Perl Contracts in England

Perl
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Perl skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Perl over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 367 305
Rank change year-on-year +26 -62 +116
Contract jobs citing Perl 133 176 393
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.48% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.64% 1.59% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 120 243
10th Percentile £393 £425 £420
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -7.29% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £639 £700
90th Percentile £632 £800 £772
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £49.63 £31.65
25th Percentile - £54.69 £37.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +17.62% +14.13%
75th Percentile - £66.13 £53.75
90th Percentile - £67.70 £59.98
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £61.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +13.36% +17.62% +18.64%

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 8,121 11,086 16,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.93% 30.20% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,644 8,041 12,028
10th Percentile £363 £350 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £564
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -3.37% +2.55%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 461 399
10th Percentile £28.32 £35.64 £26.25
25th Percentile £36.13 £49.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £70.28
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.36 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.79% -0.23% +22.11%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in England

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in England.

Daily rate trend for Perl in England

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in England

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in England.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in England

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 29 May 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 0 57 £531 -11.46% 106
North of England +16 30 £538 +4.62% 122
South East +46 24 £514 -2.10% 141
Yorkshire +22 18 £550 +23.60% 45
North West -1 11 £393 -23.69% 63
Midlands +11 8 £475 +32.22% 101
South West +44 7 £625 +5.93% 69
West Midlands +18 6 £475 -3.80% 53
East of England - 6 £283 - 110
East Midlands +3 2 £506 +42.13% 41
North East - 1 £550 - 14
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (13.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (7.52%) JBoss
3 9 (6.77%) Confluence
4 6 (4.51%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (3.01%) Apache
5 4 (3.01%) Apache Spark
5 4 (3.01%) WebLogic
6 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.75%) IIS
8 1 (0.75%) nginx
8 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (3.01%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (3.01%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.26%) Fidessa
2 3 (2.26%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 49 (36.84%) AWS
2 33 (24.81%) Azure
3 17 (12.78%) GitHub
4 16 (12.03%) GCP
5 13 (9.77%) OpenShift
6 7 (5.26%) Nutanix
7 5 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.76%) Serverless
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.01%) Azure API Management
8 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.01%) OCI
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.26%) Kong
9 3 (2.26%) SaaS
10 2 (1.50%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (34.59%) DNS
2 16 (12.03%) TCP/IP
3 15 (11.28%) Firewall
4 12 (9.02%) DHCP
5 7 (5.26%) HTTP
5 7 (5.26%) VPN
6 5 (3.76%) BGP
6 5 (3.76%) IPsec
6 5 (3.76%) Multicast
6 5 (3.76%) Network Security
6 5 (3.76%) OSPF
6 5 (3.76%) SSH
6 5 (3.76%) SSL
7 4 (3.01%) Internet
7 4 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.26%) DMZ
8 3 (2.26%) DWDM
8 3 (2.26%) Kerberos
8 3 (2.26%) L2TP
8 3 (2.26%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.30%) Oracle Database
2 15 (11.28%) Relational Database
3 12 (9.02%) SQL Server
4 11 (8.27%) RDBMS
5 10 (7.52%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.51%) GIS
7 5 (3.76%) DB2
7 5 (3.76%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.76%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.01%) Big Data
8 4 (3.01%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.01%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.26%) Hazelcast
9 3 (2.26%) Oracle Database 10g
9 3 (2.26%) Redis
10 2 (1.50%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 26 (19.55%) Git
2 23 (17.29%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.29%) JIRA
3 19 (14.29%) TeamCity
4 13 (9.77%) SonarQube
5 11 (8.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (8.27%) Subversion
6 10 (7.52%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (7.52%) CA Release Automation
7 4 (3.01%) Ant
7 4 (3.01%) Liquibase
7 4 (3.01%) Maven
7 4 (3.01%) Toad
8 3 (2.26%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.26%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.26%) GitLab
8 3 (2.26%) Snyk
8 3 (2.26%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.50%) JUnit
10 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 48 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.80%) Finance
3 17 (12.78%) Banking
4 10 (7.52%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.76%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.01%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.50%) Front Office
9 2 (1.50%) Military
9 2 (1.50%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.75%) French Language
10 1 (0.75%) German Language
10 1 (0.75%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.75%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.75%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 22 (16.54%) Developer
2 18 (13.53%) Administrator
3 16 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (10.53%) Linux Administrator
5 11 (8.27%) Network Engineer
6 9 (6.77%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 8 (6.02%) Consultant
7 8 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.02%) Engineering Specialist
7 8 (6.02%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Java Developer
8 7 (5.26%) Senior
9 6 (4.51%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (3.76%) Solutions Consultant
10 5 (3.76%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Applications Support
11 4 (3.01%) DBA
11 4 (3.01%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.28%) Kafka
2 13 (9.77%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (8.27%) Spring
4 10 (7.52%) SOAP
4 10 (7.52%) Spring Boot
5 8 (6.02%) REST
6 7 (5.26%) AngularJS
6 7 (5.26%) Middleware
6 7 (5.26%) Node.js
6 7 (5.26%) XML
7 6 (4.51%) JSON
8 5 (3.76%) React
9 4 (3.01%) HTML
9 4 (3.01%) IBM Integration Bus
9 4 (3.01%) RESTful
9 4 (3.01%) Web Services
10 3 (2.26%) CSS
10 3 (2.26%) EDI
10 3 (2.26%) J2EE
10 3 (2.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.53%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (9.02%) Clustering
2 12 (9.02%) SCADA
3 11 (8.27%) Replication
4 8 (6.02%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.26%) Eurex
6 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.50%) Equities
7 2 (1.50%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Bitcoin
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 79 (59.40%) Linux
2 46 (34.59%) Windows
3 32 (24.06%) Unix
4 21 (15.79%) Windows Server
5 18 (13.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (12.03%) Solaris
7 8 (6.02%) AIX
8 7 (5.26%) CentOS
9 5 (3.76%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.26%) SUSE
11 2 (1.50%) HPUX
11 2 (1.50%) Rocky
12 1 (0.75%) Debian
12 1 (0.75%) Fedora
12 1 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.75%) VMS
12 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.75%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.58%) DevOps
2 35 (26.32%) Agile
3 34 (25.56%) CI/CD
4 30 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (21.80%) Microservices
6 26 (19.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 24 (18.05%) High Availability
7 24 (18.05%) Migration
8 21 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (14.29%) Task Automation
10 18 (13.53%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (13.53%) SOA
11 15 (11.28%) Security Management
12 14 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
13 13 (9.77%) Roadmaps
14 12 (9.02%) Computer Science
14 12 (9.02%) Server Management
15 11 (8.27%) Containerisation
15 11 (8.27%) Infrastructure as Code
15 11 (8.27%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 90 (67.67%) Python
2 58 (43.61%) Bash
2 58 (43.61%) SQL
3 38 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 34 (25.56%) Java
5 31 (23.31%) PowerShell
6 19 (14.29%) Shell Script
7 15 (11.28%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.51%) Korn
8 6 (4.51%) PHP
9 5 (3.76%) Go
10 4 (3.01%) ABAP
10 4 (3.01%) Scala
10 4 (3.01%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.26%) Ruby
11 3 (2.26%) Tcl
12 2 (1.50%) C#
12 2 (1.50%) C++
12 2 (1.50%) Groovy
12 2 (1.50%) Lua
Qualifications
1 47 (35.34%) Security Cleared
2 38 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 22 (16.54%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (13.53%) Degree
5 10 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.76%) CCNP
7 4 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.26%) CCIE
8 3 (2.26%) SANS
9 2 (1.50%) CEH
9 2 (1.50%) CISSP
9 2 (1.50%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.50%) OSCP
10 1 (0.75%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.75%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.75%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) GDPR
2 8 (6.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (3.76%) QA
4 3 (2.26%) SEPA
5 2 (1.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (24.06%) Active Directory
2 28 (21.05%) Docker
3 12 (9.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (8.27%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.76%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (3.01%) NFS
6 4 (3.01%) Veritas File System
6 4 (3.01%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (1.50%) KVM
7 2 (1.50%) vSphere
8 1 (0.75%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.75%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.75%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 37 (27.82%) Ansible
2 29 (21.80%) Kubernetes
3 22 (16.54%) Progress Chef
4 17 (12.78%) Terraform
5 13 (9.77%) Puppet
6 12 (9.02%) Red Hat Satellite
7 10 (7.52%) Kibana
8 9 (6.77%) Grafana
8 9 (6.77%) Prometheus
8 9 (6.77%) QRadar
9 8 (6.02%) Tivoli
10 7 (5.26%) Control-M
11 6 (4.51%) Rundeck
12 5 (3.76%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (3.76%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 5 (3.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 4 (3.01%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (3.01%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (2.26%) Istio
14 3 (2.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (31.58%) Oracle
2 37 (27.82%) Red Hat
3 25 (18.80%) Cisco
4 23 (17.29%) Splunk
5 21 (15.79%) VMware
6 20 (15.04%) IBM
7 10 (7.52%) AppDynamics
8 9 (6.77%) CyberArk
8 9 (6.77%) Qualys
9 8 (6.02%) SaltStack
10 7 (5.26%) Microsoft
11 6 (4.51%) Google
11 6 (4.51%) ServiceNow
12 5 (3.76%) BMC
12 5 (3.76%) EMC
12 5 (3.76%) SAP
12 5 (3.76%) Sybase
13 4 (3.01%) Adobe
13 4 (3.01%) Bloomberg
13 4 (3.01%) Fortinet