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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 356 333
Rank change year-on-year -14 -23 -22
Contract jobs citing Perl 168 164 265
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.53% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 1.63% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 116 201
10th Percentile £204 £203 £308
25th Percentile £221 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £550 £716 £700
90th Percentile £600 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £475 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -10.38% -3.64% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £68.30 £59.30 £24.88
25th Percentile £72.13 £62.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% +8.33% -17.81%
75th Percentile - £66.50 -
90th Percentile - - £63.00
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% +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 9,712 10,063 12,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.32% 32.33% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,471 6,557 9,144
10th Percentile £350 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 250 421
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.00 £32.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £47.50
Median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% +7.44% -3.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +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 16 November 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 16 November 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 -30 65 £475 -20.83% 37
South East +6 35 £208 +1.22% 18
North of England -10 35 £550 +15.79% 8
North West -1 25 £550 +29.41% 5
West Midlands -13 19 £475 +12.29% 3
Midlands -23 19 £475 +12.29% 3
North East - 8 £550 -
South West +11 7 £513 -27.05% 7
Yorkshire -40 5 £559 +1.64% 3
East of England -22 4 £613 +2.08% 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 20 (11.90%) Confluence
2 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.98%) JBoss
5 3 (1.79%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.19%) Apache
6 2 (1.19%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.19%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.60%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 61 (36.31%) AWS
2 29 (17.26%) Azure
3 20 (11.90%) SaaS
4 19 (11.31%) GCP
5 18 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (10.71%) Sauce Labs
6 16 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 16 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (7.74%) Amazon ELB
8 12 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (7.14%) Amazon Glacier
8 12 (7.14%) AWS KMS
9 9 (5.36%) GitHub
10 8 (4.76%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.17%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.38%) Amazon MSK
13 4 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (21.43%) Firewall
2 26 (15.48%) DNS
3 23 (13.69%) HTTP
4 21 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 21 (12.50%) Wireless
5 16 (9.52%) BGP
6 12 (7.14%) FTP
6 12 (7.14%) SMTP
6 12 (7.14%) SSH
7 7 (4.17%) OSPF
7 7 (4.17%) SSL
8 6 (3.57%) EIGRP
8 6 (3.57%) HTTPS
8 6 (3.57%) IPsec
8 6 (3.57%) Network Security
8 6 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (3.57%) VLAN
8 6 (3.57%) WebEx
9 4 (2.38%) DHCP
9 4 (2.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (23.21%) Relational Database
2 36 (21.43%) MySQL
3 16 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.17%) Oracle Database
5 7 (4.17%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.79%) Big Data
6 3 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.79%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.19%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.19%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.60%) Informix
8 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.60%) Parquet
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (23.21%) Git
2 33 (19.64%) Jenkins
3 29 (17.26%) JIRA
4 19 (11.31%) Browser DevTools
5 18 (10.71%) Android Studio
5 18 (10.71%) Eclipse
5 18 (10.71%) Xcode
6 14 (8.33%) Vagrant
7 9 (5.36%) Liquibase
7 9 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (5.36%) TeamCity
8 8 (4.76%) Bitbucket
9 7 (4.17%) GitLab
10 5 (2.98%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.98%) Subversion
11 4 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.38%) CA Release Automation
11 4 (2.38%) Robot Framework
12 3 (1.79%) Ant
12 3 (1.79%) SoapUI
General
1 68 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (13.69%) Public Sector
3 22 (13.10%) Finance
4 9 (5.36%) Legal
5 8 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 7 (4.17%) Banking
7 2 (1.19%) French Language
7 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.60%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.60%) German Language
8 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.60%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.60%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (20.24%) Technical Support
2 27 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (11.90%) Support Engineer
4 19 (11.31%) Network Engineer
4 19 (11.31%) Technical Engineer
4 19 (11.31%) Technical Support Engineer
4 19 (11.31%) UX Engineer
5 18 (10.71%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 16 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (8.93%) Developer
8 14 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (5.36%) Administrator
12 8 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.76%) Linux Administrator
13 7 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 5 (2.98%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.29%) CSS
2 22 (13.10%) AngularJS
2 22 (13.10%) React
3 21 (12.50%) Ajax
4 19 (11.31%) GraphQL
5 17 (10.12%) Kafka
6 11 (6.55%) Node.js
7 8 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (3.57%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.57%) XMPP
9 5 (2.98%) HTML
9 5 (2.98%) SOAP
10 4 (2.38%) IBM Integration Bus
10 4 (2.38%) Middleware
10 4 (2.38%) REST
11 3 (1.79%) .NET
11 3 (1.79%) Electron
11 3 (1.79%) JNI
11 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (1.79%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.10%) Mobile App
2 17 (10.12%) Replication
3 11 (6.55%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.95%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.17%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.57%) Clustering
6 6 (3.57%) PKI
7 4 (2.38%) FPGA
7 4 (2.38%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.79%) RISC-V
9 2 (1.19%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.19%) CMDB
9 2 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.19%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 105 (62.50%) Linux
2 74 (44.05%) Windows
3 60 (35.71%) Unix
4 23 (13.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (12.50%) Android
6 12 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (7.14%) VMS
7 9 (5.36%) Windows Server
8 7 (4.17%) CentOS
9 5 (2.98%) Solaris
10 4 (2.38%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.79%) AIX
11 3 (1.79%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.79%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (26.79%) DevOps
2 36 (21.43%) OO
3 34 (20.24%) CI/CD
4 28 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (13.69%) Agile
5 23 (13.69%) Configuration Management
5 23 (13.69%) User Experience
6 22 (13.10%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (11.90%) Change Management
7 20 (11.90%) Computer Science
7 20 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (11.90%) ITSM
8 19 (11.31%) Mobile Application Development
9 18 (10.71%) High Availability
10 17 (10.12%) Containerisation
11 16 (9.52%) TDD
12 15 (8.93%) Continuous Deployment
12 15 (8.93%) OOP
12 15 (8.93%) Patch Management
12 15 (8.93%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 155 (92.26%) Python
2 86 (51.19%) Java
3 58 (34.52%) Bash
4 43 (25.60%) JavaScript
5 39 (23.21%) PowerShell
6 36 (21.43%) SQL
7 17 (10.12%) Go
7 17 (10.12%) Shell Script
8 15 (8.93%) C++
9 12 (7.14%) Groovy
10 11 (6.55%) PL/SQL
11 9 (5.36%) C
12 6 (3.57%) Ruby
13 5 (2.98%) Korn
14 4 (2.38%) Assembly Language
14 4 (2.38%) C#
14 4 (2.38%) SystemVerilog
15 3 (1.79%) TypeScript
16 2 (1.19%) PHP
16 2 (1.19%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 48 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 47 (27.98%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.50%) Degree
4 18 (10.71%) CCNP
4 18 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (10.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (7.14%) CCDP
7 9 (5.36%) CCNA
8 6 (3.57%) JNCIA
8 6 (3.57%) JNCIS
9 4 (2.38%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.19%) RHCE
10 2 (1.19%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.60%) CEH
11 1 (0.60%) CISSP
11 1 (0.60%) ISACA
11 1 (0.60%) OSCP
11 1 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.57%) GDPR
1 6 (3.57%) QA
2 4 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.19%) SEPA
4 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (25.00%) Docker
2 27 (16.07%) Active Directory
3 17 (10.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (7.14%) DFS Replication
5 6 (3.57%) Firmware
6 5 (2.98%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.38%) NFS
7 4 (2.38%) Veritas File System
7 4 (2.38%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.79%) KVM
8 3 (1.79%) QEMU
9 2 (1.19%) GPFS
9 2 (1.19%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.60%) Lustre
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.60%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 28 (16.67%) Terraform
3 26 (15.48%) Ansible
4 13 (7.74%) Grafana
4 13 (7.74%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.36%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.57%) QRadar
7 5 (2.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.98%) Kibana
7 5 (2.98%) Puppet
7 5 (2.98%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.79%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.79%) Packer
8 3 (1.79%) Salt
9 2 (1.19%) Icinga
9 2 (1.19%) Nagios
10 1 (0.60%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.60%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 51 (30.36%) Oracle
2 41 (24.40%) ServiceNow
3 37 (22.02%) Splunk
4 35 (20.83%) Microsoft
5 26 (15.48%) Red Hat
6 24 (14.29%) Cisco
7 22 (13.10%) VMware
8 11 (6.55%) F5
9 9 (5.36%) Citrix
9 9 (5.36%) Juniper
10 7 (4.17%) Palo Alto
10 7 (4.17%) SolarWinds
11 6 (3.57%) IBM
12 5 (2.98%) AppDynamics
12 5 (2.98%) CyberArk
13 4 (2.38%) Cloudera
13 4 (2.38%) Qualys
13 4 (2.38%) SaltStack
14 3 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
14 3 (1.79%) Meraki