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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 329 369
Rank change year-on-year -108 +40 -68
Contract jobs citing Perl 126 156 190
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.61% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.20% 1.81% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 103 131
10th Percentile - £357 £413
25th Percentile £204 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £754
90th Percentile £565 £810 £825
UK median daily rate £430 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -21.91% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 5
10th Percentile - £63.65 £40.25
25th Percentile £74.26 £63.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% -17.81%
75th Percentile £82.25 £66.13 -
90th Percentile £84.00 £66.35 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £75.63 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.35% +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 10,532 8,631 10,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.72% 33.57% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,036 5,642 7,904
10th Percentile £352 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 207 465
10th Percentile £41.73 £25.26 £35.51
25th Percentile £54.55 £42.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -5.51%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -88 36 £416 -30.67% 8
South East -26 33 £208 -52.57% 10
North of England -55 30 £537 +2.29% 7
North West -19 18 £550 +34.80% 2
West Midlands -38 13 £475 -32.14% 4
Midlands -44 13 £475 -23.20% 4
East of England -31 11 £613 +4.26% 7
Yorkshire -66 11 £537 -2.36% 5
South West -24 4 £513 -33.87% 3
North East - 4 £550 -
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 (7.94%) SharePoint
2 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.56%) Confluence
3 7 (5.56%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.38%) Apache
5 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.79%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.05%) AWS
2 17 (13.49%) Azure
3 15 (11.90%) SaaS
4 13 (10.32%) Sauce Labs
5 9 (7.14%) GCP
6 6 (4.76%) Azure API Management
6 6 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 5 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (3.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.17%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.17%) Serverless
9 3 (2.38%) GitHub
10 2 (1.59%) OCI
11 1 (0.79%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (0.79%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (17.46%) Firewall
2 12 (9.52%) Wireless
3 10 (7.94%) BGP
3 10 (7.94%) TCP/IP
4 9 (7.14%) DNS
5 8 (6.35%) VLAN
6 7 (5.56%) HTTP
7 6 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (4.76%) WebEx
8 5 (3.97%) DHCP
9 3 (2.38%) OSPF
9 3 (2.38%) SNMP
9 3 (2.38%) VPN
10 2 (1.59%) EIGRP
10 2 (1.59%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.59%) InfiniBand
10 2 (1.59%) IPsec
10 2 (1.59%) LAN
10 2 (1.59%) SSH
10 2 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (26.98%) Relational Database
2 31 (24.60%) MySQL
3 13 (10.32%) Oracle Database
4 7 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.76%) Metadata
6 5 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.17%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (3.17%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.17%) SQLPlus
8 2 (1.59%) Big Data
8 2 (1.59%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.59%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (1.59%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.79%) DB2
9 1 (0.79%) GIS
9 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (15.08%) Git
2 13 (10.32%) Android Studio
2 13 (10.32%) Browser DevTools
2 13 (10.32%) Eclipse
2 13 (10.32%) Xcode
3 11 (8.73%) JIRA
4 8 (6.35%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (3.97%) GitLab
6 5 (3.97%) Toad
7 4 (3.17%) Ant
7 4 (3.17%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.17%) JUnit
7 4 (3.17%) SoapUI
7 4 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.38%) Subversion
9 2 (1.59%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.79%) TestDirector
10 1 (0.79%) Vagrant
General
1 52 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.08%) Finance
4 12 (9.52%) Banking
5 10 (7.94%) Legal
6 9 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (6.35%) Publishing
8 6 (4.76%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.97%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.38%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.59%) Law
12 1 (0.79%) French Language
Job Titles
1 28 (22.22%) Technical Support
2 22 (17.46%) Developer
3 15 (11.90%) Support Engineer
4 13 (10.32%) Technical Engineer
4 13 (10.32%) Technical Support Engineer
4 13 (10.32%) UX Engineer
5 11 (8.73%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 9 (7.14%) Network Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Lead
8 8 (6.35%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) Perl Developer
10 5 (3.97%) Administrator
10 5 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.17%) Architect
11 4 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.17%) Oracle Developer
11 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow Architect
12 3 (2.38%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.29%) Ajax
2 17 (13.49%) AngularJS
2 17 (13.49%) React
3 16 (12.70%) CSS
4 13 (10.32%) GraphQL
5 8 (6.35%) Node.js
5 8 (6.35%) YAML
6 7 (5.56%) Kafka
6 7 (5.56%) SOAP
6 7 (5.56%) Spring
7 6 (4.76%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.76%) XMPP
8 5 (3.97%) Middleware
8 5 (3.97%) XML
9 3 (2.38%) Electron
9 3 (2.38%) HTML
9 3 (2.38%) JNI
9 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.70%) Mobile App
2 14 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 12 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.35%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.97%) CMDB
6 5 (3.97%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.17%) Replication
8 3 (2.38%) Clustering
8 3 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.38%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.38%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.38%) PKI
8 3 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.59%) Derivative
9 2 (1.59%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.79%) FPGA
10 1 (0.79%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 89 (70.63%) Linux
2 54 (42.86%) Unix
3 52 (41.27%) Windows
4 29 (23.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (12.70%) Android
6 13 (10.32%) CentOS
7 11 (8.73%) Windows Server
8 10 (7.94%) Ubuntu
9 5 (3.97%) AIX
10 4 (3.17%) Solaris
11 3 (2.38%) Apple iOS
11 3 (2.38%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (23.81%) OO
3 28 (22.22%) ITSM
4 21 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 21 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (16.67%) DevOps
5 19 (15.08%) Process Improvement
6 18 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 17 (13.49%) User Experience
8 16 (12.70%) OOP
9 14 (11.11%) High Availability
9 14 (11.11%) Software Engineering
10 13 (10.32%) Change Control
10 13 (10.32%) Mobile Application Development
10 13 (10.32%) Service Management
11 12 (9.52%) Agile
11 12 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (9.52%) Scrum
12 11 (8.73%) Containerisation
12 11 (8.73%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 89 (70.63%) Python
2 62 (49.21%) Java
3 45 (35.71%) SQL
4 36 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 34 (26.98%) Bash
6 33 (26.19%) PowerShell
7 15 (11.90%) Shell Script
8 14 (11.11%) Ruby
9 13 (10.32%) PL/SQL
10 8 (6.35%) C#
11 6 (4.76%) Korn
12 5 (3.97%) C
12 5 (3.97%) C++
12 5 (3.97%) PHP
13 2 (1.59%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.79%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.79%) Go
14 1 (0.79%) Groovy
14 1 (0.79%) Scala
14 1 (0.79%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 28 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.87%) Degree
4 15 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (9.52%) CCNP
5 12 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (7.94%) CCDP
6 10 (7.94%) CCNA
6 10 (7.94%) RHCE
7 5 (3.97%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.59%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.59%) JNCIS
8 2 (1.59%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.17%) GDPR
2 3 (2.38%) SEPA
3 2 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 14 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (10.32%) Docker
3 11 (8.73%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.38%) KVM
5 3 (2.38%) NFS
6 2 (1.59%) Firmware
6 2 (1.59%) GPFS
6 2 (1.59%) Lustre
6 2 (1.59%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (1.59%) Veritas File System
6 2 (1.59%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.79%) Ceph
7 1 (0.79%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.79%) iptables
7 1 (0.79%) QEMU
7 1 (0.79%) Samba
7 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (15.87%) Ansible
2 15 (11.90%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.73%) Puppet
4 5 (3.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.17%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (3.17%) Terraform
6 3 (2.38%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (1.59%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.59%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.59%) QRadar
7 2 (1.59%) SELinux
8 1 (0.79%) BladeLogic
8 1 (0.79%) Consul
8 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.79%) SCCM
8 1 (0.79%) SCOM
Vendors
1 55 (43.65%) Oracle
2 34 (26.98%) Red Hat
3 30 (23.81%) Microsoft
4 21 (16.67%) Splunk
5 20 (15.87%) ServiceNow
6 19 (15.08%) VMware
7 15 (11.90%) Cisco
8 10 (7.94%) Citrix
9 7 (5.56%) IBM
10 5 (3.97%) Juniper
11 4 (3.17%) SolarWinds
12 3 (2.38%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (2.38%) Palo Alto
13 2 (1.59%) AppDynamics
13 2 (1.59%) Bloomberg
13 2 (1.59%) CyberArk
13 2 (1.59%) MarketAxess
13 2 (1.59%) Qualys
13 2 (1.59%) SaltStack
13 2 (1.59%) Tradeweb