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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 366 362
Rank change year-on-year -121 -4 -60
Contract jobs citing Perl 98 119 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.89% 1.43% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 77 128
10th Percentile £204 £392 £417
25th Percentile £318 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% -2.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £630
90th Percentile £550 £677 £815
UK median daily rate £450 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -15.75% -2.89% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile - £63.65 £41.25
25th Percentile £74.26 £63.88 £49.69
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £82.25 £66.13 £63.94
90th Percentile £84.00 £66.35 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% +4.35%

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 10,971 8,301 10,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.63% 33.78% 29.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,291 5,731 7,898
10th Percentile £353 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -4.42%
75th Percentile £606 £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 524 212 432
10th Percentile £42.50 £25.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £38.97 £47.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.18
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +0.92% -0.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -1.54%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -73 28 £500 -9.09% 3
South East -47 27 £208 -59.67% 5
North of England -69 22 £544 +1.12% 1
North West -33 13 £550 +39.95%
West Midlands -52 12 £460 - 2
Midlands -55 12 £460 -9.09% 2
East of England -20 9 - - 6
Yorkshire -62 8 £531 -3.45% 1
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 (10.20%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.18%) Confluence
3 7 (7.14%) WebLogic
4 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (5.10%) Apache
6 4 (4.08%) WebSphere
6 4 (4.08%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (2.04%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (2.04%) JBoss
7 2 (2.04%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (2.04%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (2.04%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
8 1 (1.02%) OpenStack
8 1 (1.02%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.02%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (2.04%) Front Arena
2 2 (2.04%) Global One
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.37%) AWS
2 12 (12.24%) Azure
3 8 (8.16%) SaaS
4 6 (6.12%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.12%) Sauce Labs
5 5 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.10%) Azure API Management
5 5 (5.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.06%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.06%) GCP
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.04%) GitHub
7 2 (2.04%) OCI
7 2 (2.04%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.33%) Firewall
2 7 (7.14%) HTTP
2 7 (7.14%) VLAN
3 6 (6.12%) BGP
3 6 (6.12%) WebEx
4 5 (5.10%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (4.08%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.06%) DNS
6 3 (3.06%) SAN
6 3 (3.06%) SSL
7 2 (2.04%) DHCP
7 2 (2.04%) FTP
7 2 (2.04%) InfiniBand
7 2 (2.04%) Wireless
8 1 (1.02%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.02%) LAN
8 1 (1.02%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (1.02%) SSH
8 1 (1.02%) VSAN
8 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.47%) Relational Database
2 22 (22.45%) MySQL
3 11 (11.22%) Oracle Database
4 7 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.12%) Metadata
6 5 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.08%) RDBMS
7 4 (4.08%) SQLPlus
8 3 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.06%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (2.04%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (2.04%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (2.04%) Tableau
10 1 (1.02%) Big Data
10 1 (1.02%) DB2
10 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.02%) KDB
10 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (16.33%) JIRA
2 14 (14.29%) Git
3 11 (11.22%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.12%) Android Studio
4 6 (6.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (6.12%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (6.12%) Eclipse
4 6 (6.12%) Xcode
5 5 (5.10%) Toad
6 4 (4.08%) GitLab
7 3 (3.06%) Ant
7 3 (3.06%) JUnit
7 3 (3.06%) SoapUI
7 3 (3.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.04%) Introscope
9 1 (1.02%) Subversion
9 1 (1.02%) TestDirector
General
1 34 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (16.33%) Finance
3 13 (13.27%) Banking
4 10 (10.20%) Legal
5 9 (9.18%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (8.16%) Publishing
7 5 (5.10%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.04%) Back Office
9 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.04%) Front Office
9 2 (2.04%) Law
10 1 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (17.35%) Developer
1 17 (17.35%) Technical Support
2 11 (11.22%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (9.18%) Support Engineer
4 8 (8.16%) Lead
5 7 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 7 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
5 7 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
6 6 (6.12%) Administrator
6 6 (6.12%) Perl Developer
6 6 (6.12%) UX Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Senior
7 5 (5.10%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.08%) Architect
8 4 (4.08%) Middleware Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Oracle Developer
8 4 (4.08%) ServiceNow Architect
9 3 (3.06%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.22%) Ajax
2 10 (10.20%) Middleware
3 8 (8.16%) YAML
4 7 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 7 (7.14%) Kafka
4 7 (7.14%) React
4 7 (7.14%) Spring
5 6 (6.12%) CSS
5 6 (6.12%) GraphQL
5 6 (6.12%) Spring Boot
5 6 (6.12%) XMPP
6 5 (5.10%) IBM Integration Bus
6 5 (5.10%) SOAP
6 5 (5.10%) XML
7 4 (4.08%) LAMP
8 2 (2.04%) EDI
8 2 (2.04%) FIXML
8 2 (2.04%) JDBC
8 2 (2.04%) JMS
8 2 (2.04%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.27%) Data Centre
2 12 (12.24%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.16%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.12%) Clustering
4 6 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.12%) Mobile App
5 5 (5.10%) CMDB
5 5 (5.10%) Reference Data
6 4 (4.08%) Derivative
6 4 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.06%) Replication
8 2 (2.04%) Eurex
8 2 (2.04%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.04%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.04%) Swaptions
8 2 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.02%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 69 (70.41%) Linux
2 43 (43.88%) Unix
3 35 (35.71%) Windows
4 29 (29.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (11.22%) Windows Server
6 8 (8.16%) AIX
6 8 (8.16%) CentOS
6 8 (8.16%) Ubuntu
7 6 (6.12%) Android
8 3 (3.06%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (3.06%) Solaris
9 2 (2.04%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.04%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (24.49%) ITSM
3 23 (23.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (22.45%) DevOps
5 18 (18.37%) CI/CD
5 18 (18.37%) OO
6 17 (17.35%) Process Improvement
7 16 (16.33%) Agile
7 16 (16.33%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (15.31%) Computer Science
9 14 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (13.27%) OOP
11 12 (12.24%) Change Control
11 12 (12.24%) High Availability
11 12 (12.24%) Migration
11 12 (12.24%) Software Engineering
12 11 (11.22%) ITIL
12 11 (11.22%) Scrum
13 10 (10.20%) Knowledge Management
14 9 (9.18%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (64.29%) Python
2 43 (43.88%) SQL
3 42 (42.86%) Java
4 29 (29.59%) PowerShell
5 24 (24.49%) Bash
6 20 (20.41%) JavaScript
7 13 (13.27%) PL/SQL
7 13 (13.27%) Shell Script
8 11 (11.22%) Ruby
9 7 (7.14%) C#
9 7 (7.14%) PHP
10 5 (5.10%) Korn
11 3 (3.06%) Groovy
12 2 (2.04%) C
12 2 (2.04%) Jython
13 1 (1.02%) C++
13 1 (1.02%) Scala
13 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (25.51%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.47%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.35%) Degree
4 12 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.18%) CCDP
5 9 (9.18%) CCNA
5 9 (9.18%) CCNP
5 9 (9.18%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (8.16%) RHCE
7 5 (5.10%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.06%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.04%) GDPR
1 2 (2.04%) QA
1 2 (2.04%) SEPA
2 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (10.20%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.12%) Docker
4 3 (3.06%) Firmware
4 3 (3.06%) PowerHA
5 2 (2.04%) GPFS
5 2 (2.04%) Lustre
5 2 (2.04%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (2.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.02%) Ceph
6 1 (1.02%) iptables
6 1 (1.02%) KVM
6 1 (1.02%) NFS
6 1 (1.02%) Samba
6 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (20.41%) Ansible
2 9 (9.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.18%) Puppet
3 6 (6.12%) Terraform
4 5 (5.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (4.08%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (3.06%) Grafana
6 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.04%) CA Wily
7 2 (2.04%) Control-M
7 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (2.04%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.04%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (2.04%) SELinux
7 2 (2.04%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.02%) BladeLogic
8 1 (1.02%) SCCM
8 1 (1.02%) SCOM
Vendors
1 39 (39.80%) Oracle
2 31 (31.63%) Red Hat
3 19 (19.39%) Microsoft
4 13 (13.27%) IBM
5 12 (12.24%) VMware
6 10 (10.20%) Citrix
6 10 (10.20%) ServiceNow
7 9 (9.18%) Splunk
8 8 (8.16%) Cisco
9 5 (5.10%) AppDynamics
10 3 (3.06%) SolarWinds
11 2 (2.04%) Bloomberg
11 2 (2.04%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (2.04%) MarketAxess
11 2 (2.04%) Murex
11 2 (2.04%) Palo Alto
11 2 (2.04%) Tradeweb
12 1 (1.02%) Mellanox
12 1 (1.02%) Solarflare
12 1 (1.02%) Symantec