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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 364 362
Rank change year-on-year -155 -2 -52
Contract jobs citing Perl 74 126 170
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.68% 1.54% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 80 117
10th Percentile £204 £393 £425
25th Percentile £204 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £650
90th Percentile £567 £638 £806
UK median daily rate £442 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -15.76% -4.55% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £75.90 - £49.35
25th Percentile £77.00 - £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 - £67.00
90th Percentile £84.00 - £68.05
UK median hourly rate £78.75 £70.00 £63.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% +10.24% +20.95%

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 10,896 8,165 10,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.43% 33.72% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,183 5,667 7,919
10th Percentile £356 £361 £350
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £656
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £530
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 206 446
10th Percentile £40.88 £28.09 £37.59
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £49.53
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £79.59
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.36
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.23% +2.73%

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 21 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 21 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 -54 24 £208 -59.63% 9
London -92 19 £500 -7.52% 10
West Midlands -51 11 £465 - 2
Midlands -53 11 £465 -8.10% 2
North of England -86 11 £537 -0.09% 2
East of England -21 9 - - 7
Yorkshire -61 9 £531 -3.45%
North West -46 2 £550 +39.95% 2
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 9 (12.16%) Confluence
2 6 (8.11%) Apache
2 6 (8.11%) WebLogic
3 4 (5.41%) WebSphere
3 4 (5.41%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.70%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (2.70%) JBoss
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (2.70%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.35%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Front Arena
1 2 (2.70%) Global One
1 2 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.70%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.57%) AWS
2 8 (10.81%) Azure
3 7 (9.46%) SaaS
4 6 (8.11%) Sauce Labs
5 4 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.41%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.41%) AWS KMS
5 4 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.70%) Azure API Management
6 2 (2.70%) GitHub
6 2 (2.70%) OCI
6 2 (2.70%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.35%) GCP
7 1 (1.35%) IaaS
7 1 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.16%) Firewall
2 4 (5.41%) DNS
2 4 (5.41%) HTTP
2 4 (5.41%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.05%) SAN
4 2 (2.70%) DHCP
4 2 (2.70%) FTP
4 2 (2.70%) InfiniBand
4 2 (2.70%) SSL
4 2 (2.70%) VLAN
5 1 (1.35%) BGP
5 1 (1.35%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.35%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.35%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.35%) LAN
5 1 (1.35%) Network Security
5 1 (1.35%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.35%) SSH
5 1 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (28.38%) MySQL
2 19 (25.68%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.11%) Metadata
3 6 (8.11%) MongoDB
4 5 (6.76%) Oracle Database
4 5 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.70%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (2.70%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.70%) Tableau
7 1 (1.35%) Big Data
7 1 (1.35%) DB2
7 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.35%) KDB
7 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.35%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (18.92%) JIRA
2 11 (14.86%) Git
3 10 (13.51%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.11%) Android Studio
4 6 (8.11%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (8.11%) Eclipse
4 6 (8.11%) Xcode
5 5 (6.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.70%) GitLab
6 2 (2.70%) Introscope
7 1 (1.35%) Ant
7 1 (1.35%) JUnit
7 1 (1.35%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.35%) Toad
General
1 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Banking
2 8 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Finance
2 8 (10.81%) Publishing
3 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Back Office
6 2 (2.70%) Front Office
6 2 (2.70%) Law
7 1 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (21.62%) Technical Support
2 11 (14.86%) Developer
3 10 (13.51%) Support Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) Lead
4 8 (10.81%) Technical Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) Technical Support Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Perl Developer
5 6 (8.11%) Senior
5 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) UX Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Applications Support
6 5 (6.76%) Architect
6 5 (6.76%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Middleware Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) AIX Administrator
8 3 (4.05%) Consultant
8 3 (4.05%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Server Administrator
8 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.16%) Ajax
1 9 (12.16%) YAML
2 8 (10.81%) Middleware
3 7 (9.46%) AngularJS
3 7 (9.46%) React
4 6 (8.11%) CSS
4 6 (8.11%) GraphQL
4 6 (8.11%) Spring
5 5 (6.76%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.41%) Kafka
6 4 (5.41%) LAMP
7 3 (4.05%) SOAP
8 2 (2.70%) FIXML
8 2 (2.70%) IBM Integration Bus
8 2 (2.70%) JDBC
8 2 (2.70%) JMS
8 2 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.70%) Web Services
8 2 (2.70%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.46%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (8.11%) Mobile App
4 5 (6.76%) Clustering
4 5 (6.76%) Reference Data
5 4 (5.41%) Replication
6 3 (4.05%) CMDB
6 3 (4.05%) Derivative
6 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.70%) Eurex
7 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.70%) Swaptions
8 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.35%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.35%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.35%) SCADA
8 1 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 54 (72.97%) Linux
2 34 (45.95%) Unix
3 21 (28.38%) Windows
4 16 (21.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (10.81%) CentOS
5 8 (10.81%) Ubuntu
6 6 (8.11%) Android
7 5 (6.76%) AIX
8 4 (5.41%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (2.70%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.70%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (1.35%) Solaris
10 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (33.78%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (27.03%) DevOps
3 18 (24.32%) CI/CD
4 17 (22.97%) OO
5 14 (18.92%) Agile
5 14 (18.92%) OOP
5 14 (18.92%) Process Improvement
6 13 (17.57%) Computer Science
6 13 (17.57%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (17.57%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (16.22%) ITSM
8 11 (14.86%) Software Engineering
9 10 (13.51%) Migration
10 8 (10.81%) Data Modelling
10 8 (10.81%) ITIL
10 8 (10.81%) RBAC
10 8 (10.81%) Scrum
11 7 (9.46%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (9.46%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (66.22%) Python
2 36 (48.65%) Java
2 36 (48.65%) SQL
3 20 (27.03%) JavaScript
4 14 (18.92%) PowerShell
5 12 (16.22%) Shell Script
6 11 (14.86%) Bash
7 10 (13.51%) Ruby
8 8 (10.81%) PL/SQL
9 7 (9.46%) C#
10 4 (5.41%) Groovy
10 4 (5.41%) PHP
11 2 (2.70%) C
11 2 (2.70%) Jython
11 2 (2.70%) Korn
12 1 (1.35%) C++
12 1 (1.35%) Scala
12 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) Degree
1 14 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.81%) RHCE
4 4 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.35%) CCDP
5 1 (1.35%) CCNA
5 1 (1.35%) CCNP
5 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.35%) QA
1 1 (1.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Docker
2 4 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.05%) Firmware
3 3 (4.05%) PowerHA
4 2 (2.70%) Lustre
4 2 (2.70%) NFS
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (2.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.35%) Ceph
5 1 (1.35%) GPFS
5 1 (1.35%) iptables
5 1 (1.35%) KVM
5 1 (1.35%) Postfix
5 1 (1.35%) Samba
5 1 (1.35%) Sendmail
5 1 (1.35%) Varnish
5 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (22.97%) Ansible
2 9 (12.16%) Puppet
3 7 (9.46%) Terraform
4 6 (8.11%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.41%) Grafana
5 4 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.05%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (2.70%) CA Wily
7 2 (2.70%) Control-M
7 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (2.70%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (2.70%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.35%) Consul
8 1 (1.35%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (1.35%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.35%) Salt
8 1 (1.35%) SELinux
Vendors
1 29 (39.19%) Oracle
2 18 (24.32%) Red Hat
3 9 (12.16%) IBM
4 8 (10.81%) Splunk
5 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
5 7 (9.46%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.41%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.70%) Murex
8 1 (1.35%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.35%) Citrix
8 1 (1.35%) F5
8 1 (1.35%) Imperva
8 1 (1.35%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.35%) MarketAxess
8 1 (1.35%) Sybase
8 1 (1.35%) Tradeweb
8 1 (1.35%) VMware