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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 341 361
Rank change year-on-year -134 +20 -55
Contract jobs citing Perl 107 139 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.57% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.99% 1.69% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 94 127
10th Percentile - £372 £403
25th Percentile £204 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £668
90th Percentile £565 £764 £812
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 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% -7.69%

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 10,845 8,234 10,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 28.50% 33.68% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,213 5,639 7,886
10th Percentile £352 £359 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -5.54%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 217 438
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £54.66 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £85.00 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 29 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 29 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
South East -39 29 £208 -58.50% 13
London -94 29 £416 -29.79% 6
North of England -68 25 £537 -0.09% 11
North West -35 16 £550 +39.95% 3
West Midlands -48 12 £460 -34.29% 2
Midlands -61 12 £460 -14.34% 7
East of England -25 11 £613 +2.08% 14
Yorkshire -71 8 £531 -3.45% 6
North East - 4 £550 - 2
South West -32 1 £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 (9.35%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.54%) WebLogic
3 6 (5.61%) Confluence
3 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (4.67%) Apache
5 2 (1.87%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (1.87%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.87%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.87%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.87%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.87%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.93%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.93%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.93%) Global One
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.95%) AWS
2 12 (11.21%) Azure
3 11 (10.28%) SaaS
4 9 (8.41%) Sauce Labs
5 6 (5.61%) Azure API Management
5 6 (5.61%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.74%) GCP
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.87%) GitHub
7 2 (1.87%) OCI
7 2 (1.87%) Serverless
7 2 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.89%) Firewall
2 8 (7.48%) HTTP
2 8 (7.48%) TCP/IP
3 7 (6.54%) BGP
3 7 (6.54%) VLAN
3 7 (6.54%) Wireless
4 6 (5.61%) WebEx
5 5 (4.67%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (3.74%) DNS
7 3 (2.80%) DHCP
7 3 (2.80%) SAN
7 3 (2.80%) SNMP
7 3 (2.80%) SSL
7 3 (2.80%) VPN
8 2 (1.87%) FTP
8 2 (1.87%) InfiniBand
8 2 (1.87%) LAN
8 2 (1.87%) WAN
9 1 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.93%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (26.17%) Relational Database
2 27 (25.23%) MySQL
3 13 (12.15%) Oracle Database
4 7 (6.54%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.61%) Metadata
6 4 (3.74%) Oracle Database 10g
6 4 (3.74%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.74%) SQLPlus
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.87%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.93%) Big Data
8 1 (0.93%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.93%) DB2
8 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.93%) KDB
8 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.93%) Tableau
8 1 (0.93%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (12.15%) Git
1 13 (12.15%) JIRA
2 9 (8.41%) Android Studio
2 9 (8.41%) Browser DevTools
2 9 (8.41%) Eclipse
2 9 (8.41%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.41%) Xcode
3 6 (5.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (4.67%) Toad
5 4 (3.74%) Ant
5 4 (3.74%) GitLab
5 4 (3.74%) JUnit
5 4 (3.74%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.87%) Introscope
8 1 (0.93%) Subversion
8 1 (0.93%) TestDirector
General
1 39 (36.45%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (15.89%) Finance
3 12 (11.21%) Banking
4 10 (9.35%) Legal
5 9 (8.41%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (7.48%) Publishing
7 4 (3.74%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.80%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.87%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Back Office
10 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.93%) French Language
10 1 (0.93%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 22 (20.56%) Technical Support
2 19 (17.76%) Developer
3 11 (10.28%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (10.28%) Support Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) Technical Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) Technical Support Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) UX Engineer
5 8 (7.48%) Lead
5 8 (7.48%) Software Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Administrator
6 6 (5.61%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 6 (5.61%) Network Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Perl Developer
7 5 (4.67%) Senior
7 5 (4.67%) Software Developer
8 4 (3.74%) Applications Support
8 4 (3.74%) Architect
8 4 (3.74%) Oracle Developer
8 4 (3.74%) ServiceNow Architect
9 3 (2.80%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.08%) Ajax
2 10 (9.35%) AngularJS
2 10 (9.35%) React
3 9 (8.41%) CSS
3 9 (8.41%) GraphQL
4 8 (7.48%) Kafka
4 8 (7.48%) Middleware
4 8 (7.48%) YAML
5 7 (6.54%) SOAP
5 7 (6.54%) Spring
6 6 (5.61%) IBM Integration Bus
6 6 (5.61%) Spring Boot
6 6 (5.61%) XMPP
7 5 (4.67%) XML
8 4 (3.74%) LAMP
9 2 (1.87%) EDI
9 2 (1.87%) JDBC
9 2 (1.87%) JMS
9 2 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.87%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) Data Centre
2 12 (11.21%) Product Ownership
3 9 (8.41%) Mobile App
4 8 (7.48%) Management Information System
5 6 (5.61%) Clustering
5 6 (5.61%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.67%) CMDB
6 5 (4.67%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.80%) Derivative
7 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.87%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.87%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.93%) PKI
9 1 (0.93%) Replication
9 1 (0.93%) SCADA
9 1 (0.93%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 76 (71.03%) Linux
2 49 (45.79%) Unix
3 47 (43.93%) Windows
4 29 (27.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (10.28%) Windows Server
6 9 (8.41%) Android
7 8 (7.48%) AIX
7 8 (7.48%) CentOS
7 8 (7.48%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.80%) Solaris
9 2 (1.87%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.87%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (32.71%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (22.43%) ITSM
2 24 (22.43%) OO
3 20 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (16.82%) CI/CD
4 18 (16.82%) DevOps
4 18 (16.82%) Process Improvement
5 16 (14.95%) Computer Science
6 14 (13.08%) Agile
6 14 (13.08%) OOP
6 14 (13.08%) Platform Engineering
6 14 (13.08%) Software Engineering
7 13 (12.15%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (12.15%) User Experience
8 12 (11.21%) Change Control
8 12 (11.21%) High Availability
8 12 (11.21%) Scrum
9 11 (10.28%) ITIL
9 11 (10.28%) Migration
10 10 (9.35%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (64.49%) Python
2 47 (43.93%) SQL
3 46 (42.99%) Java
4 29 (27.10%) PowerShell
5 28 (26.17%) Bash
6 26 (24.30%) JavaScript
7 14 (13.08%) PL/SQL
8 12 (11.21%) Ruby
9 10 (9.35%) Shell Script
10 8 (7.48%) C#
11 7 (6.54%) PHP
12 6 (5.61%) Korn
13 3 (2.80%) C++
14 2 (1.87%) C
14 2 (1.87%) Jython
15 1 (0.93%) Scala
15 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.50%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.82%) Degree
4 13 (12.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (8.41%) CCDP
5 9 (8.41%) CCNA
5 9 (8.41%) CCNP
5 9 (8.41%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (7.48%) RHCE
7 3 (2.80%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) SEPA
2 2 (1.87%) GDPR
2 2 (1.87%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (9.35%) Active Directory
1 10 (9.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (6.54%) Docker
3 3 (2.80%) Firmware
3 3 (2.80%) PowerHA
4 2 (1.87%) GPFS
4 2 (1.87%) Lustre
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (1.87%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.93%) Ceph
5 1 (0.93%) iptables
5 1 (0.93%) KVM
5 1 (0.93%) NFS
5 1 (0.93%) Samba
5 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (16.82%) Ansible
2 10 (9.35%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.41%) Puppet
4 5 (4.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (2.80%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (2.80%) Terraform
6 2 (1.87%) CA Wily
6 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (1.87%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.87%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (1.87%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.87%) SELinux
6 2 (1.87%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.93%) BladeLogic
7 1 (0.93%) Consul
7 1 (0.93%) Control-M
7 1 (0.93%) SCCM
7 1 (0.93%) SCOM
7 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (42.99%) Oracle
2 29 (27.10%) Red Hat
3 23 (21.50%) Microsoft
4 15 (14.02%) VMware
5 12 (11.21%) Cisco
5 12 (11.21%) IBM
5 12 (11.21%) Splunk
6 11 (10.28%) ServiceNow
7 10 (9.35%) Citrix
8 5 (4.67%) AppDynamics
9 4 (3.74%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.80%) Juniper
10 3 (2.80%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (1.87%) Bloomberg
11 2 (1.87%) MarketAxess
11 2 (1.87%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.87%) Tradeweb
12 1 (0.93%) Perforce
12 1 (0.93%) Symantec
12 1 (0.93%) Veeam