Perl Contracts in the North West

Perl
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 111 129
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 +41
Contract jobs citing Perl 14 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.63% 0.67% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.45% 3.09% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 12
10th Percentile £317 £471 -
25th Percentile £366 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.69% +14.44% -25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £530 £642
90th Percentile £625 £568 £699
England median daily rate £500 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -6.19% -3.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 £66.25 £37.80
Median hourly rate £66.50 £67.50 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +66.30% -19.14%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.75 £43.39
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +2.31% +23.81% -4.72%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 571 518 807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.87% 21.55% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 363 588
10th Percentile £313 £350 £332
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £594
90th Percentile £624 £613 £663
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 33
10th Percentile £28.56 £37.55 £37.59
25th Percentile £65.75 £46.18 £45.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +19.10% +26.87%
75th Percentile £84.50 £73.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £94.60 £64.75
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the North West

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Perl in the North West

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in the North West over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the North West

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Perl in the North West

Perl
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Cheshire - 10 £393 - 2
Manchester -1 4 £625 +13.64% 3
Perl
England

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (50.00%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) BGP
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) Network Security
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 4 (28.57%) WAN
2 3 (21.43%) LAN
2 3 (21.43%) NX-OS
2 3 (21.43%) WLAN
3 2 (14.29%) DNS
3 2 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (7.14%) DHCP
4 1 (7.14%) DMZ
4 1 (7.14%) DWDM
4 1 (7.14%) HTTP
4 1 (7.14%) Internet
4 1 (7.14%) L2TP
4 1 (7.14%) MPLS
4 1 (7.14%) OSPF
4 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 7 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Git
2 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 7 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (50.00%) TeamCity
3 6 (42.86%) Bitbucket Server
3 6 (42.86%) CA Release Automation
3 6 (42.86%) JIRA
4 2 (14.29%) GitLab
5 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (21.43%) Node.js
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CDK
5 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 10 (71.43%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Change Management
2 8 (57.14%) Deployment Automation
3 7 (50.00%) Analytics
3 7 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 7 (50.00%) Microservices
3 7 (50.00%) Runbook
3 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (42.86%) Build Automation
4 6 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (42.86%) Migration
4 6 (42.86%) Observability
5 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (21.43%) SDLC
5 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
6 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 2 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
4 2 (14.29%) Go
4 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CCNP
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) CCDP
3 1 (7.14%) CCIE
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
2 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (50.00%) Kibana
2 7 (50.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (21.43%) Ansible
3 3 (21.43%) Terraform
4 2 (14.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Splunk
2 7 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 7 (50.00%) Cloudera
2 7 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco
4 3 (21.43%) F5
4 3 (21.43%) Meraki
4 3 (21.43%) Palo Alto
4 3 (21.43%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.14%) Arista
5 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 1 (7.14%) McAfee
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft