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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 130 167
Rank change year-on-year -84 +37 +6
Contract jobs citing Perl 10 33 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.94% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.77% 3.59% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 11
10th Percentile £204 - -
25th Percentile £204 £204 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £312 £205
Median % change year-on-year -33.55% +52.32% -35.94%
75th Percentile £400 £548 £398
90th Percentile £465 £550 £606
England median daily rate £472 £479 £540
% change year-on-year -1.51% -11.34% -1.82%

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 1,292 918 1,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 19.58% 26.05% 24.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 628 799
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £402 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £605 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £638 £657
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 40 59
10th Percentile £28.00 £48.71 £27.00
25th Percentile £38.25 £50.00 £50.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £69.38
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -20.72% +23.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £74.93
90th Percentile £77.50 £59.25 £75.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 September 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 1 September 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 -31 5 £208 - 1
Berkshire -31 4 £400 -23.81% 2
Thames Valley -40 4 £400 -23.81% 4
Hampshire -33 1 £603 +14.76% 4
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 (40.00%) WebSphere
1 4 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (20.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (20.00%) JBoss
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (20.00%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) SaaS
1 3 (30.00%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
1 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Android Studio
1 3 (30.00%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (30.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (30.00%) Xcode
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Introscope
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 5 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Middleware Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) UX Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Middleware Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Middleware
2 3 (30.00%) Ajax
2 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (30.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (30.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) JDBC
3 2 (20.00%) JMS
3 2 (20.00%) Kafka
3 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (20.00%) Clustering
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) CSOC
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Unix
3 6 (60.00%) Windows
4 3 (30.00%) Android
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (20.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (50.00%) OO
1 5 (50.00%) OOP
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Build Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Case Management
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Security Management
4 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
2 5 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (20.00%) Jython
5 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) CA Wily
2 2 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) IBM
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Splunk
4 2 (20.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (10.00%) Clearswift
5 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (10.00%) Tanium
5 1 (10.00%) Trend Micro
5 1 (10.00%) Tripwire