Perl Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Perl
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Perl 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.70% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £436 - -
25th Percentile £447 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £483 - -
90th Percentile £494 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £563 £593
% change year-on-year -6.75% -5.06% +6.85%

All Programming Languages
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 172 43 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 39.91% 33.59% 47.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 31 30
10th Percentile £401 £434 £367
25th Percentile £447 £455 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £495 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% -7.48% -0.93%
75th Percentile £525 £540 £538
90th Percentile £554 £567 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £495 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +10.00% -14.29%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Perl relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Perl job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Perl.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Perl

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Perl.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Perl

Perl
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
Telford - 3 £465 - 1
Perl
West Midlands

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Confluence
2 2 (66.67%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat