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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 326 360
Rank change year-on-year -90 +34 -55
Contract jobs citing Perl 139 154 200
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.60% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.35% 1.80% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 98 141
10th Percentile - £354 £400
25th Percentile £204 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% -4.35% -3.04%
75th Percentile £538 £719 £800
90th Percentile £565 £810 £825
UK median daily rate £432 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -21.45% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 5
10th Percentile - £63.65 £40.25
25th Percentile £74.26 £63.88 £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 £66.13 -
90th Percentile £84.00 £66.35 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £75.63 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.35% +8.33% -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 10,272 8,578 11,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.95% 33.46% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,836 5,533 7,991
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £663
90th Percentile £726 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 201 477
10th Percentile £41.25 £25.26 £36.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £42.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +4.13% -6.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.14
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.92% -7.48%

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 17 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
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 17 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 -68 41 £416 -30.67% 13
South East -17 36 £208 -44.67% 10
North of England -49 31 £537 +13.05% 4
North West -18 18 £550 +40.66% 1
West Midlands -38 16 £488 -13.37% 2
Midlands -45 16 £488 -13.37% 3
Yorkshire -51 12 £531 -3.45% 3
East of England -25 11 £613 +4.26% 8
South West -20 4 £513 -34.92% 2
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 (7.19%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (5.76%) Confluence
4 7 (5.04%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.16%) Apache
6 2 (1.44%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.44%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.72%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.44%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (19.42%) AWS
2 18 (12.95%) SaaS
3 17 (12.23%) Azure
4 15 (10.79%) Sauce Labs
5 9 (6.47%) GCP
6 6 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (4.32%) Azure API Management
6 6 (4.32%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.88%) Amazon MSK
8 4 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.88%) GitHub
8 4 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.88%) Serverless
9 3 (2.16%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (2.16%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.44%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 23 (16.55%) Firewall
2 15 (10.79%) Wireless
3 12 (8.63%) BGP
3 12 (8.63%) DNS
4 10 (7.19%) TCP/IP
5 8 (5.76%) HTTP
5 8 (5.76%) VLAN
6 6 (4.32%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (4.32%) WebEx
7 5 (3.60%) DHCP
7 5 (3.60%) OSPF
8 4 (2.88%) EIGRP
8 4 (2.88%) HTTPS
8 4 (2.88%) IPsec
9 3 (2.16%) SNMP
9 3 (2.16%) SSH
9 3 (2.16%) VPN
10 2 (1.44%) FTP
10 2 (1.44%) SMTP
10 2 (1.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (27.34%) Relational Database
2 35 (25.18%) MySQL
3 13 (9.35%) Oracle Database
4 7 (5.04%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.32%) Metadata
6 4 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.88%) Oracle Database 10g
6 4 (2.88%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.88%) SQLPlus
7 2 (1.44%) Big Data
7 2 (1.44%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.44%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.72%) DB2
8 1 (0.72%) Parquet
8 1 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (14.39%) Git
2 16 (11.51%) Browser DevTools
3 15 (10.79%) Android Studio
3 15 (10.79%) Eclipse
3 15 (10.79%) Xcode
4 12 (8.63%) JIRA
5 9 (6.47%) Jenkins
6 6 (4.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (3.60%) GitLab
7 5 (3.60%) Toad
8 4 (2.88%) Ant
8 4 (2.88%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.88%) JUnit
8 4 (2.88%) SoapUI
8 4 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (2.16%) Subversion
10 2 (1.44%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.44%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.72%) TestDirector
General
1 58 (41.73%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (13.67%) Finance
4 12 (8.63%) Banking
5 10 (7.19%) Legal
6 9 (6.47%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (5.76%) Publishing
8 6 (4.32%) Financial Institution
8 6 (4.32%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.16%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.44%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) French Language
Job Titles
1 32 (23.02%) Technical Support
2 23 (16.55%) Developer
3 18 (12.95%) Support Engineer
4 16 (11.51%) Technical Engineer
4 16 (11.51%) Technical Support Engineer
4 16 (11.51%) UX Engineer
5 12 (8.63%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 12 (8.63%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (7.91%) Network Engineer
7 8 (5.76%) Lead
7 8 (5.76%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.04%) Perl Developer
9 5 (3.60%) Administrator
9 5 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) Software Developer
10 4 (2.88%) Architect
10 4 (2.88%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow Architect
10 4 (2.88%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.11%) Ajax
2 20 (14.39%) AngularJS
2 20 (14.39%) React
3 19 (13.67%) CSS
4 16 (11.51%) GraphQL
5 8 (5.76%) Node.js
5 8 (5.76%) YAML
6 7 (5.04%) Kafka
6 7 (5.04%) SOAP
6 7 (5.04%) Spring
7 6 (4.32%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (4.32%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.32%) XMPP
8 5 (3.60%) Middleware
8 5 (3.60%) XML
9 3 (2.16%) Electron
9 3 (2.16%) HTML
9 3 (2.16%) JNI
9 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (2.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.67%) Mobile App
2 14 (10.07%) Data Centre
3 12 (8.63%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.76%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.32%) Reference Data
6 5 (3.60%) CMDB
6 5 (3.60%) PKI
6 5 (3.60%) Replication
7 3 (2.16%) Clustering
7 3 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.16%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.44%) Derivative
8 2 (1.44%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.44%) FPGA
8 2 (1.44%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.44%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 95 (68.35%) Linux
2 60 (43.17%) Unix
3 57 (41.01%) Windows
4 29 (20.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (12.95%) Android
6 13 (9.35%) CentOS
7 11 (7.91%) Windows Server
8 10 (7.19%) Ubuntu
9 5 (3.60%) AIX
10 4 (2.88%) Solaris
11 3 (2.16%) Apple iOS
11 3 (2.16%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (1.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.22%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (24.46%) OO
3 32 (23.02%) ITSM
4 22 (15.83%) DevOps
5 21 (15.11%) CI/CD
5 21 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (14.39%) Process Improvement
6 20 (14.39%) User Experience
7 19 (13.67%) Computer Science
8 17 (12.23%) OOP
9 16 (11.51%) Mobile Application Development
9 16 (11.51%) Service Management
10 14 (10.07%) High Availability
10 14 (10.07%) Software Engineering
11 13 (9.35%) Change Control
11 13 (9.35%) ITIL
11 13 (9.35%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (8.63%) Agile
12 12 (8.63%) Scrum
13 11 (7.91%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (73.38%) Python
2 68 (48.92%) Java
3 47 (33.81%) SQL
4 40 (28.78%) JavaScript
5 37 (26.62%) Bash
6 35 (25.18%) PowerShell
7 18 (12.95%) Shell Script
8 14 (10.07%) Ruby
9 13 (9.35%) PL/SQL
10 9 (6.47%) C#
11 7 (5.04%) C++
12 6 (4.32%) Korn
13 5 (3.60%) C
13 5 (3.60%) PHP
14 2 (1.44%) Assembly Language
14 2 (1.44%) Groovy
14 2 (1.44%) SystemVerilog
14 2 (1.44%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.72%) Go
15 1 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (20.86%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 21 (15.11%) Degree
4 16 (11.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (10.07%) CCNP
5 14 (10.07%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (7.19%) CCDP
6 10 (7.19%) CCNA
6 10 (7.19%) RHCE
7 5 (3.60%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.88%) JNCIA
8 4 (2.88%) JNCIS
9 2 (1.44%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.88%) GDPR
2 3 (2.16%) SEPA
3 2 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 14 (10.07%) Docker
1 14 (10.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (8.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.88%) Firmware
3 4 (2.88%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.16%) KVM
4 3 (2.16%) NFS
5 2 (1.44%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.44%) GPFS
5 2 (1.44%) Lustre
5 2 (1.44%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.44%) QEMU
5 2 (1.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.44%) Veritas File System
5 2 (1.44%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.72%) Ceph
6 1 (0.72%) iptables
6 1 (0.72%) Samba
6 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (14.39%) Ansible
2 15 (10.79%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.91%) Puppet
4 5 (3.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (3.60%) Terraform
5 4 (2.88%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (2.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (1.44%) Grafana
7 2 (1.44%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.44%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.44%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.44%) QRadar
7 2 (1.44%) SELinux
8 1 (0.72%) BladeLogic
8 1 (0.72%) SCCM
8 1 (0.72%) SCOM
Vendors
1 59 (42.45%) Oracle
2 34 (24.46%) Microsoft
2 34 (24.46%) Red Hat
3 28 (20.14%) ServiceNow
4 27 (19.42%) Splunk
5 19 (13.67%) VMware
6 18 (12.95%) Cisco
7 10 (7.19%) Citrix
8 7 (5.04%) IBM
8 7 (5.04%) Juniper
9 4 (2.88%) SolarWinds
10 3 (2.16%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (2.16%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.44%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.44%) Bloomberg
11 2 (1.44%) CyberArk
11 2 (1.44%) MarketAxess
11 2 (1.44%) Qualys
11 2 (1.44%) SaltStack
11 2 (1.44%) Tradeweb