Perl Contracts in England

Perl
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Perl skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Perl over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 314 433
Rank change year-on-year -45 +119 -80
Contract jobs citing Perl 178 406 373
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.80% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.64% 2.27% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 249 247
10th Percentile £419 £425 £387
25th Percentile £475 £500 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £600
90th Percentile £800 £775 £710
UK median daily rate £550 £558 £525
% change year-on-year -1.35% +6.19% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile £39.25 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £43.75 £51.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £55.50 £52.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +14.13% +84.00%
75th Percentile £66.13 £74.50 £51.45
90th Percentile £67.70 £74.65 £53.58
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £57.50 £47.77
% change year-on-year -3.48% +20.37% +4.42%

All Programming Languages
England

Perl is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in England

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in England.

Daily rate trend for Perl in England

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in England

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in England.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in England

Perl
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Perl in England

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 27 April 2024. 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 -54 108 £600 - 25
South East +26 26 £488 -11.36% 15
North of England +26 24 £515 -18.74% 8
North West +12 17 £515 -20.31% 6
Midlands +23 9 £359 -15.96% 7
Yorkshire +20 7 £445 -31.54% 2
East Midlands +23 6 £356 -25.83% 4
South West +24 5 £463 -38.33% 22
West Midlands +25 3 £494 +31.67% 3
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.81%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.81%) JBoss
2 3 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.56%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.56%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Global One
2 2 (1.12%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (1.12%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.56%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 31 (17.42%) AWS
2 13 (7.30%) Azure
2 13 (7.30%) OpenShift
3 6 (3.37%) GCP
4 5 (2.81%) Datadog
4 5 (2.81%) GitHub
4 5 (2.81%) IaaS
4 5 (2.81%) PaaS
5 4 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (2.25%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.25%) Serverless
6 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (1.12%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.56%) Azure App Service
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.17%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (10.11%) Firewall
3 17 (9.55%) BGP
3 17 (9.55%) OSPF
4 15 (8.43%) Cisco ASA
4 15 (8.43%) IPsec
5 13 (7.30%) Spanning Tree
6 12 (6.74%) 802.11
6 12 (6.74%) Cisco Firepower
6 12 (6.74%) Cisco ISE
6 12 (6.74%) EIGRP
6 12 (6.74%) HSRP
6 12 (6.74%) NetScaler
6 12 (6.74%) SNMP
7 7 (3.93%) SSH
7 7 (3.93%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.81%) MPLS
9 4 (2.25%) DHCP
9 4 (2.25%) DNS
10 3 (1.69%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.55%) Sybase ASE
2 16 (8.99%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.62%) MySQL
3 10 (5.62%) RDBMS
4 8 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.93%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.37%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.81%) DB2
8 4 (2.25%) Big Data
8 4 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.12%) Data Mart
10 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.12%) HBase
10 2 (1.12%) Parquet
10 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.56%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 37 (20.79%) Git
2 26 (14.61%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.43%) JIRA
4 8 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (3.93%) GitLab
5 7 (3.93%) JUnit
6 6 (3.37%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (2.81%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (2.81%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.81%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.81%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.25%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.12%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (1.12%) Subversion
General
1 49 (27.53%) Finance
2 48 (26.97%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.99%) Banking
5 9 (5.06%) Investment Banking
5 9 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.37%) Front Office
7 5 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Electronics
10 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.56%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.56%) French Language
10 1 (0.56%) German Language
10 1 (0.56%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.56%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (24.16%) Developer
2 21 (11.80%) Senior
3 19 (10.67%) Software Engineer
4 18 (10.11%) Java Developer
4 18 (10.11%) Network Engineer
5 16 (8.99%) Perl Developer
6 13 (7.30%) C++ Software Engineer
7 12 (6.74%) DBA
7 12 (6.74%) Linux Engineer
7 12 (6.74%) Sybase DBA
8 10 (5.62%) SQL Developer
9 9 (5.06%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Consultant
10 8 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Sybase Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) Administrator
11 7 (3.93%) Analyst
12 6 (3.37%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.30%) Kafka
1 13 (7.30%) REST
1 13 (7.30%) XML
2 12 (6.74%) 802.1X
2 12 (6.74%) Jinja
3 11 (6.18%) Spring
4 10 (5.62%) JSON
5 8 (4.49%) .NET
5 8 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (3.93%) CSS
6 7 (3.93%) HTML
6 7 (3.93%) Spring Boot
6 7 (3.93%) Web Services
7 6 (3.37%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.37%) SOAP
8 5 (2.81%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (2.81%) Hibernate
8 5 (2.81%) J2EE
8 5 (2.81%) JPA
9 4 (2.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.80%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (5.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (5.06%) Replication
3 8 (4.49%) Algorithms
3 8 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (4.49%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.49%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.37%) Equities
5 5 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.25%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.25%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.25%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.69%) Clustering
8 2 (1.12%) CMDB
8 2 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.12%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 63 (35.39%) Linux
2 57 (32.02%) Unix
3 25 (14.04%) Windows
4 16 (8.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.25%) Solaris
5 4 (2.25%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (1.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.40%) Agile
1 47 (26.40%) CI/CD
2 46 (25.84%) DevOps
3 36 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (17.42%) ITIL
5 26 (14.61%) Software Engineering
6 20 (11.24%) Configuration Management
6 20 (11.24%) Migration
7 19 (10.67%) Computer Science
8 18 (10.11%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (9.55%) OO
10 16 (8.99%) Test Automation
11 15 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (8.43%) Scrum
12 14 (7.87%) Change Management
13 13 (7.30%) Data Modelling
13 13 (7.30%) ITSM
13 13 (7.30%) SDLC
14 12 (6.74%) Microservices
14 12 (6.74%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (70.22%) Python
2 56 (31.46%) Java
3 39 (21.91%) SQL
4 35 (19.66%) Bash
5 27 (15.17%) C++
6 25 (14.04%) Tcl
7 21 (11.80%) C
7 21 (11.80%) PowerShell
7 21 (11.80%) Shell Script
8 16 (8.99%) Ruby
9 13 (7.30%) C#
10 12 (6.74%) JavaScript
11 8 (4.49%) Korn
12 6 (3.37%) AWK
12 6 (3.37%) T-SQL
13 5 (2.81%) Go
13 5 (2.81%) PHP
14 4 (2.25%) VBA
15 3 (1.69%) Julia
16 2 (1.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 21 (11.80%) Degree
3 20 (11.24%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.55%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (8.43%) CCNA
6 14 (7.87%) CCNP
7 11 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.81%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.69%) CISSP
9 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.69%) OSCP
10 2 (1.12%) CCIE
10 2 (1.12%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.12%) JNCIE
10 2 (1.12%) JNCIP
10 2 (1.12%) RHCE
10 2 (1.12%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.56%) CEH
11 1 (0.56%) CHFI
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.87%) QA
2 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.12%) GDPR
2 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.56%) DO-178B
3 1 (0.56%) EMIR
3 1 (0.56%) FATCA
3 1 (0.56%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (9.55%) Docker
2 13 (7.30%) Firmware
3 6 (3.37%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.12%) KVM
5 2 (1.12%) NFS
5 2 (1.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.12%) vSphere
6 1 (0.56%) Ceph
6 1 (0.56%) iptables
6 1 (0.56%) Lustre
6 1 (0.56%) Samba
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (26.40%) Ansible
2 25 (14.04%) Kubernetes
3 16 (8.99%) Puppet
4 12 (6.74%) Terraform
5 9 (5.06%) Progress Chef
6 7 (3.93%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (2.81%) Kibana
8 4 (2.25%) Nagios
8 4 (2.25%) Opsgenie
9 3 (1.69%) Control-M
9 3 (1.69%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.69%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.69%) SELinux
9 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.69%) yum
10 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (1.12%) Oracle ZFS
10 2 (1.12%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.56%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (15.17%) Sybase
2 22 (12.36%) Cisco
3 17 (9.55%) Red Hat
4 14 (7.87%) SolarWinds
4 14 (7.87%) Splunk
5 12 (6.74%) Citrix
5 12 (6.74%) Palo Alto
6 10 (5.62%) SAP
7 9 (5.06%) Veritas
8 7 (3.93%) EMC
8 7 (3.93%) Oracle
8 7 (3.93%) Sun
9 6 (3.37%) Murex
9 6 (3.37%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.81%) AppDynamics
10 5 (2.81%) IBM
10 5 (2.81%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.25%) New Relic
11 4 (2.25%) Nokia
11 4 (2.25%) PagerDuty