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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 327 362
Rank change year-on-year -117 +35 -66
Contract jobs citing Perl 123 152 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.60% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 1.78% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 100 132
10th Percentile - £355 £400
25th Percentile £204 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £538 £691 £741
90th Percentile £565 £810 £823
UK median daily rate £432 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -21.45% -2.22% +2.27%
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 10,430 8,530 11,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.54% 33.69% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,960 5,605 7,963
10th Percentile £351 £357 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 210 473
10th Percentile £41.42 £25.25 £35.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.62
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.10 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -6.25%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -89 34 £416 -30.67% 8
South East -27 33 £208 -52.57% 16
North of England -50 30 £537 -0.09% 9
North West -24 18 £550 +40.66% 2
West Midlands -43 13 £475 -32.14% 3
Midlands -50 13 £475 -23.20% 4
East of England -29 11 £613 +4.26% 15
Yorkshire -62 11 £537 -2.36% 7
North East - 4 £550 -
South West -21 3 £513 -33.87% 7
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 (8.13%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.69%) Confluence
3 7 (5.69%) WebLogic
4 4 (3.25%) Apache
5 2 (1.63%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.81%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.63%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.70%) AWS
2 16 (13.01%) Azure
3 15 (12.20%) SaaS
4 13 (10.57%) Sauce Labs
5 8 (6.50%) GCP
6 6 (4.88%) Azure API Management
6 6 (4.88%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (4.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.25%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.25%) Serverless
9 3 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.63%) GitHub
10 2 (1.63%) OCI
11 1 (0.81%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (0.81%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (17.89%) Firewall
2 12 (9.76%) Wireless
3 10 (8.13%) BGP
4 9 (7.32%) TCP/IP
5 8 (6.50%) DNS
5 8 (6.50%) VLAN
6 7 (5.69%) HTTP
7 6 (4.88%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (4.88%) WebEx
8 5 (4.07%) DHCP
9 3 (2.44%) OSPF
9 3 (2.44%) SNMP
9 3 (2.44%) VPN
10 2 (1.63%) EIGRP
10 2 (1.63%) FTP
10 2 (1.63%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.63%) IPsec
10 2 (1.63%) LAN
10 2 (1.63%) SSH
10 2 (1.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (26.83%) Relational Database
2 31 (25.20%) MySQL
3 13 (10.57%) Oracle Database
4 7 (5.69%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.88%) Metadata
6 5 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.25%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (3.25%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.25%) SQLPlus
8 3 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.63%) Big Data
9 2 (1.63%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.63%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.81%) DB2
10 1 (0.81%) GIS
10 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (14.63%) Git
2 13 (10.57%) Android Studio
2 13 (10.57%) Browser DevTools
2 13 (10.57%) Eclipse
2 13 (10.57%) Xcode
3 12 (9.76%) JIRA
4 8 (6.50%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (4.07%) GitLab
6 5 (4.07%) Toad
7 4 (3.25%) Ant
7 4 (3.25%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.25%) JUnit
7 4 (3.25%) SoapUI
7 4 (3.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.63%) Subversion
9 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.81%) TestDirector
9 1 (0.81%) Vagrant
General
1 51 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.45%) Finance
4 12 (9.76%) Banking
5 10 (8.13%) Legal
6 9 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (6.50%) Publishing
8 5 (4.07%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.44%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.63%) Law
11 1 (0.81%) French Language
Job Titles
1 27 (21.95%) Technical Support
2 21 (17.07%) Developer
3 15 (12.20%) Support Engineer
4 13 (10.57%) Technical Engineer
4 13 (10.57%) Technical Support Engineer
4 13 (10.57%) UX Engineer
5 11 (8.94%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (8.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 9 (7.32%) Network Engineer
8 8 (6.50%) Lead
8 8 (6.50%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Perl Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.25%) Administrator
11 4 (3.25%) Architect
11 4 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Oracle Developer
11 4 (3.25%) ServiceNow Architect
12 3 (2.44%) Perl Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.63%) Ajax
2 16 (13.01%) AngularJS
2 16 (13.01%) React
3 15 (12.20%) CSS
4 13 (10.57%) GraphQL
5 8 (6.50%) YAML
6 7 (5.69%) Kafka
6 7 (5.69%) Node.js
6 7 (5.69%) SOAP
6 7 (5.69%) Spring
7 6 (4.88%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (4.88%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.88%) XMPP
8 5 (4.07%) Middleware
8 5 (4.07%) XML
9 3 (2.44%) LAMP
10 2 (1.63%) EDI
10 2 (1.63%) HTML
10 2 (1.63%) JNI
10 2 (1.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.20%) Mobile App
2 14 (11.38%) Data Centre
3 12 (9.76%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.50%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.07%) CMDB
6 5 (4.07%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.44%) PKI
7 3 (2.44%) Replication
7 3 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.63%) Clustering
8 2 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.63%) Derivative
8 2 (1.63%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.63%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.63%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.81%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 87 (70.73%) Linux
2 53 (43.09%) Unix
3 51 (41.46%) Windows
4 28 (22.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (12.20%) Android
6 12 (9.76%) CentOS
7 11 (8.94%) Windows Server
8 10 (8.13%) Ubuntu
9 5 (4.07%) AIX
10 3 (2.44%) Solaris
11 2 (1.63%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.63%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (23.58%) OO
3 28 (22.76%) ITSM
4 21 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (16.26%) DevOps
6 19 (15.45%) CI/CD
7 18 (14.63%) Process Improvement
8 17 (13.82%) Computer Science
8 17 (13.82%) User Experience
9 15 (12.20%) OOP
10 14 (11.38%) Software Engineering
11 13 (10.57%) Change Control
11 13 (10.57%) High Availability
11 13 (10.57%) Mobile Application Development
11 13 (10.57%) Service Management
12 12 (9.76%) Agile
12 12 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (9.76%) Scrum
13 11 (8.94%) Containerisation
13 11 (8.94%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (69.11%) Python
2 59 (47.97%) Java
3 45 (36.59%) SQL
4 34 (27.64%) JavaScript
5 33 (26.83%) Bash
6 32 (26.02%) PowerShell
7 15 (12.20%) Shell Script
8 14 (11.38%) Ruby
9 13 (10.57%) PL/SQL
10 8 (6.50%) C#
11 6 (4.88%) Korn
11 6 (4.88%) PHP
12 5 (4.07%) C++
13 4 (3.25%) C
14 2 (1.63%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.81%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.81%) Go
15 1 (0.81%) Groovy
15 1 (0.81%) Scala
15 1 (0.81%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 28 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 26 (21.14%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.45%) Degree
4 14 (11.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (9.76%) CCNP
5 12 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (8.13%) CCDP
6 10 (8.13%) CCNA
6 10 (8.13%) RHCE
7 5 (4.07%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.63%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.63%) JNCIS
8 2 (1.63%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.44%) GDPR
1 3 (2.44%) SEPA
2 1 (0.81%) QA
2 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (10.57%) Docker
1 13 (10.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (8.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.25%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.44%) KVM
4 3 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.63%) Firmware
5 2 (1.63%) GPFS
5 2 (1.63%) Lustre
5 2 (1.63%) NFS
5 2 (1.63%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.81%) Ceph
6 1 (0.81%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.81%) iptables
6 1 (0.81%) QEMU
6 1 (0.81%) Samba
6 1 (0.81%) Veritas File System
6 1 (0.81%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (15.45%) Ansible
2 15 (12.20%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.94%) Puppet
4 5 (4.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.25%) Terraform
6 3 (2.44%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (1.63%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.63%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.63%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.63%) SELinux
8 1 (0.81%) BladeLogic
8 1 (0.81%) Consul
8 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.81%) QRadar
8 1 (0.81%) SCCM
8 1 (0.81%) SCOM
Vendors
1 53 (43.09%) Oracle
2 32 (26.02%) Red Hat
3 29 (23.58%) Microsoft
4 20 (16.26%) ServiceNow
4 20 (16.26%) Splunk
5 18 (14.63%) VMware
6 15 (12.20%) Cisco
7 10 (8.13%) Citrix
8 7 (5.69%) IBM
9 5 (4.07%) Juniper
10 4 (3.25%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.44%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (2.44%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.63%) AppDynamics
12 2 (1.63%) Bloomberg
12 2 (1.63%) MarketAxess
12 2 (1.63%) Tradeweb
13 1 (0.81%) Dell
13 1 (0.81%) HP
13 1 (0.81%) Veritas