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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 337 342
Rank change year-on-year -48 +5 -27
Contract jobs citing Perl 162 155 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.59% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.66% 1.77% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 99 162
10th Percentile - £345 £351
25th Percentile £204 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £549 £738 £800
90th Percentile £588 £810 £823
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -21.74% +2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile £73.41 - £43.38
25th Percentile £74.26 £63.50 £54.06
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% -17.81%
75th Percentile £82.25 £66.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £84.00 - £63.50
UK median hourly rate £75.63 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.35% +8.33% -17.81%

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 9,768 8,757 11,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.58% 33.07% 30.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,512 5,618 7,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £731 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.90% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 214 432
10th Percentile £39.84 £25.26 £35.51
25th Percentile £52.50 £44.44 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% -5.23%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% -6.92%

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 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

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 20 January 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 -59 55 £463 -29.92% 13
South East -11 40 £208 -20.19% 12
North of England -32 37 £537 +2.29% 3
North West -9 21 £550 +29.41% 3
West Midlands -26 14 £475 -15.63% 3
Midlands -35 14 £475 -15.63% 4
Yorkshire -47 12 £531 -3.45%
East of England -17 11 £613 +2.08% 7
North East - 6 £550 -
South West -3 4 £513 -34.92% 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 10 (6.17%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.56%) Confluence
2 9 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.85%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.62%) Apache
5 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.62%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.62%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.23%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.75%) AWS
2 22 (13.58%) Azure
3 21 (12.96%) SaaS
4 18 (11.11%) Sauce Labs
5 12 (7.41%) GCP
6 9 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (4.32%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.32%) GitHub
8 6 (3.70%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (3.70%) Azure API Management
8 6 (3.70%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.09%) Amazon Glacier
9 5 (3.09%) AWS KMS
10 4 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.47%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (17.90%) Firewall
2 20 (12.35%) TCP/IP
3 18 (11.11%) DNS
3 18 (11.11%) Wireless
4 16 (9.88%) HTTP
5 15 (9.26%) BGP
6 7 (4.32%) VLAN
7 6 (3.70%) OSPF
7 6 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (3.70%) SSH
7 6 (3.70%) SSL
7 6 (3.70%) WebEx
8 5 (3.09%) DHCP
8 5 (3.09%) EIGRP
8 5 (3.09%) FTP
8 5 (3.09%) HTTPS
8 5 (3.09%) IPsec
8 5 (3.09%) LAN
8 5 (3.09%) SMTP
8 5 (3.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (26.54%) Relational Database
2 40 (24.69%) MySQL
3 13 (8.02%) Oracle Database
4 9 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.70%) Metadata
6 5 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.09%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.47%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (2.47%) SQLPlus
8 3 (1.85%) Big Data
8 3 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.23%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.23%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.62%) GIS
10 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (14.81%) Git
2 19 (11.73%) Browser DevTools
3 18 (11.11%) Android Studio
3 18 (11.11%) Eclipse
3 18 (11.11%) Xcode
4 14 (8.64%) Jenkins
5 13 (8.02%) JIRA
6 6 (3.70%) GitLab
7 5 (3.09%) Subversion
7 5 (3.09%) Toad
7 5 (3.09%) Vagrant
8 4 (2.47%) Ant
8 4 (2.47%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.47%) JUnit
8 4 (2.47%) SoapUI
8 4 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.47%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.23%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.23%) Liquibase
9 2 (1.23%) Robot Framework
General
1 66 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (13.58%) Finance
4 13 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.41%) Banking
6 9 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (5.56%) Legal
7 8 (4.94%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.94%) Publishing
8 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.23%) Law
9 1 (0.62%) French Language
Job Titles
1 39 (24.07%) Technical Support
2 22 (13.58%) Developer
3 19 (11.73%) Support Engineer
3 19 (11.73%) Technical Engineer
3 19 (11.73%) Technical Support Engineer
3 19 (11.73%) UX Engineer
4 18 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 15 (9.26%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 14 (8.64%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.94%) Lead
10 7 (4.32%) Administrator
10 7 (4.32%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.32%) Perl Developer
11 5 (3.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.09%) Linux Administrator
11 5 (3.09%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.81%) Ajax
2 22 (13.58%) AngularJS
2 22 (13.58%) CSS
2 22 (13.58%) React
3 19 (11.73%) GraphQL
4 10 (6.17%) Kafka
5 9 (5.56%) Node.js
6 8 (4.94%) YAML
7 7 (4.32%) SOAP
8 6 (3.70%) IBM Integration Bus
8 6 (3.70%) XMPP
9 5 (3.09%) Middleware
9 5 (3.09%) XML
10 4 (2.47%) REST
11 3 (1.85%) .NET
11 3 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.85%) Electron
11 3 (1.85%) HTML
11 3 (1.85%) JNI
11 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.58%) Mobile App
2 11 (6.79%) Product Ownership
3 10 (6.17%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.17%) Replication
4 9 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.70%) PKI
5 6 (3.70%) Reference Data
6 5 (3.09%) Clustering
6 5 (3.09%) CMDB
6 5 (3.09%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.47%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.85%) FPGA
8 3 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.85%) RISC-V
8 3 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.23%) Derivative
9 2 (1.23%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 107 (66.05%) Linux
2 73 (45.06%) Unix
3 65 (40.12%) Windows
4 25 (15.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (12.96%) Android
6 13 (8.02%) CentOS
7 10 (6.17%) Ubuntu
7 10 (6.17%) Windows Server
8 6 (3.70%) Solaris
9 5 (3.09%) AIX
9 5 (3.09%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (3.09%) VMS
10 3 (1.85%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (25.31%) OO
2 39 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (19.14%) DevOps
3 31 (19.14%) ITSM
4 25 (15.43%) CI/CD
5 23 (14.20%) User Experience
6 22 (13.58%) Computer Science
6 22 (13.58%) Process Improvement
7 20 (12.35%) OOP
8 19 (11.73%) Mobile Application Development
9 18 (11.11%) High Availability
10 16 (9.88%) Agile
11 15 (9.26%) Containerisation
11 15 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (9.26%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (9.26%) Service Management
12 13 (8.02%) Change Control
12 13 (8.02%) ITIL
13 12 (7.41%) Configuration Management
13 12 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 130 (80.25%) Python
2 75 (46.30%) Java
3 47 (29.01%) Bash
4 46 (28.40%) SQL
5 45 (27.78%) JavaScript
6 37 (22.84%) PowerShell
7 16 (9.88%) Shell Script
8 14 (8.64%) PL/SQL
8 14 (8.64%) Ruby
9 10 (6.17%) C#
10 9 (5.56%) C++
11 7 (4.32%) Go
12 6 (3.70%) C
12 6 (3.70%) Korn
13 5 (3.09%) Groovy
14 4 (2.47%) PHP
15 3 (1.85%) Assembly Language
15 3 (1.85%) SystemVerilog
16 2 (1.23%) TypeScript
17 1 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 28 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 24 (14.81%) Degree
4 19 (11.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (10.49%) CCNP
5 17 (10.49%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (7.41%) CCDP
7 10 (6.17%) RHCE
8 9 (5.56%) CCNA
9 5 (3.09%) JNCIA
9 5 (3.09%) JNCIS
10 4 (2.47%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.23%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.70%) GDPR
2 4 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.85%) SEPA
4 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 21 (12.96%) Docker
2 16 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.64%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.09%) DFS Replication
5 5 (3.09%) Firmware
5 5 (3.09%) NFS
6 4 (2.47%) KVM
6 4 (2.47%) Veritas File System
6 4 (2.47%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (2.47%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.85%) QEMU
8 2 (1.23%) GPFS
8 2 (1.23%) Lustre
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (1.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.62%) Ceph
9 1 (0.62%) iptables
9 1 (0.62%) Samba
9 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (19.14%) Ansible
2 17 (10.49%) Terraform
3 16 (9.88%) Kubernetes
4 11 (6.79%) Puppet
5 6 (3.70%) Grafana
5 6 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.47%) QRadar
8 3 (1.85%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 2 (1.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (1.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (1.23%) Packer
9 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.23%) SELinux
10 1 (0.62%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.62%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (37.65%) Oracle
2 37 (22.84%) Microsoft
3 34 (20.99%) ServiceNow
4 32 (19.75%) Splunk
5 30 (18.52%) Red Hat
6 22 (13.58%) Cisco
7 21 (12.96%) VMware
8 9 (5.56%) Citrix
8 9 (5.56%) F5
9 8 (4.94%) Juniper
10 7 (4.32%) IBM
10 7 (4.32%) SolarWinds
11 6 (3.70%) Palo Alto
12 4 (2.47%) CyberArk
12 4 (2.47%) Qualys
12 4 (2.47%) SaltStack
13 3 (1.85%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (1.85%) Meraki
14 2 (1.23%) AppDynamics
14 2 (1.23%) MarketAxess