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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 328 362
Rank change year-on-year -119 +34 -70
Contract jobs citing Perl 122 162 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.64% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.15% 1.90% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 109 132
10th Percentile - £345 £364
25th Percentile £204 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £549 £638 £678
90th Percentile £569 £810 £815
UK median daily rate £430 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -21.91% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile - £63.65 £41.25
25th Percentile £74.26 £63.88 £49.69
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 £63.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £66.35 £66.88
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 10,598 8,521 11,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.33% 33.83% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,077 5,644 7,925
10th Percentile £351 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £660
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 448 217 469
10th Percentile £41.83 £24.95 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £69.00
90th Percentile £77.15 £85.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 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 8 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 -91 34 £451 -24.92% 11
South East -38 32 £208 -55.73% 24
North of England -57 29 £537 -2.36% 16
North West -23 18 £550 +29.41% 6
West Midlands -47 14 £467 -33.31% 4
Midlands -59 14 £467 -24.52% 9
East of England -29 11 £613 +4.26% 16
Yorkshire -69 10 £537 -2.36% 9
North East - 4 £550 - 1
South West -18 3 £513 -33.87% 8
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 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.74%) WebLogic
4 6 (4.92%) Confluence
5 4 (3.28%) Apache
6 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.82%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.82%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.82%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.64%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.85%) AWS
2 16 (13.11%) Azure
3 14 (11.48%) SaaS
4 12 (9.84%) Sauce Labs
5 8 (6.56%) GCP
6 6 (4.92%) Azure API Management
6 6 (4.92%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.28%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.28%) GitHub
8 4 (3.28%) Serverless
8 4 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.64%) OCI
11 1 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.21%) Firewall
2 10 (8.20%) Wireless
3 9 (7.38%) BGP
3 9 (7.38%) TCP/IP
4 8 (6.56%) VLAN
5 6 (4.92%) DNS
5 6 (4.92%) HTTP
5 6 (4.92%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (4.92%) WebEx
6 5 (4.10%) DHCP
7 3 (2.46%) SNMP
7 3 (2.46%) VPN
8 2 (1.64%) InfiniBand
8 2 (1.64%) LAN
8 2 (1.64%) OSPF
8 2 (1.64%) SAN
8 2 (1.64%) WAN
9 1 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.82%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (0.82%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.23%) Relational Database
2 30 (24.59%) MySQL
3 13 (10.66%) Oracle Database
4 7 (5.74%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.92%) Metadata
6 4 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.28%) Oracle Database 10g
6 4 (3.28%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.28%) SQLPlus
7 3 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.64%) Big Data
8 2 (1.64%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.64%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.82%) DB2
9 1 (0.82%) GIS
9 1 (0.82%) KDB
9 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.82%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 17 (13.93%) Git
2 12 (9.84%) Android Studio
2 12 (9.84%) Browser DevTools
2 12 (9.84%) Eclipse
2 12 (9.84%) JIRA
2 12 (9.84%) Xcode
3 9 (7.38%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (4.10%) GitLab
5 5 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (4.10%) Toad
6 4 (3.28%) Ant
6 4 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.28%) JUnit
6 4 (3.28%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.64%) Subversion
8 1 (0.82%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.82%) TestDirector
General
1 49 (40.16%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.57%) Finance
4 13 (10.66%) Banking
5 10 (8.20%) Legal
6 9 (7.38%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (6.56%) Publishing
8 5 (4.10%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.28%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.46%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.64%) Law
12 1 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.82%) French Language
Job Titles
1 26 (21.31%) Technical Support
2 21 (17.21%) Developer
3 14 (11.48%) Support Engineer
4 12 (9.84%) Technical Engineer
4 12 (9.84%) Technical Support Engineer
4 12 (9.84%) UX Engineer
5 11 (9.02%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 8 (6.56%) Lead
7 8 (6.56%) Network Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Software Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Administrator
8 6 (4.92%) Perl Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Software Developer
10 4 (3.28%) Architect
10 4 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (3.28%) ServiceNow Architect
11 3 (2.46%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.46%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.93%) Ajax
2 15 (12.30%) AngularJS
2 15 (12.30%) React
3 14 (11.48%) CSS
4 12 (9.84%) GraphQL
5 8 (6.56%) YAML
6 7 (5.74%) Kafka
6 7 (5.74%) Node.js
6 7 (5.74%) SOAP
6 7 (5.74%) Spring
7 6 (4.92%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (4.92%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.92%) XMPP
8 5 (4.10%) Middleware
8 5 (4.10%) XML
9 3 (2.46%) LAMP
10 2 (1.64%) EDI
10 2 (1.64%) HTML
10 2 (1.64%) JNI
10 2 (1.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.30%) Data Centre
2 14 (11.48%) Mobile App
3 12 (9.84%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.56%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.10%) CMDB
6 5 (4.10%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.28%) Clustering
7 4 (3.28%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.64%) Derivative
9 2 (1.64%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.64%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.64%) PKI
9 2 (1.64%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.64%) Replication
10 1 (0.82%) FPGA
10 1 (0.82%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 86 (70.49%) Linux
2 53 (43.44%) Unix
3 49 (40.16%) Windows
4 28 (22.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (11.48%) Android
6 12 (9.84%) CentOS
7 11 (9.02%) Windows Server
8 10 (8.20%) Ubuntu
9 7 (5.74%) AIX
10 3 (2.46%) Solaris
11 2 (1.64%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (22.95%) OO
3 27 (22.13%) ITSM
4 21 (17.21%) CI/CD
4 21 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (16.39%) DevOps
6 18 (14.75%) Process Improvement
7 17 (13.93%) Computer Science
8 16 (13.11%) User Experience
9 15 (12.30%) High Availability
9 15 (12.30%) OOP
10 14 (11.48%) Software Engineering
11 13 (10.66%) Agile
11 13 (10.66%) Change Control
12 12 (9.84%) Mobile Application Development
12 12 (9.84%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (9.84%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (9.84%) Scrum
12 12 (9.84%) Service Management
13 11 (9.02%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 85 (69.67%) Python
2 57 (46.72%) Java
3 46 (37.70%) SQL
4 33 (27.05%) Bash
4 33 (27.05%) JavaScript
5 32 (26.23%) PowerShell
6 14 (11.48%) Ruby
6 14 (11.48%) Shell Script
7 13 (10.66%) PL/SQL
8 9 (7.38%) C#
9 6 (4.92%) Korn
9 6 (4.92%) PHP
10 4 (3.28%) C
10 4 (3.28%) C++
11 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.82%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.82%) Go
12 1 (0.82%) Scala
12 1 (0.82%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 27 (22.13%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.49%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.57%) Degree
4 14 (11.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (9.02%) CCNP
5 11 (9.02%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (8.20%) CCDP
6 10 (8.20%) CCNA
6 10 (8.20%) RHCE
7 5 (4.10%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.64%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.82%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.82%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.46%) GDPR
1 3 (2.46%) SEPA
2 2 (1.64%) QA
3 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (10.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (9.84%) Docker
3 10 (8.20%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.28%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.46%) Firmware
5 3 (2.46%) KVM
5 3 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.64%) GPFS
6 2 (1.64%) Lustre
6 2 (1.64%) NFS
6 2 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.64%) PowerHA
6 2 (1.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.82%) Ceph
7 1 (0.82%) iptables
7 1 (0.82%) QEMU
7 1 (0.82%) Samba
7 1 (0.82%) Veritas File System
7 1 (0.82%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (16.39%) Ansible
2 15 (12.30%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.02%) Puppet
4 5 (4.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.28%) Terraform
6 3 (2.46%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.46%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (1.64%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.64%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.64%) SELinux
8 1 (0.82%) BladeLogic
8 1 (0.82%) Consul
8 1 (0.82%) QRadar
8 1 (0.82%) SCCM
8 1 (0.82%) SCOM
8 1 (0.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (42.62%) Oracle
2 32 (26.23%) Red Hat
3 28 (22.95%) Microsoft
4 19 (15.57%) Splunk
5 18 (14.75%) VMware
6 17 (13.93%) ServiceNow
7 14 (11.48%) Cisco
8 10 (8.20%) Citrix
9 9 (7.38%) IBM
10 4 (3.28%) Juniper
10 4 (3.28%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.46%) AppDynamics
11 3 (2.46%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (2.46%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.64%) Bloomberg
12 2 (1.64%) MarketAxess
12 2 (1.64%) Tradeweb
13 1 (0.82%) Dell
13 1 (0.82%) HP
13 1 (0.82%) Veritas