9 2 (1.19%) Icinga
9 2 (1.19%) Nagios
10 1 (0.60%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.60%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (30.36%) Oracle
2 41 (24.40%) ServiceNow
3 37 (22.02%) Splunk
4 36 (21.43%) Microsoft
5 27 (16.07%) Red Hat
6 24 (14.29%) Cisco
7 23 (13.69%) VMware
8 11 (6.55%) F5
9 9 (5.36%) Citrix
9 9 (5.36%) Juniper
10 7 (4.17%) Palo Alto
10 7 (4.17%) SolarWinds
11 6 (3.57%) IBM
12 5 (2.98%) AppDynamics
12 5 (2.98%) CyberArk
13 4 (2.38%) Cloudera
13 4 (2.38%) Qualys
13 4 (2.38%) SaltStack
14 3 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
14 3 (1.79%) Meraki