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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 344 363
Rank change year-on-year -172 +19 -69
Contract jobs citing Perl 76 129 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.54% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.69% 1.59% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 82 122
10th Percentile £204 £393 £425
25th Percentile £204 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £564
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.87% -6.04%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £642
90th Percentile £575 £637 £798
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £75.90 - £49.35
25th Percentile £77.00 - £54.00
Median hourly rate £80.50 £65.00 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% +2.36% +20.95%
75th Percentile £83.13 - £67.00
90th Percentile £84.00 - £68.05
UK median hourly rate £78.75 £70.00 £63.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% +10.24% +20.95%

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 11,002 8,125 10,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.47% 33.87% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,234 5,652 7,983
10th Percentile £355 £360 £350
25th Percentile £416 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% -4.55% -2.54%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £651
90th Percentile £721 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £526
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.62% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 530 190 453
10th Percentile £39.15 £28.16 £37.51
25th Percentile £54.66 £36.06 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £79.09
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -57 24 £208 -59.63% 5
London -95 20 £500 -7.52% 8
West Midlands -57 11 £465 -
Midlands -67 11 £465 -8.10%
North of England -95 11 £537 -2.36% 1
East of England -31 9 - - 5
Yorkshire -67 9 £531 -3.45%
North West -48 2 £550 +39.95% 1
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 9 (11.84%) Confluence
2 7 (9.21%) Apache
3 6 (7.89%) WebLogic
4 4 (5.26%) WebSphere
4 4 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (2.63%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (2.63%) JBoss
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (2.63%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.32%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.32%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Front Arena
1 2 (2.63%) Global One
1 2 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.63%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.42%) AWS
2 10 (13.16%) Azure
3 7 (9.21%) SaaS
4 6 (7.89%) Sauce Labs
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.26%) AWS KMS
5 4 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.95%) OCI
7 2 (2.63%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.63%) GCP
7 2 (2.63%) GitHub
7 2 (2.63%) IaaS
7 2 (2.63%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.63%) PaaS
8 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.84%) Firewall
2 6 (7.89%) DNS
3 5 (6.58%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.26%) HTTP
5 3 (3.95%) SAN
5 3 (3.95%) SSL
6 2 (2.63%) DHCP
6 2 (2.63%) FTP
6 2 (2.63%) InfiniBand
6 2 (2.63%) VLAN
7 1 (1.32%) BGP
7 1 (1.32%) BIG-IP
7 1 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.32%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.32%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.32%) LAN
7 1 (1.32%) Network Security
7 1 (1.32%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (1.32%) SSH
7 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (27.63%) MySQL
2 18 (23.68%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.89%) Metadata
3 6 (7.89%) MongoDB
4 5 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.26%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.63%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (2.63%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.63%) Tableau
7 1 (1.32%) Big Data
7 1 (1.32%) DB2
7 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.32%) KDB
7 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.32%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (18.42%) JIRA
2 12 (15.79%) Git
3 11 (14.47%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.89%) Android Studio
4 6 (7.89%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (7.89%) Eclipse
4 6 (7.89%) Xcode
5 5 (6.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.63%) GitLab
6 2 (2.63%) Introscope
7 1 (1.32%) Ant
7 1 (1.32%) JUnit
7 1 (1.32%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.84%) Banking
3 8 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (10.53%) Finance
3 8 (10.53%) Publishing
4 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.63%) Back Office
7 2 (2.63%) Front Office
7 2 (2.63%) Law
8 1 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (21.05%) Technical Support
2 10 (13.16%) Developer
2 10 (13.16%) Support Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Lead
3 8 (10.53%) Technical Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Technical Support Engineer
4 6 (7.89%) Architect
4 6 (7.89%) Perl Developer
4 6 (7.89%) Senior
4 6 (7.89%) Software Engineer
4 6 (7.89%) UX Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Applications Support
5 5 (6.58%) Software Developer
6 4 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Middleware Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) AIX Administrator
7 3 (3.95%) Consultant
7 3 (3.95%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Server Administrator
7 3 (3.95%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.84%) Ajax
1 9 (11.84%) YAML
2 8 (10.53%) Middleware
3 7 (9.21%) AngularJS
3 7 (9.21%) React
4 6 (7.89%) CSS
4 6 (7.89%) GraphQL
4 6 (7.89%) Spring
5 5 (6.58%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.26%) Kafka
6 4 (5.26%) LAMP
7 3 (3.95%) SOAP
8 2 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (2.63%) FIXML
8 2 (2.63%) JDBC
8 2 (2.63%) JMS
8 2 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.63%) Web Services
8 2 (2.63%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.21%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.89%) Clustering
3 6 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.89%) Mobile App
4 5 (6.58%) Reference Data
5 4 (5.26%) Replication
6 3 (3.95%) CMDB
6 3 (3.95%) Derivative
6 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.63%) Eurex
7 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.63%) Swaptions
8 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.32%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.32%) SCADA
8 1 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 56 (73.68%) Linux
2 34 (44.74%) Unix
3 21 (27.63%) Windows
4 16 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (10.53%) CentOS
5 8 (10.53%) Ubuntu
6 6 (7.89%) Android
7 5 (6.58%) AIX
8 4 (5.26%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (2.63%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (1.32%) Solaris
10 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.89%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (28.95%) DevOps
3 20 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 17 (22.37%) OO
6 15 (19.74%) Root Cause Analysis
7 14 (18.42%) Agile
7 14 (18.42%) OOP
7 14 (18.42%) Process Improvement
8 13 (17.11%) Computer Science
8 13 (17.11%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (15.79%) ITSM
10 11 (14.47%) Migration
10 11 (14.47%) Software Engineering
11 8 (10.53%) Data Modelling
11 8 (10.53%) ITIL
11 8 (10.53%) RBAC
11 8 (10.53%) Scrum
12 7 (9.21%) Disaster Recovery
12 7 (9.21%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 52 (68.42%) Python
2 36 (47.37%) Java
2 36 (47.37%) SQL
3 20 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 14 (18.42%) Bash
4 14 (18.42%) PowerShell
5 12 (15.79%) Ruby
6 11 (14.47%) Shell Script
7 7 (9.21%) C#
7 7 (9.21%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.26%) Groovy
9 3 (3.95%) PHP
10 2 (2.63%) C
10 2 (2.63%) Jython
10 2 (2.63%) Korn
11 1 (1.32%) C++
11 1 (1.32%) Scala
11 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.42%) Degree
4 13 (17.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (10.53%) RHCE
6 4 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.32%) CCDP
7 1 (1.32%) CCNA
7 1 (1.32%) CCNP
7 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.32%) QA
1 1 (1.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) Docker
2 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.95%) Firmware
3 3 (3.95%) PowerHA
4 2 (2.63%) Lustre
4 2 (2.63%) NFS
4 2 (2.63%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.63%) Postfix
4 2 (2.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (2.63%) Varnish
5 1 (1.32%) Ceph
5 1 (1.32%) GPFS
5 1 (1.32%) iptables
5 1 (1.32%) KVM
5 1 (1.32%) Samba
5 1 (1.32%) Sendmail
5 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (25.00%) Ansible
2 10 (13.16%) Puppet
3 8 (10.53%) Terraform
4 7 (9.21%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.26%) Grafana
5 4 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.95%) HAProxy
6 3 (3.95%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (2.63%) CA Wily
7 2 (2.63%) Control-M
7 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (2.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.63%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.63%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.32%) Consul
8 1 (1.32%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.32%) Salt
8 1 (1.32%) SELinux
Vendors
1 28 (36.84%) Oracle
2 18 (23.68%) Red Hat
3 9 (11.84%) IBM
4 8 (10.53%) Splunk
5 7 (9.21%) ServiceNow
6 6 (7.89%) Microsoft
7 4 (5.26%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.63%) Murex
9 1 (1.32%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.32%) Citrix
9 1 (1.32%) F5
9 1 (1.32%) Google
9 1 (1.32%) Imperva
9 1 (1.32%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.32%) Informatica
9 1 (1.32%) MarketAxess
9 1 (1.32%) Sybase
9 1 (1.32%) Tradeweb
9 1 (1.32%) VMware