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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 349 362
Rank change year-on-year -132 +13 -52
Contract jobs citing Perl 96 120 183
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.49% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.88% 1.45% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 77 125
10th Percentile £204 £392 £416
25th Percentile £368 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -2.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £638
90th Percentile £552 £677 £815
UK median daily rate £453 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -15.74% -2.36% -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 10,932 8,294 10,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.64% 33.84% 29.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,268 5,734 7,813
10th Percentile £354 £363 £350
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -4.52%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £653
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 524 212 428
10th Percentile £42.11 £25.25 £35.52
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 £68.13 £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% -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 21 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 21 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 -86 28 £500 -9.09% 5
South East -52 25 £208 -59.67% 6
North of England -68 22 £544 +1.12% 1
North West -44 13 £550 +39.95%
West Midlands -53 12 £460 - 2
Midlands -60 12 £460 -9.09% 2
East of England -25 9 - - 8
Yorkshire -74 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 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.38%) Confluence
3 7 (7.29%) WebLogic
4 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (5.21%) Apache
6 4 (4.17%) WebSphere
6 4 (4.17%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (2.08%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (2.08%) JBoss
7 2 (2.08%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (2.08%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (2.08%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
8 1 (1.04%) OpenStack
8 1 (1.04%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.04%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (2.08%) Front Arena
2 2 (2.08%) Global One
2 2 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.08%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.75%) AWS
2 12 (12.50%) Azure
3 7 (7.29%) SaaS
4 6 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.21%) Azure API Management
5 5 (5.21%) Sauce Labs
5 5 (5.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.13%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.13%) GCP
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.08%) GitHub
7 2 (2.08%) OCI
7 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.67%) Firewall
2 7 (7.29%) HTTP
2 7 (7.29%) VLAN
3 6 (6.25%) BGP
3 6 (6.25%) WebEx
4 5 (5.21%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (4.17%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.13%) DNS
6 3 (3.13%) SAN
6 3 (3.13%) SSL
7 2 (2.08%) DHCP
7 2 (2.08%) FTP
7 2 (2.08%) InfiniBand
7 2 (2.08%) Wireless
8 1 (1.04%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.04%) LAN
8 1 (1.04%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (1.04%) SSH
8 1 (1.04%) VSAN
8 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.88%) Relational Database
2 20 (20.83%) MySQL
3 11 (11.46%) Oracle Database
4 7 (7.29%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.25%) Metadata
6 5 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.17%) RDBMS
7 4 (4.17%) SQLPlus
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.13%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (2.08%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (2.08%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (2.08%) Tableau
10 1 (1.04%) Big Data
10 1 (1.04%) DB2
10 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.04%) KDB
10 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (16.67%) JIRA
2 14 (14.58%) Git
3 11 (11.46%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (5.21%) Android Studio
5 5 (5.21%) Browser DevTools
5 5 (5.21%) Eclipse
5 5 (5.21%) Toad
5 5 (5.21%) Xcode
6 4 (4.17%) GitLab
7 3 (3.13%) Ant
7 3 (3.13%) JUnit
7 3 (3.13%) SoapUI
7 3 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.08%) Introscope
9 1 (1.04%) Subversion
9 1 (1.04%) TestDirector
General
1 34 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (16.67%) Finance
3 13 (13.54%) Banking
4 10 (10.42%) Legal
5 9 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (8.33%) Publishing
7 5 (5.21%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.08%) Back Office
9 2 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.08%) Front Office
9 2 (2.08%) Law
10 1 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (17.71%) Developer
2 15 (15.63%) Technical Support
3 11 (11.46%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) Lead
5 7 (7.29%) Software Engineer
5 7 (7.29%) Support Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) Administrator
6 6 (6.25%) Perl Developer
7 5 (5.21%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Senior
7 5 (5.21%) Software Developer
7 5 (5.21%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Technical Support Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) UX Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Architect
8 4 (4.17%) Middleware Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Oracle Developer
8 4 (4.17%) ServiceNow Architect
9 3 (3.13%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.42%) Ajax
1 10 (10.42%) Middleware
2 8 (8.33%) YAML
3 7 (7.29%) Kafka
3 7 (7.29%) Spring
4 6 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 6 (6.25%) React
4 6 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 6 (6.25%) XMPP
5 5 (5.21%) CSS
5 5 (5.21%) GraphQL
5 5 (5.21%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (5.21%) SOAP
5 5 (5.21%) XML
6 4 (4.17%) LAMP
7 2 (2.08%) EDI
7 2 (2.08%) FIXML
7 2 (2.08%) JDBC
7 2 (2.08%) JMS
7 2 (2.08%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.54%) Data Centre
2 12 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.25%) Clustering
4 6 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.21%) CMDB
5 5 (5.21%) Mobile App
5 5 (5.21%) Reference Data
6 4 (4.17%) Derivative
6 4 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.13%) Replication
8 2 (2.08%) Eurex
8 2 (2.08%) Fixed Income
8 2 (2.08%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.08%) Swaptions
8 2 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.04%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.04%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 67 (69.79%) Linux
2 41 (42.71%) Unix
3 34 (35.42%) Windows
4 29 (30.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (11.46%) Windows Server
6 8 (8.33%) AIX
6 8 (8.33%) CentOS
6 8 (8.33%) Ubuntu
7 5 (5.21%) Android
8 3 (3.13%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (3.13%) Solaris
9 2 (2.08%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.08%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (25.00%) ITSM
3 23 (23.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (22.92%) DevOps
5 18 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 16 (16.67%) Agile
6 16 (16.67%) OO
6 16 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 16 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 14 (14.58%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (13.54%) Computer Science
9 12 (12.50%) Change Control
9 12 (12.50%) High Availability
9 12 (12.50%) Migration
9 12 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 11 (11.46%) ITIL
10 11 (11.46%) OOP
10 11 (11.46%) Scrum
11 10 (10.42%) Knowledge Management
12 9 (9.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (63.54%) Python
2 42 (43.75%) SQL
3 40 (41.67%) Java
4 29 (30.21%) PowerShell
5 24 (25.00%) Bash
6 18 (18.75%) JavaScript
7 13 (13.54%) PL/SQL
8 12 (12.50%) Shell Script
9 11 (11.46%) Ruby
10 7 (7.29%) C#
10 7 (7.29%) PHP
11 5 (5.21%) Korn
12 3 (3.13%) Groovy
13 2 (2.08%) C
13 2 (2.08%) Jython
14 1 (1.04%) C++
14 1 (1.04%) Scala
14 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.96%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.63%) Degree
4 10 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.38%) CCDP
5 9 (9.38%) CCNA
5 9 (9.38%) CCNP
5 9 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (8.33%) RHCE
7 5 (5.21%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.08%) GDPR
1 2 (2.08%) QA
1 2 (2.08%) SEPA
2 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.25%) Docker
4 3 (3.13%) Firmware
4 3 (3.13%) PowerHA
5 2 (2.08%) GPFS
5 2 (2.08%) Lustre
5 2 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (2.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.04%) Ceph
6 1 (1.04%) iptables
6 1 (1.04%) KVM
6 1 (1.04%) NFS
6 1 (1.04%) Samba
6 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (20.83%) Ansible
2 9 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.38%) Puppet
3 6 (6.25%) Terraform
4 5 (5.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (4.17%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (3.13%) Grafana
6 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.08%) CA Wily
7 2 (2.08%) Control-M
7 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (2.08%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (2.08%) SELinux
7 2 (2.08%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.04%) BladeLogic
8 1 (1.04%) SCCM
8 1 (1.04%) SCOM
Vendors
1 37 (38.54%) Oracle
2 31 (32.29%) Red Hat
3 18 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 13 (13.54%) IBM
5 12 (12.50%) VMware
6 10 (10.42%) Citrix
6 10 (10.42%) ServiceNow
7 8 (8.33%) Cisco
7 8 (8.33%) Splunk
8 5 (5.21%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.13%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.08%) Bloomberg
10 2 (2.08%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (2.08%) MarketAxess
10 2 (2.08%) Murex
10 2 (2.08%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.08%) Tradeweb
11 1 (1.04%) Mellanox
11 1 (1.04%) Solarflare
11 1 (1.04%) Symantec