Perl Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Perl
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 39 60
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 +6
Contract jobs citing Perl 23 17 18
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 6.61% 3.58% 2.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.91% 10.30% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 13 17
10th Percentile - - £207
25th Percentile £204 £203 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £270
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -24.07% +33.60%
75th Percentile £211 £208 £365
90th Percentile £223 £218 -
South East median daily rate £208 £205 £315
% change year-on-year +1.22% -34.92% -17.65%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 136 165 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 39.08% 34.74% 27.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 114 169
10th Percentile - - £305
25th Percentile £204 £203 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £540 £552 £600
90th Percentile £584 £596 £659
South East median daily rate £492 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -3.95% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 15
10th Percentile - £13.25 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £35.38 £45.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +37.61% +70.31%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £76.53
90th Percentile - £80.00 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -12.12%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Perl relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Perl job vacancy trend in Surrey

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Perl.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Perl

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in Surrey over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in Surrey

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Perl.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Perl

Perl
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Staines -3 5 £208 +1.22%
Camberley +1 2 £495 -14.00%
Guildford - 1 £514 -
Woking - 1 £223 -
Perl
South East

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) SaaS
2 15 (65.22%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 15 (65.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (91.30%) MySQL
1 21 (91.30%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (69.57%) Browser DevTools
2 15 (65.22%) Android Studio
2 15 (65.22%) Eclipse
2 15 (65.22%) Xcode
General
1 18 (78.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 21 (91.30%) Technical Support
2 16 (69.57%) Support Engineer
2 16 (69.57%) Technical Engineer
2 16 (69.57%) Technical Support Engineer
2 16 (69.57%) UX Engineer
3 15 (65.22%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (4.35%) ABAP Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Developer
4 1 (4.35%) IT Support
4 1 (4.35%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior ABAP Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (69.57%) Ajax
1 16 (69.57%) AngularJS
1 16 (69.57%) CSS
1 16 (69.57%) GraphQL
1 16 (69.57%) React
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 22 (95.65%) Linux
1 22 (95.65%) Windows
2 21 (91.30%) Unix
3 15 (65.22%) Android
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) OO
2 16 (69.57%) Mobile Application Development
2 16 (69.57%) User Experience
3 5 (21.74%) OOP
4 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
4 4 (17.39%) Process Improvement
5 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (4.35%) Analytics
6 1 (4.35%) Case Management
6 1 (4.35%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (4.35%) Patch Management
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.35%) Server Management
6 1 (4.35%) Server Patching
6 1 (4.35%) Task Automation
6 1 (4.35%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (95.65%) Java
2 22 (95.65%) JavaScript
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
4 1 (4.35%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Ansible
1 1 (4.35%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 21 (91.30%) Oracle
2 16 (69.57%) Microsoft
2 16 (69.57%) ServiceNow
3 15 (65.22%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Adobe
4 1 (4.35%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) IBM
4 1 (4.35%) Mellanox
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Solarflare