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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 137 179
Rank change year-on-year -21 +42 +23
Contract jobs citing Perl 34 27 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.71% 0.86% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.50% 3.00% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 18
10th Percentile - £200 £305
25th Percentile £204 £203 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £406 £450
Median % change year-on-year -48.92% -9.72% -10.00%
75th Percentile £276 £588 £475
90th Percentile £510 £634 £540
England median daily rate £455 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -17.27% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% -17.81%

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 972 901 1,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 20.31% 28.74% 20.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 581 779
10th Percentile £305 £350 £325
25th Percentile £403 £420 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.67% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £614
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 25 83
10th Percentile £30.33 £43.31 £44.93
25th Percentile £46.25 £52.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.54% +7.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £82.15 £69.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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 23 February 2026.

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 23 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
Surrey -2 16 £208 -5.68% 1
Berkshire -15 14 £208 -30.83% 1
Thames Valley -28 14 £208 -30.83% 2
Hampshire -26 4 £469 -12.66% 4
West Sussex -12 2 £500 -9.09% 1
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 2 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (5.88%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) SaaS
2 14 (41.18%) Sauce Labs
3 4 (11.76%) AWS
3 4 (11.76%) Azure
4 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) Wireless
2 3 (8.82%) DHCP
2 3 (8.82%) DNS
2 3 (8.82%) Firewall
3 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (73.53%) MySQL
2 24 (70.59%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.94%) GIS
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (41.18%) Android Studio
1 14 (41.18%) Browser DevTools
1 14 (41.18%) Eclipse
1 14 (41.18%) Xcode
2 2 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (67.65%) Technical Support
2 15 (44.12%) Support Engineer
3 14 (41.18%) Technical Engineer
3 14 (41.18%) Technical Support Engineer
3 14 (41.18%) UX Engineer
4 11 (32.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (5.88%) Administrator
5 2 (5.88%) DBA
5 2 (5.88%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Linux Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (2.94%) Applications Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Applications Support
6 1 (2.94%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Architect
6 1 (2.94%) C++ Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (44.12%) Ajax
2 14 (41.18%) AngularJS
2 14 (41.18%) CSS
2 14 (41.18%) GraphQL
2 14 (41.18%) React
3 1 (2.94%) LAMP
3 1 (2.94%) MERN Stack
3 1 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.94%) Clustering
2 1 (2.94%) CMDB
2 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.94%) Replication
2 1 (2.94%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 31 (91.18%) Linux
2 30 (88.24%) Unix
3 26 (76.47%) Windows
4 14 (41.18%) Android
5 2 (5.88%) CentOS
5 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.88%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.94%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) OO
2 14 (41.18%) Mobile Application Development
2 14 (41.18%) User Experience
3 11 (32.35%) Process Improvement
4 10 (29.41%) OOP
5 9 (26.47%) Computer Science
6 4 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (11.76%) Task Automation
7 3 (8.82%) Backlog Management
7 3 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (8.82%) Customer Service
7 3 (8.82%) ERP
8 2 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (5.88%) Configuration Management
8 2 (5.88%) Database Tuning
8 2 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (5.88%) Network Management
8 2 (5.88%) Security Management
8 2 (5.88%) SOA
8 2 (5.88%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 30 (88.24%) Python
2 25 (73.53%) JavaScript
3 24 (70.59%) Java
4 13 (38.24%) SQL
5 4 (11.76%) Bash
6 3 (8.82%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.94%) C#
7 1 (2.94%) C++
7 1 (2.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (26.47%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) RHCE
2 2 (5.88%) RHCSA
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) KVM
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.94%) GPFS
3 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.88%) Puppet
3 1 (2.94%) BladeLogic
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.94%) SELinux
Vendors
1 26 (76.47%) Oracle
2 15 (44.12%) Microsoft
3 14 (41.18%) Splunk
4 12 (35.29%) ServiceNow
5 4 (11.76%) Red Hat
6 3 (8.82%) VMware
7 1 (2.94%) Dell
7 1 (2.94%) HP
7 1 (2.94%) IBM
7 1 (2.94%) Mellanox
7 1 (2.94%) Solarflare
7 1 (2.94%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.94%) Symantec
7 1 (2.94%) Veritas