Perl Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Perl skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Perl UK / England
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	155	123	129
Rank change year-on-year	-32	+6
Contract jobs citing Perl	706	982	896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.63%	1.99%	1.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category	3.91%	5.08%	4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted	446	661	559
Median daily rate	£500	£450	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+11.11%	+5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£310	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£430	£400	£375
% change year-on-year	+7.50%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	20	15	26
Median hourly rate	£40.50	£42.00	£36.25
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-3.57%	+15.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£36.25	£36.00	£23.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.25	£58.75	£46.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£38.00	£37.50
% change year-on-year	+11.84%	+1.33%

Perl is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	18068	19331	19324
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	41.80%	39.09%	38.49%
Number of daily rates quoted	24306	27144	25112
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£310	£288	£268
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£600	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	751	817	831
Median hourly rate	£41.50	£37.50	£37.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+10.66%	+1.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£20.75	£15.75	£18.27
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£53.00	£53.75	£51.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.00	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+14.86%	-

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Perl as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Perl in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Perl in England

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Perl in England over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Perl in England

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Perl in England

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Perl in England over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor 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 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-49	384	£525	+10.52%	100
South East	+8	123	£460	+8.23%	36
East of England	+42	67	£500	+14.28%	20
North of England	-36	58	£425	+29.77%	28
Midlands	+49	57	£410	+13.88%	9
West Midlands	+40	36	£510	+48.90%	3
North West	+39	33	£500	+5.26%	15
East Midlands	+5	19	£375	-8.53%	6
South West	-28	17	£385	-10.46%	8
Yorkshire	-22	13	£420	-2.21%	9
North East	+5	12	£420	+33.33%	4
Perl UK

Perl
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Perl also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Perl.

1	952 (68.39%)	Linux
2	811 (58.26%)	Python
3	596 (42.82%)	Unix
4	493 (35.42%)	Java
5	390 (28.02%)	SQL
6	383 (27.51%)	DevOps
7	357 (25.65%)	Bash Shell
8	353 (25.36%)	Finance
9	352 (25.29%)	Oracle
10	336 (24.14%)	Agile Software Development
11	318 (22.84%)	Puppet
12	297 (21.34%)	Ruby
13	295 (21.19%)	Jenkins
14	284 (20.40%)	Windows
15	274 (19.68%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux

16	263 (18.89%)	Git (software)
17	262 (18.82%)	Opscode Chef
18	259 (18.61%)	Red Hat
19	257 (18.46%)	Configuration Management
20	254 (18.25%)	Ansible
21	214 (15.37%)	Amazon AWS
22	205 (14.73%)	Apache
23	199 (14.30%)	Docker
24	197 (14.15%)	Shell Script
25	189 (13.58%)	TCP/IP
26	187 (13.43%)	Continuous Integration
27	176 (12.64%)	VMware
28	173 (12.43%)	Tomcat
28	173 (12.43%)	Open Source
29	166 (11.93%)	PowerShell

Perl
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	205 (14.73%)	Apache
2	173 (12.43%)	Tomcat
3	101 (7.26%)	JBoss
4	78 (5.60%)	WebLogic
5	70 (5.03%)	nginx
6	61 (4.38%)	IIS
6	61 (4.38%)	OpenStack
7	47 (3.38%)	WebSphere
8	39 (2.80%)	Confluence
9	37 (2.66%)	Oracle SOA Suite
10	36 (2.59%)	Elasticsearch
11	20 (1.44%)	Apache Spark
12	18 (1.29%)	Apache Pig
13	14 (1.01%)	GlassFish
14	12 (0.86%)	WebSphere Application Server
15	10 (0.72%)	Exchange Server 2000
15	10 (0.72%)	Exchange Server 2003
15	10 (0.72%)	Exchange Server 5.5
15	10 (0.72%)	MS Exchange
15	10 (0.72%)	SharePoint

Applications
1	18 (1.29%)	Microsoft Excel
2	15 (1.08%)	Microsoft Office
3	6 (0.43%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	5 (0.36%)	Photoshop
4	5 (0.36%)	SPSS
5	3 (0.22%)	Doxygen
5	3 (0.22%)	Microsoft Project
5	3 (0.22%)	SmartSuite
6	2 (0.14%)	Spreadsheet
7	1 (0.072%)	Adobe Illustrator
7	1 (0.072%)	Mozilla Thunderbird
7	1 (0.072%)	MS Visio
7	1 (0.072%)	S-PLUS

Business Applications
1	16 (1.15%)	SAP ERP
2	6 (0.43%)	Payment Gateway
3	5 (0.36%)	Oracle Applications
3	5 (0.36%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3	5 (0.36%)	RMDS
3	5 (0.36%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	5 (0.36%)	SimCorp Dimension
4	4 (0.29%)	Summit
5	2 (0.14%)	Dynamics AX
5	2 (0.14%)	Loan IQ
5	2 (0.14%)	Oracle BPM
6	1 (0.072%)	IntelliMatch
6	1 (0.072%)	Oracle Receivables
6	1 (0.072%)	Oracle Retail
6	1 (0.072%)	Orchestrade
6	1 (0.072%)	SAP MDG
6	1 (0.072%)	SAP MDM
6	1 (0.072%)	Sentinel
6	1 (0.072%)	Sophis RISQUE

Cloud Services
1	214 (15.37%)	Amazon AWS
2	78 (5.60%)	Microsoft Azure
3	42 (3.02%)	OpenShift
4	35 (2.51%)	GitHub
5	33 (2.37%)	PaaS
6	29 (2.08%)	Cloud Computing
7	26 (1.87%)	IaaS
8	22 (1.58%)	Amazon EC2
8	22 (1.58%)	AWS CloudFormation
9	19 (1.36%)	Amazon EMR
9	19 (1.36%)	Google Analytics
9	19 (1.36%)	SaaS
10	17 (1.22%)	Virtual Private Cloud
11	14 (1.01%)	Amazon S3
12	8 (0.57%)	AWS Lambda
13	7 (0.50%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14	6 (0.43%)	Akamai
14	6 (0.43%)	Google Cloud Platform
15	4 (0.29%)	G Suite
15	4 (0.29%)	SoftLayer

Communications & Networking
1	189 (13.58%)	TCP/IP
2	126 (9.05%)	DNS
3	124 (8.91%)	HTTP
4	115 (8.26%)	Firewall
5	114 (8.19%)	SSL
6	78 (5.60%)	LDAP
7	59 (4.24%)	SAN
8	51 (3.66%)	Internet
9	40 (2.87%)	WAN
10	37 (2.66%)	LAN
11	35 (2.51%)	DHCP
12	34 (2.44%)	SNMP
13	31 (2.23%)	NAS
14	26 (1.87%)	VPN
15	24 (1.72%)	SSH
15	24 (1.72%)	Wireless
16	23 (1.65%)	Wireshark
17	22 (1.58%)	Network Security
18	21 (1.51%)	Kerberos
18	21 (1.51%)	Multicast

Database & Business Intelligence
1	153 (10.99%)	MySQL
2	132 (9.48%)	Relational Database
3	103 (7.40%)	SQL Server
4	98 (7.04%)	MongoDB
5	92 (6.61%)	PostgreSQL
6	76 (5.46%)	NoSQL
7	69 (4.96%)	RDBMS
8	68 (4.89%)	Hadoop
9	62 (4.45%)	Oracle Database
10	61 (4.38%)	Big Data
11	48 (3.45%)	Apache Cassandra
12	39 (2.80%)	Apache Hive
13	32 (2.30%)	DB2
14	25 (1.80%)	Redis
15	18 (1.29%)	HBase
16	17 (1.22%)	InterSystems Cache
17	16 (1.15%)	Sybase ASE
18	15 (1.08%)	Data Warehouse
19	14 (1.01%)	Data Mart
20	13 (0.93%)	Impala

Development Applications
1	295 (21.19%)	Jenkins
2	263 (18.89%)	Git (software)
3	114 (8.19%)	Subversion
4	85 (6.11%)	JIRA
5	61 (4.38%)	Maven
5	61 (4.38%)	Selenium
6	57 (4.09%)	Cucumber
7	49 (3.52%)	Ant
8	41 (2.95%)	Sonatype Nexus
9	35 (2.51%)	Vagrant
10	33 (2.37%)	JUnit
11	27 (1.94%)	TeamCity
12	25 (1.80%)	Team Foundation Server
13	21 (1.51%)	Atlassian Bamboo
13	21 (1.51%)	ProC
14	20 (1.44%)	Eclipse
14	20 (1.44%)	Gatling
15	19 (1.36%)	Grunt
15	19 (1.36%)	IntelliJ
16	18 (1.29%)	Hudson

General
1	353 (25.36%)	Finance
2	157 (11.28%)	Banking
3	73 (5.24%)	Front Office
4	58 (4.17%)	Investment Banking
5	53 (3.81%)	Telecoms
6	32 (2.30%)	Financial Institution
7	25 (1.80%)	Retail
8	14 (1.01%)	Marketing
9	12 (0.86%)	Law
9	12 (0.86%)	Retail Banking
10	11 (0.79%)	Manufacturing
11	8 (0.57%)	Back Office
12	7 (0.50%)	Electronics
12	7 (0.50%)	Legal
13	4 (0.29%)	Games
13	4 (0.29%)	Prime Brokerage
14	3 (0.22%)	Avionics
14	3 (0.22%)	Billing
14	3 (0.22%)	Multimedia
14	3 (0.22%)	Private Banking

Job Titles
1	323 (23.20%)	Developer
2	222 (15.95%)	DevOps Engineer
3	129 (9.27%)	Linux Engineer
4	117 (8.41%)	Administrator
5	105 (7.54%)	Analyst
6	86 (6.18%)	Architect
6	86 (6.18%)	Consultant
7	76 (5.46%)	Perl Developer
8	70 (5.03%)	Linux Administrator
9	67 (4.81%)	Systems Administrator
10	64 (4.60%)	Unix Engineer
11	63 (4.53%)	C++ Developer
12	58 (4.17%)	Linux Systems Administrator
13	55 (3.95%)	AWS Engineer
14	54 (3.88%)	DBA
15	50 (3.59%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
16	48 (3.45%)	Java Developer
17	47 (3.38%)	AWS DevOps
17	47 (3.38%)	Software Engineer
18	44 (3.16%)	Systems Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	114 (8.19%)	HTML
2	92 (6.61%)	Middleware
2	92 (6.61%)	XML
3	86 (6.18%)	J2EE
4	77 (5.53%)	.NET
5	68 (4.89%)	LAMP
6	66 (4.74%)	Web Services
7	61 (4.38%)	CSS
7	61 (4.38%)	Node.js
8	53 (3.81%)	SOAP
9	50 (3.59%)	JSON
10	49 (3.52%)	Spring
11	48 (3.45%)	jQuery
11	48 (3.45%)	REST
12	46 (3.30%)	Elastic Stack
13	40 (2.87%)	JMS
14	39 (2.80%)	LAPP Stack
15	33 (2.37%)	Java EE
16	32 (2.30%)	Hibernate
17	29 (2.08%)	Kafka

Miscellaneous
1	121 (8.69%)	Analytical Skills
2	78 (5.60%)	Data Centre
3	68 (4.89%)	Computer Science
4	62 (4.45%)	Derivative
5	60 (4.31%)	Fixed Income
6	55 (3.95%)	Clustering
7	44 (3.16%)	Equities
8	43 (3.09%)	Linux Command Line
9	33 (2.37%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
9	33 (2.37%)	Management Information System
10	31 (2.23%)	Equity Derivative
11	29 (2.08%)	Greenfield Project
12	24 (1.72%)	Public Cloud
13	22 (1.58%)	Enterprise Software
14	18 (1.29%)	Fintech
15	17 (1.22%)	Replication
16	15 (1.08%)	Cloud Native
17	14 (1.01%)	Enterprise Storage
17	14 (1.01%)	Interest Rate Derivative
18	13 (0.93%)	Video on Demand

Operating Systems
1	952 (68.39%)	Linux
2	596 (42.82%)	Unix
3	284 (20.40%)	Windows
4	274 (19.68%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	159 (11.42%)	Solaris
6	116 (8.33%)	CentOS
7	81 (5.82%)	AIX
8	55 (3.95%)	Ubuntu
9	42 (3.02%)	Windows Server
10	27 (1.94%)	HPUX
11	25 (1.80%)	Windows Server 2012
12	23 (1.65%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12	23 (1.65%)	Windows Server 2008
13	19 (1.36%)	VMS
14	14 (1.01%)	SUSE
15	13 (0.93%)	Oracle Linux
16	12 (0.86%)	Debian
16	12 (0.86%)	FreeBSD
17	10 (0.72%)	Windows 2000 Server
18	9 (0.65%)	Mac OS X

Processes & Methodologies
1	383 (27.51%)	DevOps
2	336 (24.14%)	Agile Software Development
3	257 (18.46%)	Configuration Management
4	187 (13.43%)	Continuous Integration
5	173 (12.43%)	Open Source
6	153 (10.99%)	Test Automation
7	112 (8.05%)	Software Engineering
8	110 (7.90%)	ITIL
9	103 (7.40%)	Continuous Delivery
10	102 (7.33%)	Scrum
11	101 (7.26%)	SDLC
12	99 (7.11%)	TDD
13	86 (6.18%)	High Availability
14	83 (5.96%)	Migration
15	82 (5.89%)	Performance Tuning
16	74 (5.32%)	Mentoring
17	72 (5.17%)	OO
18	62 (4.45%)	Load Balancing
19	60 (4.31%)	Kanban
20	56 (4.02%)	SOA

Programming Languages
1	811 (58.26%)	Python
2	493 (35.42%)	Java
3	390 (28.02%)	SQL
4	357 (25.65%)	Bash Shell
5	297 (21.34%)	Ruby
6	197 (14.15%)	Shell Script
7	166 (11.93%)	PowerShell
8	164 (11.78%)	JavaScript
9	159 (11.42%)	C
10	150 (10.78%)	PHP
11	132 (9.48%)	C++
12	105 (7.54%)	C#
13	89 (6.39%)	Korn
14	52 (3.74%)	Scala
15	43 (3.09%)	PL/SQL
16	38 (2.73%)	VB
17	34 (2.44%)	Groovy
18	23 (1.65%)	Go
18	23 (1.65%)	VBScript
19	21 (1.51%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	113 (8.12%)	Security Cleared
2	95 (6.82%)	Degree
3	67 (4.81%)	SC Cleared
4	46 (3.30%)	RHCE
5	38 (2.73%)	DV Cleared
6	30 (2.16%)	RHCSA
7	24 (1.72%)	CISSP
8	21 (1.51%)	Cisco Certification
9	20 (1.44%)	Computer Science Degree
10	17 (1.22%)	CCNP
11	16 (1.15%)	CCNA
12	12 (0.86%)	ISEB
12	12 (0.86%)	OCP
12	12 (0.86%)	Oracle Certification
13	11 (0.79%)	Master's Degree
14	8 (0.57%)	RHCA
15	7 (0.50%)	AWS Certification
15	7 (0.50%)	Microsoft Certification
15	7 (0.50%)	OCA
16	6 (0.43%)	PMI Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	40 (2.87%)	QA
2	14 (1.01%)	MiFID
2	14 (1.01%)	SLA
3	12 (0.86%)	PCI DSS
4	5 (0.36%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	2 (0.14%)	Data Quality
5	2 (0.14%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	1 (0.072%)	EMIR
6	1 (0.072%)	HL7
6	1 (0.072%)	ISO/IEC 20000
6	1 (0.072%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6	1 (0.072%)	PMO
6	1 (0.072%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	199 (14.30%)	Docker
2	113 (8.12%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	60 (4.31%)	Active Directory
4	38 (2.73%)	NFS
5	35 (2.51%)	Virtual Machines
6	29 (2.08%)	Veritas Cluster Server
7	27 (1.94%)	Samba
8	24 (1.72%)	Hyper-V
8	24 (1.72%)	Xen
9	23 (1.65%)	KVM
10	22 (1.58%)	VirtualBox
10	22 (1.58%)	vSphere
11	21 (1.51%)	VMware ESXi
12	19 (1.36%)	LXC
13	13 (0.93%)	Veritas Volume Manager
14	12 (0.86%)	iptables
15	11 (0.79%)	Apache Flume
15	11 (0.79%)	vCloud
16	10 (0.72%)	GPFS
16	10 (0.72%)	HDFS

Systems Management
1	318 (22.84%)	Puppet
2	262 (18.82%)	Opscode Chef
3	254 (18.25%)	Ansible
4	85 (6.11%)	Nagios
5	57 (4.09%)	Kubernetes
6	49 (3.52%)	ZABBIX
7	46 (3.30%)	Kibana
8	44 (3.16%)	NetBackup
9	41 (2.95%)	Terraform
10	38 (2.73%)	logstash
11	35 (2.51%)	Grafana
12	34 (2.44%)	Salt
13	20 (1.44%)	ITRS Geneos
14	19 (1.36%)	Red Hat Spacewalk
15	17 (1.22%)	Oracle RMAN
15	17 (1.22%)	vCenter Server
16	16 (1.15%)	Oracle ZFS
16	16 (1.15%)	Tivoli
17	15 (1.08%)	Red Hat Satellite
17	15 (1.08%)	Veritas Storage Foundation

Vendors
1	352 (25.29%)	Oracle
2	259 (18.61%)	Red Hat
3	176 (12.64%)	VMware
4	132 (9.48%)	Sybase
5	90 (6.47%)	Microsoft
5	90 (6.47%)	Splunk
6	70 (5.03%)	IBM
7	66 (4.74%)	Sun
8	64 (4.60%)	Veritas
9	62 (4.45%)	Cisco
10	47 (3.38%)	Google
11	45 (3.23%)	NetApp
12	44 (3.16%)	EMC
13	43 (3.09%)	HP
14	42 (3.02%)	SaltStack
15	41 (2.95%)	SAP
16	31 (2.23%)	AppDynamics
16	31 (2.23%)	F5
17	30 (2.16%)	ServiceNow
18	28 (2.01%)	WSO2