Perl Contracts in the South West

Perl
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 105 152 164
Rank change year-on-year +47 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing Perl 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.16% 0.083%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 0.80% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £639 - -
25th Percentile £659 £413 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £463 £750
Median % change year-on-year +51.35% -38.33% +87.50%
75th Percentile £747 £519 £800
90th Percentile £771 £553 -
England median daily rate £531 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.41% -8.33% +14.29%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 449 625 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.76% 19.54% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 421 759
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £625
90th Percentile £676 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 91 97
10th Percentile £61.30 £46.39 £49.87
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.13 £57.33
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.00 £75.50
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 West

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the South West

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Perl in the South West

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the South West

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in the South West

Perl
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol - 5 £700 - 7
Somerset - 1 - - 1
Perl
England

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) HTTP
4 1 (16.67%) SSH
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) MLflow
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Linux DevOps Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) High Availability
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (50.00%) GitOps
4 3 (50.00%) Security Hardening
4 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
6 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 1 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
6 1 (16.67%) SDLC
6 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
6 1 (16.67%) SOA
6 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Ruby
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) MCITP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat