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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 372 378
Rank change year-on-year -184 +6 -62
Contract jobs citing Perl 62 136 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.52% 1.51% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 98 123
10th Percentile £204 £297 £356
25th Percentile £422 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £588 £573 £600
90th Percentile £624 £629 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £59.20
25th Percentile - - £61.75
Median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% - +23.81%
75th Percentile - - £66.50
90th Percentile - - £67.85
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.09% +7.69% +23.81%

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 11,894 9,021 10,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.46% 32.97% 31.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,719 6,221 7,866
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 225 399
10th Percentile £34.01 £29.07 £34.79
25th Percentile £53.53 £39.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.00 £83.88 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% +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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -104 27 £525 -4.55% 22
South East -82 11 £208 -58.50% 13
Midlands -55 9 £465 -2.11% 1
West Midlands -62 9 £465 -2.11% 1
North of England -85 6 £575 +9.52% 4
South West -44 4 £613 -2.00% 7
North West -51 4 £575 +46.31% 3
Yorkshire -57 2 - - 1
East of England -25 1 - - 4
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 11 (17.74%) Confluence
2 7 (11.29%) Apache
3 4 (6.45%) WebLogic
3 4 (6.45%) WebSphere
3 4 (6.45%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (4.84%) JBoss
5 2 (3.23%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (3.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (3.23%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.61%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.61%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.61%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Front Arena
1 2 (3.23%) Global One
2 1 (1.61%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.19%) AWS
2 11 (17.74%) Azure
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon S3
3 5 (8.06%) AWS KMS
3 5 (8.06%) GCP
3 5 (8.06%) SaaS
3 5 (8.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (4.84%) GitHub
4 3 (4.84%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.23%) IaaS
5 2 (3.23%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.23%) PaaS
6 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.61%) Datadog
6 1 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.74%) Firewall
2 8 (12.90%) DNS
2 8 (12.90%) SAN
2 8 (12.90%) SSL
3 7 (11.29%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.45%) Network Security
5 3 (4.84%) BGP
5 3 (4.84%) HTTP
5 3 (4.84%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (3.23%) DMZ
6 2 (3.23%) DWDM
6 2 (3.23%) Internet
6 2 (3.23%) IPsec
6 2 (3.23%) Kerberos
6 2 (3.23%) L2TP
6 2 (3.23%) MPLS
6 2 (3.23%) OSPF
6 2 (3.23%) VPN
6 2 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) MySQL
2 8 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.68%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (8.06%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (8.06%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.23%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.23%) SQLite
5 2 (3.23%) Tableau
6 1 (1.61%) Big Data
6 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.61%) Db2
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.61%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.61%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (25.81%) JIRA
2 15 (24.19%) Jenkins
3 14 (22.58%) Git
4 5 (8.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (4.84%) Android Studio
5 3 (4.84%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (4.84%) Eclipse
5 3 (4.84%) GitLab
5 3 (4.84%) Xcode
6 2 (3.23%) Introscope
6 2 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.61%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Finance
3 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Banking
4 3 (4.84%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.23%) Back Office
5 2 (3.23%) Front Office
5 2 (3.23%) Legal
6 1 (1.61%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Senior
2 9 (14.52%) Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) Linux Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Administrator
4 6 (9.68%) Consultant
4 6 (9.68%) Support Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) AIX Administrator
5 5 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (8.06%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Technical Support
5 5 (8.06%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Applications Support
6 4 (6.45%) Middleware Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) Middleware
2 5 (8.06%) Spring
3 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.45%) LAMP
3 4 (6.45%) React
3 4 (6.45%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.84%) Ajax
4 3 (4.84%) CSS
4 3 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (4.84%) GraphQL
4 3 (4.84%) Web Services
5 2 (3.23%) 802.1X
5 2 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (3.23%) FIXML
5 2 (3.23%) JDBC
5 2 (3.23%) JMS
5 2 (3.23%) Kafka
5 2 (3.23%) Moose
5 2 (3.23%) SPNEGO
5 2 (3.23%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Data Centre
2 9 (14.52%) Clustering
3 6 (9.68%) Replication
4 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.84%) CSOC
5 3 (4.84%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.84%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.84%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (3.23%) Derivative
6 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (3.23%) Eurex
6 2 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.23%) Swaptions
7 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.61%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 45 (72.58%) Linux
2 23 (37.10%) Unix
3 16 (25.81%) Windows
4 11 (17.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (9.68%) AIX
6 5 (8.06%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (4.84%) Android
8 2 (3.23%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (3.23%) Solaris
8 2 (3.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.10%) Root Cause Analysis
2 20 (32.26%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (32.26%) DevOps
3 18 (29.03%) CI/CD
4 15 (24.19%) Migration
5 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (19.35%) Agile
6 12 (19.35%) ITIL
6 12 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (11.29%) Configuration Management
8 7 (11.29%) OO
8 7 (11.29%) Process Improvement
8 7 (11.29%) Roadmaps
8 7 (11.29%) SIEM
8 7 (11.29%) Software Engineering
8 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (9.68%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 6 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (80.65%) Python
2 24 (38.71%) Bash
3 22 (35.48%) PowerShell
4 20 (32.26%) SQL
5 18 (29.03%) Java
6 12 (19.35%) Shell Script
7 8 (12.90%) JavaScript
8 6 (9.68%) Groovy
9 4 (6.45%) PL/SQL
9 4 (6.45%) Ruby
10 3 (4.84%) PHP
11 2 (3.23%) C++
11 2 (3.23%) Jython
11 2 (3.23%) Korn
12 1 (1.61%) ActionScript
12 1 (1.61%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (1.61%) C
12 1 (1.61%) C#
12 1 (1.61%) Scala
12 1 (1.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.90%) Degree
4 6 (9.68%) DV Cleared
5 5 (8.06%) AWS Certification
5 5 (8.06%) Azure Certification
5 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.84%) CCNP
6 3 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.84%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (4.84%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.23%) A+ Certification
7 2 (3.23%) CCIE
7 2 (3.23%) MCSE
7 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.61%) CCDP
8 1 (1.61%) CCNA
8 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.61%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.23%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) NIST
3 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Docker
2 7 (11.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (9.68%) Firmware
3 6 (9.68%) PowerHA
4 2 (3.23%) Postfix
4 2 (3.23%) Varnish
5 1 (1.61%) GPFS
5 1 (1.61%) Lustre
5 1 (1.61%) NFS
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.61%) Sendmail
5 1 (1.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (20.97%) Ansible
2 9 (14.52%) Terraform
3 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
4 6 (9.68%) Grafana
4 6 (9.68%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.84%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (3.23%) CA Wily
6 2 (3.23%) Control-M
6 2 (3.23%) HAProxy
6 2 (3.23%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (3.23%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.23%) Puppet
6 2 (3.23%) systemd
6 2 (3.23%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.61%) Consul
7 1 (1.61%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (1.61%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (20.97%) Oracle
2 10 (16.13%) IBM
2 10 (16.13%) Red Hat
3 8 (12.90%) Splunk
4 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow
5 4 (6.45%) Clearswift
5 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.45%) SolarWinds
5 4 (6.45%) Tanium
5 4 (6.45%) Tripwire
6 3 (4.84%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.84%) Commvault
6 3 (4.84%) Google
6 3 (4.84%) Imperva
6 3 (4.84%) Trend Micro
6 3 (4.84%) Veeam
7 2 (3.23%) Arista
7 2 (3.23%) F5
7 2 (3.23%) McAfee
7 2 (3.23%) NetApp