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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 246 308
Rank change year-on-year -137 +62 -35
Contract jobs citing Perl 77 107 85
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.80% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.30% 2.78% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 54 45
10th Percentile £204 £393 £356
25th Percentile £400 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +1.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £537 £564 £540
90th Percentile £588 £575 £621
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £548
% change year-on-year -2.82% -6.03% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £69.04 - £48.50
25th Percentile £76.32 - £51.88
Median hourly rate £78.75 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £82.69 - £65.63
90th Percentile £84.00 - £67.50
UK median hourly rate £78.75 £70.00 £61.75
% change year-on-year +12.50% +13.36% +17.62%

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 5,911 3,854 5,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.87% 28.74% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,711 2,558 3,323
10th Percentile £336 £313 £319
25th Percentile £409 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -2.86% -2.20%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £578
90th Percentile £650 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £507 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -0.59% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 166 460
10th Percentile £37.75 £26.81 £37.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -4.62% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% -

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 19 June 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Perl in the UK excluding London

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 19 June 2026. 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
Scotland -16 25 £430 -14.00%
South East -71 16 £208 -59.63% 4
North of England -82 14 £537 -0.09% 3
Yorkshire -67 10 £531 -3.45%
East of England -25 9 - - 2
Midlands -59 9 £465 -2.11%
West Midlands -60 9 £465 -2.11%
South West -26 4 £613 -2.00% 5
North West -41 4 £575 +46.31% 3
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 6 (7.79%) Confluence
2 4 (5.19%) WebLogic
2 4 (5.19%) WebSphere
2 4 (5.19%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.60%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (2.60%) JBoss
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (2.60%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.30%) Apache
4 1 (1.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.30%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 9 (11.69%) AWS
3 4 (5.19%) ChatGPT
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (3.90%) SaaS
4 3 (3.90%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (2.60%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (2.60%) Azure
5 2 (2.60%) GCP
5 2 (2.60%) GitHub
5 2 (2.60%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.18%) SAN
2 9 (11.69%) NAS
3 5 (6.49%) DNS
3 5 (6.49%) Firewall
4 4 (5.19%) SSL
5 3 (3.90%) BGP
5 3 (3.90%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (3.90%) Network Security
5 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.60%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (2.60%) DWDM
6 2 (2.60%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (2.60%) IPsec
6 2 (2.60%) L2TP
6 2 (2.60%) MPLS
6 2 (2.60%) Multicast
6 2 (2.60%) OSPF
6 2 (2.60%) VPN
6 2 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) Relational Database
2 11 (14.29%) MySQL
3 10 (12.99%) Metadata
4 7 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.19%) Db2
6 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.30%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 12 (15.58%) Git
2 11 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.39%) JIRA
4 5 (6.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (3.90%) Android Studio
5 3 (3.90%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (3.90%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.90%) Xcode
6 2 (2.60%) GitLab
6 2 (2.60%) Introscope
General
1 27 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.39%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (10.39%) Finance
3 8 (10.39%) Publishing
4 2 (2.60%) Front Office
4 2 (2.60%) Law
4 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.30%) Banking
5 1 (1.30%) Legal
5 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (15.58%) Developer
2 11 (14.29%) Analyst
3 9 (11.69%) Senior
3 9 (11.69%) Technical Support
4 8 (10.39%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (10.39%) Lead
4 8 (10.39%) Perl Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Support Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Programmer
6 6 (7.79%) Python Programmer
6 6 (7.79%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Middleware Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) Site Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) REST
2 9 (11.69%) YAML
3 7 (9.09%) Loki
4 6 (7.79%) Kafka
4 6 (7.79%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (6.49%) Spring
5 5 (6.49%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.19%) Ajax
6 4 (5.19%) Celery
6 4 (5.19%) Middleware
7 3 (3.90%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.90%) CSS
7 3 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.90%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.90%) React
8 2 (2.60%) 802.1X
8 2 (2.60%) JDBC
8 2 (2.60%) JMS
8 2 (2.60%) WebSphere MQ
9 1 (1.30%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Management Information System
2 11 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (12.99%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.49%) Clustering
4 5 (6.49%) Reference Data
5 4 (5.19%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (5.19%) Equity Derivative
5 4 (5.19%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.90%) CSOC
6 3 (3.90%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.90%) Derivative
6 3 (3.90%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.90%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.60%) NVMe
8 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (55.84%) Linux
2 33 (42.86%) Unix
3 27 (35.06%) Windows
4 18 (23.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (10.39%) CentOS
5 8 (10.39%) Ubuntu
6 7 (9.09%) Windows Server
7 3 (3.90%) AIX
7 3 (3.90%) Android
8 2 (2.60%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.60%) Solaris
8 2 (2.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.66%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 18 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (20.78%) DevOps
4 16 (20.78%) OO
5 14 (18.18%) Data Protection
6 13 (16.88%) ITSM
7 11 (14.29%) Migration
8 10 (12.99%) Data Architecture
8 10 (12.99%) OOP
8 10 (12.99%) Software Engineering
9 9 (11.69%) Agile
9 9 (11.69%) Computer Science
9 9 (11.69%) Process Improvement
9 9 (11.69%) TDD
10 8 (10.39%) ITIL
10 8 (10.39%) Metadata Management
10 8 (10.39%) Observability
10 8 (10.39%) RBAC
10 8 (10.39%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 63 (81.82%) Python
2 27 (35.06%) Java
2 27 (35.06%) PowerShell
3 25 (32.47%) SQL
4 14 (18.18%) Bash
5 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
6 10 (12.99%) Shell Script
7 9 (11.69%) Ruby
8 6 (7.79%) C#
9 3 (3.90%) C++
10 2 (2.60%) C
10 2 (2.60%) Jython
11 1 (1.30%) PHP
11 1 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.58%) Degree
3 9 (11.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (10.39%) RHCE
4 8 (10.39%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.49%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.90%) CCNP
6 3 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.60%) A+ Certification
7 2 (2.60%) CCIE
7 2 (2.60%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (2.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.60%) NCDA
7 2 (2.60%) VCP6
7 2 (2.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.30%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (3.90%) Firmware
1 3 (3.90%) PowerHA
1 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.60%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.30%) Docker
3 1 (1.30%) GPFS
3 1 (1.30%) Lustre
3 1 (1.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (32.47%) Ansible
2 15 (19.48%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.69%) Grafana
3 9 (11.69%) NetBackup
3 9 (11.69%) Puppet
4 7 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.60%) CA Wily
5 2 (2.60%) Tivoli
5 2 (2.60%) vMotion
5 2 (2.60%) vRealize
6 1 (1.30%) Consul
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.30%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.30%) Salt
6 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (23.38%) Red Hat
2 17 (22.08%) Oracle
3 9 (11.69%) Veritas
4 7 (9.09%) IBM
5 5 (6.49%) Splunk
6 4 (5.19%) Cisco
6 4 (5.19%) Sybase
7 3 (3.90%) Clearswift
7 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.90%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.90%) Tanium
7 3 (3.90%) Trend Micro
7 3 (3.90%) Tripwire
7 3 (3.90%) VMware
8 2 (2.60%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.60%) Arista
8 2 (2.60%) Brocade
8 2 (2.60%) Commvault
8 2 (2.60%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.60%) McAfee