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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 368 369
Rank change year-on-year -188 +1 -36
Contract jobs citing Perl 83 153 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.55% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.69% 1.66% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 106 116
10th Percentile £277 £204 £220
25th Percentile £386 £325 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £700
90th Percentile £614 £609 £810
UK median daily rate £468 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -6.50% -4.76% -4.55%
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 £59.50 £64.25
% change year-on-year +44.54% -7.39% +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 12,100 9,219 10,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.00% 32.94% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,827 6,192 7,110
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 264 300
10th Percentile £26.51 £31.25 £30.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.25 £48.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -
75th Percentile £71.00 £67.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.88 £80.00
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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -91 54 £465 -15.45% 67
North of England -85 8 £575 +10.58% 9
South East -91 8 £208 - 25
North West -57 5 £575 +54.36% 5
South West -37 4 £613 - 21
West Midlands -56 3 £500 +5.26% 6
Midlands -69 3 £500 +5.26% 6
East of England -29 2 - - 34
Yorkshire -36 2 - - 3
North East -45 1 £475 -11.21% 1
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 (14.46%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) Apache
2 3 (3.61%) JBoss
3 2 (2.41%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.41%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.20%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.20%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.20%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.48%) Azure
2 16 (19.28%) AWS
3 10 (12.05%) GCP
4 7 (8.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (8.43%) Amazon S3
4 7 (8.43%) AWS KMS
4 7 (8.43%) IaaS
4 7 (8.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (7.23%) SaaS
6 3 (3.61%) Datadog
6 3 (3.61%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.41%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.41%) PaaS
8 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.20%) GitHub
8 1 (1.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.20%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.66%) TCP/IP
2 12 (14.46%) SAN
3 9 (10.84%) SSL
4 8 (9.64%) DNS
4 8 (9.64%) Firewall
4 8 (9.64%) Kerberos
5 3 (3.61%) BIG-IP
5 3 (3.61%) DHCP
5 3 (3.61%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (3.61%) HTTP
5 3 (3.61%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (3.61%) Network Security
6 2 (2.41%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (2.41%) DMZ
6 2 (2.41%) Internet
6 2 (2.41%) IPsec
6 2 (2.41%) Multicast
6 2 (2.41%) VPN
6 2 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.28%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.64%) MySQL
2 8 (9.64%) SQLite
3 7 (8.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (8.43%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (8.43%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.61%) Sybase ASE
5 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.41%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.41%) Sybase IQ
6 1 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.20%) KDB
6 1 (1.20%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.20%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.20%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 27 (32.53%) Git
1 27 (32.53%) Jenkins
2 12 (14.46%) JIRA
3 4 (4.82%) GitLab
4 3 (3.61%) Android Studio
4 3 (3.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.61%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (3.61%) Eclipse
4 3 (3.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (3.61%) Xcode
4 3 (3.61%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
General
1 20 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (14.46%) Finance
4 7 (8.43%) Banking
5 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.20%) Back Office
6 1 (1.20%) Front Office
6 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (26.51%) Linux Engineer
2 20 (24.10%) Senior
3 15 (18.07%) Automation Engineer
4 11 (13.25%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (12.05%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 9 (10.84%) Python Engineer
7 8 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) Analyst
8 7 (8.43%) Senior Automation Engineer
8 7 (8.43%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) DBA
10 5 (6.02%) Architect
10 5 (6.02%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (6.02%) Support Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Technical Engineer
10 5 (6.02%) Technical Support
10 5 (6.02%) Technical Support Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) Administrator
11 4 (4.82%) Developer
11 4 (4.82%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.07%) Terraform
2 8 (9.64%) SPNEGO
3 5 (6.02%) GraphQL
4 3 (3.61%) Ajax
4 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.61%) CSS
4 3 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (3.61%) React
4 3 (3.61%) YAML
5 2 (2.41%) 802.1X
5 2 (2.41%) Android SDK
5 2 (2.41%) Middleware
5 2 (2.41%) Mojolicious
5 2 (2.41%) Moose
5 2 (2.41%) PCRE
5 2 (2.41%) Regular Expression
5 2 (2.41%) Web Services
6 1 (1.20%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (1.20%) Flutter
6 1 (1.20%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Replication
2 8 (9.64%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (8.43%) Private Cloud
4 6 (7.23%) Clustering
4 6 (7.23%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.02%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (6.02%) Distributed Applications
5 5 (6.02%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.61%) CSOC
6 3 (3.61%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.61%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.61%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.61%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.61%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.20%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 65 (78.31%) Linux
2 30 (36.14%) Unix
3 18 (21.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (19.28%) Windows
5 7 (8.43%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (6.02%) Android
7 4 (4.82%) AIX
8 1 (1.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (36.14%) CI/CD
2 29 (34.94%) DevOps
3 22 (26.51%) Platform Engineering
3 22 (26.51%) Root Cause Analysis
4 19 (22.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (20.48%) Configuration Management
6 16 (19.28%) Migration
7 13 (15.66%) Agile
7 13 (15.66%) Infrastructure Automation
7 13 (15.66%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (13.25%) Test Automation
10 10 (12.05%) Containerisation
10 10 (12.05%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (10.84%) ITIL
11 9 (10.84%) OO
11 9 (10.84%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 74 (89.16%) Python
2 28 (33.73%) Bash
3 23 (27.71%) PowerShell
4 21 (25.30%) Java
5 13 (15.66%) SQL
6 12 (14.46%) Shell Script
7 10 (12.05%) Groovy
8 8 (9.64%) C++
8 8 (9.64%) JavaScript
8 8 (9.64%) Korn
9 7 (8.43%) C
10 4 (4.82%) Ruby
11 3 (3.61%) Go
12 2 (2.41%) Kotlin
12 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
13 1 (1.20%) ActionScript
13 1 (1.20%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (1.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.84%) Degree
4 6 (7.23%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.23%) Azure Certification
4 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.23%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.61%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (3.61%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.41%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.41%) CCIE
6 2 (2.41%) CCNP
6 2 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.41%) MCSE
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.20%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.61%) QA
3 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.41%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) NIST
4 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (14.46%) Docker
2 10 (12.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.82%) Firmware
3 4 (4.82%) PowerHA
4 2 (2.41%) Postfix
4 2 (2.41%) Varnish
5 1 (1.20%) GPFS
5 1 (1.20%) Lustre
5 1 (1.20%) NFS
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.20%) Sendmail
5 1 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (22.89%) Ansible
2 10 (12.05%) Grafana
2 10 (12.05%) Prometheus
3 8 (9.64%) Progress Chef
3 8 (9.64%) Puppet
4 5 (6.02%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (2.41%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (2.41%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.41%) systemd
7 1 (1.20%) Consul
7 1 (1.20%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.20%) Netcool
7 1 (1.20%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.20%) Packer
7 1 (1.20%) Salt
7 1 (1.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (12.05%) Splunk
2 9 (10.84%) Red Hat
3 8 (9.64%) F5
3 8 (9.64%) IBM
3 8 (9.64%) NetApp
3 8 (9.64%) ServiceNow
4 7 (8.43%) Google
4 7 (8.43%) Oracle
5 6 (7.23%) SaltStack
6 4 (4.82%) Clearswift
6 4 (4.82%) Commvault
6 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.82%) SolarWinds
6 4 (4.82%) Tanium
6 4 (4.82%) Tripwire
6 4 (4.82%) Veeam
7 3 (3.61%) Imperva
7 3 (3.61%) Infoblox
7 3 (3.61%) Sybase
7 3 (3.61%) Trend Micro