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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 366 339
Rank change year-on-year -13 -27 -9
Contract jobs citing Perl 169 158 257
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.50% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 1.56% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 110 199
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 £725 £738
90th Percentile £605 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +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 9,750 10,148 12,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.07% 32.29% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,484 6,575 8,898
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 269 415
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.44% -3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.79% +5.00% -0.41%

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 23 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 23 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 -5 68 £520 -13.33% 18
South East +4 35 £208 +1.22% 24
North of England -10 35 £535 +12.63% 3
North West +1 26 £550 +29.41% 1
West Midlands -9 19 £475 +12.29% 1
Midlands -20 19 £475 +12.29% 1
North East - 7 £550 -
South West 0 5 £513 -34.92% 7
Yorkshire -31 5 £559 +1.64% 2
East of England -21 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 19 (11.24%) Confluence
2 10 (5.92%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.96%) JBoss
5 2 (1.18%) Apache
5 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.18%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.59%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.59%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 58 (34.32%) AWS
2 28 (16.57%) Azure
3 20 (11.83%) SaaS
4 18 (10.65%) GCP
4 18 (10.65%) Sauce Labs
5 17 (10.06%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (9.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (8.88%) Amazon S3
8 13 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
9 12 (7.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (7.10%) Amazon Glacier
9 12 (7.10%) AWS KMS
10 8 (4.73%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.14%) GitHub
11 7 (4.14%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.37%) Amazon MSK
13 4 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.37%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 36 (21.30%) Firewall
2 26 (15.38%) DNS
3 23 (13.61%) HTTP
4 21 (12.43%) TCP/IP
4 21 (12.43%) Wireless
5 16 (9.47%) BGP
6 12 (7.10%) FTP
6 12 (7.10%) SMTP
6 12 (7.10%) SSH
7 8 (4.73%) SSL
8 7 (4.14%) OSPF
9 6 (3.55%) EIGRP
9 6 (3.55%) HTTPS
9 6 (3.55%) IPsec
9 6 (3.55%) Network Security
9 6 (3.55%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (3.55%) VLAN
9 6 (3.55%) WebEx
10 4 (2.37%) DHCP
10 4 (2.37%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (25.44%) Relational Database
2 36 (21.30%) MySQL
3 16 (9.47%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (6.51%) RDBMS
5 9 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (5.33%) Oracle Database
6 8 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.37%) SQLPlus
8 3 (1.78%) Big Data
8 3 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.78%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.18%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.59%) GIS
10 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.59%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.59%) Parquet
10 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (23.08%) Git
2 33 (19.53%) Jenkins
3 28 (16.57%) JIRA
4 19 (11.24%) Browser DevTools
5 18 (10.65%) Android Studio
5 18 (10.65%) Eclipse
5 18 (10.65%) Xcode
6 14 (8.28%) Vagrant
7 9 (5.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (5.33%) TeamCity
8 8 (4.73%) Bitbucket
8 8 (4.73%) Liquibase
9 7 (4.14%) GitLab
10 5 (2.96%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.96%) Subversion
10 5 (2.96%) Toad
11 4 (2.37%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.37%) CA Release Automation
11 4 (2.37%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.78%) Ant
General
1 71 (42.01%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.20%) Finance
3 23 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.02%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.92%) Legal
6 9 (5.33%) Banking
6 9 (5.33%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.18%) French Language
7 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.59%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.59%) German Language
8 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.59%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.59%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.59%) Law
8 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.59%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (20.12%) Technical Support
2 26 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (11.83%) Support Engineer
4 19 (11.24%) Network Engineer
4 19 (11.24%) Technical Engineer
4 19 (11.24%) Technical Support Engineer
4 19 (11.24%) UX Engineer
5 18 (10.65%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 17 (10.06%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (8.88%) Developer
8 14 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (6.51%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (6.51%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (5.92%) Administrator
10 10 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.73%) Linux Administrator
12 7 (4.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 5 (2.96%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.02%) AngularJS
1 22 (13.02%) CSS
1 22 (13.02%) React
2 21 (12.43%) Ajax
3 19 (11.24%) GraphQL
4 15 (8.88%) Kafka
5 10 (5.92%) Node.js
6 8 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (3.55%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.55%) XMPP
8 5 (2.96%) SOAP
9 4 (2.37%) IBM Integration Bus
9 4 (2.37%) Middleware
9 4 (2.37%) REST
10 3 (1.78%) .NET
10 3 (1.78%) Electron
10 3 (1.78%) HTML
10 3 (1.78%) JNI
10 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (1.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.02%) Mobile App
2 17 (10.06%) Replication
3 11 (6.51%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.92%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.14%) Clustering
5 7 (4.14%) PKI
5 7 (4.14%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.37%) FPGA
6 4 (2.37%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.78%) RISC-V
8 2 (1.18%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.18%) CMDB
8 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.59%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.59%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.59%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 108 (63.91%) Linux
2 75 (44.38%) Windows
3 66 (39.05%) Unix
4 25 (14.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (12.43%) Android
6 12 (7.10%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (7.10%) VMS
7 10 (5.92%) Windows Server
8 7 (4.14%) CentOS
9 6 (3.55%) Solaris
10 4 (2.37%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.78%) AIX
11 3 (1.78%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.78%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.18%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.04%) DevOps
2 36 (21.30%) OO
3 31 (18.34%) CI/CD
4 29 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (14.20%) Platform Engineering
6 23 (13.61%) Configuration Management
6 23 (13.61%) User Experience
7 21 (12.43%) Agile
8 20 (11.83%) Change Management
8 20 (11.83%) High Availability
8 20 (11.83%) ITSM
9 19 (11.24%) Computer Science
9 19 (11.24%) Mobile Application Development
10 18 (10.65%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (10.06%) Containerisation
12 16 (9.47%) Patch Management
13 15 (8.88%) OOP
13 15 (8.88%) Process Improvement
13 15 (8.88%) Service Management
14 14 (8.28%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 151 (89.35%) Python
2 83 (49.11%) Java
3 57 (33.73%) Bash
4 42 (24.85%) JavaScript
5 40 (23.67%) PowerShell
6 37 (21.89%) SQL
7 17 (10.06%) Shell Script
8 15 (8.88%) C++
8 15 (8.88%) Go
8 15 (8.88%) PL/SQL
9 12 (7.10%) Groovy
10 9 (5.33%) C
11 6 (3.55%) PHP
11 6 (3.55%) Ruby
12 5 (2.96%) Korn
13 4 (2.37%) Assembly Language
13 4 (2.37%) C#
13 4 (2.37%) SystemVerilog
14 3 (1.78%) TypeScript
15 2 (1.18%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 43 (25.44%) Security Cleared
2 42 (24.85%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.43%) Degree
4 18 (10.65%) CCNP
4 18 (10.65%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (9.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (7.10%) CCDP
7 9 (5.33%) CCNA
8 6 (3.55%) JNCIA
8 6 (3.55%) JNCIS
9 4 (2.37%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.18%) RHCE
10 2 (1.18%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.59%) CEH
11 1 (0.59%) CISSP
11 1 (0.59%) ISACA
11 1 (0.59%) OSCP
11 1 (0.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.14%) GDPR
2 4 (2.37%) QA
2 4 (2.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.18%) SEPA
4 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (24.26%) Docker
2 27 (15.98%) Active Directory
3 18 (10.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (7.10%) DFS Replication
5 6 (3.55%) Firmware
5 6 (3.55%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.37%) NFS
6 4 (2.37%) Veritas File System
6 4 (2.37%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (2.37%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.78%) GPFS
7 3 (1.78%) KVM
7 3 (1.78%) QEMU
8 2 (1.18%) VirtualBox
9 1 (0.59%) Lustre
9 1 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.59%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (16.57%) Ansible
1 28 (16.57%) Kubernetes
2 27 (15.98%) Terraform
3 13 (7.69%) Grafana
3 13 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.33%) Progress Chef
5 6 (3.55%) QRadar
5 6 (3.55%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (2.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.96%) Kibana
6 5 (2.96%) Puppet
7 3 (1.78%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.78%) Packer
7 3 (1.78%) Salt
8 2 (1.18%) BladeLogic
8 2 (1.18%) Icinga
8 2 (1.18%) Nagios
9 1 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.59%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 53 (31.36%) Oracle
2 41 (24.26%) ServiceNow
3 40 (23.67%) Microsoft
4 38 (22.49%) Splunk
5 28 (16.57%) Red Hat
6 24 (14.20%) Cisco
7 23 (13.61%) VMware
8 11 (6.51%) F5
9 9 (5.33%) Citrix
9 9 (5.33%) Juniper
10 7 (4.14%) IBM
10 7 (4.14%) Palo Alto
10 7 (4.14%) SolarWinds
11 6 (3.55%) AppDynamics
12 5 (2.96%) CyberArk
13 4 (2.37%) Cloudera
13 4 (2.37%) Qualys
13 4 (2.37%) SaltStack
14 3 (1.78%) LogicMonitor
14 3 (1.78%) Meraki