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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 260 290
Rank change year-on-year 0 +30 +31
Contract jobs citing Perl 135 104 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 0.63% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.96% 2.42% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 65 104
10th Percentile £204 £203 £302
25th Percentile £244 £348 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £426 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% -5.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £540 £588 £550
90th Percentile £560 £700 £637
UK median daily rate £475 £530 £542
% change year-on-year -10.38% -2.26% +0.42%
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 4,559 4,294 5,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.26% 25.81% 25.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,951 2,573 3,681
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% -2.44%
75th Percentile £559 £580 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 219 340
10th Percentile £34.50 £25.26 £37.50
25th Percentile £51.85 £46.18 £48.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.83
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +1.07% -0.26%

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 3 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 3 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 +14 36 £208 +1.22% 29
North of England -14 35 £550 +15.79% 4
Scotland +1 33 £501 +6.37% 9
North West -5 25 £550 +29.41% 2
Midlands -11 18 £475 +12.29% 4
West Midlands -16 18 £475 +12.29% 3
North East - 8 £550 - 2
South West +12 7 £513 -18.65% 4
Yorkshire -29 5 £559 +1.64%
Northern Ireland -5 4 - - 1
East of England -19 4 £613 +2.08% 4
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 17 (12.59%) Confluence
2 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.44%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (4.44%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.70%) JBoss
5 4 (2.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (2.96%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.96%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (2.96%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 46 (34.07%) AWS
2 22 (16.30%) Amazon EC2
3 20 (14.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 19 (14.07%) SaaS
5 17 (12.59%) Amazon S3
5 17 (12.59%) Sauce Labs
6 14 (10.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (8.89%) Amazon ELB
7 12 (8.89%) Amazon Glacier
7 12 (8.89%) AWS KMS
8 11 (8.15%) Azure
9 10 (7.41%) OpenShift
10 8 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (5.19%) GCP
12 6 (4.44%) Entra ID
13 5 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (3.70%) Amazon MSK
13 5 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (28.15%) Firewall
2 20 (14.81%) HTTP
3 19 (14.07%) DNS
4 18 (13.33%) Wireless
5 17 (12.59%) TCP/IP
6 12 (8.89%) FTP
6 12 (8.89%) SMTP
6 12 (8.89%) SSH
7 9 (6.67%) BGP
8 7 (5.19%) DHCP
9 6 (4.44%) WebEx
10 5 (3.70%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (3.70%) VLAN
11 4 (2.96%) Internet
11 4 (2.96%) LAN
11 4 (2.96%) SSL
11 4 (2.96%) WAN
11 4 (2.96%) WLAN
12 3 (2.22%) SNMP
12 3 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.19%) Relational Database
2 28 (20.74%) MySQL
3 17 (12.59%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.19%) RDBMS
5 6 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (4.44%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.70%) DB2
6 5 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.96%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.96%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (1.48%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.48%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.74%) GIS
9 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (35.56%) Git
2 30 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 27 (20.00%) JIRA
4 18 (13.33%) Browser DevTools
5 17 (12.59%) Android Studio
5 17 (12.59%) Eclipse
5 17 (12.59%) Xcode
6 12 (8.89%) Vagrant
7 10 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (5.93%) GitLab
9 7 (5.19%) Bitbucket
10 5 (3.70%) SonarQube
10 5 (3.70%) TeamCity
11 4 (2.96%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.96%) CA Release Automation
12 1 (0.74%) JUnit
12 1 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 48 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.26%) Public Sector
3 20 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.89%) Finance
5 9 (6.67%) Banking
6 8 (5.93%) Legal
7 3 (2.22%) 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 25 (18.52%) Technical Support
2 19 (14.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (14.07%) Platform Engineer
2 19 (14.07%) Support Engineer
2 19 (14.07%) Technical Engineer
2 19 (14.07%) Technical Support Engineer
3 18 (13.33%) UX Engineer
4 17 (12.59%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 12 (8.89%) AWS DevOps
6 11 (8.15%) Analyst
6 11 (8.15%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (8.15%) Developer
6 11 (8.15%) Technical Analyst
7 10 (7.41%) Programmer
7 10 (7.41%) Python Programmer
8 9 (6.67%) Network Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) Senior
10 7 (5.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.30%) AngularJS
2 20 (14.81%) CSS
3 19 (14.07%) Ajax
4 18 (13.33%) GraphQL
4 18 (13.33%) React
5 9 (6.67%) Node.js
6 6 (4.44%) RESTful
6 6 (4.44%) XMPP
7 5 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.70%) SOAP
7 5 (3.70%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.96%) AWS CDK
8 4 (2.96%) REST
9 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (1.48%) HTML
10 2 (1.48%) Spring
11 1 (0.74%) 802.1X
11 1 (0.74%) J2SE
11 1 (0.74%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.56%) Mobile App
2 17 (12.59%) Management Information System
3 13 (9.63%) Replication
4 11 (8.15%) Onboarding
4 11 (8.15%) Product Ownership
5 9 (6.67%) Data Centre
6 8 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.96%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.22%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.22%) Legacy Code
9 3 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.22%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.48%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.74%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (70.37%) Linux
2 60 (44.44%) Unix
3 56 (41.48%) Windows
4 21 (15.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (14.81%) Android
6 12 (8.89%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (8.89%) VMS
7 9 (6.67%) Windows Server
8 3 (2.22%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.48%) CentOS
9 2 (1.48%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.48%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.74%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (28.15%) OO
2 35 (25.93%) DevOps
3 26 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 25 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (17.04%) Agile
6 22 (16.30%) User Experience
7 18 (13.33%) ITSM
7 18 (13.33%) Mobile Application Development
8 17 (12.59%) Change Management
9 16 (11.85%) Cloud Security
9 16 (11.85%) Configuration Management
10 15 (11.11%) Migration
10 15 (11.11%) Observability
10 15 (11.11%) Service Management
11 14 (10.37%) Containerisation
11 14 (10.37%) Patch Management
12 13 (9.63%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (9.63%) Microservices
13 11 (8.15%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 122 (90.37%) Python
2 62 (45.93%) Java
3 34 (25.19%) Bash
3 34 (25.19%) PowerShell
4 30 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 20 (14.81%) SQL
6 16 (11.85%) Shell Script
7 12 (8.89%) Groovy
8 8 (5.93%) Go
9 7 (5.19%) Ruby
10 5 (3.70%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.96%) C++
12 3 (2.22%) Erlang
12 3 (2.22%) Prolog
12 3 (2.22%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.48%) Tcl
14 1 (0.74%) ABAP
14 1 (0.74%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.74%) C
14 1 (0.74%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 35 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.15%) CCDP
2 11 (8.15%) CCNP
2 11 (8.15%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (7.41%) Degree
4 8 (5.93%) CCNA
5 6 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.70%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.48%) RHCE
7 2 (1.48%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.15%) QA
2 2 (1.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (25.19%) Docker
2 26 (19.26%) Active Directory
3 13 (9.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (8.89%) DFS Replication
5 6 (4.44%) KVM
6 4 (2.96%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (2.96%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.48%) GPFS
8 1 (0.74%) Lustre
8 1 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (18.52%) Terraform
2 24 (17.78%) Kubernetes
3 18 (13.33%) Ansible
4 17 (12.59%) Grafana
4 17 (12.59%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.19%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (3.70%) Kibana
6 5 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (2.96%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 4 (2.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (2.96%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.22%) Packer
8 3 (2.22%) Puppet
9 2 (1.48%) Fluentd
9 2 (1.48%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.48%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.48%) Nagios
10 1 (0.74%) SELinux
Vendors
1 43 (31.85%) Oracle
2 38 (28.15%) ServiceNow
3 32 (23.70%) Microsoft
4 29 (21.48%) Splunk
5 22 (16.30%) Red Hat
6 18 (13.33%) VMware
7 15 (11.11%) Cisco
8 9 (6.67%) Citrix
9 7 (5.19%) F5
10 5 (3.70%) AppDynamics
10 5 (3.70%) Palo Alto
10 5 (3.70%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.96%) Cloudera
11 4 (2.96%) Infoblox
11 4 (2.96%) MuleSoft
12 3 (2.22%) Commvault
12 3 (2.22%) Juniper
12 3 (2.22%) Meraki
13 1 (0.74%) LogicMonitor
13 1 (0.74%) Mellanox