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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 337 335
Rank change year-on-year -39 -2 -22
Contract jobs citing Perl 167 151 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.55% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 1.69% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 99 166
10th Percentile - £220 £321
25th Percentile £204 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% - -
75th Percentile £550 £744 £800
90th Percentile £588 £810 £823
UK median daily rate £472 £556 £550
% change year-on-year -15.15% +1.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 4
10th Percentile £73.41 - £43.38
25th Percentile £74.26 £63.50 £54.06
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% -17.81%
75th Percentile £82.25 £66.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £84.00 - £63.50
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 9,680 8,919 10,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.68% 32.59% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,436 5,760 7,824
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £774 £768
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 211 392
10th Percentile £39.36 £25.26 £35.05
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.00 £46.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £79.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -0.79%

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 8 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Perl in England

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 8 January 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 -38 57 £475 -24.00% 11
South East -10 41 £208 -2.35% 28
North of England -26 36 £537 +26.35% 13
North West -6 21 £550 +29.41% 3
West Midlands -29 15 £475 -15.63% 5
Midlands -29 15 £475 -15.63% 12
East of England -18 12 £613 +2.08% 25
Yorkshire -40 11 £525 -14.29% 8
North East - 7 £550 - 2
South West -6 5 £513 -34.92% 9
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 (6.59%) Confluence
2 10 (5.99%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.80%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.60%) Apache
6 1 (0.60%) JBoss
6 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.56%) AWS
2 23 (13.77%) Azure
3 22 (13.17%) SaaS
4 19 (11.38%) Sauce Labs
5 13 (7.78%) GCP
6 10 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (5.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (4.79%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.19%) Amazon ELB
8 7 (4.19%) GitHub
9 6 (3.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.59%) Amazon Glacier
9 6 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.59%) AWS KMS
9 6 (3.59%) Azure API Management
9 6 (3.59%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.40%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (2.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (17.96%) Firewall
2 21 (12.57%) TCP/IP
3 19 (11.38%) DNS
3 19 (11.38%) Wireless
4 18 (10.78%) HTTP
5 15 (8.98%) BGP
6 7 (4.19%) SSH
6 7 (4.19%) SSL
6 7 (4.19%) VLAN
7 6 (3.59%) FTP
7 6 (3.59%) OSPF
7 6 (3.59%) SMTP
7 6 (3.59%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (3.59%) WebEx
8 5 (2.99%) DHCP
8 5 (2.99%) EIGRP
8 5 (2.99%) HTTPS
8 5 (2.99%) IPsec
8 5 (2.99%) LAN
8 5 (2.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (26.95%) Relational Database
2 41 (24.55%) MySQL
3 13 (7.78%) Oracle Database
4 10 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.19%) RDBMS
6 6 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.59%) Metadata
7 4 (2.40%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.40%) SQLPlus
8 3 (1.80%) Big Data
9 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.20%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.60%) GIS
10 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (16.17%) Git
2 20 (11.98%) Browser DevTools
3 19 (11.38%) Android Studio
3 19 (11.38%) Eclipse
3 19 (11.38%) Xcode
4 17 (10.18%) Jenkins
4 17 (10.18%) JIRA
5 6 (3.59%) GitLab
5 6 (3.59%) Vagrant
6 5 (2.99%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (2.99%) Subversion
6 5 (2.99%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.99%) Toad
7 4 (2.40%) Ant
7 4 (2.40%) JUnit
7 4 (2.40%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.80%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.80%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
General
1 69 (41.32%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.77%) Finance
4 15 (8.98%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.19%) Banking
6 9 (5.39%) Financial Institution
6 9 (5.39%) Legal
7 8 (4.79%) Publishing
8 7 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.20%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) French Language
Job Titles
1 40 (23.95%) Technical Support
2 22 (13.17%) Developer
3 20 (11.98%) Support Engineer
3 20 (11.98%) Technical Engineer
3 20 (11.98%) Technical Support Engineer
3 20 (11.98%) UX Engineer
4 18 (10.78%) Network Engineer
5 16 (9.58%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 15 (8.98%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.19%) Administrator
11 7 (4.19%) Perl Developer
12 6 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.59%) Lead
13 5 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (2.99%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.37%) Ajax
2 23 (13.77%) AngularJS
2 23 (13.77%) CSS
2 23 (13.77%) React
3 20 (11.98%) GraphQL
4 11 (6.59%) Kafka
5 9 (5.39%) Node.js
6 7 (4.19%) SOAP
7 6 (3.59%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (3.59%) XMPP
7 6 (3.59%) YAML
8 5 (2.99%) Middleware
8 5 (2.99%) XML
9 4 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.40%) REST
10 3 (1.80%) .NET
10 3 (1.80%) Electron
10 3 (1.80%) HTML
10 3 (1.80%) JNI
10 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.77%) Mobile App
2 11 (6.59%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.59%) Replication
3 10 (5.99%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.39%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.59%) PKI
5 6 (3.59%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.59%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.99%) Clustering
7 4 (2.40%) CMDB
7 4 (2.40%) FPGA
7 4 (2.40%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.80%) RISC-V
8 3 (1.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.20%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.20%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 109 (65.27%) Linux
2 75 (44.91%) Unix
3 68 (40.72%) Windows
4 24 (14.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (13.17%) Android
6 11 (6.59%) CentOS
7 10 (5.99%) Windows Server
8 8 (4.79%) Ubuntu
9 6 (3.59%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (3.59%) Solaris
9 6 (3.59%) VMS
10 5 (2.99%) AIX
11 3 (1.80%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.80%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (25.15%) OO
2 39 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (19.76%) DevOps
4 28 (16.77%) ITSM
5 26 (15.57%) CI/CD
6 24 (14.37%) User Experience
7 21 (12.57%) Computer Science
7 21 (12.57%) Process Improvement
8 20 (11.98%) Mobile Application Development
8 20 (11.98%) OOP
9 19 (11.38%) High Availability
10 17 (10.18%) Agile
11 16 (9.58%) Containerisation
11 16 (9.58%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (8.98%) Service Management
13 14 (8.38%) Configuration Management
14 13 (7.78%) Change Control
14 13 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (7.19%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 136 (81.44%) Python
2 78 (46.71%) Java
3 49 (29.34%) Bash
4 46 (27.54%) JavaScript
4 46 (27.54%) SQL
5 38 (22.75%) PowerShell
6 17 (10.18%) Shell Script
7 14 (8.38%) PL/SQL
8 12 (7.19%) Ruby
9 10 (5.99%) C#
9 10 (5.99%) C++
10 9 (5.39%) Go
11 7 (4.19%) C
12 6 (3.59%) Groovy
12 6 (3.59%) Korn
13 4 (2.40%) Assembly Language
13 4 (2.40%) PHP
13 4 (2.40%) SystemVerilog
14 2 (1.20%) Tcl
14 2 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (19.76%) Security Cleared
2 31 (18.56%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.77%) Degree
4 18 (10.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (10.18%) CCNP
5 17 (10.18%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (7.19%) CCDP
7 9 (5.39%) CCNA
8 8 (4.79%) RHCE
9 5 (2.99%) JNCIA
9 5 (2.99%) JNCIS
10 4 (2.40%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.20%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.59%) GDPR
2 4 (2.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.80%) SEPA
4 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 24 (14.37%) Docker
2 16 (9.58%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.59%) DFS Replication
3 6 (3.59%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.99%) Firmware
4 5 (2.99%) NFS
5 4 (2.40%) KVM
5 4 (2.40%) Veritas File System
5 4 (2.40%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (2.40%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.80%) QEMU
7 2 (1.20%) GPFS
7 2 (1.20%) Lustre
7 2 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.60%) Ceph
8 1 (0.60%) iptables
8 1 (0.60%) Samba
8 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (18.56%) Ansible
2 20 (11.98%) Terraform
3 19 (11.38%) Kubernetes
4 9 (5.39%) Puppet
5 7 (4.19%) Grafana
5 7 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.59%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (2.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.40%) QRadar
9 3 (1.80%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.80%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (1.20%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.20%) Packer
10 2 (1.20%) SELinux
11 1 (0.60%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.60%) SCCM
Vendors
1 62 (37.13%) Oracle
2 38 (22.75%) Microsoft
3 35 (20.96%) ServiceNow
4 34 (20.36%) Splunk
5 29 (17.37%) Red Hat
6 22 (13.17%) Cisco
7 21 (12.57%) VMware
8 10 (5.99%) F5
9 9 (5.39%) Citrix
10 8 (4.79%) Juniper
11 7 (4.19%) IBM
11 7 (4.19%) SolarWinds
12 6 (3.59%) Palo Alto
13 4 (2.40%) CyberArk
13 4 (2.40%) Qualys
13 4 (2.40%) SaltStack
14 3 (1.80%) AppDynamics
14 3 (1.80%) LogicMonitor
14 3 (1.80%) Meraki
15 2 (1.20%) Tradeweb