Perl Contracts in Scotland

Perl
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 79 89
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +53
Contract jobs citing Perl 36 52 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.26% 2.39% 3.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.63% 8.19% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 50
10th Percentile £473 £383 £453
25th Percentile £475 £478 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +12.90%
75th Percentile £525 £686 £575
90th Percentile £540 £780 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £53.25
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £66.56
90th Percentile - - £67.88
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +10.24% +10.43% +19.54%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 639 635 954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.16% 29.17% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 418 691
10th Percentile £310 £363 £406
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -3.55% +3.68%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £563
90th Percentile £575 £650 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 13
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.43
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -2.59% +29.03%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.18 £60.94
% change year-on-year +0.52% +2.03% +21.88%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Perl in Scotland

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Perl in Scotland

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Perl in Scotland

Perl
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 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
Glasgow -19 31 £500 -11.11% 4
Edinburgh +8 4 £500 +8.11% 12
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (13.89%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.78%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) IaaS
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.78%) Fivetran
4 1 (2.78%) GCP
4 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DHCP
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (2.78%) iSCSI
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
1 1 (2.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) DB2
2 1 (2.78%) GIS
2 1 (2.78%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.78%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 6 (16.67%) Git
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Banking
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Analyst
1 10 (27.78%) Linux Engineer
1 10 (27.78%) Platform Engineer
1 10 (27.78%) Programmer
1 10 (27.78%) Python Programmer
1 10 (27.78%) Technical Analyst
2 9 (25.00%) Developer
3 8 (22.22%) Python Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Unix Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Linux Scripter
5 5 (13.89%) Network Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Unix Scripter
5 5 (13.89%) Unix Scripting Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Administrator
6 1 (2.78%) Consultant
6 1 (2.78%) DBA
6 1 (2.78%) Unix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) Flash
1 1 (2.78%) POSIX
1 1 (2.78%) REST
1 1 (2.78%) SOAP
1 1 (2.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (41.67%) Management Information System
2 7 (19.44%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (19.44%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (19.44%) Virtual Team
3 4 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.56%) Replication
5 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.78%) Clustering
5 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.78%) NVMe
5 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 32 (88.89%) Linux
2 24 (66.67%) Unix
3 7 (19.44%) Windows
4 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.56%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (2.78%) AIX
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) OO
2 12 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 11 (30.56%) Capacity Management
4 10 (27.78%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (27.78%) Technical Analysis
5 9 (25.00%) SDLC
6 8 (22.22%) Agile
6 8 (22.22%) High Availability
7 7 (19.44%) Data Protection
8 6 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
10 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 4 (11.11%) Data Science
11 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
12 2 (5.56%) Data Analysis
12 2 (5.56%) DevOps
12 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
12 2 (5.56%) Migration
12 2 (5.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (97.22%) Python
2 9 (25.00%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) Erlang
3 6 (16.67%) Prolog
4 5 (13.89%) R
5 2 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.78%) GDPR
1 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Docker
1 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) GPFS
2 1 (2.78%) KVM
2 1 (2.78%) NFS
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) HAProxy
3 1 (2.78%) Nagios
3 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.78%) Puppet
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.78%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) VMware
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) IBM
3 2 (5.56%) NetApp
3 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.56%) Sybase
4 1 (2.78%) Brocade
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco
4 1 (2.78%) Commvault
4 1 (2.78%) EMC
4 1 (2.78%) Juniper
4 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Sun
4 1 (2.78%) Veritas