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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 179 196
Rank change year-on-year +43 +17 +29
Contract jobs citing Perl 23 26 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 0.47% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.90% 2.16% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 23
10th Percentile £422 £428 £372
25th Percentile £487 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -11.36% +36.22%
75th Percentile £564 £578 £641
90th Percentile £581 £604 £694
England median daily rate £531 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.41% -8.33% +14.29%
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% -4.55%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +17.12% +5.71% +14.13%

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 792 1,205 1,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.31% 21.68% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 831 1,136
10th Percentile £353 £325 £328
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £679 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 73 91
10th Percentile £40.05 £35.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £48.99 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.19 £74.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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 May 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 May 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 +54 13 £500 - 17
Berkshire +43 13 £500 - 12
Hampshire +29 6 £544 -8.27% 6
Surrey +19 5 £539 +19.72% 3
West Sussex +9 2 £550 - 6
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 2 (8.70%) JBoss
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DHCP
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) GIS
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) Big Data
4 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) HBase
4 1 (4.35%) HDInsight
4 1 (4.35%) Impala
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) JIRA
2 5 (21.74%) 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%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Aerospace
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Consultant
2 5 (21.74%) Solutions Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Tester
4 3 (13.04%) ABAP Developer
4 3 (13.04%) SCADA Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Test Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) DBA
5 2 (8.70%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Senior ABAP Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Sybase DBA
6 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Ruby Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Sybase Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) SOAP
2 3 (13.04%) Node.js
3 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) SCADA
2 8 (34.78%) Operational Technology
3 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
3 4 (17.39%) Replication
4 1 (4.35%) IoT
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Linux
2 12 (52.17%) Windows
3 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (13.04%) Unix
5 2 (8.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Cartography
1 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (17.39%) Test Assurance
2 4 (17.39%) Test Management
2 4 (17.39%) Test Strategy
2 4 (17.39%) Validation
3 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
3 3 (13.04%) DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Microservices
3 3 (13.04%) Migration
3 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
3 3 (13.04%) Test Scripting
3 3 (13.04%) Workflow
4 2 (8.70%) Build Automation
4 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (8.70%) High Availability
4 2 (8.70%) Performance Analysis
4 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.70%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) SQL
2 12 (52.17%) PL/SQL
3 10 (43.48%) Python
4 4 (17.39%) Java
5 3 (13.04%) ABAP
5 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.70%) Bash
7 1 (4.35%) C#
7 1 (4.35%) PHP
7 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
1 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (8.70%) vSphere
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Flume
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Foglight
2 2 (8.70%) Kibana
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (8.70%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
1 4 (17.39%) Splunk
2 3 (13.04%) Adobe
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) SAP
3 2 (8.70%) AppDynamics
3 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
3 2 (8.70%) Sybase
3 2 (8.70%) Symantec
3 2 (8.70%) Veritas
3 2 (8.70%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) StreamSets