Perforce Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Perforce
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring knowledge or experience of Perforce products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Perforce over the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Perforce Software, Inc.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 174 -
Rank change year-on-year -72 - -
Contract jobs citing Perforce 6 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.082% 0.15% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - £425 -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -
75th Percentile £525 £460 -
90th Percentile - £465 -
England median daily rate £450 £415 -
% change year-on-year +8.39% - -

All Vendors
North of England

Perforce falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,843 1,879 1,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 38.86% 48.01% 40.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,729 1,186 1,025
10th Percentile £308 £268 £274
25th Percentile £406 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £570 £588
90th Percentile £671 £650 £667
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 107 152
10th Percentile £17.20 £14.02 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.00 £18.87 £13.87
Median hourly rate £32.23 £27.38 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% +70.45% -40.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.94 £35.36
90th Percentile £77.00 £81.25 £49.88
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -10.18% -27.32%

Perforce
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Perforce relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Perforce job vacancy trend in the North of England

Perforce
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Perforce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Perforce

Perforce
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Perforce.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Perforce

Perforce
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perforce within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 July 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
North West -51 6 £475 +3.37% 2
Perforce
England

Perforce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) NAS
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
1 3 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) Junos
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Animation
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Visual Effects
3 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (66.67%) High Availability
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (66.67%) Patch Management
4 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (33.33%) AI
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
6 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bicep
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Arista
3 2 (33.33%) Aruba
3 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (33.33%) Juniper
3 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto