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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 350 352
Rank change year-on-year -143 +2 -43
Contract jobs citing Perl 101 126 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.52% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.92% 1.53% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 82 125
10th Percentile £204 £393 £413
25th Percentile £205 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £550 £733 £815
UK median daily rate £450 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -17.20% -1.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile - £63.65 £41.25
25th Percentile £74.26 £63.88 £49.69
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% -17.81%
75th Percentile £82.25 £66.13 £63.94
90th Percentile £84.00 £66.35 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% -10.28%

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 10,964 8,245 10,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 27.96% 33.84% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,316 5,676 7,883
10th Percentile £353 £361 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -4.78%
75th Percentile £607 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 515 211 433
10th Percentile £41.94 £25.26 £35.10
25th Percentile £55.00 £39.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% -1.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -96 28 £450 -20.70% 6
South East -46 27 £208 -59.63% 13
North of England -77 25 £537 -0.09% 11
North West -29 16 £550 +39.95% 3
West Midlands -57 12 £460 - 2
Midlands -59 12 £460 -9.09% 7
East of England -35 8 - - 14
Yorkshire -67 8 £531 -3.45% 6
North East - 4 £550 - 2
South West -28 1 £513 -26.79% 7
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 (9.90%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.93%) WebLogic
3 6 (5.94%) Confluence
3 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (4.95%) Apache
5 2 (1.98%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.98%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.98%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.98%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.98%) Front Arena
2 2 (1.98%) Global One
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.86%) AWS
2 9 (8.91%) Azure
2 9 (8.91%) SaaS
3 7 (6.93%) Sauce Labs
4 6 (5.94%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.95%) Azure API Management
6 2 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.98%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.98%) GCP
6 2 (1.98%) GitHub
6 2 (1.98%) OCI
6 2 (1.98%) Serverless
6 2 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.83%) Firewall
2 8 (7.92%) HTTP
3 7 (6.93%) BGP
3 7 (6.93%) TCP/IP
3 7 (6.93%) VLAN
4 6 (5.94%) WebEx
5 5 (4.95%) Software-Defined Networking
5 5 (4.95%) Wireless
6 4 (3.96%) DNS
7 3 (2.97%) DHCP
7 3 (2.97%) SAN
7 3 (2.97%) SNMP
7 3 (2.97%) SSL
7 3 (2.97%) VPN
8 2 (1.98%) FTP
8 2 (1.98%) LAN
8 2 (1.98%) WAN
9 1 (0.99%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.99%) TACACS
9 1 (0.99%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.75%) Relational Database
2 24 (23.76%) MySQL
3 11 (10.89%) Oracle Database
4 7 (6.93%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.94%) Metadata
6 4 (3.96%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.96%) SQLPlus
7 3 (2.97%) Oracle Database 10g
7 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.98%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (1.98%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (1.98%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.98%) Tableau
9 1 (0.99%) Big Data
9 1 (0.99%) DB2
9 1 (0.99%) GIS
9 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.99%) KDB
9 1 (0.99%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (12.87%) JIRA
2 12 (11.88%) Git
3 9 (8.91%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.93%) Android Studio
4 7 (6.93%) Browser DevTools
4 7 (6.93%) Eclipse
4 7 (6.93%) Xcode
5 6 (5.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (4.95%) Toad
7 4 (3.96%) GitLab
8 3 (2.97%) Ant
8 3 (2.97%) JUnit
8 3 (2.97%) SoapUI
8 3 (2.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.98%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.98%) Introscope
10 1 (0.99%) Subversion
10 1 (0.99%) TestDirector
General
1 35 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (16.83%) Finance
3 13 (12.87%) Banking
4 10 (9.90%) Legal
5 9 (8.91%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (7.92%) Publishing
7 5 (4.95%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.97%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.97%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.98%) Back Office
9 2 (1.98%) Front Office
9 2 (1.98%) Law
10 1 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.99%) French Language
Job Titles
1 19 (18.81%) Technical Support
2 18 (17.82%) Developer
3 11 (10.89%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (8.91%) Support Engineer
5 8 (7.92%) Lead
6 7 (6.93%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Technical Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Technical Support Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) UX Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Administrator
7 6 (5.94%) Network Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Perl Developer
8 5 (4.95%) Applications Support
8 5 (4.95%) Senior
8 5 (4.95%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.96%) Architect
9 4 (3.96%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 4 (3.96%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (3.96%) ServiceNow Architect
10 3 (2.97%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.88%) Ajax
2 8 (7.92%) AngularJS
2 8 (7.92%) Middleware
2 8 (7.92%) React
2 8 (7.92%) YAML
3 7 (6.93%) CSS
3 7 (6.93%) GraphQL
3 7 (6.93%) Kafka
3 7 (6.93%) Spring
4 6 (5.94%) SOAP
4 6 (5.94%) Spring Boot
4 6 (5.94%) XMPP
5 5 (4.95%) IBM Integration Bus
5 5 (4.95%) XML
6 4 (3.96%) LAMP
7 2 (1.98%) EDI
7 2 (1.98%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.98%) FIXML
7 2 (1.98%) Node.js
7 2 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.84%) Data Centre
2 12 (11.88%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.92%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.93%) Mobile App
5 6 (5.94%) Clustering
5 6 (5.94%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.95%) CMDB
6 5 (4.95%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.96%) Derivative
7 4 (3.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.98%) Eurex
9 2 (1.98%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.98%) Swaptions
9 2 (1.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.99%) PKI
10 1 (0.99%) Replication
10 1 (0.99%) SCADA
10 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 71 (70.30%) Linux
2 45 (44.55%) Unix
3 43 (42.57%) Windows
4 29 (28.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (10.89%) Windows Server
6 8 (7.92%) AIX
6 8 (7.92%) CentOS
6 8 (7.92%) Ubuntu
7 7 (6.93%) Android
8 3 (2.97%) Solaris
9 2 (1.98%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.98%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (34.65%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (23.76%) ITSM
3 21 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (20.79%) OO
4 18 (17.82%) CI/CD
4 18 (17.82%) Process Improvement
5 16 (15.84%) DevOps
6 15 (14.85%) Computer Science
7 14 (13.86%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (12.87%) OOP
8 13 (12.87%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (12.87%) Software Engineering
9 12 (11.88%) Agile
9 12 (11.88%) Change Control
9 12 (11.88%) High Availability
9 12 (11.88%) Scrum
10 11 (10.89%) ITIL
10 11 (10.89%) Migration
10 11 (10.89%) User Experience
11 10 (9.90%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (64.36%) Python
2 44 (43.56%) SQL
3 40 (39.60%) Java
4 29 (28.71%) PowerShell
5 26 (25.74%) Bash
6 22 (21.78%) JavaScript
7 14 (13.86%) PL/SQL
8 10 (9.90%) Ruby
8 10 (9.90%) Shell Script
9 8 (7.92%) C#
10 7 (6.93%) PHP
11 5 (4.95%) Korn
12 2 (1.98%) C
12 2 (1.98%) Jython
13 1 (0.99%) C++
13 1 (0.99%) Scala
13 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (24.75%) Security Cleared
2 23 (22.77%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.84%) Degree
4 12 (11.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (8.91%) CCDP
5 9 (8.91%) CCNA
5 9 (8.91%) CCNP
5 9 (8.91%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (7.92%) RHCE
7 3 (2.97%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.98%) GDPR
1 2 (1.98%) QA
1 2 (1.98%) SEPA
2 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (9.90%) Active Directory
1 10 (9.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.95%) Docker
3 3 (2.97%) Firmware
3 3 (2.97%) PowerHA
4 2 (1.98%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.98%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.99%) Ceph
5 1 (0.99%) GPFS
5 1 (0.99%) iptables
5 1 (0.99%) KVM
5 1 (0.99%) Lustre
5 1 (0.99%) NFS
5 1 (0.99%) Samba
5 1 (0.99%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (16.83%) Ansible
2 8 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.92%) Puppet
3 5 (4.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (3.96%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.98%) CA Wily
5 2 (1.98%) Control-M
5 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (1.98%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.98%) SELinux
5 2 (1.98%) Terraform
5 2 (1.98%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.99%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (0.99%) SCCM
6 1 (0.99%) SCOM
6 1 (0.99%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (40.59%) Oracle
2 29 (28.71%) Red Hat
3 21 (20.79%) Microsoft
4 15 (14.85%) VMware
5 12 (11.88%) Cisco
6 11 (10.89%) IBM
7 10 (9.90%) Citrix
7 10 (9.90%) Splunk
8 9 (8.91%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.95%) AppDynamics
10 4 (3.96%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.97%) Juniper
11 3 (2.97%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (1.98%) Bloomberg
12 2 (1.98%) MarketAxess
12 2 (1.98%) Murex
12 2 (1.98%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.98%) Tradeweb
13 1 (0.99%) Perforce
13 1 (0.99%) Symantec