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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 358 376
Rank change year-on-year -195 +18 -48
Contract jobs citing Perl 79 156 155
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.57% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.66% 1.72% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 108 115
10th Percentile £233 £204 £255
25th Percentile £393 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £479 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% -11.34% -1.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £630
90th Percentile £616 £600 £760
UK median daily rate £472 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -5.70% -2.93% -6.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £59.20
25th Percentile - £65.75 £61.75
Median hourly rate £77.00 £66.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +2.31% +23.81%
75th Percentile - £67.25 £66.50
90th Percentile - - £67.85
UK median hourly rate £86.00 £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.32% +2.31% +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 11,908 9,045 10,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.08% 32.80% 32.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,704 6,165 7,453
10th Percentile £363 £349 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 266 315
10th Percentile £29.96 £30.61 £31.98
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.60 £79.38 £79.67
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -92 49 £465 -12.47% 89
South East -84 10 £208 -33.55% 13
North of England -89 7 £563 +8.17% 13
South West -40 4 £613 - 20
West Midlands -60 4 £500 +5.26% 7
North West -64 4 £575 +46.31% 8
Midlands -66 4 £500 +5.26% 7
Yorkshire -45 2 - - 1
East of England -26 1 - - 26
North East -48 1 £475 -11.21% 4
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 (12.66%) Confluence
2 4 (5.06%) Apache
2 4 (5.06%) WebSphere
2 4 (5.06%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (3.80%) JBoss
4 2 (2.53%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (2.53%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.27%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Front Arena
1 2 (2.53%) Global One
2 1 (1.27%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.46%) Azure
2 12 (15.19%) AWS
3 7 (8.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (8.86%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (8.86%) Amazon S3
3 7 (8.86%) AWS KMS
3 7 (8.86%) IaaS
3 7 (8.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (7.59%) GCP
4 6 (7.59%) SaaS
5 3 (3.80%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.53%) Datadog
6 2 (2.53%) GitHub
6 2 (2.53%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.53%) PaaS
7 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.99%) TCP/IP
2 13 (16.46%) SAN
3 11 (13.92%) Firewall
3 11 (13.92%) SSL
4 10 (12.66%) DNS
5 8 (10.13%) Kerberos
6 5 (6.33%) HTTP
7 3 (3.80%) BIG-IP
7 3 (3.80%) DHCP
7 3 (3.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (3.80%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (3.80%) Network Security
8 2 (2.53%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (2.53%) IPsec
8 2 (2.53%) L2TP
8 2 (2.53%) Multicast
8 2 (2.53%) VPN
8 2 (2.53%) WAN
8 2 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.25%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.13%) SQLite
3 7 (8.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (8.86%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (8.86%) MySQL
4 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.53%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.53%) KDB
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.53%) Tableau
6 1 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.27%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.27%) QlikView
6 1 (1.27%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.27%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 29 (36.71%) Jenkins
2 26 (32.91%) Git
3 14 (17.72%) JIRA
4 5 (6.33%) GitLab
5 3 (3.80%) Android Studio
5 3 (3.80%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (3.80%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.80%) Xcode
6 2 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.53%) Introscope
6 2 (2.53%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (20.25%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.46%) Finance
4 6 (7.59%) Banking
5 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.80%) Back Office
6 3 (3.80%) Front Office
6 3 (3.80%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (21.52%) Linux Engineer
2 16 (20.25%) Senior
3 10 (12.66%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Analyst
4 8 (10.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) Consultant
6 5 (6.33%) Administrator
6 5 (6.33%) Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (6.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Technical Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Technical Support
6 5 (6.33%) Technical Support Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) DBA
7 4 (5.06%) Middleware Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) SOC Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.46%) Terraform
2 8 (10.13%) SPNEGO
3 6 (7.59%) Middleware
4 3 (3.80%) Ajax
4 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.80%) CSS
4 3 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (3.80%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (3.80%) GraphQL
4 3 (3.80%) React
4 3 (3.80%) YAML
5 2 (2.53%) 802.1X
5 2 (2.53%) JDBC
5 2 (2.53%) Kafka
5 2 (2.53%) Mojolicious
5 2 (2.53%) Moose
5 2 (2.53%) PCRE
5 2 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.53%) Regular Expression
5 2 (2.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Clustering
1 8 (10.13%) Enterprise Storage
1 8 (10.13%) Replication
2 7 (8.86%) Private Cloud
3 5 (6.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.33%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.33%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.80%) CSOC
4 3 (3.80%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (3.80%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.80%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.80%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.80%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (3.80%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.53%) Eurex
5 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (75.95%) Linux
2 33 (41.77%) Unix
3 19 (24.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (21.52%) Windows
5 7 (8.86%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (6.33%) AIX
7 3 (3.80%) Android
8 2 (2.53%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.53%) Solaris
8 2 (2.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.51%) CI/CD
2 31 (39.24%) DevOps
3 24 (30.38%) Root Cause Analysis
4 21 (26.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (21.52%) Configuration Management
5 17 (21.52%) Migration
5 17 (21.52%) Platform Engineering
6 15 (18.99%) Agile
7 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (16.46%) Infrastructure Automation
8 13 (16.46%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (13.92%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (13.92%) ITIL
10 10 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (11.39%) Containerisation
11 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (11.39%) Test Automation
12 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (10.13%) SDLC
12 8 (10.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (89.87%) Python
2 29 (36.71%) Bash
3 25 (31.65%) PowerShell
4 18 (22.78%) Java
5 17 (21.52%) SQL
6 12 (15.19%) Shell Script
7 9 (11.39%) Groovy
8 8 (10.13%) C++
8 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
8 8 (10.13%) Korn
9 7 (8.86%) C
10 4 (5.06%) PL/SQL
10 4 (5.06%) Ruby
11 2 (2.53%) Go
11 2 (2.53%) Jython
12 1 (1.27%) ActionScript
12 1 (1.27%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (1.27%) C#
12 1 (1.27%) PHP
12 1 (1.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (21.52%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.13%) Degree
4 6 (7.59%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.59%) Azure Certification
4 6 (7.59%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.80%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (3.80%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.53%) A+ Certification
7 2 (2.53%) CCIE
7 2 (2.53%) CCNP
7 2 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.53%) MCSE
7 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.27%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.53%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) NIST
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (13.92%) Docker
2 10 (12.66%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.33%) Firmware
3 5 (6.33%) PowerHA
4 2 (2.53%) Postfix
4 2 (2.53%) Varnish
5 1 (1.27%) GPFS
5 1 (1.27%) Lustre
5 1 (1.27%) NFS
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.27%) Sendmail
5 1 (1.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (24.05%) Ansible
2 9 (11.39%) Grafana
2 9 (11.39%) Prometheus
3 8 (10.13%) Progress Chef
3 8 (10.13%) Puppet
4 4 (5.06%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (2.53%) CA Wily
5 2 (2.53%) Control-M
5 2 (2.53%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.53%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (2.53%) systemd
5 2 (2.53%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.27%) Consul
6 1 (1.27%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.27%) Packer
6 1 (1.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (12.66%) Red Hat
2 9 (11.39%) IBM
2 9 (11.39%) Oracle
2 9 (11.39%) Splunk
3 8 (10.13%) F5
3 8 (10.13%) NetApp
4 7 (8.86%) ServiceNow
5 6 (7.59%) SaltStack
6 4 (5.06%) Clearswift
6 4 (5.06%) Commvault
6 4 (5.06%) Google
6 4 (5.06%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.06%) SolarWinds
6 4 (5.06%) Tanium
6 4 (5.06%) Tripwire
6 4 (5.06%) Veeam
7 3 (3.80%) Imperva
7 3 (3.80%) Infoblox
7 3 (3.80%) Trend Micro
8 2 (2.53%) Fortinet