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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 247 313
Rank change year-on-year -152 +66 -32
Contract jobs citing Perl 66 106 85
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.78% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.11% 2.72% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 55 46
10th Percentile £204 £393 £356
25th Percentile £255 £463 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £537 £559 £548
90th Percentile £596 £575 £618
UK median daily rate £495 £515 £548
% change year-on-year -3.88% -5.94% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £74.81 - £48.50
25th Percentile £75.63 - £51.88
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £65.63
90th Percentile - - £67.50
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £70.00 £61.75
% change year-on-year +10.00% +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 5,962 3,892 5,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.92% 28.66% 23.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,730 2,577 3,284
10th Percentile £335 £313 £319
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £583
90th Percentile £650 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 472 171 456
10th Percentile £36.28 £27.87 £36.75
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.51 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% -5.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £82.96 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.32% -12.10% -

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 26 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
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 26 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 -20 22 £440 -12.00% 2
South East -64 16 £208 -59.63% 7
North of England -82 11 £537 -0.09%
West Midlands -57 9 £465 -2.11%
Midlands -64 9 £465 -2.11%
Yorkshire -58 7 £537 -2.36%
East of England -31 4 - - 2
South West -35 4 £613 -2.00% 4
North West -47 4 £575 +46.31%
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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 4 (6.06%) WebLogic
2 4 (6.06%) WebSphere
2 4 (6.06%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (3.03%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (3.03%) JBoss
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (3.03%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.52%) Apache
4 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.52%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.15%) OpenShift
2 9 (13.64%) AWS
3 4 (6.06%) ChatGPT
4 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (4.55%) SaaS
4 3 (4.55%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (3.03%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (3.03%) Azure
5 2 (3.03%) GCP
5 2 (3.03%) GitHub
5 2 (3.03%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.70%) SAN
2 8 (12.12%) NAS
3 5 (7.58%) DNS
3 5 (7.58%) Firewall
4 4 (6.06%) SSL
5 3 (4.55%) BGP
5 3 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (4.55%) Network Security
5 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.03%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (3.03%) DMZ
6 2 (3.03%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (3.03%) HTTP
6 2 (3.03%) IPsec
6 2 (3.03%) L2TP
6 2 (3.03%) Multicast
6 2 (3.03%) VPN
6 2 (3.03%) WAN
6 2 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.70%) Relational Database
2 11 (16.67%) MySQL
3 7 (10.61%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.58%) Metadata
5 4 (6.06%) Db2
6 2 (3.03%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.52%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 9 (13.64%) Git
2 8 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 8 (12.12%) JIRA
3 5 (7.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (4.55%) Android Studio
4 3 (4.55%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (4.55%) Eclipse
4 3 (4.55%) Xcode
5 2 (3.03%) GitLab
5 2 (3.03%) Introscope
General
1 21 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.61%) Finance
4 5 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Publishing
6 2 (3.03%) Front Office
6 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.52%) Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Law
7 1 (1.52%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (16.67%) Analyst
2 9 (13.64%) Senior
2 9 (13.64%) Technical Support
3 8 (12.12%) Developer
4 7 (10.61%) Support Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Programmer
5 6 (9.09%) Python Programmer
5 6 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (7.58%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Lead
6 5 (7.58%) Technical Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Technical Support Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Middleware Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Perl Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Python Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Site Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) SOC Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.12%) REST
2 6 (9.09%) Kafka
2 6 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (9.09%) YAML
3 5 (7.58%) Loki
3 5 (7.58%) Spring
3 5 (7.58%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.06%) Ajax
4 4 (6.06%) Celery
4 4 (6.06%) Middleware
5 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.55%) CSS
5 3 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.55%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.55%) React
6 2 (3.03%) 802.1X
6 2 (3.03%) JDBC
6 2 (3.03%) JMS
6 2 (3.03%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (1.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.61%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.58%) Clustering
3 5 (7.58%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.06%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (6.06%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (6.06%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.55%) CSOC
5 3 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (4.55%) Derivative
5 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.03%) NVMe
7 1 (1.52%) CMDB
7 1 (1.52%) Equities
7 1 (1.52%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 40 (60.61%) Linux
2 31 (46.97%) Unix
3 25 (37.88%) Windows
4 15 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (9.09%) Windows Server
6 5 (7.58%) CentOS
6 5 (7.58%) Ubuntu
7 3 (4.55%) AIX
7 3 (4.55%) Android
8 2 (3.03%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (3.03%) Solaris
8 2 (3.03%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 21 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (24.24%) OO
4 15 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (19.70%) DevOps
6 11 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 11 (16.67%) Migration
7 10 (15.15%) ITSM
7 10 (15.15%) OOP
8 9 (13.64%) Agile
8 9 (13.64%) Computer Science
8 9 (13.64%) Process Improvement
8 9 (13.64%) TDD
9 8 (12.12%) ITIL
9 8 (12.12%) Software Engineering
10 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
10 7 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (10.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (9.09%) Generative AI
11 6 (9.09%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (86.36%) Python
2 22 (33.33%) Java
3 20 (30.30%) SQL
4 19 (28.79%) PowerShell
5 14 (21.21%) Bash
6 12 (18.18%) JavaScript
7 10 (15.15%) Shell Script
8 6 (9.09%) Ruby
9 3 (4.55%) C++
10 2 (3.03%) C
10 2 (3.03%) Jython
11 1 (1.52%) C#
11 1 (1.52%) PHP
11 1 (1.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (18.18%) Degree
1 12 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.58%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.58%) RHCE
5 3 (4.55%) CCNP
5 3 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.03%) A+ Certification
6 2 (3.03%) CCIE
6 2 (3.03%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.03%) NCDA
6 2 (3.03%) VCP6
6 2 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.52%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (4.55%) Firmware
1 3 (4.55%) PowerHA
1 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.03%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.52%) Docker
3 1 (1.52%) GPFS
3 1 (1.52%) Lustre
3 1 (1.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (28.79%) Ansible
2 14 (21.21%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.61%) NetBackup
4 6 (9.09%) Grafana
4 6 (9.09%) Puppet
5 4 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.03%) CA Wily
6 2 (3.03%) Tivoli
6 2 (3.03%) vMotion
6 2 (3.03%) vRealize
7 1 (1.52%) Consul
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (1.52%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.52%) Salt
7 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) Oracle
2 15 (22.73%) Red Hat
3 7 (10.61%) IBM
3 7 (10.61%) Veritas
4 5 (7.58%) Splunk
5 4 (6.06%) Cisco
5 4 (6.06%) Sybase
6 3 (4.55%) Clearswift
6 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.55%) SolarWinds
6 3 (4.55%) Tanium
6 3 (4.55%) Trend Micro
6 3 (4.55%) Tripwire
6 3 (4.55%) VMware
7 2 (3.03%) AppDynamics
7 2 (3.03%) Arista
7 2 (3.03%) Brocade
7 2 (3.03%) Commvault
7 2 (3.03%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.03%) McAfee