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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 163 176
Rank change year-on-year +35 +13 +44
Contract jobs citing Perl 33 21 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.95% 0.46% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.67% 1.83% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 15 31
10th Percentile - - £207
25th Percentile £204 £203 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £315
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -34.92% -17.65%
75th Percentile £512 £404 £400
90th Percentile £550 £599 -
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 £64.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year +3.50% +22.38% -28.08%

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 899 1,149 1,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.82% 25.03% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 777 939
10th Percentile £282 £325 £325
25th Percentile £393 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £575 £613 £615
90th Percentile £625 £656 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 56 75
10th Percentile £50.00 £27.00 £32.30
25th Percentile £51.56 £49.94 £49.07
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £68.13
90th Percentile - £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £64.50
% change year-on-year -14.62% +0.78% +12.80%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +13 22 £208 +1.22%
Thames Valley - 10 £550 - 1
Berkshire - 10 £550 -
Hampshire +11 5 £550 -5.78% 3
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 (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 12 (36.36%) SaaS
2 11 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
3 4 (12.12%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (54.55%) MySQL
1 18 (54.55%) Relational Database
2 5 (15.15%) GIS
3 4 (12.12%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Browser DevTools
2 11 (33.33%) Android Studio
2 11 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 11 (33.33%) Xcode
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (54.55%) Technical Support
2 12 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 12 (36.36%) Technical Engineer
2 12 (36.36%) Technical Support Engineer
2 12 (36.36%) UX Engineer
3 11 (33.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 5 (15.15%) Consultant
4 5 (15.15%) Solutions Consultant
5 4 (12.12%) ABAP Developer
5 4 (12.12%) DBA
5 4 (12.12%) Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior
6 3 (9.09%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (9.09%) Senior ABAP Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.06%) IT Support
8 1 (3.03%) IT Technical Specialist
8 1 (3.03%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 1 (3.03%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (3.03%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (36.36%) Ajax
1 12 (36.36%) AngularJS
1 12 (36.36%) CSS
1 12 (36.36%) GraphQL
1 12 (36.36%) React
2 5 (15.15%) SOAP
3 4 (12.12%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Mobile App
2 6 (18.18%) SCADA
3 5 (15.15%) Operational Technology
4 2 (6.06%) Replication
5 1 (3.03%) Clustering
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (66.67%) Linux
1 22 (66.67%) Unix
1 22 (66.67%) Windows
2 11 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) OO
2 12 (36.36%) Mobile Application Development
2 12 (36.36%) User Experience
3 8 (24.24%) Workflow
4 6 (18.18%) OOP
5 5 (15.15%) Task Automation
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%) Performance Tuning
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%) Cartography
8 2 (6.06%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (69.70%) Python
2 22 (66.67%) Java
2 22 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 20 (60.61%) SQL
4 10 (30.30%) PL/SQL
5 4 (12.12%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
3 3 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle RAC
2 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 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 22 (66.67%) Oracle
2 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
3 12 (36.36%) ServiceNow
4 11 (33.33%) Splunk
5 4 (12.12%) Adobe
5 4 (12.12%) SAP
6 1 (3.03%) Dell
6 1 (3.03%) HP
6 1 (3.03%) IBM
6 1 (3.03%) Mellanox
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.03%) Solarflare