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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 162 170
Rank change year-on-year +19 +8 +48
Contract jobs citing Perl 28 25 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.80% 0.51% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.82% 2.00% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 21
10th Percentile £391 £438 £425
25th Percentile £395 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -2.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £518 £675
90th Percentile - £551 £700
England median daily rate £515 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -6.36% -1.35% +3.72%
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% -19.14%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £43.39
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% +17.62% +4.58%

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 994 1,247 1,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 28.51% 25.52% 27.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 736 849 1,109
10th Percentile £328 £315 £356
25th Percentile £385 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £610
90th Percentile £604 £628 £700
England median daily rate £520 £540 £560
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 57 24
10th Percentile £31.70 £37.55 £27.97
25th Percentile £52.00 £45.88 £37.78
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.00 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% +2.48% +23.92%
75th Percentile £88.75 £68.75 £56.68
90th Percentile £95.71 £76.37 £65.15
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +14 18 £550 +23.60% 29
North West -6 9 £393 -23.69% 43
North East - 1 £550 - 4
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 6 (21.43%) JBoss
3 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) OpenShift
3 2 (7.14%) 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%) SSH
2 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) BGP
3 1 (3.57%) DMZ
3 1 (3.57%) DWDM
3 1 (3.57%) HTTP
3 1 (3.57%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.57%) Internet
3 1 (3.57%) IPsec
3 1 (3.57%) L2TP
3 1 (3.57%) MPLS
3 1 (3.57%) OSPF
3 1 (3.57%) SSL
3 1 (3.57%) WAN
3 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (60.71%) Oracle Database
2 6 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (21.43%) RDBMS
2 6 (21.43%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Git
1 7 (25.00%) JIRA
2 6 (21.43%) Bitbucket Server
2 6 (21.43%) CA Release Automation
2 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (21.43%) SonarQube
2 6 (21.43%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (21.43%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 8 (28.57%) Engineering Specialist
4 4 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
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%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior
7 1 (3.57%) DevOps Specialist
7 1 (3.57%) Implementation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Lead
7 1 (3.57%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (21.43%) 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 26 (92.86%) Linux
2 23 (82.14%) Windows
3 17 (60.71%) Windows Server
4 6 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (10.71%) Unix
6 1 (3.57%) AIX
6 1 (3.57%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) Microservices
2 19 (67.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (60.71%) Agile
4 15 (53.57%) Security Management
5 14 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (50.00%) SOA
6 12 (42.86%) Migration
6 12 (42.86%) Server Management
7 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
7 9 (32.14%) DevOps
8 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
9 7 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
10 6 (21.43%) Build Automation
10 6 (21.43%) Code Quality
10 6 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (17.86%) Change Management
12 4 (14.29%) Analytics
12 4 (14.29%) Runbook
12 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) 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%) Java
6 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.57%) ActionScript
7 1 (3.57%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (3.57%) Go
7 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 18 (64.29%) Cisco Certification
1 18 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 14 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) CCIE
3 1 (3.57%) CCNP
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 22 (78.57%) Active Directory
2 8 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 8 (28.57%) Progress Chef
3 6 (21.43%) Kibana
4 4 (14.29%) Ansible
5 3 (10.71%) Terraform
6 2 (7.14%) Puppet
7 1 (3.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) Cisco
2 17 (60.71%) Oracle
3 8 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 8 (28.57%) Splunk
4 6 (21.43%) AppDynamics
5 4 (14.29%) Cloudera
6 1 (3.57%) Arista
6 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.57%) IBM
6 1 (3.57%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (3.57%) McAfee