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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 352 337
Rank change year-on-year -25 -15 -9
Contract jobs citing Perl 169 157 242
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.52% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.74% 1.59% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 111 189
10th Percentile - £203 £312
25th Percentile £204 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £550 £725 £750
90th Percentile £618 £810 £813
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £68.30 - £43.38
25th Percentile £72.13 £63.50 £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 9,722 9,862 11,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.40% 32.53% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,457 6,420 8,650
10th Percentile £346 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 254 404
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £47.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
Median % change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%

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 9 December 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 9 December 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 -23 67 £520 -16.80% 22
South East -7 39 £208 +1.22% 23
North of England -16 34 £550 +15.79% 10
North West +6 25 £550 +29.41% 2
West Midlands -18 17 £475 +12.29% 1
Midlands -24 17 £475 +12.29% 3
North East - 7 £550 -
South West -9 5 £513 -34.92% 6
Yorkshire -41 5 £559 +1.64% 8
East of England -20 4 £613 +2.08% 6
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 17 (10.06%) Confluence
2 10 (5.92%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.37%) JBoss
5 3 (1.78%) Apache
5 3 (1.78%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
7 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 4 (2.37%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 53 (31.36%) AWS
2 26 (15.38%) Azure
3 21 (12.43%) SaaS
4 19 (11.24%) Sauce Labs
5 16 (9.47%) GCP
6 14 (8.28%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (8.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (7.10%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.51%) Amazon ELB
9 10 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (5.92%) Amazon Glacier
9 10 (5.92%) AWS KMS
10 7 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.14%) GitHub
11 6 (3.55%) Azure API Management
11 6 (3.55%) Entra ID
11 6 (3.55%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.37%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 34 (20.12%) Firewall
2 24 (14.20%) DNS
3 23 (13.61%) HTTP
4 22 (13.02%) TCP/IP
5 21 (12.43%) Wireless
6 16 (9.47%) BGP
7 11 (6.51%) SSH
8 10 (5.92%) FTP
8 10 (5.92%) SMTP
9 8 (4.73%) SSL
10 7 (4.14%) OSPF
10 7 (4.14%) VLAN
11 6 (3.55%) EIGRP
11 6 (3.55%) HTTPS
11 6 (3.55%) IPsec
11 6 (3.55%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (3.55%) WebEx
12 5 (2.96%) DHCP
12 5 (2.96%) LAN
12 5 (2.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (26.63%) Relational Database
2 40 (23.67%) MySQL
3 14 (8.28%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (7.69%) Oracle Database
5 10 (5.92%) RDBMS
6 8 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.37%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (2.37%) SQLPlus
9 3 (1.78%) Big Data
9 3 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.18%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.18%) Oracle BI EE
11 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.59%) DB2
11 1 (0.59%) GIS
11 1 (0.59%) Informix
11 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (21.89%) Git
2 29 (17.16%) Jenkins
3 25 (14.79%) JIRA
4 20 (11.83%) Browser DevTools
5 19 (11.24%) Android Studio
5 19 (11.24%) Eclipse
5 19 (11.24%) Xcode
6 12 (7.10%) Vagrant
7 8 (4.73%) Bitbucket
7 8 (4.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (4.73%) TeamCity
8 7 (4.14%) GitLab
9 6 (3.55%) Liquibase
10 5 (2.96%) Subversion
10 5 (2.96%) Toad
11 4 (2.37%) Ant
11 4 (2.37%) JUnit
11 4 (2.37%) Robot Framework
11 4 (2.37%) SoapUI
11 4 (2.37%) SonarQube
General
1 72 (42.60%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.79%) Finance
3 23 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.10%) Banking
6 10 (5.92%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.33%) Legal
8 2 (1.18%) French Language
8 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.59%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) German Language
9 1 (0.59%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.59%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (21.89%) Technical Support
2 22 (13.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (12.43%) Support Engineer
4 20 (11.83%) Technical Engineer
4 20 (11.83%) Technical Support Engineer
4 20 (11.83%) UX Engineer
5 19 (11.24%) Network Engineer
6 18 (10.65%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 17 (10.06%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (9.47%) Developer
9 14 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (6.51%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) Administrator
12 8 (4.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) Linux Administrator
13 7 (4.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 6 (3.55%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 5 (2.96%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.61%) AngularJS
1 23 (13.61%) CSS
1 23 (13.61%) React
2 22 (13.02%) Ajax
3 20 (11.83%) GraphQL
4 14 (8.28%) Kafka
5 10 (5.92%) Node.js
6 7 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (4.14%) SOAP
7 6 (3.55%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (3.55%) Middleware
7 6 (3.55%) XMPP
8 5 (2.96%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.96%) XML
9 4 (2.37%) REST
10 3 (1.78%) .NET
10 3 (1.78%) Electron
10 3 (1.78%) HTML
10 3 (1.78%) LAMP
10 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.61%) Mobile App
2 15 (8.88%) 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%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.78%) RISC-V
7 3 (1.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.18%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.18%) CMDB
8 2 (1.18%) Derivative
8 2 (1.18%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 112 (66.27%) Linux
2 76 (44.97%) Windows
3 74 (43.79%) Unix
4 24 (14.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (13.02%) Android
6 10 (5.92%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (5.92%) VMS
6 10 (5.92%) Windows Server
7 7 (4.14%) CentOS
8 6 (3.55%) Solaris
9 5 (2.96%) AIX
10 4 (2.37%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.78%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.78%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.18%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (23.67%) DevOps
2 39 (23.08%) OO
3 29 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (15.98%) CI/CD
5 24 (14.20%) User Experience
6 22 (13.02%) Platform Engineering
7 21 (12.43%) Configuration Management
7 21 (12.43%) High Availability
8 20 (11.83%) Agile
8 20 (11.83%) ITSM
8 20 (11.83%) Mobile Application Development
9 19 (11.24%) Computer Science
10 18 (10.65%) Process Improvement
11 17 (10.06%) Containerisation
11 17 (10.06%) OOP
12 16 (9.47%) Change Management
13 15 (8.88%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (8.88%) Service Management
14 14 (8.28%) Change Control
14 14 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 148 (87.57%) Python
2 82 (48.52%) Java
3 56 (33.14%) Bash
4 45 (26.63%) JavaScript
5 42 (24.85%) SQL
6 36 (21.30%) PowerShell
7 18 (10.65%) PL/SQL
7 18 (10.65%) Shell Script
8 15 (8.88%) C++
9 13 (7.69%) Go
10 10 (5.92%) Groovy
11 9 (5.33%) C
12 7 (4.14%) Korn
13 6 (3.55%) PHP
13 6 (3.55%) Ruby
14 4 (2.37%) Assembly Language
14 4 (2.37%) C#
14 4 (2.37%) SystemVerilog
15 3 (1.78%) TypeScript
16 2 (1.18%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 40 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 38 (22.49%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.55%) GDPR
2 4 (2.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.78%) QA
3 3 (1.78%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (21.30%) Docker
2 23 (13.61%) Active Directory
3 18 (10.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (5.92%) DFS Replication
5 6 (3.55%) Firmware
5 6 (3.55%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.96%) NFS
7 4 (2.37%) KVM
7 4 (2.37%) Veritas File System
7 4 (2.37%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (2.37%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.78%) GPFS
8 3 (1.78%) QEMU
9 2 (1.18%) Lustre
9 2 (1.18%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (1.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.18%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.59%) iptables
10 1 (0.59%) Samba
10 1 (0.59%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 30 (17.75%) Ansible
2 26 (15.38%) Terraform
3 25 (14.79%) Kubernetes
4 11 (6.51%) Grafana
4 11 (6.51%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.73%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.55%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (2.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.96%) Puppet
8 4 (2.37%) Kibana
8 4 (2.37%) QRadar
9 3 (1.78%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.78%) Packer
9 3 (1.78%) Salt
10 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (1.18%) Icinga
10 2 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.18%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.18%) SELinux
Vendors
1 59 (34.91%) Oracle
2 40 (23.67%) Microsoft
3 39 (23.08%) ServiceNow
4 37 (21.89%) Splunk
5 27 (15.98%) Red Hat
6 23 (13.61%) Cisco
6 23 (13.61%) VMware
7 11 (6.51%) F5
8 9 (5.33%) Citrix
8 9 (5.33%) IBM
8 9 (5.33%) Juniper
9 7 (4.14%) SolarWinds
10 6 (3.55%) AppDynamics
10 6 (3.55%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.37%) CyberArk
11 4 (2.37%) Qualys
11 4 (2.37%) SaltStack
12 3 (1.78%) Cloudera
12 3 (1.78%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (1.78%) Meraki