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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 347 378
Rank change year-on-year -182 +31 -84
Contract jobs citing Perl 71 132 174
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.55% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% 1.61% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 86 120
10th Percentile - £393 £420
25th Percentile £204 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £639
90th Percentile £575 £626 £800
UK median daily rate £450 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -12.62% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £75.90 - £49.63
25th Percentile £77.00 - £54.69
Median hourly rate £80.50 £65.00 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% +5.26% +17.62%
75th Percentile £83.13 - £66.13
90th Percentile £84.00 - £67.70
UK median hourly rate £78.75 £70.00 £61.75
% change year-on-year +12.50% +13.36% +17.62%

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 11,088 8,197 11,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 26.61% 34.04% 30.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,280 5,685 8,036
10th Percentile £358 £361 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% -3.81%
75th Percentile £613 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.72% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 194 471
10th Percentile £37.03 £28.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.25 £48.84
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.83 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.26% -0.80%

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 June 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 June 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
South East -63 20 £208 -59.63% 8
London -108 17 £500 -5.33% 17
North of England -95 12 £537 -0.09% 2
Midlands -54 11 £465 -2.11% 1
West Midlands -55 11 £465 -2.11% 1
East of England -31 9 - - 7
Yorkshire -70 9 £531 -3.45% 1
North West -48 3 £563 +43.13% 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 9 (12.68%) Confluence
2 6 (8.45%) Apache
3 4 (5.63%) WebLogic
3 4 (5.63%) WebSphere
3 4 (5.63%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.82%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (2.82%) JBoss
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (2.82%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.41%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.41%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Front Arena
1 2 (2.82%) Global One
2 1 (1.41%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.31%) AWS
2 8 (11.27%) Azure
3 6 (8.45%) SaaS
4 5 (7.04%) Sauce Labs
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.63%) AWS KMS
5 4 (5.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.82%) GCP
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub
6 2 (2.82%) IaaS
6 2 (2.82%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.82%) PaaS
7 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.41%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.68%) Firewall
2 7 (9.86%) DNS
3 4 (5.63%) SSL
3 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.23%) SAN
5 2 (2.82%) BGP
5 2 (2.82%) FTP
5 2 (2.82%) HTTP
5 2 (2.82%) Network Security
6 1 (1.41%) ATM
6 1 (1.41%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.41%) DHCP
6 1 (1.41%) DMZ
6 1 (1.41%) DWDM
6 1 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (1.41%) Internet
6 1 (1.41%) VLAN
6 1 (1.41%) VPN
6 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.35%) MySQL
2 16 (22.54%) Relational Database
3 6 (8.45%) Metadata
3 6 (8.45%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.82%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.82%) Tableau
6 1 (1.41%) Big Data
6 1 (1.41%) DB2
6 1 (1.41%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.41%) KDB
6 1 (1.41%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.41%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (19.72%) JIRA
2 11 (15.49%) Git
3 10 (14.08%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.04%) Android Studio
4 5 (7.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (7.04%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (7.04%) Eclipse
4 5 (7.04%) Xcode
5 2 (2.82%) GitLab
5 2 (2.82%) Introscope
6 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.27%) Documentation Skills
2 8 (11.27%) Publishing
3 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Banking
4 6 (8.45%) Finance
5 3 (4.23%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.82%) Back Office
6 2 (2.82%) Front Office
6 2 (2.82%) Law
7 1 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (19.72%) Technical Support
2 9 (12.68%) Developer
2 9 (12.68%) Support Engineer
3 8 (11.27%) Lead
3 8 (11.27%) Senior
4 7 (9.86%) Technical Engineer
4 7 (9.86%) Technical Support Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Architect
5 6 (8.45%) Perl Developer
5 6 (8.45%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Applications Support
6 5 (7.04%) Software Developer
6 5 (7.04%) UX Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Middleware Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Administrator
8 3 (4.23%) AIX Administrator
8 3 (4.23%) Consultant
8 3 (4.23%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.68%) YAML
2 8 (11.27%) Ajax
3 6 (8.45%) AngularJS
3 6 (8.45%) Middleware
3 6 (8.45%) React
3 6 (8.45%) Spring
4 5 (7.04%) CSS
4 5 (7.04%) GraphQL
4 5 (7.04%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.23%) LAMP
5 3 (4.23%) Web Services
6 2 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (2.82%) FIXML
6 2 (2.82%) JDBC
6 2 (2.82%) JMS
6 2 (2.82%) Kafka
6 2 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.82%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (1.41%) REST
7 1 (1.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.45%) Clustering
2 6 (8.45%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (8.45%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.04%) Mobile App
3 5 (7.04%) Reference Data
4 4 (5.63%) Replication
5 3 (4.23%) CMDB
5 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.82%) Derivative
6 2 (2.82%) Eurex
6 2 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.82%) Swaptions
7 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.41%) EMV
7 1 (1.41%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.41%) SCADA
7 1 (1.41%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 51 (71.83%) Linux
2 26 (36.62%) Unix
3 17 (23.94%) Windows
4 16 (22.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (11.27%) CentOS
5 8 (11.27%) Ubuntu
6 5 (7.04%) Android
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (4.23%) AIX
9 2 (2.82%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.82%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (1.41%) Solaris
10 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.21%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (29.58%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (29.58%) DevOps
3 19 (26.76%) CI/CD
4 16 (22.54%) Root Cause Analysis
5 15 (21.13%) OO
6 13 (18.31%) Agile
6 13 (18.31%) OOP
6 13 (18.31%) Process Improvement
7 12 (16.90%) Computer Science
7 12 (16.90%) ITSM
8 11 (15.49%) Migration
8 11 (15.49%) Software Engineering
9 9 (12.68%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (11.27%) Data Modelling
10 8 (11.27%) ITIL
10 8 (11.27%) RBAC
10 8 (11.27%) Scrum
11 7 (9.86%) Visualisation
12 6 (8.45%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (69.01%) Python
2 33 (46.48%) Java
3 30 (42.25%) SQL
4 18 (25.35%) JavaScript
5 15 (21.13%) PowerShell
6 14 (19.72%) Bash
7 12 (16.90%) Ruby
8 10 (14.08%) Shell Script
9 7 (9.86%) C#
10 4 (5.63%) Groovy
11 3 (4.23%) C
11 3 (4.23%) PHP
11 3 (4.23%) PL/SQL
12 2 (2.82%) C++
12 2 (2.82%) Jython
13 1 (1.41%) Scala
13 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (21.13%) SC Cleared
1 15 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.72%) Degree
3 12 (16.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (11.27%) RHCE
5 4 (5.63%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.82%) CCNP
6 2 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.41%) CCDP
7 1 (1.41%) CCIE
7 1 (1.41%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) Docker
2 5 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.23%) Firmware
3 3 (4.23%) PowerHA
4 2 (2.82%) Postfix
4 2 (2.82%) Varnish
5 1 (1.41%) GPFS
5 1 (1.41%) Lustre
5 1 (1.41%) NFS
5 1 (1.41%) Sendmail
5 1 (1.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (25.35%) Ansible
2 10 (14.08%) Puppet
3 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.86%) Terraform
4 4 (5.63%) Grafana
4 4 (5.63%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.82%) CA Wily
5 2 (2.82%) Control-M
5 2 (2.82%) HAProxy
5 2 (2.82%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (2.82%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.82%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.41%) Consul
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.41%) Salt
Vendors
1 22 (30.99%) Oracle
2 18 (25.35%) Red Hat
3 7 (9.86%) IBM
3 7 (9.86%) ServiceNow
3 7 (9.86%) Splunk
4 5 (7.04%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.23%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.82%) Imperva
6 2 (2.82%) Murex
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco
7 1 (1.41%) Citrix
7 1 (1.41%) F5
7 1 (1.41%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.41%) Google
7 1 (1.41%) HP
7 1 (1.41%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.41%) Informatica
7 1 (1.41%) McAfee
7 1 (1.41%) Sybase
7 1 (1.41%) VMware