Perl Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Perl
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 251 282
Rank change year-on-year -9 +31 +33
Contract jobs citing Perl 136 107 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.79% 0.65% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.95% 2.51% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 67 103
10th Percentile £204 £203 £305
25th Percentile £221 £348 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £597 £561
90th Percentile £559 £700 £656
UK median daily rate £475 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -10.38% -3.64% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £68.30 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.77% -7.69% -10.96%
75th Percentile - £62.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% +8.33% -17.81%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,604 4,268 5,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.72% 25.88% 25.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,988 2,544 3,702
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £567 £580 £600
90th Percentile £638 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 215 341
10th Percentile £41.13 £23.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.09 £48.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £60.21
% change year-on-year - +3.80% +0.35%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Perl job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Perl.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Perl

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Perl.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Perl

Perl
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 November 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
South East +2 35 £208 +1.22% 20
North of England -12 35 £550 +15.79% 8
Scotland -1 34 £500 +6.95% 12
North West -2 25 £550 +29.41% 5
West Midlands -17 19 £475 +12.29% 4
Midlands -18 19 £475 +12.29% 4
North East - 8 £550 -
South West +8 7 £513 -27.05% 7
Yorkshire -35 5 £559 +1.64% 3
Northern Ireland -7 4 - - 3
East of England -22 4 £613 +2.08% 2
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (13.24%) Confluence
2 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.41%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.68%) JBoss
5 3 (2.21%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.47%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 50 (36.76%) AWS
2 25 (18.38%) Amazon EC2
3 22 (16.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 20 (14.71%) SaaS
5 18 (13.24%) Sauce Labs
6 17 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 14 (10.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (8.82%) Amazon ELB
8 12 (8.82%) Amazon Glacier
8 12 (8.82%) AWS KMS
9 11 (8.09%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (8.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (8.09%) Azure
10 10 (7.35%) OpenShift
11 8 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (5.88%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (5.88%) Serverless
12 7 (5.15%) GCP
13 6 (4.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 41 (30.15%) Firewall
2 20 (14.71%) HTTP
3 19 (13.97%) DNS
3 19 (13.97%) Wireless
4 17 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 12 (8.82%) FTP
5 12 (8.82%) SMTP
5 12 (8.82%) SSH
6 9 (6.62%) BGP
7 7 (5.15%) DHCP
8 6 (4.41%) WebEx
9 5 (3.68%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (3.68%) VLAN
10 4 (2.94%) Internet
10 4 (2.94%) LAN
10 4 (2.94%) SSL
10 4 (2.94%) WAN
10 4 (2.94%) WLAN
11 3 (2.21%) SNMP
11 3 (2.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (26.47%) Relational Database
2 30 (22.06%) MySQL
3 20 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.15%) RDBMS
5 6 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.68%) DB2
6 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.94%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.47%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.74%) GIS
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (37.50%) Git
2 32 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 31 (22.79%) JIRA
4 19 (13.97%) Browser DevTools
5 18 (13.24%) Android Studio
5 18 (13.24%) Eclipse
5 18 (13.24%) Xcode
6 13 (9.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (8.82%) Vagrant
8 10 (7.35%) Bitbucket
8 10 (7.35%) GitLab
9 5 (3.68%) SonarQube
9 5 (3.68%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (2.94%) CA Release Automation
11 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.74%) JUnit
11 1 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 49 (36.03%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.85%) Public Sector
3 20 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.03%) Finance
5 11 (8.09%) Banking
6 8 (5.88%) Legal
7 3 (2.21%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.74%) French Language
8 1 (0.74%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 27 (19.85%) Technical Support
2 22 (16.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (14.71%) Support Engineer
3 20 (14.71%) Technical Engineer
3 20 (14.71%) Technical Support Engineer
4 19 (13.97%) UX Engineer
5 18 (13.24%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 18 (13.24%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (9.56%) AWS DevOps
7 12 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (8.09%) Developer
9 10 (7.35%) Analyst
9 10 (7.35%) Technical Analyst
10 9 (6.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (6.62%) Network Engineer
10 9 (6.62%) Programmer
10 9 (6.62%) Python Programmer
11 8 (5.88%) Senior
12 7 (5.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 6 (4.41%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.91%) AngularJS
2 21 (15.44%) CSS
3 20 (14.71%) Ajax
4 19 (13.97%) GraphQL
4 19 (13.97%) React
5 12 (8.82%) Node.js
6 6 (4.41%) RESTful
6 6 (4.41%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.41%) XMPP
7 5 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.68%) SOAP
8 4 (2.94%) AWS CDK
8 4 (2.94%) REST
9 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (2.21%) Spring
10 2 (1.47%) HTML
11 1 (0.74%) 802.1X
11 1 (0.74%) J2SE
11 1 (0.74%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.18%) Mobile App
2 15 (11.03%) Management Information System
3 13 (9.56%) Replication
4 11 (8.09%) Onboarding
4 11 (8.09%) Product Ownership
5 9 (6.62%) Data Centre
6 7 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.94%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.21%) Legacy Code
9 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.47%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (72.79%) Linux
2 58 (42.65%) Windows
3 57 (41.91%) Unix
4 22 (16.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (15.44%) Android
6 12 (8.82%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (8.82%) VMS
7 9 (6.62%) Windows Server
8 3 (2.21%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.47%) CentOS
9 2 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.47%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.74%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.68%) OO
2 38 (27.94%) DevOps
3 27 (19.85%) CI/CD
3 27 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (16.91%) User Experience
6 22 (16.18%) Agile
7 19 (13.97%) Mobile Application Development
8 18 (13.24%) ITSM
9 17 (12.50%) Change Management
9 17 (12.50%) Microservices
10 16 (11.76%) Cloud Security
10 16 (11.76%) Configuration Management
10 16 (11.76%) Migration
11 15 (11.03%) Containerisation
11 15 (11.03%) Observability
11 15 (11.03%) Service Management
12 14 (10.29%) Patch Management
13 12 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (7.35%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 125 (91.91%) Python
2 68 (50.00%) Java
3 37 (27.21%) PowerShell
4 34 (25.00%) Bash
5 32 (23.53%) JavaScript
6 18 (13.24%) SQL
7 17 (12.50%) Shell Script
8 12 (8.82%) Groovy
9 10 (7.35%) Ruby
10 8 (5.88%) Go
11 4 (2.94%) C++
12 3 (2.21%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.47%) Erlang
13 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.47%) Prolog
13 2 (1.47%) Tcl
14 1 (0.74%) ABAP
14 1 (0.74%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.74%) C
14 1 (0.74%) C#
Qualifications
1 36 (26.47%) SC Cleared
1 36 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.09%) CCDP
2 11 (8.09%) CCNP
2 11 (8.09%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (8.09%) Degree
3 8 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 8 (5.88%) CCNA
4 7 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.47%) RHCE
5 2 (1.47%) RHCSA
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.09%) QA
2 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
System Software
1 37 (27.21%) Docker
2 26 (19.12%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.82%) DFS Replication
3 12 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.41%) KVM
4 6 (4.41%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.47%) GPFS
6 1 (0.74%) Lustre
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (20.59%) Kubernetes
2 25 (18.38%) Terraform
3 18 (13.24%) Ansible
4 17 (12.50%) Grafana
4 17 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.15%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (3.68%) Kibana
6 5 (3.68%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.21%) Packer
7 3 (2.21%) Puppet
8 2 (1.47%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.47%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.47%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.47%) Nagios
9 1 (0.74%) BladeLogic
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.74%) SELinux
Vendors
1 45 (33.09%) Oracle
2 39 (28.68%) ServiceNow
3 33 (24.26%) Microsoft
4 30 (22.06%) Splunk
5 23 (16.91%) Red Hat
6 17 (12.50%) VMware
7 15 (11.03%) Cisco
8 9 (6.62%) Citrix
9 7 (5.15%) F5
10 5 (3.68%) AppDynamics
10 5 (3.68%) Palo Alto
10 5 (3.68%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.94%) Cloudera
11 4 (2.94%) Infoblox
11 4 (2.94%) MuleSoft
12 3 (2.21%) Commvault
12 3 (2.21%) Juniper
12 3 (2.21%) Meraki
13 1 (0.74%) LogicMonitor
13 1 (0.74%) Mellanox