Perl Contracts in England

Perl
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Perl skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Perl over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 390 307
Rank change year-on-year +31 -83 +94
Contract jobs citing Perl 137 173 379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.46% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.55% 1.51% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 124 244
10th Percentile £392 £400 £411
25th Percentile £425 £445 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -0.45% +2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £688
90th Percentile £638 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.72% -1.82% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £50.75 £29.60
25th Percentile - £57.50 £37.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +20.95% +4.58%
75th Percentile - £66.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - £67.85 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +10.24% +20.95% +9.15%

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 8,860 11,480 16,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.62% 30.74% 34.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,117 8,213 11,848
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £540 £555
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -2.70% +0.18%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 481 410
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.58 £29.71
25th Percentile £36.19 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £81.48 £77.50 £80.14
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in England

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in England.

Daily rate trend for Perl in England

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in England

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 4 July 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 -12 59 £550 -5.38% 229
North of England +10 28 £525 +1.94% 62
South East +45 23 £514 +2.80% 66
Yorkshire +12 16 £550 +19.57% 21
Midlands +5 11 £475 +20.25% 35
North West -2 11 £393 -23.69% 37
West Midlands +12 9 £475 +12.43% 23
South West +39 6 £625 -0.79% 44
East of England - 6 £283 - 50
East Midlands 0 2 £506 +42.13% 12
North East - 1 £550 - 4
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (11.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 15 (10.95%) Confluence
3 13 (9.49%) JBoss
4 6 (4.38%) Apache
4 6 (4.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (2.92%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.92%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.73%) IIS
7 1 (0.73%) nginx
7 1 (0.73%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (4.38%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.92%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (2.92%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.19%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 60 (43.80%) AWS
2 33 (24.09%) Azure
3 18 (13.14%) GCP
4 16 (11.68%) OpenShift
5 13 (9.49%) GitHub
6 9 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (6.57%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (4.38%) Amazon ELB
7 6 (4.38%) Amazon Glacier
7 6 (4.38%) AWS KMS
7 6 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (3.65%) Nutanix
9 4 (2.92%) Azure API Management
9 4 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.92%) OCI
10 3 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.19%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.19%) Kong
10 3 (2.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 44 (32.12%) DNS
2 19 (13.87%) Firewall
3 13 (9.49%) HTTP
4 11 (8.03%) TCP/IP
5 9 (6.57%) DHCP
5 9 (6.57%) SSH
6 7 (5.11%) Network Security
6 7 (5.11%) VPN
7 6 (4.38%) BGP
7 6 (4.38%) FTP
7 6 (4.38%) IPsec
7 6 (4.38%) OSPF
7 6 (4.38%) SMTP
8 5 (3.65%) Multicast
9 4 (2.92%) Internet
9 4 (2.92%) SSL
9 4 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.92%) Wireless
10 3 (2.19%) DWDM
10 3 (2.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.52%) Oracle Database
2 19 (13.87%) Relational Database
3 14 (10.22%) RDBMS
4 13 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (8.76%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (6.57%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (5.84%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.38%) DB2
8 6 (4.38%) GIS
9 4 (2.92%) Big Data
9 4 (2.92%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.92%) MariaDB
9 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.92%) MySQL
9 4 (2.92%) Oracle BI EE
9 4 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.19%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.19%) Hazelcast
10 3 (2.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (26.28%) Jenkins
2 32 (23.36%) Git
3 31 (22.63%) JIRA
4 18 (13.14%) TeamCity
5 15 (10.95%) SonarQube
6 14 (10.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (8.76%) Bitbucket Server
7 12 (8.76%) CA Release Automation
8 8 (5.84%) Vagrant
9 7 (5.11%) Liquibase
9 7 (5.11%) Subversion
10 5 (3.65%) Bitbucket
11 4 (2.92%) Ant
11 4 (2.92%) Maven
11 4 (2.92%) Toad
12 3 (2.19%) Artifactory
12 3 (2.19%) SoapUI
13 2 (1.46%) GitLab
13 2 (1.46%) JUnit
13 2 (1.46%) Snyk
General
1 54 (39.42%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.52%) Finance
3 13 (9.49%) Banking
4 11 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.38%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.92%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.92%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.46%) Arabic Language
8 2 (1.46%) French Language
8 2 (1.46%) Front Office
8 2 (1.46%) German Language
8 2 (1.46%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.46%) Korean Language
8 2 (1.46%) Military
8 2 (1.46%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (15.33%) Developer
2 18 (13.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (10.95%) Administrator
5 13 (9.49%) Linux Administrator
6 12 (8.76%) Network Engineer
7 10 (7.30%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (5.84%) Consultant
8 8 (5.84%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 7 (5.11%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (5.11%) Engineering Specialist
9 7 (5.11%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.11%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) DevOps Specialist
10 6 (4.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Senior
11 5 (3.65%) Cisco Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.68%) Elastic Stack
1 16 (11.68%) Kafka
2 13 (9.49%) Spring Boot
3 11 (8.03%) Spring
4 10 (7.30%) SOAP
5 8 (5.84%) AngularJS
6 7 (5.11%) Node.js
6 7 (5.11%) XML
7 6 (4.38%) Middleware
7 6 (4.38%) React
8 5 (3.65%) REST
9 4 (2.92%) CSS
9 4 (2.92%) HTML
9 4 (2.92%) IBM Integration Bus
9 4 (2.92%) RESTful
9 4 (2.92%) Web Services
10 3 (2.19%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (2.19%) EDI
10 3 (2.19%) J2EE
10 3 (2.19%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.68%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (8.76%) Replication
3 10 (7.30%) SCADA
4 9 (6.57%) Clustering
5 6 (4.38%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.92%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.19%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.73%) Equities
9 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.73%) PKI
9 1 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (57.66%) Linux
2 52 (37.96%) Windows
3 29 (21.17%) Unix
4 21 (15.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (10.95%) Windows Server
6 9 (6.57%) Solaris
7 6 (4.38%) AIX
7 6 (4.38%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (4.38%) VMS
8 4 (2.92%) CentOS
8 4 (2.92%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.46%) Debian
9 2 (1.46%) SUSE
10 1 (0.73%) Android
10 1 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (37.23%) DevOps
2 37 (27.01%) CI/CD
3 35 (25.55%) Agile
4 30 (21.90%) Microservices
5 29 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (18.98%) Migration
7 25 (18.25%) Continuous Integration
7 25 (18.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (13.87%) High Availability
9 18 (13.14%) Deployment Automation
10 17 (12.41%) Change Management
10 17 (12.41%) Task Automation
11 16 (11.68%) SOA
12 14 (10.22%) Build Automation
12 14 (10.22%) Computer Science
12 14 (10.22%) Configuration Management
12 14 (10.22%) Security Management
13 13 (9.49%) Code Quality
13 13 (9.49%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (8.03%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 98 (71.53%) Python
2 53 (38.69%) SQL
3 52 (37.96%) Bash
4 47 (34.31%) Java
5 37 (27.01%) PL/SQL
6 32 (23.36%) PowerShell
7 17 (12.41%) Shell Script
8 16 (11.68%) JavaScript
9 8 (5.84%) Go
10 7 (5.11%) C++
10 7 (5.11%) Groovy
10 7 (5.11%) Korn
11 5 (3.65%) PHP
12 4 (2.92%) ABAP
12 4 (2.92%) C
12 4 (2.92%) Scala
12 4 (2.92%) TypeScript
13 3 (2.19%) Tcl
14 2 (1.46%) Ruby
15 1 (0.73%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 47 (34.31%) Security Cleared
2 39 (28.47%) SC Cleared
3 21 (15.33%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (13.14%) Degree
5 12 (8.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.38%) CCNP
7 4 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.19%) CCIE
8 3 (2.19%) CEH
8 3 (2.19%) CISSP
8 3 (2.19%) OSCP
8 3 (2.19%) SANS
9 2 (1.46%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.73%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.73%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.73%) ISACA
10 1 (0.73%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.73%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.73%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.11%) GDPR
1 7 (5.11%) QA
2 4 (2.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.19%) SEPA
4 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.73%) NIST
5 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (29.93%) Docker
2 37 (27.01%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.11%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.38%) DFS Replication
6 4 (2.92%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.46%) NFS
7 2 (1.46%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 2 (1.46%) Veritas File System
7 2 (1.46%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (1.46%) VirtualBox
7 2 (1.46%) vSphere
8 1 (0.73%) Firmware
8 1 (0.73%) GPFS
8 1 (0.73%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 35 (25.55%) Ansible
1 35 (25.55%) Kubernetes
2 24 (17.52%) Progress Chef
3 23 (16.79%) Terraform
4 14 (10.22%) Grafana
4 14 (10.22%) Prometheus
5 13 (9.49%) Kibana
6 12 (8.76%) Puppet
7 9 (6.57%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (5.11%) QRadar
8 7 (5.11%) Tivoli
9 6 (4.38%) Control-M
10 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 4 (2.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (2.92%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (2.19%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (2.19%) Istio
11 3 (2.19%) Nagios
11 3 (2.19%) Rundeck
11 3 (2.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 37 (27.01%) Oracle
2 31 (22.63%) Red Hat
3 25 (18.25%) Cisco
3 25 (18.25%) Splunk
4 18 (13.14%) IBM
5 17 (12.41%) VMware
6 13 (9.49%) AppDynamics
7 11 (8.03%) Microsoft
8 10 (7.30%) ServiceNow
9 7 (5.11%) Cloudera
10 6 (4.38%) CyberArk
10 6 (4.38%) Google
11 5 (3.65%) Qualys
11 5 (3.65%) SaltStack
12 4 (2.92%) Adobe
12 4 (2.92%) Arista
12 4 (2.92%) BMC
12 4 (2.92%) Fortinet
12 4 (2.92%) SAP
12 4 (2.92%) Sybase