Perl Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Perl
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 109 119 115
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +48
Contract jobs citing Perl 7 5 22
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.40% 0.23% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.61% 0.97% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 17
10th Percentile £305 £220 £204
25th Percentile £430 £250 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £300 £400
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -25.00% -13.51%
75th Percentile £555 £488 -
90th Percentile £563 £600 £485
South East median daily rate £208 £205 £315
% change year-on-year +1.22% -34.92% -17.65%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 434 518 586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.01% 24.08% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 336 440
10th Percentile £350 £382 £313
25th Percentile £408 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £550 £638 £619
90th Percentile £600 £663 £689
South East median daily rate £492 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -3.95% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 12
10th Percentile £24.38 £35.58 £32.30
25th Percentile £32.81 £55.87 £32.32
Median hourly rate £47.25 £58.49 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +20.85% -24.88%
75th Percentile £61.31 £72.28 £54.94
90th Percentile £69.53 £87.50 £63.66
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 the Thames Valley

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

Perl job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Perl.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Perl

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the Thames Valley

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Perl.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Perl

Perl
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +14 7 £525 +75.00% 7
Perl
South East

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (42.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (42.86%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) GIS
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle BI EE
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DBA
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) SCADA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Operational Technology
1 3 (42.86%) Replication
1 3 (42.86%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Unix
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (42.86%) Cartography
1 3 (42.86%) Database Tuning
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (42.86%) ERP
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (42.86%) Proactive Monitoring
1 3 (42.86%) SOA
1 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
1 3 (42.86%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) System Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) OOP
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft