Perl Contracts in the South East

Perl
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 192 184
Rank change year-on-year +60 -8 +25
Contract jobs citing Perl 23 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.73% 0.28% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.77% 1.23% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 24
10th Percentile £450 £203 £229
25th Percentile £482 £475 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £423
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +24.26% +9.03%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £639
90th Percentile £570 £614 £694
England median daily rate £515 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -6.24% -0.23% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -
75th Percentile - £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% +17.62% +4.58%

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 830 1,303 1,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.39% 22.96% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 894 1,035
10th Percentile £326 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £612
90th Percentile £650 £675 £691
England median daily rate £520 £543 £555
% change year-on-year -4.15% -2.25% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 86 79
10th Percentile £37.60 £35.00 £21.41
25th Percentile £47.62 £46.25 £45.13
Median hourly rate £54.88 £62.50 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +11.14% +23.32%
75th Percentile £59.44 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.52 £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the South East

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Perl in the South East

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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the South East

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in the South East

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 July 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
Thames Valley +39 12 £500 - 28
Berkshire +32 12 £500 - 22
Hampshire +33 7 £537 -9.37% 8
Surrey +28 6 £514 +150.73% 7
West Sussex +4 2 £550 - 4
Perl
England

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (17.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (17.39%) WebLogic
2 2 (8.70%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
1 4 (17.39%) OCI
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.35%) SaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DHCP
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) GIS
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (8.70%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
3 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (8.70%) Subversion
3 2 (8.70%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.35%) Android Studio
4 1 (4.35%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (4.35%) Eclipse
4 1 (4.35%) Xcode
General
1 4 (17.39%) Aerospace
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Consultant
1 5 (21.74%) Solutions Consultant
2 4 (17.39%) ABAP Developer
2 4 (17.39%) DBA
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
2 4 (17.39%) Tester
3 3 (13.04%) Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (13.04%) Senior ABAP Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) SOAP
2 4 (17.39%) Node.js
3 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) Ajax
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) SCADA
2 5 (21.74%) Operational Technology
3 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
4 2 (8.70%) Replication
5 1 (4.35%) Clustering
5 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Linux
2 10 (43.48%) Windows
3 7 (30.43%) Unix
4 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (8.70%) Solaris
6 1 (4.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Workflow
2 5 (21.74%) Validation
3 4 (17.39%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (17.39%) Database Tuning
3 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (17.39%) ERP
3 4 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (17.39%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (17.39%) SOA
3 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
3 4 (17.39%) Test Assurance
3 4 (17.39%) Test Management
3 4 (17.39%) Test Strategy
4 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
5 2 (8.70%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (8.70%) Microservices
5 2 (8.70%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (8.70%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) SQL
2 13 (56.52%) PL/SQL
3 10 (43.48%) Python
4 5 (21.74%) Java
4 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 4 (17.39%) ABAP
6 2 (8.70%) Bash
7 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.70%) vSphere
3 1 (4.35%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Kibana
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (8.70%) SELinux
4 1 (4.35%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle
1 5 (21.74%) Red Hat
2 4 (17.39%) Adobe
2 4 (17.39%) SAP
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Splunk
4 2 (8.70%) AppDynamics
4 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.70%) Symantec
4 2 (8.70%) Veritas
4 2 (8.70%) VMware
5 1 (4.35%) Dell
5 1 (4.35%) HP
5 1 (4.35%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) Mellanox
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.35%) Solarflare
5 1 (4.35%) Sun