Perl Contracts in the Midlands

Perl
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 114 125 146
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing Perl 8 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.40% 0.33% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.46% 1.38% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £359 £480
Median % change year-on-year +32.22% -25.16% -6.80%
75th Percentile £512 £420 £750
90th Percentile £527 £509 -
England median daily rate £525 £556 £600
% change year-on-year -5.62% -7.29% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
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% +14.13%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 548 653 845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 27.17% 23.60% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 472 611
10th Percentile £268 £260 £313
25th Percentile £364 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £634 £688
England median daily rate £525 £545 £564
% change year-on-year -3.67% -3.37% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 16
10th Percentile £18.35 £22.50 £20.74
25th Percentile £21.94 £30.37 £24.47
Median hourly rate £31.62 £55.00 £41.69
Median % change year-on-year -42.51% +31.92% +19.12%
75th Percentile £37.93 £58.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £50.00 £72.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +19.05%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the Midlands

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Perl in the Midlands

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Perl in the Midlands

Perl
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +18 6 £475 -3.80% 51
East Midlands +3 2 £506 +42.13% 39
Perl
England

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) NetScaler
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) FTP
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SMTP
2 1 (12.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (25.00%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Support Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Unix
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Operations Management
3 2 (25.00%) Release Management
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (25.00%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (25.00%) Kibana
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (25.00%) BMC
1 2 (25.00%) Dell
1 2 (25.00%) HP
1 2 (25.00%) IBM
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow