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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 353 341
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 -13
Contract jobs citing Perl 169 157 245
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.50% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.72% 1.56% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 110 191
10th Percentile £204 £203 £313
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 £725 £744
90th Percentile £618 £810 £810
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £68.30 £59.30 £43.38
25th Percentile £72.13 £62.00 £54.06
Median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% +8.33% -17.81%
75th Percentile - £66.50 £61.25
90th Percentile - - £63.50
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 9,798 10,078 12,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.87% 32.37% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,516 6,520 8,735
10th Percentile £347 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £673
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 275 405
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £32.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £44.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year - +5.11% -1.06%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.00 £78.45
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £62.50 £60.14
% change year-on-year +2.00% +3.92% -0.60%

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 28 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 28 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 -7 69 £520 -13.33% 18
South East +4 35 £208 +1.22% 25
North of England -16 35 £535 +12.63% 4
North West +3 26 £550 +29.41% 1
Midlands -14 18 £475 +12.29% 2
West Midlands -27 18 £475 +12.29%
North East - 7 £550 -
South West +3 5 £513 -34.92% 6
Yorkshire -41 5 £559 +1.64% 3
East of England -24 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 18 (10.65%) Confluence
2 10 (5.92%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.96%) JBoss
5 3 (1.78%) Apache
6 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.18%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.59%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.59%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 56 (33.14%) AWS
2 28 (16.57%) Azure
3 20 (11.83%) SaaS
4 18 (10.65%) Sauce Labs
5 17 (10.06%) GCP
6 15 (8.88%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (8.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 12 (7.10%) Amazon ELB
9 11 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (6.51%) Amazon Glacier
9 11 (6.51%) AWS KMS
10 8 (4.73%) Entra ID
11 7 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (4.14%) GitHub
11 7 (4.14%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (2.96%) Azure API Management
14 4 (2.37%) Amazon MSK
14 4 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 36 (21.30%) Firewall
2 25 (14.79%) DNS
3 23 (13.61%) HTTP
4 22 (13.02%) TCP/IP
5 21 (12.43%) Wireless
6 16 (9.47%) BGP
7 12 (7.10%) SSH
8 11 (6.51%) FTP
8 11 (6.51%) SMTP
9 8 (4.73%) SSL
10 7 (4.14%) OSPF
10 7 (4.14%) VLAN
11 6 (3.55%) EIGRP
11 6 (3.55%) HTTPS
11 6 (3.55%) IPsec
11 6 (3.55%) Network Security
11 6 (3.55%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (3.55%) WebEx
12 5 (2.96%) DHCP
12 5 (2.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (25.44%) Relational Database
2 37 (21.89%) MySQL
3 15 (8.88%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (6.51%) RDBMS
5 10 (5.92%) Oracle Database
6 9 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.37%) SQLPlus
9 3 (1.78%) Big Data
9 3 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.78%) Oracle Database 10g
10 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.18%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.59%) Oracle BI EE
11 1 (0.59%) Parquet
11 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (23.08%) Git
2 32 (18.93%) Jenkins
3 27 (15.98%) JIRA
4 19 (11.24%) Browser DevTools
5 18 (10.65%) Android Studio
5 18 (10.65%) Eclipse
5 18 (10.65%) Xcode
6 13 (7.69%) Vagrant
7 9 (5.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (5.33%) TeamCity
8 8 (4.73%) Bitbucket
9 7 (4.14%) GitLab
9 7 (4.14%) Liquibase
10 5 (2.96%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.96%) Subversion
10 5 (2.96%) Toad
11 4 (2.37%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.37%) CA Release Automation
11 4 (2.37%) JUnit
11 4 (2.37%) Robot Framework
General
1 72 (42.60%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.38%) Finance
3 23 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.43%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.51%) Banking
6 10 (5.92%) Financial Institution
6 10 (5.92%) Legal
7 2 (1.18%) French Language
7 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.59%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.59%) German Language
8 1 (0.59%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.59%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.59%) Law
8 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.59%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (20.12%) Technical Support
2 24 (14.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (11.83%) Support Engineer
4 19 (11.24%) Network Engineer
4 19 (11.24%) Technical Engineer
4 19 (11.24%) Technical Support Engineer
4 19 (11.24%) UX Engineer
5 18 (10.65%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 17 (10.06%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (8.88%) Developer
8 14 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (6.51%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (6.51%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (5.92%) Administrator
11 9 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.73%) Linux Administrator
13 7 (4.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 5 (2.96%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.02%) AngularJS
1 22 (13.02%) CSS
1 22 (13.02%) React
2 21 (12.43%) Ajax
3 19 (11.24%) GraphQL
4 14 (8.28%) Kafka
5 10 (5.92%) Node.js
6 8 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (3.55%) SOAP
7 6 (3.55%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.55%) XMPP
8 5 (2.96%) IBM Integration Bus
8 5 (2.96%) Middleware
9 4 (2.37%) REST
9 4 (2.37%) XML
10 3 (1.78%) .NET
10 3 (1.78%) Electron
10 3 (1.78%) HTML
10 3 (1.78%) JNI
10 3 (1.78%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.02%) Mobile App
2 16 (9.47%) Replication
3 11 (6.51%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.92%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.14%) Clustering
5 7 (4.14%) PKI
5 7 (4.14%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.37%) FPGA
6 4 (2.37%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.78%) RISC-V
7 3 (1.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.18%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.18%) CMDB
8 2 (1.18%) Derivative
8 2 (1.18%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 110 (65.09%) Linux
2 75 (44.38%) Windows
3 69 (40.83%) Unix
4 25 (14.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (12.43%) Android
6 11 (6.51%) Amazon Linux
6 11 (6.51%) VMS
7 10 (5.92%) Windows Server
8 7 (4.14%) CentOS
9 6 (3.55%) Solaris
10 4 (2.37%) AIX
10 4 (2.37%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.78%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.78%) Mac OS
12 2 (1.18%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (25.44%) DevOps
2 36 (21.30%) OO
3 29 (17.16%) CI/CD
3 29 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
4 23 (13.61%) User Experience
5 22 (13.02%) Configuration Management
6 21 (12.43%) Agile
6 21 (12.43%) High Availability
7 20 (11.83%) ITSM
8 19 (11.24%) Change Management
8 19 (11.24%) Mobile Application Development
9 18 (10.65%) Computer Science
10 17 (10.06%) Containerisation
10 17 (10.06%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (9.47%) Process Improvement
12 15 (8.88%) OOP
12 15 (8.88%) Patch Management
12 15 (8.88%) Service Management
13 14 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 150 (88.76%) Python
2 81 (47.93%) Java
3 57 (33.73%) Bash
4 42 (24.85%) JavaScript
5 39 (23.08%) PowerShell
6 38 (22.49%) SQL
7 17 (10.06%) Shell Script
8 16 (9.47%) PL/SQL
9 15 (8.88%) C++
10 14 (8.28%) Go
11 11 (6.51%) Groovy
12 9 (5.33%) C
13 6 (3.55%) Korn
13 6 (3.55%) PHP
13 6 (3.55%) Ruby
14 4 (2.37%) Assembly Language
14 4 (2.37%) C#
14 4 (2.37%) SystemVerilog
15 3 (1.78%) TypeScript
16 2 (1.18%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 42 (24.85%) Security Cleared
2 40 (23.67%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.83%) Degree
4 18 (10.65%) CCNP
4 18 (10.65%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (8.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (7.10%) CCDP
7 9 (5.33%) CCNA
8 6 (3.55%) JNCIA
8 6 (3.55%) JNCIS
9 4 (2.37%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.18%) RHCE
10 2 (1.18%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.59%) CEH
11 1 (0.59%) CISSP
11 1 (0.59%) ISACA
11 1 (0.59%) OSCP
11 1 (0.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.14%) GDPR
2 4 (2.37%) QA
2 4 (2.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.78%) SEPA
4 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (23.08%) Docker
2 26 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 18 (10.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (6.51%) DFS Replication
5 6 (3.55%) Firmware
5 6 (3.55%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.96%) NFS
7 4 (2.37%) KVM
7 4 (2.37%) Veritas File System
7 4 (2.37%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (2.37%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.78%) GPFS
8 3 (1.78%) QEMU
9 2 (1.18%) Lustre
9 2 (1.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.18%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.59%) Ceph
10 1 (0.59%) iptables
10 1 (0.59%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (17.75%) Ansible
2 27 (15.98%) Kubernetes
2 27 (15.98%) Terraform
3 12 (7.10%) Grafana
3 12 (7.10%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.33%) Progress Chef
5 6 (3.55%) QRadar
5 6 (3.55%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (2.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.96%) Kibana
6 5 (2.96%) Puppet
7 3 (1.78%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.78%) Packer
7 3 (1.78%) Salt
8 2 (1.18%) BladeLogic
8 2 (1.18%) Icinga
8 2 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (1.18%) Nagios
8 2 (1.18%) SELinux
Vendors
1 54 (31.95%) Oracle
2 40 (23.67%) Microsoft
2 40 (23.67%) ServiceNow
3 39 (23.08%) Splunk
4 28 (16.57%) Red Hat
5 24 (14.20%) Cisco
6 23 (13.61%) VMware
7 11 (6.51%) F5
8 9 (5.33%) Citrix
8 9 (5.33%) Juniper
9 8 (4.73%) IBM
10 7 (4.14%) AppDynamics
10 7 (4.14%) Palo Alto
10 7 (4.14%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.96%) CyberArk
12 4 (2.37%) Cloudera
12 4 (2.37%) Qualys
12 4 (2.37%) SaltStack
13 3 (1.78%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (1.78%) Meraki