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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 348 342
Rank change year-on-year -31 -6 -22
Contract jobs citing Perl 166 159 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.55% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.69% 1.68% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 109 183
10th Percentile - £203 £313
25th Percentile £204 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +2.22% +1.35%
75th Percentile £550 £725 £750
90th Percentile £604 £810 £820
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £68.30 - £43.38
25th Percentile £72.13 £63.50 £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 9,799 9,467 11,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.28% 32.61% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,508 6,167 8,348
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £651 £670
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 236 393
10th Percentile £32.50 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.00 £44.24 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 16 December 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 December 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 -23 64 £503 -22.69% 18
South East -11 40 £208 +1.22% 14
North of England -19 34 £550 +15.79% 4
North West -12 25 £550 +29.41% 1
West Midlands -23 16 £475 +12.29% 3
Midlands -30 16 £475 +12.29% 6
North East - 7 £550 -
South West -4 5 £513 -34.92% 3
Yorkshire -44 5 £559 +1.64% 3
East of England -30 4 £613 +2.08% 11
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 16 (9.64%) Confluence
2 10 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.41%) JBoss
5 3 (1.81%) Apache
5 3 (1.81%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (29.52%) AWS
2 26 (15.66%) Azure
3 22 (13.25%) SaaS
4 20 (12.05%) Sauce Labs
5 16 (9.64%) GCP
6 13 (7.83%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (7.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (6.63%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.02%) Amazon ELB
9 9 (5.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (5.42%) Amazon Glacier
9 9 (5.42%) AWS KMS
10 7 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.22%) GitHub
11 6 (3.61%) Azure API Management
11 6 (3.61%) Entra ID
11 6 (3.61%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.41%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (19.88%) Firewall
2 23 (13.86%) DNS
3 22 (13.25%) HTTP
3 22 (13.25%) TCP/IP
4 21 (12.65%) Wireless
5 16 (9.64%) BGP
6 10 (6.02%) SSH
7 9 (5.42%) FTP
7 9 (5.42%) SMTP
8 8 (4.82%) SSL
9 7 (4.22%) OSPF
9 7 (4.22%) VLAN
10 6 (3.61%) EIGRP
10 6 (3.61%) HTTPS
10 6 (3.61%) IPsec
10 6 (3.61%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (3.61%) WebEx
11 5 (3.01%) DHCP
11 5 (3.01%) LAN
11 5 (3.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (28.31%) Relational Database
2 42 (25.30%) MySQL
3 13 (7.83%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (7.83%) Oracle Database
4 10 (6.02%) RDBMS
5 8 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.41%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (2.41%) SQLPlus
8 3 (1.81%) Big Data
8 3 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.20%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.20%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.60%) DB2
10 1 (0.60%) GIS
10 1 (0.60%) Informix
10 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (21.69%) Git
2 28 (16.87%) Jenkins
3 24 (14.46%) JIRA
4 21 (12.65%) Browser DevTools
5 20 (12.05%) Android Studio
5 20 (12.05%) Eclipse
5 20 (12.05%) Xcode
6 11 (6.63%) Vagrant
7 8 (4.82%) Bitbucket
7 8 (4.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (4.82%) TeamCity
8 7 (4.22%) GitLab
9 6 (3.61%) Liquibase
10 5 (3.01%) Subversion
10 5 (3.01%) Toad
11 4 (2.41%) Ant
11 4 (2.41%) JUnit
11 4 (2.41%) Robot Framework
11 4 (2.41%) SoapUI
11 4 (2.41%) SonarQube
General
1 72 (43.37%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.06%) Finance
3 23 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.23%) Banking
6 10 (6.02%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.42%) Legal
8 2 (1.20%) French Language
8 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) German Language
9 1 (0.60%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.60%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (23.49%) Technical Support
2 22 (13.25%) Support Engineer
3 21 (12.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (12.65%) Technical Engineer
3 21 (12.65%) Technical Support Engineer
3 21 (12.65%) UX Engineer
4 19 (11.45%) Network Engineer
5 18 (10.84%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 17 (10.24%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (9.64%) Developer
8 14 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (6.63%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (6.63%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.42%) Administrator
11 8 (4.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.22%) Linux Administrator
13 6 (3.61%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 5 (3.01%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.46%) AngularJS
1 24 (14.46%) CSS
1 24 (14.46%) React
2 23 (13.86%) Ajax
3 21 (12.65%) GraphQL
4 14 (8.43%) Kafka
5 10 (6.02%) Node.js
6 7 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (4.22%) SOAP
7 6 (3.61%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (3.61%) Middleware
7 6 (3.61%) XMPP
8 5 (3.01%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.01%) XML
9 4 (2.41%) REST
10 3 (1.81%) .NET
10 3 (1.81%) Electron
10 3 (1.81%) HTML
10 3 (1.81%) JNI
10 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.46%) Mobile App
2 14 (8.43%) Replication
3 11 (6.63%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.02%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.22%) PKI
5 7 (4.22%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.61%) Clustering
7 4 (2.41%) FPGA
7 4 (2.41%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.81%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.81%) RISC-V
8 3 (1.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.20%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.20%) CMDB
9 2 (1.20%) Derivative
9 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 112 (67.47%) Linux
2 76 (45.78%) Unix
2 76 (45.78%) Windows
3 23 (13.86%) Android
3 23 (13.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (6.02%) Windows Server
5 9 (5.42%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (5.42%) VMS
6 7 (4.22%) CentOS
7 6 (3.61%) Solaris
8 5 (3.01%) AIX
9 4 (2.41%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.81%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.81%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (24.70%) OO
2 39 (23.49%) DevOps
3 29 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (16.27%) CI/CD
5 25 (15.06%) User Experience
6 21 (12.65%) High Availability
6 21 (12.65%) Mobile Application Development
7 20 (12.05%) Agile
7 20 (12.05%) Computer Science
7 20 (12.05%) Configuration Management
7 20 (12.05%) ITSM
7 20 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (11.45%) Process Improvement
9 18 (10.84%) OOP
10 17 (10.24%) Containerisation
11 15 (9.04%) Change Management
11 15 (9.04%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (9.04%) Service Management
12 14 (8.43%) Change Control
12 14 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 145 (87.35%) Python
2 80 (48.19%) Java
3 56 (33.73%) Bash
4 47 (28.31%) JavaScript
5 40 (24.10%) SQL
6 35 (21.08%) PowerShell
7 18 (10.84%) Shell Script
8 15 (9.04%) PL/SQL
9 13 (7.83%) Go
10 12 (7.23%) C++
11 9 (5.42%) Groovy
12 7 (4.22%) Korn
13 6 (3.61%) C
13 6 (3.61%) PHP
13 6 (3.61%) Ruby
14 4 (2.41%) Assembly Language
14 4 (2.41%) C#
14 4 (2.41%) SystemVerilog
15 3 (1.81%) TypeScript
16 2 (1.20%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (23.49%) Security Cleared
2 37 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.25%) Degree
4 18 (10.84%) CCNP
4 18 (10.84%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (10.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (7.23%) CCDP
7 9 (5.42%) CCNA
8 6 (3.61%) JNCIA
8 6 (3.61%) JNCIS
9 4 (2.41%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.20%) RHCE
10 2 (1.20%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.61%) GDPR
2 4 (2.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.81%) QA
3 3 (1.81%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (21.08%) Docker
2 22 (13.25%) Active Directory
3 18 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (5.42%) DFS Replication
5 6 (3.61%) Firmware
5 6 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.01%) NFS
7 4 (2.41%) KVM
7 4 (2.41%) Veritas File System
7 4 (2.41%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (2.41%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.81%) QEMU
9 2 (1.20%) GPFS
9 2 (1.20%) Lustre
9 2 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.20%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.60%) iptables
10 1 (0.60%) Samba
10 1 (0.60%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 29 (17.47%) Ansible
2 25 (15.06%) Kubernetes
2 25 (15.06%) Terraform
3 10 (6.02%) Grafana
3 10 (6.02%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.82%) Progress Chef
5 6 (3.61%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (3.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (3.01%) Puppet
7 4 (2.41%) Kibana
7 4 (2.41%) QRadar
8 3 (1.81%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.81%) Packer
8 3 (1.81%) Salt
9 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 2 (1.20%) Icinga
9 2 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (1.20%) Nagios
9 2 (1.20%) SELinux
Vendors
1 61 (36.75%) Oracle
2 41 (24.70%) Microsoft
3 38 (22.89%) ServiceNow
3 38 (22.89%) Splunk
4 26 (15.66%) Red Hat
5 23 (13.86%) Cisco
5 23 (13.86%) VMware
6 11 (6.63%) F5
7 9 (5.42%) Citrix
7 9 (5.42%) Juniper
8 8 (4.82%) IBM
9 7 (4.22%) SolarWinds
10 6 (3.61%) AppDynamics
10 6 (3.61%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.41%) CyberArk
11 4 (2.41%) Qualys
11 4 (2.41%) SaltStack
12 3 (1.81%) Cloudera
12 3 (1.81%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (1.81%) Meraki