Perl Contract Job Trends in London

Perl
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 288 278
Rank change year-on-year -95 -10 -42
Contract jobs citing Perl 25 52 107
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.42% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.44% 1.06% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 35 80
10th Percentile £414 £407 £425
25th Percentile £423 £425 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -11.46% -
75th Percentile £571 £633 £678
90th Percentile £773 £738 £825
England median daily rate £453 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -13.81% -4.55% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,691 4,913 6,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.83% 39.39% 36.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,836 3,466 4,915
10th Percentile £363 £380 £381
25th Percentile £431 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £832 £825
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 30 53
10th Percentile £34.50 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £46.00 £35.00 £40.75
Median hourly rate £58.94 £43.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.71% -13.37% -15.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £60.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £69.38 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.17%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Perl relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Perl job vacancy trend in London

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Perl.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Perl

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in London

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Perl.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Perl

Perl
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Central London -13 5 £565 -9.60% 1
South London -17 3 £500 -8.05% 1
East London -7 2 £416 +0.20%
Perl
England

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (20.00%) Apache
2 4 (16.00%) Confluence
2 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (8.00%) Front Arena
2 2 (8.00%) Global One
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (16.00%) AWS KMS
4 4 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (4.00%) IaaS
6 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Firewall
2 5 (20.00%) HTTP
3 2 (8.00%) FTP
4 1 (4.00%) DHCP
4 1 (4.00%) DNS
4 1 (4.00%) InfiniBand
4 1 (4.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.00%) Kerberos
4 1 (4.00%) LAN
4 1 (4.00%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (4.00%) SSH
4 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.00%) VLAN
4 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (16.00%) RDBMS
3 4 (16.00%) SQLPlus
4 3 (12.00%) MySQL
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (8.00%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (8.00%) Tableau
6 1 (4.00%) Big Data
6 1 (4.00%) DB2
6 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (4.00%) KDB
6 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (28.00%) Git
2 7 (28.00%) JIRA
3 5 (20.00%) Toad
4 3 (12.00%) Ant
4 3 (12.00%) JUnit
4 3 (12.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (4.00%) TestDirector
General
1 12 (48.00%) Finance
2 11 (44.00%) Banking
3 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Back Office
5 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.00%) Front Office
5 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Applications Support
2 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (12.00%) IAM Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Applications Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Applications Support Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Database Developer
4 2 (8.00%) DBA
4 2 (8.00%) Integration Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Middleware Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Support Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Middleware
2 5 (20.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 5 (20.00%) Kafka
2 5 (20.00%) SOAP
2 5 (20.00%) XML
3 3 (12.00%) LAMP
4 2 (8.00%) EDI
4 2 (8.00%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (8.00%) FIXML
4 2 (8.00%) Web Services
5 1 (4.00%) ADO
5 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.00%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (4.00%) LDAP
5 1 (4.00%) libvirt
5 1 (4.00%) React
5 1 (4.00%) REST
5 1 (4.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Derivative
1 4 (16.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (16.00%) Replication
2 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) Eurex
3 2 (8.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.00%) Swaptions
3 2 (8.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Linux
2 16 (64.00%) Unix
3 5 (20.00%) AIX
3 5 (20.00%) Windows
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (32.00%) Agile
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps
3 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.00%) API Management
4 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (20.00%) High Availability
4 5 (20.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Analytics
5 4 (16.00%) Change Control
5 4 (16.00%) Change Management
5 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
5 4 (16.00%) ETL
5 4 (16.00%) Process Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) Release Management
5 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) SQL
2 13 (52.00%) Python
3 11 (44.00%) PL/SQL
4 10 (40.00%) Java
5 6 (24.00%) PHP
5 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (20.00%) Bash
6 5 (20.00%) Korn
6 5 (20.00%) Shell Script
7 4 (16.00%) Groovy
8 1 (4.00%) C#
8 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (4.00%) Ruby
8 1 (4.00%) Scala
8 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SEPA
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) NFS
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.00%) Ceph
3 1 (4.00%) iptables
3 1 (4.00%) KVM
3 1 (4.00%) Lustre
3 1 (4.00%) Postfix
3 1 (4.00%) Samba
3 1 (4.00%) Sendmail
3 1 (4.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (4.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.00%) Ansible
3 4 (16.00%) Grafana
3 4 (16.00%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.00%) Control-M
4 2 (8.00%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) IBM
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (12.00%) AppDynamics
4 3 (12.00%) Splunk
5 2 (8.00%) Bloomberg
5 2 (8.00%) MarketAxess
5 2 (8.00%) Murex
5 2 (8.00%) Tradeweb
6 1 (4.00%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (4.00%) Perforce
6 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.00%) Sybase