Perl Contracts in the North of England

Perl
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 161 189
Rank change year-on-year +23 +28 +19
Contract jobs citing Perl 28 24 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.85% 0.50% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.01% 1.98% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 14
10th Percentile £389 £435 £444
25th Percentile £393 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £515 £634
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% -18.74% +20.71%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £684
90th Percentile £578 £539 £700
England median daily rate £531 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.41% -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £66.25 £37.80
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year - +66.30% -4.49%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £43.39
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +17.12% +5.71% +14.13%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 931 1,213 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.25% 25.44% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 869 1,256
10th Percentile £356 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £680
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 47 27
10th Percentile £34.68 £38.08 £27.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £45.88 £38.15
Median hourly rate £76.25 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.53% - +19.56%
75th Percentile £94.67 £66.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £72.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the North of England

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Perl in the North of England

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the North of England

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in the North of England

Perl
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 Perl within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Yorkshire +19 18 £550 +23.60% 11
North West +10 10 £393 -23.69% 16
Perl
England

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 14 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (17.86%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) OpenShift
3 4 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (67.86%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) DHCP
2 2 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) NAS
2 2 (7.14%) SAN
2 2 (7.14%) SSH
2 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) BGP
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (3.57%) DWDM
3 1 (3.57%) HTTP
3 1 (3.57%) IPsec
3 1 (3.57%) L2TP
3 1 (3.57%) MPLS
3 1 (3.57%) Multicast
3 1 (3.57%) Network Security
3 1 (3.57%) OSPF
3 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (60.71%) Oracle Database
2 5 (17.86%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (17.86%) RDBMS
2 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (17.86%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (17.86%) Git
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
1 5 (17.86%) JIRA
1 5 (17.86%) SonarQube
1 5 (17.86%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (17.86%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.57%) Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 8 (28.57%) Engineering Specialist
4 4 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Unix Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Administrator
7 1 (3.57%) Applications Support
7 1 (3.57%) Implementation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (17.86%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.57%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (53.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.57%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 27 (96.43%) Linux
2 22 (78.57%) Windows
3 17 (60.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (17.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (17.86%) Unix
5 3 (10.71%) AIX
5 3 (10.71%) Solaris
6 2 (7.14%) CentOS
6 2 (7.14%) HPUX
6 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Microservices
2 19 (67.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (57.14%) Agile
4 15 (53.57%) Security Management
5 14 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (50.00%) SOA
6 12 (42.86%) Server Management
7 11 (39.29%) Migration
8 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
9 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 7 (25.00%) DevOps
9 7 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
10 5 (17.86%) Build Automation
10 5 (17.86%) Code Quality
10 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (14.29%) Change Management
11 4 (14.29%) High Availability
12 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
12 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 21 (75.00%) Bash
2 16 (57.14%) PL/SQL
2 16 (57.14%) SQL
3 14 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 11 (39.29%) Python
5 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 3 (10.71%) Java
7 1 (3.57%) ActionScript
7 1 (3.57%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 19 (67.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (64.29%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (53.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) CCIE
4 1 (3.57%) CCNP
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 21 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.00%) Docker
3 2 (7.14%) KVM
3 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Progress Chef
2 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (17.86%) Ansible
3 5 (17.86%) Kibana
4 4 (14.29%) Puppet
5 2 (7.14%) Terraform
6 1 (3.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) Cisco
2 17 (60.71%) Oracle
3 9 (32.14%) Red Hat
4 7 (25.00%) Splunk
5 5 (17.86%) AppDynamics
6 3 (10.71%) Cloudera
7 2 (7.14%) VMware
8 1 (3.57%) Arista
8 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.57%) IBM
8 1 (3.57%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (3.57%) McAfee