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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 131 168
Rank change year-on-year -52 +37 +23
Contract jobs citing Perl 26 23 24
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.45% 0.77% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.37% 2.90% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 10
10th Percentile £204 £422 £425
25th Percentile £204 £487 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -60.55% +0.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £264 £564 £584
90th Percentile £464 £581 £614
England median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
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 £80.50 £65.00 £63.50
% change year-on-year +23.85% +2.36% +20.95%

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 1,095 792 1,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 18.81% 26.39% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 530 834
10th Percentile £310 £350 £325
25th Percentile £403 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +2.65% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £675 £685
England median daily rate £505 £525 £542
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.05% -4.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 30 75
10th Percentile £34.01 £41.28 £35.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £48.99 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -5.64% +9.35%
75th Percentile £69.06 £64.32 £66.01
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.91 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.56%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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
Berkshire -26 16 £208 -58.50%
Thames Valley -38 16 £208 -58.50% 1
Surrey -9 10 £207 -61.53% 3
Hampshire -30 1 £469 -13.71% 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 4 (15.38%) WebSphere
1 4 (15.38%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (7.69%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (7.69%) JBoss
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (7.69%) WebLogic
2 2 (7.69%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (3.85%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) SaaS
1 6 (23.08%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (7.69%) OCI
2 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) DNS
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
1 2 (7.69%) HTTP
1 2 (7.69%) SSL
1 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (73.08%) MySQL
2 18 (69.23%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Android Studio
1 6 (23.08%) Browser DevTools
1 6 (23.08%) Eclipse
1 6 (23.08%) Xcode
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
2 2 (7.69%) Introscope
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Banking
2 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (65.38%) Technical Support
2 9 (34.62%) Support Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) Technical Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) Technical Support Engineer
4 6 (23.08%) UX Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Middleware Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Senior
7 2 (7.69%) DBA
7 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Administrator
8 1 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Applications Support
8 1 (3.85%) Applications Support Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Ajax
1 6 (23.08%) AngularJS
1 6 (23.08%) CSS
1 6 (23.08%) GraphQL
1 6 (23.08%) React
2 4 (15.38%) Middleware
3 2 (7.69%) JDBC
3 2 (7.69%) JMS
3 2 (7.69%) Kafka
3 2 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (7.69%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (3.85%) LAMP
4 1 (3.85%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Mobile App
2 3 (11.54%) Clustering
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 24 (92.31%) Linux
2 23 (88.46%) Unix
3 18 (69.23%) Windows
4 6 (23.08%) Android
5 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (7.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) OO
2 14 (53.85%) OOP
3 13 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 13 (50.00%) Process Improvement
4 6 (23.08%) Mobile Application Development
4 6 (23.08%) User Experience
5 4 (15.38%) DevOps
5 4 (15.38%) Migration
5 4 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (11.54%) Backlog Management
6 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
6 3 (11.54%) ERP
6 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
7 2 (7.69%) Configuration Management
7 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (7.69%) ITIL
7 2 (7.69%) SOA
7 2 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) Python
2 19 (73.08%) JavaScript
3 18 (69.23%) Java
4 14 (53.85%) SQL
5 4 (15.38%) Bash
5 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 2 (7.69%) Jython
6 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
6 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.85%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) CA Wily
2 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (7.69%) Tivoli
3 1 (3.85%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Oracle
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Splunk
3 5 (19.23%) IBM
3 5 (19.23%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.69%) AppDynamics
5 1 (3.85%) Dell
5 1 (3.85%) HP
5 1 (3.85%) Mellanox
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) Solarflare