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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 178 184
Rank change year-on-year +46 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing Perl 24 21 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.82% 0.38% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.05% 1.67% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 23
10th Percentile £425 £425 £259
25th Percentile £482 £475 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +5.00% +28.21%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £641
90th Percentile £570 £614 £694
England median daily rate £525 £556 £600
% change year-on-year -5.62% -7.29% +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% -
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% +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 787 1,261 1,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 26.94% 22.58% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 873 1,040
10th Percentile £357 £325 £325
25th Percentile £438 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -4.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £545 £564
% change year-on-year -3.67% -3.37% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 80 84
10th Percentile £38.83 £35.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £47.99 £46.25 £30.79
Median hourly rate £55.00 £61.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +57.14%
75th Percentile £63.94 £67.81 £67.50
90th Percentile £65.62 £77.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +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 29 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 29 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 +48 14 £500 - 48
Berkshire +43 14 £500 - 26
Hampshire +44 8 £519 -12.49% 20
Surrey +16 4 £514 +14.22% 12
West Sussex +12 2 £550 - 9
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 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (16.67%) WebLogic
2 2 (8.33%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) OCI
3 3 (12.50%) Azure
4 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DHCP
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) GIS
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.83%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (8.33%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (8.33%) Subversion
3 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Consultant
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
1 5 (20.83%) Solutions Consultant
2 4 (16.67%) ABAP Developer
2 4 (16.67%) DBA
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Tester
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (12.50%) Senior ABAP Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Administrator
4 2 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) SCADA Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Ruby Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) SOAP
2 4 (16.67%) Node.js
3 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) SCADA
2 7 (29.17%) Operational Technology
3 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Linux
2 10 (41.67%) Windows
3 6 (25.00%) Unix
4 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (8.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Workflow
2 5 (20.83%) Validation
3 4 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (16.67%) Cartography
3 4 (16.67%) Database Tuning
3 4 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (16.67%) ERP
3 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.67%) SOA
3 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 4 (16.67%) Test Assurance
3 4 (16.67%) Test Management
3 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (8.33%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (79.17%) SQL
2 15 (62.50%) PL/SQL
3 9 (37.50%) Python
4 5 (20.83%) Java
5 4 (16.67%) ABAP
5 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.33%) Bash
7 1 (4.17%) PHP
7 1 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Kibana
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (8.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Adobe
2 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (8.33%) AppDynamics
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) Symantec
3 2 (8.33%) Veritas
3 2 (8.33%) VMware