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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 349 324
Rank change year-on-year -23 -25 -2
Contract jobs citing Perl 158 164 277
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.52% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.71% 1.59% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 115 208
10th Percentile £204 £210 £308
25th Percentile £221 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £550 £719 £691
90th Percentile £618 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -9.52% -3.31% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £58.70 £24.09
25th Percentile £65.75 £60.50 £34.28
Median hourly rate £66.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% +23.81% -28.08%
75th Percentile £67.25 £66.50 £59.38
90th Percentile - - £62.75
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.46% +23.81% -28.08%

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 9,235 10,288 12,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.49% 32.51% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,156 6,775 9,429
10th Percentile £345 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 277 413
10th Percentile £31.25 £30.00 £32.71
25th Percentile £43.80 £46.25 £47.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £82.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.20% +4.17%

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 23 October 2025.

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 23 October 2025. 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 -20 63 £485 -23.92% 36
South East +20 35 £208 +1.22% 36
North of England -15 24 £510 +7.37% 14
West Midlands -5 19 £475 +12.29% 1
Midlands -18 19 £475 +12.29% 2
North West -6 15 £400 -5.88% 11
South West +17 7 £513 -18.65% 3
East of England -10 7 £556 -7.29% 5
Yorkshire -27 5 £559 +1.64% 1
North East - 4 £535 - 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 22 (13.92%) Confluence
2 6 (3.80%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (3.16%) JBoss
4 4 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (2.53%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.27%) Apache
6 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (1.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Oracle 11i
1 4 (2.53%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.53%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (2.53%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 60 (37.97%) AWS
2 32 (20.25%) Azure
3 22 (13.92%) GCP
4 17 (10.76%) SaaS
5 16 (10.13%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (10.13%) Amazon S3
5 16 (10.13%) Sauce Labs
6 14 (8.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (8.23%) Amazon ELB
8 12 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (7.59%) Amazon Glacier
8 12 (7.59%) AWS KMS
9 9 (5.70%) GitHub
10 7 (4.43%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.16%) Azure API Management
11 5 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.53%) OCI
13 2 (1.27%) Amazon MSK
13 2 (1.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (17.72%) Firewall
2 27 (17.09%) DNS
3 24 (15.19%) HTTP
4 21 (13.29%) TCP/IP
5 19 (12.03%) Wireless
6 12 (7.59%) FTP
6 12 (7.59%) SMTP
6 12 (7.59%) SSH
7 11 (6.96%) BGP
8 8 (5.06%) Network Security
9 7 (4.43%) OSPF
9 7 (4.43%) SSL
10 6 (3.80%) EIGRP
10 6 (3.80%) HTTPS
10 6 (3.80%) IPsec
11 5 (3.16%) DHCP
12 4 (2.53%) LAN
12 4 (2.53%) WAN
12 4 (2.53%) WLAN
13 3 (1.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (22.15%) Relational Database
2 32 (20.25%) MySQL
3 14 (8.86%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (6.33%) Oracle Database
4 10 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.70%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (4.43%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.53%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (2.53%) Oracle Database 10g
8 3 (1.90%) Big Data
8 3 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.90%) GIS
8 3 (1.90%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.27%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.63%) DB2
10 1 (0.63%) Informix
Development Applications
1 35 (22.15%) Git
2 32 (20.25%) Jenkins
3 29 (18.35%) JIRA
4 17 (10.76%) Browser DevTools
5 16 (10.13%) Android Studio
5 16 (10.13%) Eclipse
5 16 (10.13%) Xcode
6 14 (8.86%) Vagrant
7 10 (6.33%) Liquibase
8 9 (5.70%) TeamCity
9 7 (4.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (3.80%) Bitbucket
11 5 (3.16%) Ant
11 5 (3.16%) GitLab
11 5 (3.16%) SonarQube
12 4 (2.53%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (2.53%) CA Release Automation
12 4 (2.53%) Robot Framework
12 4 (2.53%) SoapUI
12 4 (2.53%) Subversion
General
1 65 (41.14%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.19%) Public Sector
3 21 (13.29%) Finance
4 16 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.23%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.16%) Banking
7 2 (1.27%) French Language
7 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.63%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.63%) German Language
8 1 (0.63%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.63%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.63%) Law
8 1 (0.63%) Legal
8 1 (0.63%) Military
8 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (18.99%) Technical Support
2 26 (16.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (11.39%) Support Engineer
4 17 (10.76%) Network Engineer
4 17 (10.76%) Technical Engineer
4 17 (10.76%) Technical Support Engineer
4 17 (10.76%) UX Engineer
5 16 (10.13%) Developer
5 16 (10.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 14 (8.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (7.59%) AWS DevOps
7 12 (7.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (6.96%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Administrator
10 7 (4.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Linux Administrator
11 5 (3.16%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.92%) CSS
2 20 (12.66%) AngularJS
2 20 (12.66%) React
3 19 (12.03%) Kafka
4 17 (10.76%) Ajax
4 17 (10.76%) GraphQL
5 9 (5.70%) Node.js
6 8 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (5.06%) SOAP
7 6 (3.80%) Middleware
8 5 (3.16%) HTML
8 5 (3.16%) IBM Integration Bus
8 5 (3.16%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.53%) REST
9 4 (2.53%) XML
10 3 (1.90%) .NET
10 3 (1.90%) EDI
10 3 (1.90%) Electron
10 3 (1.90%) JNI
10 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.66%) Mobile App
2 19 (12.03%) Replication
3 6 (3.80%) Clustering
3 6 (3.80%) PKI
3 6 (3.80%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.16%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.53%) FPGA
5 4 (2.53%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.53%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.90%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.90%) RISC-V
6 3 (1.90%) SCADA
6 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 94 (59.49%) Linux
2 64 (40.51%) Windows
3 59 (37.34%) Unix
4 19 (12.03%) Android
5 12 (7.59%) Amazon Linux
5 12 (7.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (7.59%) VMS
6 7 (4.43%) CentOS
7 4 (2.53%) AIX
7 4 (2.53%) Solaris
7 4 (2.53%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.90%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.90%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.85%) DevOps
2 34 (21.52%) CI/CD
3 32 (20.25%) OO
4 24 (15.19%) Agile
4 24 (15.19%) Continuous Integration
5 23 (14.56%) Configuration Management
6 21 (13.29%) Computer Science
7 20 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (12.66%) User Experience
8 17 (10.76%) Change Management
8 17 (10.76%) Mobile Application Development
9 16 (10.13%) Continuous Deployment
9 16 (10.13%) TDD
10 14 (8.86%) High Availability
10 14 (8.86%) Patch Management
10 14 (8.86%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (8.23%) Cloud Security
11 13 (8.23%) OOP
11 13 (8.23%) Task Automation
12 12 (7.59%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 144 (91.14%) Python
2 82 (51.90%) Java
3 48 (30.38%) Bash
4 39 (24.68%) JavaScript
4 39 (24.68%) SQL
5 25 (15.82%) PowerShell
6 18 (11.39%) Go
7 17 (10.76%) PL/SQL
7 17 (10.76%) Shell Script
8 16 (10.13%) C++
9 12 (7.59%) Groovy
10 9 (5.70%) C
11 6 (3.80%) Korn
12 4 (2.53%) Assembly Language
12 4 (2.53%) C#
12 4 (2.53%) Ruby
12 4 (2.53%) SystemVerilog
13 3 (1.90%) TypeScript
14 2 (1.27%) PHP
14 2 (1.27%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (24.68%) SC Cleared
1 39 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.92%) Degree
3 19 (12.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.33%) CCNP
4 10 (6.33%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.80%) JNCIA
5 6 (3.80%) JNCIS
6 4 (2.53%) CCDP
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.27%) CEH
7 2 (1.27%) CISSP
7 2 (1.27%) OSCP
7 2 (1.27%) RHCE
7 2 (1.27%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.63%) CCNA
8 1 (0.63%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.63%) ISACA
8 1 (0.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.16%) GDPR
1 5 (3.16%) QA
2 4 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (2.53%) SEPA
3 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (25.95%) Docker
2 18 (11.39%) Active Directory
3 12 (7.59%) DFS Replication
3 12 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.80%) Firmware
5 4 (2.53%) NFS
5 4 (2.53%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (2.53%) Veritas File System
5 4 (2.53%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.90%) KVM
6 3 (1.90%) QEMU
7 2 (1.27%) GPFS
7 2 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.27%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.63%) Lustre
8 1 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.63%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 31 (19.62%) Terraform
2 28 (17.72%) Ansible
2 28 (17.72%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.23%) Grafana
3 13 (8.23%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.70%) Progress Chef
5 6 (3.80%) QRadar
6 5 (3.16%) Kibana
6 5 (3.16%) Puppet
7 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 4 (2.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (2.53%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (2.53%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.90%) Packer
8 3 (1.90%) Salt
9 2 (1.27%) Icinga
9 2 (1.27%) Nagios
10 1 (0.63%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.63%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 48 (30.38%) Oracle
2 37 (23.42%) ServiceNow
3 35 (22.15%) Splunk
4 29 (18.35%) Microsoft
5 18 (11.39%) Cisco
5 18 (11.39%) Red Hat
6 12 (7.59%) VMware
7 11 (6.96%) F5
7 11 (6.96%) Juniper
8 10 (6.33%) IBM
9 5 (3.16%) AppDynamics
9 5 (3.16%) CyberArk
9 5 (3.16%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.53%) Cloudera
10 4 (2.53%) Google
10 4 (2.53%) Qualys
10 4 (2.53%) SaltStack
10 4 (2.53%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.90%) Meraki
11 3 (1.90%) Perforce