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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 147 175
Rank change year-on-year -4 +28 +46
Contract jobs citing Perl 35 32 36
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.84% 0.80% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.70% 2.95% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 20 31
10th Percentile - £200 £208
25th Percentile £204 £203 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £360
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -43.06% -15.29%
75th Percentile £214 £372 £400
90th Percentile £488 £602 £450
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 947 1,086 1,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.81% 27.23% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 686 861
10th Percentile £258 £320 £350
25th Percentile £375 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -1.87%
75th Percentile £575 £620 £615
90th Percentile £638 £663 £675
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 47 60
10th Percentile £41.88 £27.00 £41.68
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.25 £49.93
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.55% -10.20%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £59.43 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.92
% change year-on-year - +4.97% -0.93%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 26 £208 +1.22% 4
Berkshire +1 5 £215 -14.00% 3
Thames Valley -3 5 £215 -14.00% 4
Hampshire -1 3 £499 -13.30% 2
West Sussex - 2 £500 - 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (57.14%) SaaS
2 18 (51.43%) Sauce Labs
3 3 (8.57%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) Azure
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (51.43%) Wireless
2 3 (8.57%) DHCP
2 3 (8.57%) DNS
2 3 (8.57%) Firewall
3 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (77.14%) MySQL
1 27 (77.14%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.71%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.86%) GIS
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (54.29%) Browser DevTools
2 18 (51.43%) Android Studio
2 18 (51.43%) Eclipse
2 18 (51.43%) Xcode
3 2 (5.71%) Git
4 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) Subversion
General
1 24 (68.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Banking
3 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 27 (77.14%) Technical Support
2 19 (54.29%) Support Engineer
2 19 (54.29%) Technical Engineer
2 19 (54.29%) Technical Support Engineer
2 19 (54.29%) UX Engineer
3 18 (51.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 3 (8.57%) Administrator
5 2 (5.71%) IT Support
5 2 (5.71%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (5.71%) Linux Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) C++ Applications Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.86%) Principal Developer
6 1 (2.86%) SaaS Architect
6 1 (2.86%) SCADA Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.86%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (57.14%) Ajax
2 19 (54.29%) AngularJS
2 19 (54.29%) CSS
2 19 (54.29%) GraphQL
2 19 (54.29%) React
3 1 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (54.29%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.71%) Clustering
3 1 (2.86%) CMDB
3 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.86%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 34 (97.14%) Linux
2 31 (88.57%) Unix
3 30 (85.71%) Windows
4 18 (51.43%) Android
5 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.71%) CentOS
6 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) OO
2 19 (54.29%) Mobile Application Development
2 19 (54.29%) User Experience
3 8 (22.86%) OOP
4 7 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 6 (17.14%) Computer Science
6 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (8.57%) Patch Management
6 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (8.57%) Task Automation
7 2 (5.71%) Analytics
7 2 (5.71%) Configuration Management
7 2 (5.71%) Containerisation
7 2 (5.71%) Network Management
7 2 (5.71%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (5.71%) Scrum
7 2 (5.71%) Security Management
7 2 (5.71%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 33 (94.29%) Python
2 27 (77.14%) Java
2 27 (77.14%) JavaScript
3 9 (25.71%) SQL
4 4 (11.43%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) C++
5 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (17.14%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) RHCE
2 2 (5.71%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) GDPR
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.71%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) GPFS
2 2 (5.71%) KVM
3 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) BladeLogic
2 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.71%) Puppet
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.86%) SELinux
Vendors
1 27 (77.14%) Oracle
2 20 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 20 (57.14%) ServiceNow
3 18 (51.43%) Splunk
4 5 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 3 (8.57%) VMware
6 2 (5.71%) Dell
6 2 (5.71%) HP
6 2 (5.71%) IBM
6 2 (5.71%) Mellanox
6 2 (5.71%) Solarflare
7 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.86%) Symantec
7 1 (2.86%) Veritas