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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 354 377
Rank change year-on-year -211 +23 -52
Contract jobs citing Perl 66 151 157
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.55% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.55% 1.67% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 109 117
10th Percentile £204 £245 £334
25th Percentile £411 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £624 £638 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -5.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £59.20
25th Percentile - - £61.75
Median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% - +23.81%
75th Percentile - - £66.50
90th Percentile - - £67.85
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% - +23.81%

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 11,984 9,056 10,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.38% 32.80% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,769 6,248 7,619
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £651
90th Percentile £738 £763 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 499 228 360
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.07 £30.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £40.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £83.42 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -82 31 £500 -9.09% 43
West Midlands -58 10 £465 -2.11% 2
Midlands -59 10 £465 -2.11% 2
South East -90 10 £208 -58.50% 16
North of England -85 6 £575 +9.52% 9
South West -49 4 £613 -2.00% 12
North West -60 4 £575 +46.31% 7
Yorkshire -58 2 - - 2
East of England -20 1 - - 10
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 12 (18.18%) Confluence
2 5 (7.58%) Apache
3 4 (6.06%) WebLogic
3 4 (6.06%) WebSphere
3 4 (6.06%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (4.55%) JBoss
5 2 (3.03%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (3.03%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.52%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.52%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Front Arena
1 2 (3.03%) Global One
2 1 (1.52%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.73%) AWS
2 11 (16.67%) Azure
3 6 (9.09%) GCP
4 5 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (7.58%) Amazon S3
4 5 (7.58%) AWS KMS
4 5 (7.58%) SaaS
4 5 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (6.06%) IaaS
6 3 (4.55%) GitHub
6 3 (4.55%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.03%) Datadog
7 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.03%) PaaS
8 1 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.67%) Firewall
2 9 (13.64%) DNS
2 9 (13.64%) SAN
3 8 (12.12%) SSL
4 7 (10.61%) TCP/IP
5 4 (6.06%) Network Security
6 3 (4.55%) BGP
6 3 (4.55%) HTTP
6 3 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (3.03%) DMZ
7 2 (3.03%) DWDM
7 2 (3.03%) Internet
7 2 (3.03%) IPsec
7 2 (3.03%) Kerberos
7 2 (3.03%) L2TP
7 2 (3.03%) MPLS
7 2 (3.03%) OSPF
7 2 (3.03%) VPN
7 2 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) MySQL
1 8 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.58%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (7.58%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.03%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (3.03%) SQLite
4 2 (3.03%) Tableau
5 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.52%) QlikView
5 1 (1.52%) SQLPlus
5 1 (1.52%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 19 (28.79%) Jenkins
2 18 (27.27%) Git
3 17 (25.76%) JIRA
4 6 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (6.06%) GitLab
6 3 (4.55%) Android Studio
6 3 (4.55%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (4.55%) Eclipse
6 3 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.55%) Xcode
7 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.03%) Introscope
7 2 (3.03%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.67%) Finance
3 8 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Banking
5 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.03%) Back Office
6 2 (3.03%) Front Office
6 2 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.03%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (22.73%) Senior
2 9 (13.64%) Analyst
2 9 (13.64%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (9.09%) Administrator
3 6 (9.09%) Consultant
3 6 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) AIX Administrator
4 5 (7.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (7.58%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (7.58%) Technical Support
4 5 (7.58%) Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Applications Support
5 4 (6.06%) Architect
5 4 (6.06%) Middleware Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (4.55%) Senior Security Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Server Administrator
6 3 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.09%) Middleware
2 4 (6.06%) Spring
2 4 (6.06%) Spring Boot
3 3 (4.55%) Ajax
3 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.55%) CSS
3 3 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.55%) GraphQL
3 3 (4.55%) LAMP
3 3 (4.55%) React
4 2 (3.03%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (3.03%) FIXML
4 2 (3.03%) JDBC
4 2 (3.03%) JMS
4 2 (3.03%) Kafka
4 2 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.03%) SPNEGO
4 2 (3.03%) Web Services
4 2 (3.03%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 10 (15.15%) Clustering
3 6 (9.09%) Replication
4 4 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.06%) Private Cloud
4 4 (6.06%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.55%) CSOC
5 3 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (3.03%) Derivative
6 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (3.03%) Eurex
6 2 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Swaptions
7 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (72.73%) Linux
2 26 (39.39%) Unix
3 17 (25.76%) Windows
4 15 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (10.61%) AIX
6 5 (7.58%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (4.55%) Android
8 2 (3.03%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (3.03%) Solaris
8 2 (3.03%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
2 21 (31.82%) CI/CD
2 21 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (31.82%) DevOps
3 17 (25.76%) Migration
4 13 (19.70%) ITIL
4 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (18.18%) Agile
5 12 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (15.15%) Configuration Management
8 7 (10.61%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (10.61%) Data Centre Operations
8 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (10.61%) OO
8 7 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (10.61%) Process Improvement
8 7 (10.61%) Security Hardening
8 7 (10.61%) SIEM
8 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (81.82%) Python
2 25 (37.88%) Bash
3 23 (34.85%) PowerShell
4 21 (31.82%) SQL
5 18 (27.27%) Java
6 12 (18.18%) Shell Script
7 7 (10.61%) Groovy
7 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.58%) C++
9 4 (6.06%) C
9 4 (6.06%) PL/SQL
9 4 (6.06%) Ruby
10 2 (3.03%) Go
10 2 (3.03%) Jython
10 2 (3.03%) Korn
10 2 (3.03%) PHP
11 1 (1.52%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.52%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.52%) C#
11 1 (1.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.12%) Degree
4 6 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (6.06%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.06%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.55%) CCNP
7 3 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.55%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (3.03%) A+ Certification
8 2 (3.03%) CCIE
8 2 (3.03%) MCSE
8 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.52%) CCDP
9 1 (1.52%) CCNA
9 1 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.52%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.52%) NIST
4 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Docker
2 8 (12.12%) Active Directory
3 7 (10.61%) Firmware
3 7 (10.61%) PowerHA
4 2 (3.03%) Postfix
4 2 (3.03%) Varnish
5 1 (1.52%) GPFS
5 1 (1.52%) Lustre
5 1 (1.52%) NFS
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.52%) Sendmail
5 1 (1.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (21.21%) Ansible
2 9 (13.64%) Terraform
3 8 (12.12%) Kubernetes
4 7 (10.61%) Grafana
4 7 (10.61%) Prometheus
5 5 (7.58%) Progress Chef
5 5 (7.58%) Puppet
6 4 (6.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 2 (3.03%) CA Wily
7 2 (3.03%) Control-M
7 2 (3.03%) HAProxy
7 2 (3.03%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (3.03%) systemd
7 2 (3.03%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.52%) Consul
8 1 (1.52%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.52%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.52%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) Oracle
1 12 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 11 (16.67%) IBM
3 9 (13.64%) Splunk
4 5 (7.58%) ServiceNow
5 4 (6.06%) Clearswift
5 4 (6.06%) Commvault
5 4 (6.06%) Google
5 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.06%) SolarWinds
5 4 (6.06%) Tanium
5 4 (6.06%) Tripwire
5 4 (6.06%) Veeam
6 3 (4.55%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.55%) F5
6 3 (4.55%) Imperva
6 3 (4.55%) SaltStack
6 3 (4.55%) Trend Micro
7 2 (3.03%) Arista
7 2 (3.03%) Dynatrace