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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 374 376
Rank change year-on-year -183 +2 -47
Contract jobs citing Perl 81 148 158
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.53% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.68% 1.62% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 99 117
10th Percentile £248 £204 £220
25th Percentile £386 £369 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £688
90th Percentile £615 £604 £810
UK median daily rate £468 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -6.50% -6.19% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £58.78
25th Percentile - £65.75 £60.69
Median hourly rate £77.00 £66.50 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +3.50% +22.38%
75th Percentile - £67.25 £66.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £86.00 £66.50 £64.25
% change year-on-year +29.32% +3.50% +22.38%

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 11,994 9,132 10,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 25.90% 32.88% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,749 6,167 7,323
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.47% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 260 308
10th Percentile £26.85 £31.25 £30.35
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.44 £49.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.88 £79.42
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -88 53 £465 -15.45% 68
South East -86 9 £208 - 14
North of England -79 6 £575 +10.58% 7
South West -38 4 £613 - 15
North West -54 3 £575 +43.03% 6
West Midlands -63 3 £500 +5.26% 8
Midlands -67 3 £500 +5.26% 8
East of England -29 2 - - 31
Yorkshire -48 2 - - 1
North East -45 1 £475 -11.21%
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 12 (14.81%) Confluence
2 3 (3.70%) Apache
2 3 (3.70%) JBoss
2 3 (3.70%) WebSphere
2 3 (3.70%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.23%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.23%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (1.23%) PowerExchange
3 1 (1.23%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.23%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) BASE24
1 1 (1.23%) Front Arena
1 1 (1.23%) Global One
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.52%) Azure
2 14 (17.28%) AWS
3 8 (9.88%) GCP
4 7 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (8.64%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (8.64%) Amazon S3
4 7 (8.64%) AWS KMS
4 7 (8.64%) IaaS
4 7 (8.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (7.41%) SaaS
6 3 (3.70%) Datadog
6 3 (3.70%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.47%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.47%) PaaS
8 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.23%) GitHub
8 1 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.28%) TCP/IP
2 12 (14.81%) SAN
3 10 (12.35%) SSL
4 9 (11.11%) DNS
4 9 (11.11%) Firewall
5 8 (9.88%) Kerberos
6 4 (4.94%) HTTP
7 3 (3.70%) BIG-IP
7 3 (3.70%) DHCP
7 3 (3.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (3.70%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (3.70%) Network Security
8 2 (2.47%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (2.47%) IPsec
8 2 (2.47%) L2TP
8 2 (2.47%) Multicast
8 2 (2.47%) VPN
8 2 (2.47%) WAN
8 2 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.75%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.88%) SQLite
3 7 (8.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (8.64%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (7.41%) MySQL
5 5 (6.17%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.70%) Sybase ASE
7 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.47%) Sybase IQ
8 1 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.23%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (1.23%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.23%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (1.23%) QlikView
8 1 (1.23%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 28 (34.57%) Jenkins
2 27 (33.33%) Git
3 13 (16.05%) JIRA
4 5 (6.17%) GitLab
5 3 (3.70%) Android Studio
5 3 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.70%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (3.70%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.70%) Xcode
5 3 (3.70%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.23%) Introscope
General
1 18 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 18 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.05%) Finance
3 8 (9.88%) Banking
4 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.47%) Back Office
5 2 (2.47%) Front Office
5 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (24.69%) Linux Engineer
2 18 (22.22%) Senior
3 13 (16.05%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Analyst
6 7 (8.64%) Python Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) DBA
8 5 (6.17%) Architect
8 5 (6.17%) Consultant
8 5 (6.17%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (6.17%) Senior Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Support Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Technical Support
8 5 (6.17%) Technical Support Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Administrator
9 4 (4.94%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.52%) Terraform
2 8 (9.88%) SPNEGO
3 4 (4.94%) Middleware
4 3 (3.70%) Ajax
4 3 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.70%) CSS
4 3 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (3.70%) GraphQL
4 3 (3.70%) React
4 3 (3.70%) YAML
5 2 (2.47%) 802.1X
5 2 (2.47%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (2.47%) Mojolicious
5 2 (2.47%) Moose
5 2 (2.47%) PCRE
5 2 (2.47%) Regular Expression
5 2 (2.47%) Web Services
6 1 (1.23%) EDI
6 1 (1.23%) JDBC
6 1 (1.23%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Replication
2 8 (9.88%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (8.64%) Clustering
3 7 (8.64%) Private Cloud
4 6 (7.41%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.17%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (6.17%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (3.70%) CSOC
6 3 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.70%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.70%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (79.01%) Linux
2 31 (38.27%) Unix
3 19 (23.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (20.99%) Windows
5 7 (8.64%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (4.94%) AIX
7 3 (3.70%) Android
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.23%) Solaris
8 1 (1.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.27%) CI/CD
2 30 (37.04%) DevOps
3 23 (28.40%) Root Cause Analysis
4 21 (25.93%) Platform Engineering
5 20 (24.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (20.99%) Configuration Management
6 17 (20.99%) Migration
7 14 (17.28%) Agile
7 14 (17.28%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure Automation
8 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.35%) Containerisation
9 10 (12.35%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (12.35%) ITIL
9 10 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (11.11%) SDLC
10 9 (11.11%) Test Automation
11 7 (8.64%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 74 (91.36%) Python
2 29 (35.80%) Bash
3 24 (29.63%) PowerShell
4 19 (23.46%) Java
5 14 (17.28%) SQL
6 12 (14.81%) Shell Script
7 10 (12.35%) Groovy
8 8 (9.88%) C++
8 8 (9.88%) JavaScript
8 8 (9.88%) Korn
9 7 (8.64%) C
10 4 (4.94%) Ruby
11 3 (3.70%) Go
11 3 (3.70%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.23%) ActionScript
12 1 (1.23%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (1.23%) Jython
12 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (20.99%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.11%) Degree
4 6 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 6 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.70%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.47%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.47%) CCIE
6 2 (2.47%) CCNP
6 2 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.47%) MCSE
6 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.23%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.70%) QA
3 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.47%) SLA
4 1 (1.23%) NIST
4 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (14.81%) Docker
2 10 (12.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.94%) Firmware
3 4 (4.94%) PowerHA
4 2 (2.47%) Postfix
4 2 (2.47%) Varnish
5 1 (1.23%) GPFS
5 1 (1.23%) Lustre
5 1 (1.23%) NFS
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.23%) Sendmail
5 1 (1.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 20 (24.69%) Ansible
2 10 (12.35%) Grafana
2 10 (12.35%) Prometheus
3 8 (9.88%) Progress Chef
3 8 (9.88%) Puppet
4 5 (6.17%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (2.47%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (2.47%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.47%) systemd
6 2 (2.47%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.23%) Consul
7 1 (1.23%) Control-M
7 1 (1.23%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.23%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (1.23%) Netcool
7 1 (1.23%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.23%) Packer
7 1 (1.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (12.35%) Red Hat
1 10 (12.35%) Splunk
2 9 (11.11%) IBM
3 8 (9.88%) F5
3 8 (9.88%) NetApp
3 8 (9.88%) Oracle
3 8 (9.88%) ServiceNow
4 6 (7.41%) Google
4 6 (7.41%) SaltStack
5 4 (4.94%) Clearswift
5 4 (4.94%) Commvault
5 4 (4.94%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.94%) SolarWinds
5 4 (4.94%) Tanium
5 4 (4.94%) Tripwire
5 4 (4.94%) Veeam
6 3 (3.70%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.70%) Imperva
6 3 (3.70%) Infoblox
6 3 (3.70%) Sybase