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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 340 350
Rank change year-on-year -73 +10 -40
Contract jobs citing Perl 143 146 213
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.56% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.42% 1.69% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 92 155
10th Percentile - £357 £400
25th Percentile £204 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -24.43% -0.86% +0.87%
75th Percentile £538 £759 £805
90th Percentile £565 £810 £825
UK median daily rate £425 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -22.73% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile - - £40.25
25th Percentile £74.26 £63.50 £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 £66.50 -
90th Percentile £84.00 - £63.00
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +6.09% +16.67% -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 10,102 8,652 11,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.08% 33.48% 29.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,723 5,539 8,090
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.66% -4.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £660
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 201 472
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £77.50
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 10 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Perl in England

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 10 February 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 -72 43 £416 -30.67% 13
South East -10 38 £208 -38.52% 9
North of England -44 33 £537 +26.35% 3
North West -14 20 £550 +34.80% 2
West Midlands -40 13 £525 -6.75% 4
Midlands -48 13 £525 -6.75% 5
Yorkshire -51 12 £531 -3.45% 1
East of England -17 11 £613 +4.26% 9
South West -14 4 £513 -34.92% 3
North East - 4 £550 -
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 (6.99%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.50%) Confluence
4 4 (2.80%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.10%) Apache
6 2 (1.40%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (6.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.70%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.48%) AWS
2 20 (13.99%) Azure
3 18 (12.59%) SaaS
4 15 (10.49%) Sauce Labs
5 10 (6.99%) GCP
6 6 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (4.20%) Azure API Management
6 6 (4.20%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (3.50%) GitHub
8 4 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.80%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.80%) Serverless
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.40%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 26 (18.18%) Firewall
2 15 (10.49%) Wireless
3 14 (9.79%) BGP
4 12 (8.39%) DNS
4 12 (8.39%) TCP/IP
5 8 (5.59%) HTTP
5 8 (5.59%) VLAN
6 6 (4.20%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (4.20%) WebEx
7 5 (3.50%) DHCP
7 5 (3.50%) OSPF
8 4 (2.80%) EIGRP
8 4 (2.80%) HTTPS
8 4 (2.80%) IPsec
8 4 (2.80%) LAN
8 4 (2.80%) Network Security
8 4 (2.80%) WAN
9 3 (2.10%) SSH
9 3 (2.10%) VPN
9 3 (2.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.67%) Relational Database
2 38 (26.57%) MySQL
3 13 (9.09%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.20%) Metadata
5 5 (3.50%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.80%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.80%) Oracle Database 10g
6 4 (2.80%) SQLPlus
7 2 (1.40%) Big Data
7 2 (1.40%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (1.40%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.70%) DB2
8 1 (0.70%) GIS
8 1 (0.70%) Parquet
8 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (11.89%) Git
2 16 (11.19%) Browser DevTools
3 15 (10.49%) Android Studio
3 15 (10.49%) Eclipse
3 15 (10.49%) Xcode
4 9 (6.29%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.29%) JIRA
5 5 (3.50%) GitLab
5 5 (3.50%) Toad
6 4 (2.80%) Ant
6 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.80%) JUnit
6 4 (2.80%) SoapUI
6 4 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (2.10%) Subversion
8 2 (1.40%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.40%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.70%) TestDirector
General
1 57 (39.86%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.88%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (13.29%) Finance
4 12 (8.39%) Banking
5 10 (6.99%) Legal
6 9 (6.29%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (5.59%) Publishing
8 7 (4.90%) Public Sector
9 6 (4.20%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.10%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.40%) Law
12 1 (0.70%) French Language
Job Titles
1 35 (24.48%) Technical Support
2 22 (15.38%) Developer
3 17 (11.89%) Support Engineer
4 16 (11.19%) Technical Engineer
4 16 (11.19%) Technical Support Engineer
4 16 (11.19%) UX Engineer
5 13 (9.09%) Network Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 12 (8.39%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (5.59%) Lead
8 7 (4.90%) Perl Developer
8 7 (4.90%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Administrator
9 5 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Software Developer
10 4 (2.80%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (2.80%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (2.80%) ServiceNow Architect
10 4 (2.80%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.69%) Ajax
2 20 (13.99%) AngularJS
2 20 (13.99%) React
3 19 (13.29%) CSS
4 16 (11.19%) GraphQL
5 8 (5.59%) Node.js
5 8 (5.59%) YAML
6 7 (4.90%) Kafka
6 7 (4.90%) SOAP
7 6 (4.20%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (4.20%) XMPP
8 5 (3.50%) Middleware
8 5 (3.50%) XML
9 4 (2.80%) Spring
10 3 (2.10%) Electron
10 3 (2.10%) HTML
10 3 (2.10%) JNI
10 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (2.10%) REST
10 3 (2.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.29%) Mobile App
2 12 (8.39%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.39%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.59%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.20%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.50%) CMDB
5 5 (3.50%) PKI
5 5 (3.50%) Replication
6 3 (2.10%) Clustering
6 3 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.10%) FPGA
6 3 (2.10%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.10%) RISC-V
6 3 (2.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.40%) Derivative
7 2 (1.40%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.40%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 97 (67.83%) Linux
2 64 (44.76%) Unix
3 60 (41.96%) Windows
4 26 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (12.59%) Android
6 13 (9.09%) CentOS
7 11 (7.69%) Windows Server
8 10 (6.99%) Ubuntu
9 5 (3.50%) AIX
10 4 (2.80%) Solaris
11 3 (2.10%) Apple iOS
11 3 (2.10%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.40%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (1.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (29.37%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (25.87%) OO
3 32 (22.38%) ITSM
4 22 (15.38%) DevOps
4 22 (15.38%) Process Improvement
5 21 (14.69%) Computer Science
6 20 (13.99%) OOP
6 20 (13.99%) User Experience
7 18 (12.59%) CI/CD
7 18 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (11.19%) Mobile Application Development
8 16 (11.19%) Service Management
9 14 (9.79%) High Availability
10 13 (9.09%) Change Control
10 13 (9.09%) ITIL
10 13 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (8.39%) Agile
11 12 (8.39%) Software Engineering
12 11 (7.69%) Knowledge Management
12 11 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 109 (76.22%) Python
2 69 (48.25%) Java
3 47 (32.87%) SQL
4 43 (30.07%) JavaScript
5 39 (27.27%) Bash
6 35 (24.48%) PowerShell
7 15 (10.49%) Shell Script
8 14 (9.79%) Ruby
9 13 (9.09%) PL/SQL
10 9 (6.29%) C#
11 8 (5.59%) C++
12 6 (4.20%) C
12 6 (4.20%) Korn
13 5 (3.50%) PHP
14 3 (2.10%) Assembly Language
14 3 (2.10%) SystemVerilog
15 2 (1.40%) Groovy
15 2 (1.40%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.70%) Rust
16 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (19.58%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 23 (16.08%) Degree
4 18 (12.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (11.19%) CCNP
5 16 (11.19%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (8.39%) CCDP
7 10 (6.99%) CCNA
7 10 (6.99%) RHCE
8 5 (3.50%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.80%) JNCIA
9 4 (2.80%) JNCIS
10 2 (1.40%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.80%) GDPR
2 3 (2.10%) SEPA
3 2 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 15 (10.49%) Docker
1 15 (10.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (8.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.80%) Firmware
3 4 (2.80%) KVM
3 4 (2.80%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.10%) NFS
4 3 (2.10%) QEMU
5 2 (1.40%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.40%) GPFS
5 2 (1.40%) Lustre
5 2 (1.40%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.40%) Veritas File System
5 2 (1.40%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.70%) Ceph
6 1 (0.70%) iptables
6 1 (0.70%) Samba
6 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (13.99%) Ansible
2 12 (8.39%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.69%) Puppet
4 5 (3.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (3.50%) Terraform
5 4 (2.80%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (2.10%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.10%) Grafana
6 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.10%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (1.40%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.40%) QRadar
7 2 (1.40%) SELinux
8 1 (0.70%) BladeLogic
8 1 (0.70%) Packer
8 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 60 (41.96%) Oracle
2 34 (23.78%) Microsoft
3 31 (21.68%) Red Hat
4 28 (19.58%) ServiceNow
5 27 (18.88%) Splunk
6 20 (13.99%) Cisco
6 20 (13.99%) VMware
7 10 (6.99%) Citrix
8 7 (4.90%) IBM
8 7 (4.90%) Juniper
9 6 (4.20%) SolarWinds
10 5 (3.50%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.10%) F5
11 3 (2.10%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (1.40%) AppDynamics
12 2 (1.40%) CyberArk
12 2 (1.40%) Meraki
12 2 (1.40%) Qualys
12 2 (1.40%) SaltStack
12 2 (1.40%) Tradeweb