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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 349 370
Rank change year-on-year -152 +21 -67
Contract jobs citing Perl 80 126 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% 1.53% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 79 117
10th Percentile - £393 £420
25th Percentile £204 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £535 £575 £628
90th Percentile £565 £674 £806
UK median daily rate £430 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -18.14% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £75.90 £63.65 £49.35
25th Percentile £77.00 £63.88 £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 £66.13 £67.00
90th Percentile £84.00 £66.35 £68.05
UK median hourly rate £78.75 £65.00 £63.50
% change year-on-year +21.15% +2.36% +10.43%

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 10,865 8,260 10,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.97% 33.88% 29.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,208 5,727 7,900
10th Percentile £354 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £542
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.05% -4.13%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 219 442
10th Percentile £42.22 £25.26 £35.65
25th Percentile £55.00 £36.99 £48.11
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% +1.73%

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 4 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 4 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 -52 26 £208 -60.55% 5
London -80 23 £500 -5.88% 5
West Midlands -55 11 £465 - 2
Midlands -67 11 £465 -8.10% 2
North of England -78 11 £531 -1.21%
East of England -33 9 - - 9
Yorkshire -57 8 £531 -3.45%
North West -44 3 £460 +17.05%
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 8 (10.00%) Confluence
2 6 (7.50%) WebLogic
3 5 (6.25%) Apache
4 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 4 (5.00%) WebSphere
4 4 (5.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (2.50%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (2.50%) JBoss
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (2.50%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.25%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (2.50%) Front Arena
2 2 (2.50%) Global One
2 2 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.50%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.25%) AWS
2 10 (12.50%) Azure
3 7 (8.75%) SaaS
4 6 (7.50%) Sauce Labs
5 5 (6.25%) Azure API Management
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.75%) AWS KMS
6 3 (3.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.50%) GCP
7 2 (2.50%) GitHub
7 2 (2.50%) OCI
7 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) Firewall
2 7 (8.75%) HTTP
3 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.75%) SAN
4 3 (3.75%) SSL
5 2 (2.50%) DNS
5 2 (2.50%) FTP
5 2 (2.50%) InfiniBand
5 2 (2.50%) VLAN
6 1 (1.25%) BGP
6 1 (1.25%) DHCP
6 1 (1.25%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.25%) LAN
6 1 (1.25%) Network Security
6 1 (1.25%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (1.25%) SSH
6 1 (1.25%) VSAN
6 1 (1.25%) WAN
6 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (28.75%) Relational Database
2 22 (27.50%) MySQL
3 11 (13.75%) Oracle Database
4 6 (7.50%) Metadata
4 6 (7.50%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.00%) RDBMS
5 4 (5.00%) SQLPlus
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (2.50%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (2.50%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.50%) Tableau
8 1 (1.25%) Big Data
8 1 (1.25%) DB2
8 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.25%) KDB
8 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) JIRA
2 10 (12.50%) Git
3 9 (11.25%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.50%) Android Studio
4 6 (7.50%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (7.50%) Eclipse
4 6 (7.50%) Xcode
5 5 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (6.25%) Toad
6 3 (3.75%) Ant
6 3 (3.75%) JUnit
6 3 (3.75%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.50%) GitLab
7 2 (2.50%) Introscope
8 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.25%) TestDirector
General
1 28 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.25%) Finance
3 11 (13.75%) Banking
4 9 (11.25%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.00%) Publishing
6 5 (6.25%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Back Office
7 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.50%) Front Office
7 2 (2.50%) Law
7 2 (2.50%) Legal
7 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) Developer
1 17 (21.25%) Technical Support
2 10 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 8 (10.00%) Lead
3 8 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 8 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) Perl Developer
4 6 (7.50%) Software Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) UX Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Applications Support
5 5 (6.25%) Senior
5 5 (6.25%) Software Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Administrator
6 4 (5.00%) Middleware Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (3.75%) AIX Administrator
7 3 (3.75%) DBA
7 3 (3.75%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.50%) Middleware
2 9 (11.25%) Ajax
3 8 (10.00%) YAML
4 7 (8.75%) AngularJS
4 7 (8.75%) Kafka
4 7 (8.75%) React
5 6 (7.50%) CSS
5 6 (7.50%) GraphQL
5 6 (7.50%) Spring
6 5 (6.25%) IBM Integration Bus
6 5 (6.25%) SOAP
6 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 5 (6.25%) XML
7 4 (5.00%) LAMP
8 2 (2.50%) EDI
8 2 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (2.50%) FIXML
8 2 (2.50%) JDBC
8 2 (2.50%) JMS
8 2 (2.50%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 8 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.50%) Clustering
2 6 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (7.50%) Mobile App
3 5 (6.25%) Reference Data
4 4 (5.00%) Derivative
4 4 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.75%) CMDB
5 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.75%) Replication
6 2 (2.50%) Eurex
6 2 (2.50%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.50%) Swaptions
6 2 (2.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.25%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.25%) PKI
7 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (70.00%) Linux
2 42 (52.50%) Unix
3 25 (31.25%) Windows
4 18 (22.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (10.00%) AIX
5 8 (10.00%) CentOS
5 8 (10.00%) Ubuntu
6 6 (7.50%) Android
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (2.50%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.50%) Solaris
8 2 (2.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (33.75%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (25.00%) DevOps
3 18 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (22.50%) OO
4 17 (21.25%) CI/CD
4 17 (21.25%) Process Improvement
5 16 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (17.50%) Agile
6 14 (17.50%) OOP
7 13 (16.25%) Computer Science
8 12 (15.00%) ITSM
9 11 (13.75%) Migration
9 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
10 10 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (11.25%) ITIL
12 8 (10.00%) Data Modelling
12 8 (10.00%) RBAC
12 8 (10.00%) Scrum
13 7 (8.75%) Capacity Planning
13 7 (8.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (61.25%) Python
2 42 (52.50%) SQL
3 39 (48.75%) Java
4 20 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 15 (18.75%) PowerShell
6 13 (16.25%) PL/SQL
6 13 (16.25%) Shell Script
7 11 (13.75%) Bash
8 9 (11.25%) Ruby
9 7 (8.75%) C#
9 7 (8.75%) PHP
10 5 (6.25%) Korn
11 3 (3.75%) Groovy
12 2 (2.50%) C
12 2 (2.50%) Jython
13 1 (1.25%) C++
13 1 (1.25%) Scala
13 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) Degree
2 13 (16.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (16.25%) Security Cleared
3 11 (13.75%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.00%) RHCE
5 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.25%) CCDP
6 1 (1.25%) CCNA
6 1 (1.25%) CCNP
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.50%) SEPA
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
2 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) Firmware
2 3 (3.75%) PowerHA
3 2 (2.50%) GPFS
3 2 (2.50%) Lustre
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.25%) Ceph
4 1 (1.25%) iptables
4 1 (1.25%) KVM
4 1 (1.25%) NFS
4 1 (1.25%) Samba
4 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (23.75%) Ansible
2 9 (11.25%) Puppet
3 6 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.50%) Terraform
4 4 (5.00%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (3.75%) Grafana
5 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.50%) CA Wily
6 2 (2.50%) Control-M
6 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (2.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.50%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.50%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.25%) BladeLogic
7 1 (1.25%) Consul
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.25%) SCCM
7 1 (1.25%) SCOM
7 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (45.00%) Oracle
2 20 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 13 (16.25%) IBM
4 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
5 9 (11.25%) Splunk
6 7 (8.75%) ServiceNow
7 5 (6.25%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.50%) Bloomberg
8 2 (2.50%) MarketAxess
8 2 (2.50%) Murex
8 2 (2.50%) Tradeweb
8 2 (2.50%) VMware
9 1 (1.25%) Citrix
9 1 (1.25%) Dell
9 1 (1.25%) HP
9 1 (1.25%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.25%) Perforce
9 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.25%) Sybase
9 1 (1.25%) Veeam