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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 351 368
Rank change year-on-year -167 +17 -63
Contract jobs citing Perl 74 133 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.54% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.65% 1.60% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 87 119
10th Percentile - £393 £418
25th Percentile £204 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -6.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £638
90th Percentile £596 £626 £800
UK median daily rate £466 £512 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% -6.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £75.90 - £49.63
25th Percentile £77.00 - £54.69
Median hourly rate £80.50 £65.00 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% +5.26% +17.62%
75th Percentile £83.13 - £66.13
90th Percentile £84.00 - £67.70
UK median hourly rate £78.75 £70.00 £61.75
% change year-on-year +12.50% +13.36% +17.62%

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 11,356 8,326 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.66% 34.03% 30.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,440 5,778 8,132
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £524 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -3.06% -4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 198 478
10th Percentile £36.28 £28.18 £35.52
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.06 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -5.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 11 June 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 11 June 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
South East -65 18 £208 -59.07% 3
London -111 18 £525 +3.70% 6
North of England -93 13 £537 -0.09% 2
West Midlands -56 11 £465 -2.11%
Midlands -64 11 £465 -2.11%
Yorkshire -60 10 £531 -3.45%
East of England -21 9 - - 2
North West -50 3 £563 +43.13% 2
South West -28 2 £631 +1.00% 8
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 10 (13.51%) Confluence
2 6 (8.11%) Apache
3 4 (5.41%) WebLogic
3 4 (5.41%) WebSphere
3 4 (5.41%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.70%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (2.70%) JBoss
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (2.70%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.35%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.35%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Front Arena
1 2 (2.70%) Global One
2 1 (1.35%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.57%) AWS
2 8 (10.81%) Azure
3 5 (6.76%) SaaS
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.41%) AWS KMS
4 4 (5.41%) Sauce Labs
4 4 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (4.05%) GCP
5 3 (4.05%) GitHub
6 2 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.70%) IaaS
6 2 (2.70%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.70%) PaaS
7 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.16%) Firewall
2 7 (9.46%) DNS
3 4 (5.41%) SSL
3 4 (5.41%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.05%) SAN
5 2 (2.70%) BGP
5 2 (2.70%) FTP
5 2 (2.70%) HTTP
5 2 (2.70%) Network Security
6 1 (1.35%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.35%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.35%) DMZ
6 1 (1.35%) DWDM
6 1 (1.35%) Internet
6 1 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.35%) L2TP
6 1 (1.35%) MPLS
6 1 (1.35%) OSPF
6 1 (1.35%) VLAN
6 1 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.62%) MySQL
2 14 (18.92%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.11%) Metadata
3 6 (8.11%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.70%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.70%) Tableau
6 1 (1.35%) Big Data
6 1 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.35%) Db2
6 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.35%) KDB
6 1 (1.35%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.35%) QlikView
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.35%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (20.27%) JIRA
2 11 (14.86%) Git
2 11 (14.86%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (5.41%) Android Studio
4 4 (5.41%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (5.41%) Eclipse
4 4 (5.41%) Xcode
5 2 (2.70%) GitLab
5 2 (2.70%) Introscope
6 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Publishing
3 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.11%) Banking
4 6 (8.11%) Finance
5 3 (4.05%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Back Office
6 2 (2.70%) Front Office
6 2 (2.70%) Law
7 1 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (16.22%) Technical Support
2 11 (14.86%) Senior
3 9 (12.16%) Developer
4 8 (10.81%) Lead
4 8 (10.81%) Support Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Architect
5 6 (8.11%) Perl Developer
5 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Technical Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Technical Support Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Analyst
6 5 (6.76%) Applications Support
6 5 (6.76%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Consultant
7 4 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Middleware Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) UX Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.16%) YAML
2 7 (9.46%) Ajax
3 6 (8.11%) Middleware
3 6 (8.11%) Spring
4 5 (6.76%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.76%) React
4 5 (6.76%) Spring Boot
5 4 (5.41%) CSS
5 4 (5.41%) GraphQL
6 3 (4.05%) LAMP
6 3 (4.05%) Web Services
7 2 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.70%) FIXML
7 2 (2.70%) JDBC
7 2 (2.70%) JMS
7 2 (2.70%) Kafka
7 2 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.70%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (1.35%) 802.1X
8 1 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.11%) Clustering
2 6 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (8.11%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.76%) Reference Data
4 4 (5.41%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.41%) Replication
5 3 (4.05%) CMDB
5 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.70%) Derivative
6 2 (2.70%) Eurex
6 2 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.70%) Swaptions
7 1 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 52 (70.27%) Linux
2 25 (33.78%) Unix
3 18 (24.32%) Windows
4 16 (21.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (10.81%) CentOS
5 8 (10.81%) Ubuntu
6 4 (5.41%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (5.41%) Android
7 3 (4.05%) AIX
8 2 (2.70%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.70%) Solaris
8 2 (2.70%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (33.78%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (32.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (29.73%) DevOps
4 20 (27.03%) CI/CD
5 17 (22.97%) Root Cause Analysis
6 14 (18.92%) Agile
7 13 (17.57%) ITSM
7 13 (17.57%) OO
7 13 (17.57%) Process Improvement
8 12 (16.22%) OOP
9 11 (14.86%) Computer Science
9 11 (14.86%) Migration
9 11 (14.86%) Software Engineering
10 10 (13.51%) ITIL
11 9 (12.16%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (10.81%) Data Modelling
12 8 (10.81%) RBAC
12 8 (10.81%) Scrum
13 7 (9.46%) Visualisation
14 6 (8.11%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 51 (68.92%) Python
2 31 (41.89%) Java
3 30 (40.54%) SQL
4 19 (25.68%) Bash
4 19 (25.68%) PowerShell
5 16 (21.62%) JavaScript
6 12 (16.22%) Ruby
7 11 (14.86%) Shell Script
8 7 (9.46%) C#
9 4 (5.41%) Groovy
10 3 (4.05%) C
10 3 (4.05%) PHP
10 3 (4.05%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.70%) C++
11 2 (2.70%) Jython
12 1 (1.35%) Scala
12 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 13 (17.57%) Degree
4 11 (14.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (10.81%) RHCE
6 4 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.41%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.70%) CCNP
8 2 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.70%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.70%) MCSE
8 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.35%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.35%) CCDP
9 1 (1.35%) CCIE
9 1 (1.35%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.35%) NIST
3 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.11%) Active Directory
1 6 (8.11%) Docker
2 3 (4.05%) Firmware
2 3 (4.05%) PowerHA
3 2 (2.70%) Postfix
3 2 (2.70%) Varnish
4 1 (1.35%) GPFS
4 1 (1.35%) Lustre
4 1 (1.35%) NFS
4 1 (1.35%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (24.32%) Ansible
2 10 (13.51%) Puppet
3 7 (9.46%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.46%) Terraform
4 4 (5.41%) Grafana
4 4 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.70%) CA Wily
5 2 (2.70%) Control-M
5 2 (2.70%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (2.70%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.70%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.35%) Consul
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.35%) Salt
Vendors
1 21 (28.38%) Oracle
2 18 (24.32%) Red Hat
3 7 (9.46%) IBM
3 7 (9.46%) ServiceNow
4 6 (8.11%) Splunk
5 4 (5.41%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.05%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.05%) Imperva
7 2 (2.70%) Clearswift
7 2 (2.70%) Murex
7 2 (2.70%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.70%) Tanium
7 2 (2.70%) Tripwire
8 1 (1.35%) Cisco
8 1 (1.35%) Citrix
8 1 (1.35%) HP
8 1 (1.35%) Informatica
8 1 (1.35%) McAfee
8 1 (1.35%) Sybase
8 1 (1.35%) VMware