Perl Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Perl
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 83 99
Rank change year-on-year -17 +16 +23
Contract jobs citing Perl 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.16% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.46% 0.68% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £603 £414 -
25th Percentile £606 £416 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.12% - -
75th Percentile £619 £434 -
90th Percentile £623 £436 -
North West median daily rate £550 £408 £425
% change year-on-year +34.80% -4.00% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
North West median hourly rate £74.26 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +52.46%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 439 292 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.38% 28.32% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 215 408
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £390 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £548
90th Percentile £600 £602 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 9
10th Percentile £51.00 - £60.75
25th Percentile £52.50 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -10.34% +52.63%
75th Percentile £76.00 - £81.00
90th Percentile £83.80 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -2.31% +40.75% +12.51%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Perl job vacancy trend in Manchester

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Perl

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Perl

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Packer
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform