Perl Contract Job Trends in the South East

Perl
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 152 175
Rank change year-on-year +13 +23 +40
Contract jobs citing Perl 33 27 41
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.90% 0.64% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.57% 2.42% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 17 34
10th Percentile - £202 £210
25th Percentile £204 £203 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £320
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -35.94% -16.34%
75th Percentile £224 £220 £400
90th Percentile £500 £588 £443
England median daily rate £475 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 925 1,118 1,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.22% 26.44% 23.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 708 939
10th Percentile £252 £325 £325
25th Percentile £380 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £513 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.30% +0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £615
90th Percentile £625 £660 £678
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 57 64
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.00 £32.32
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.00 £48.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% +21.85% -12.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.75 £67.81
90th Percentile - £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Perl job vacancy trend in the South East

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Perl.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Perl

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in the South East over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the South East

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Perl.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Perl

Perl
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Surrey +10 24 £208 +1.22% 2
Thames Valley +17 5 £500 +66.67% 12
Hampshire +11 5 £500 -13.04% 1
Berkshire +10 5 £500 +66.67% 10
West Sussex - 1 £475 - 2
Perl
England

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (12.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (12.12%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) SaaS
2 16 (48.48%) Sauce Labs
3 4 (12.12%) OCI
4 2 (6.06%) AWS
4 2 (6.06%) Azure
4 2 (6.06%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (48.48%) Wireless
2 2 (6.06%) DHCP
2 2 (6.06%) DNS
2 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (69.70%) MySQL
1 23 (69.70%) Relational Database
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.03%) GIS
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (51.52%) Browser DevTools
2 16 (48.48%) Android Studio
2 16 (48.48%) Eclipse
2 16 (48.48%) Xcode
3 1 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (60.61%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 23 (69.70%) Technical Support
2 17 (51.52%) Support Engineer
2 17 (51.52%) Technical Engineer
2 17 (51.52%) Technical Support Engineer
2 17 (51.52%) UX Engineer
3 16 (48.48%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 4 (12.12%) DBA
5 3 (9.09%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (9.09%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) Developer
6 2 (6.06%) IT Support
6 2 (6.06%) Linux Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) Senior
7 1 (3.03%) C++ Applications Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Principal Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 1 (3.03%) Senior DBA
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (51.52%) Ajax
1 17 (51.52%) AngularJS
1 17 (51.52%) CSS
1 17 (51.52%) GraphQL
1 17 (51.52%) React
2 1 (3.03%) Node.js
2 1 (3.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (51.52%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.03%) Clustering
2 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.03%) Replication
2 1 (3.03%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 29 (87.88%) Unix
2 28 (84.85%) Linux
3 26 (78.79%) Windows
4 16 (48.48%) Android
5 2 (6.06%) CentOS
5 2 (6.06%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) OO
2 17 (51.52%) Mobile Application Development
2 17 (51.52%) User Experience
3 7 (21.21%) Task Automation
4 6 (18.18%) OOP
4 6 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (15.15%) Workflow
6 4 (12.12%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
6 4 (12.12%) Database Tuning
6 4 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (12.12%) ERP
6 4 (12.12%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (12.12%) Process Improvement
6 4 (12.12%) SOA
7 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (6.06%) Analytics
8 2 (6.06%) Containerisation
8 2 (6.06%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (84.85%) Python
2 24 (72.73%) Java
2 24 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 12 (36.36%) SQL
4 5 (15.15%) PL/SQL
5 3 (9.09%) Bash
6 1 (3.03%) ABAP
6 1 (3.03%) C#
6 1 (3.03%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) RHCE
2 2 (6.06%) RHCSA
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (6.06%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) KVM
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (9.09%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
3 2 (6.06%) Puppet
4 1 (3.03%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 27 (81.82%) Oracle
2 18 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 17 (51.52%) ServiceNow
4 16 (48.48%) Splunk
5 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.06%) VMware
7 1 (3.03%) Adobe
7 1 (3.03%) Dell
7 1 (3.03%) HP
7 1 (3.03%) IBM
7 1 (3.03%) Mellanox
7 1 (3.03%) SAP
7 1 (3.03%) Solarflare