Perl Contracts in London

Perl
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 283 225
Rank change year-on-year -4 -58 +156
Contract jobs citing Perl 57 110 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.63% 1.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.18% 1.69% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 83 174
10th Percentile £400 £425 £450
25th Percentile £425 £524 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £718
90th Percentile £738 £815 £775
England median daily rate £525 £556 £600
% change year-on-year -5.62% -7.29% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £24.09
25th Percentile - - £34.28
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% +17.62% +9.15%

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 4,843 6,498 10,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.50% 37.23% 40.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,393 4,961 7,674
10th Percentile £380 £375 £413
25th Percentile £438 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £543 £565
% change year-on-year -3.23% -3.98% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 51 75
10th Percentile £28.52 £23.80 £25.75
25th Percentile £33.25 £36.91 £41.63
Median hourly rate £37.81 £50.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.14% -15.83% +20.04%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £72.50 £88.00
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +19.05%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Perl in London

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Perl in London

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in London

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Perl in London

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 31 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
Central London +6 9 £625 - 14
South London +3 5 £544 +20.83% 1
East London - 2 £415 - 4
Perl
England

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (7.02%) Apache
1 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.26%) Confluence
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.75%) IIS
4 1 (1.75%) nginx
4 1 (1.75%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) MS Visio
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Fidessa
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 22 (38.60%) AWS
1 22 (38.60%) Azure
2 13 (22.81%) GitHub
3 11 (19.30%) GCP
4 6 (10.53%) Nutanix
5 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.02%) Azure API Management
5 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.02%) Serverless
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.26%) Kong
6 3 (5.26%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (3.51%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (33.33%) DNS
2 13 (22.81%) TCP/IP
3 7 (12.28%) DHCP
3 7 (12.28%) Firewall
4 5 (8.77%) HTTP
4 5 (8.77%) VPN
5 4 (7.02%) BGP
5 4 (7.02%) IPsec
5 4 (7.02%) Multicast
5 4 (7.02%) OSPF
6 3 (5.26%) FIX Connectivity
6 3 (5.26%) Internet
6 3 (5.26%) Network Security
6 3 (5.26%) SNMP
6 3 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (5.26%) Wireshark
7 2 (3.51%) DMZ
7 2 (3.51%) DWDM
7 2 (3.51%) MPLS
7 2 (3.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (14.04%) SQL Server
3 6 (10.53%) Oracle Database
3 6 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.77%) MongoDB
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (7.02%) Big Data
5 4 (7.02%) DB2
5 4 (7.02%) DynamoDB
5 4 (7.02%) Hadoop
6 3 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (5.26%) Hazelcast
6 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database 10g
6 3 (5.26%) Redis
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.51%) MariaDB
7 2 (3.51%) Parquet
7 2 (3.51%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (19.30%) Git
2 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 8 (14.04%) Subversion
3 8 (14.04%) TeamCity
4 4 (7.02%) Ant
4 4 (7.02%) Liquibase
4 4 (7.02%) Maven
4 4 (7.02%) Toad
5 3 (5.26%) GitLab
5 3 (5.26%) JIRA
5 3 (5.26%) Snyk
5 3 (5.26%) SoapUI
5 3 (5.26%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.51%) JUnit
7 1 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.75%) Crucible
7 1 (1.75%) Serena SBM
7 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 23 (40.35%) Finance
3 15 (26.32%) Banking
4 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Financial Institution
5 4 (7.02%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Front Office
7 2 (3.51%) Military
7 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Developer
2 9 (15.79%) Administrator
3 8 (14.04%) Linux Administrator
4 7 (12.28%) Java Developer
4 7 (12.28%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Integration Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) DevOps Specialist
7 3 (5.26%) FIX Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) FIX Support Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Linux Support
7 3 (5.26%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.32%) Kafka
2 10 (17.54%) Spring
3 7 (12.28%) AngularJS
3 7 (12.28%) REST
4 6 (10.53%) XML
5 5 (8.77%) JSON
5 5 (8.77%) Middleware
5 5 (8.77%) React
6 4 (7.02%) IBM Integration Bus
6 4 (7.02%) RESTful
6 4 (7.02%) SOAP
6 4 (7.02%) Web Services
7 3 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (5.26%) EDI
7 3 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (5.26%) J2EE
8 2 (3.51%) 802.1X
8 2 (3.51%) Apache Avro
8 2 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (3.51%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Clustering
2 7 (12.28%) Replication
3 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.26%) Eurex
3 3 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (3.51%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.51%) Equities
4 2 (3.51%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Bitcoin
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (45.61%) Linux
2 17 (29.82%) Unix
3 10 (17.54%) Solaris
4 7 (12.28%) Windows
5 6 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (8.77%) AIX
6 5 (8.77%) CentOS
7 3 (5.26%) SUSE
7 3 (5.26%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.51%) Rocky
8 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
9 1 (1.75%) Debian
9 1 (1.75%) Fedora
9 1 (1.75%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.75%) Windows 8
9 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) DevOps
2 17 (29.82%) CI/CD
3 14 (24.56%) Agile
4 12 (21.05%) High Availability
5 9 (15.79%) Computer Science
5 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (14.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (12.28%) API Integration
7 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (12.28%) Kernel Tuning
8 6 (10.53%) Data Science
8 6 (10.53%) SDLC
9 5 (8.77%) Configuration Management
9 5 (8.77%) Containerisation
9 5 (8.77%) DevSecOps
9 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (8.77%) Migration
9 5 (8.77%) Project Delivery
9 5 (8.77%) Storage Management
9 5 (8.77%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (85.96%) Python
2 26 (45.61%) Bash
3 24 (42.11%) Java
4 18 (31.58%) SQL
5 12 (21.05%) PowerShell
6 9 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 9 (15.79%) Shell Script
7 6 (10.53%) PL/SQL
8 5 (8.77%) PHP
9 4 (7.02%) Go
9 4 (7.02%) Korn
9 4 (7.02%) Scala
9 4 (7.02%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.51%) C#
10 2 (3.51%) C++
10 2 (3.51%) Lua
10 2 (3.51%) Ruby
11 1 (1.75%) Groovy
11 1 (1.75%) Tcl
11 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (21.05%) Degree
2 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 8 (14.04%) SC Cleared
4 7 (12.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (7.02%) CCNP
5 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (5.26%) SANS
7 2 (3.51%) CCIE
7 2 (3.51%) CEH
7 2 (3.51%) CISSP
7 2 (3.51%) CREST Certified
7 2 (3.51%) OSCP
8 1 (1.75%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.75%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) GDPR
1 8 (14.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (5.26%) SEPA
3 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (21.05%) Docker
2 8 (14.04%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (12.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
5 3 (5.26%) NFS
5 3 (5.26%) Veritas File System
5 3 (5.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.75%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 22 (38.60%) Ansible
2 13 (22.81%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.79%) Puppet
3 9 (15.79%) Red Hat Satellite
4 8 (14.04%) Progress Chef
4 8 (14.04%) QRadar
5 7 (12.28%) Terraform
6 6 (10.53%) Control-M
6 6 (10.53%) Rundeck
6 6 (10.53%) Tivoli
7 5 (8.77%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (8.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 3 (5.26%) Grafana
8 3 (5.26%) Istio
8 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
8 3 (5.26%) ZABBIX
9 2 (3.51%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (1.75%) Data Guard
10 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 1 (1.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (29.82%) Red Hat
2 16 (28.07%) Oracle
3 13 (22.81%) VMware
4 12 (21.05%) IBM
5 10 (17.54%) Splunk
6 8 (14.04%) CyberArk
6 8 (14.04%) Qualys
7 7 (12.28%) SaltStack
8 6 (10.53%) Cisco
9 5 (8.77%) EMC
9 5 (8.77%) ServiceNow
9 5 (8.77%) Sybase
10 4 (7.02%) Bloomberg
11 3 (5.26%) Coverity
11 3 (5.26%) CQG
11 3 (5.26%) ION Trading
11 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
11 3 (5.26%) Perforce
11 3 (5.26%) Reuters
11 3 (5.26%) Trayport