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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 237 270
Rank change year-on-year -50 +33 +38
Contract jobs citing Perl 118 113 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.83% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.42% 2.91% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 53 79
10th Percentile - £203 £313
25th Percentile £204 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -12.50% -2.91%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £575
90th Percentile £550 £700 £639
UK median daily rate £430 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -21.91% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £65.75 - £48.13
25th Percentile £74.26 - £50.94
Median hourly rate £77.00 - £56.25
75th Percentile £82.25 - £60.94
90th Percentile £84.00 - £63.38
UK median hourly rate £75.63 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +8.04% +16.67% -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 4,873 3,888 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.93% 28.59% 24.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,152 2,322 3,411
10th Percentile £325 £335 £313
25th Percentile £402 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -1.35% -2.44%
75th Percentile £572 £581 £588
90th Percentile £648 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 178 418
10th Percentile £46.25 £21.18 £37.50
25th Percentile £53.53 £45.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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
South East -16 38 £208 -30.83% 12
North of England -43 32 £537 +13.05% 3
Scotland -10 22 £400 -10.36% 12
North West -14 19 £550 +34.80% 3
West Midlands -33 13 £513 -8.93% 3
Midlands -48 13 £513 -8.93% 4
Yorkshire -52 12 £531 -3.45%
East of England -21 11 £613 +4.26% 14
South West -14 4 £513 -34.92% 3
North East - 4 £550 -
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 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.24%) Confluence
4 3 (2.54%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.85%) Apache
6 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.69%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (1.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.19%) AWS
2 18 (15.25%) SaaS
3 15 (12.71%) Sauce Labs
4 13 (11.02%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (8.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 9 (7.63%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (7.63%) Amazon MSK
6 9 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (7.63%) Serverless
7 8 (6.78%) Azure
8 6 (5.08%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.24%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.39%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.39%) GCP
10 4 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.54%) Amazon Glacier
11 3 (2.54%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (24.58%) Firewall
2 14 (11.86%) Wireless
3 9 (7.63%) TCP/IP
4 8 (6.78%) BGP
5 7 (5.93%) DNS
6 6 (5.08%) SAN
6 6 (5.08%) VLAN
6 6 (5.08%) WebEx
7 5 (4.24%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (3.39%) DHCP
8 4 (3.39%) LAN
8 4 (3.39%) NAS
8 4 (3.39%) VPN
8 4 (3.39%) WAN
8 4 (3.39%) WLAN
9 3 (2.54%) FTP
9 3 (2.54%) HTTP
9 3 (2.54%) SMTP
9 3 (2.54%) SNMP
9 3 (2.54%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (24.58%) MySQL
1 29 (24.58%) Relational Database
2 12 (10.17%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.08%) Metadata
4 3 (2.54%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.69%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.85%) GIS
6 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (22.03%) Git
2 20 (16.95%) Jenkins
3 16 (13.56%) Browser DevTools
4 15 (12.71%) Android Studio
4 15 (12.71%) Eclipse
4 15 (12.71%) Xcode
5 14 (11.86%) JIRA
6 9 (7.63%) Bitbucket
6 9 (7.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (6.78%) GitLab
8 3 (2.54%) Vagrant
9 2 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.85%) Subversion
General
1 48 (40.68%) Social Skills
2 31 (26.27%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.17%) Finance
4 9 (7.63%) Banking
4 9 (7.63%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (7.63%) Legal
4 9 (7.63%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.78%) Publishing
6 2 (1.69%) Law
7 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.85%) French Language
Job Titles
1 27 (22.88%) Technical Support
2 17 (14.41%) Support Engineer
3 16 (13.56%) Technical Engineer
3 16 (13.56%) Technical Support Engineer
3 16 (13.56%) UX Engineer
4 13 (11.02%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (10.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 11 (9.32%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Network Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) Developer
8 8 (6.78%) Lead
9 7 (5.93%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Perl Developer
10 6 (5.08%) Senior
11 5 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Software Developer
12 4 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
12 4 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.95%) Ajax
2 16 (13.56%) AngularJS
2 16 (13.56%) CSS
2 16 (13.56%) GraphQL
2 16 (13.56%) React
3 10 (8.47%) Node.js
4 8 (6.78%) YAML
5 7 (5.93%) REST
6 6 (5.08%) Loki
6 6 (5.08%) XMPP
7 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (2.54%) Spring
8 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.85%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.85%) LAMP
9 1 (0.85%) MERN Stack
9 1 (0.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.10%) Mobile App
2 11 (9.32%) Data Centre
2 11 (9.32%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.47%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (7.63%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.24%) Reference Data
6 4 (3.39%) CMDB
6 4 (3.39%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.39%) Replication
7 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.69%) NVMe
8 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (65.25%) Linux
2 53 (44.92%) Windows
3 43 (36.44%) Unix
4 24 (20.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (15.25%) Android
6 14 (11.86%) Windows Server
7 10 (8.47%) CentOS
7 10 (8.47%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.54%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (2.54%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.54%) VMS
9 2 (1.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (27.97%) OO
3 29 (24.58%) ITSM
4 25 (21.19%) DevOps
5 23 (19.49%) CI/CD
6 20 (16.95%) User Experience
7 16 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (13.56%) Mobile Application Development
8 15 (12.71%) Computer Science
8 15 (12.71%) Platform Engineering
8 15 (12.71%) Service Management
9 14 (11.86%) Containerisation
9 14 (11.86%) Observability
10 12 (10.17%) Agile
10 12 (10.17%) ITIL
10 12 (10.17%) OOP
10 12 (10.17%) Process Improvement
11 11 (9.32%) Data Protection
11 11 (9.32%) Microservices
12 10 (8.47%) AI
Programming Languages
1 98 (83.05%) Python
2 55 (46.61%) Java
3 45 (38.14%) PowerShell
4 30 (25.42%) JavaScript
5 25 (21.19%) SQL
6 23 (19.49%) Bash
7 20 (16.95%) Ruby
8 10 (8.47%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.93%) C#
10 3 (2.54%) C++
10 3 (2.54%) Groovy
10 3 (2.54%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.69%) C
12 1 (0.85%) Go
12 1 (0.85%) PHP
12 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (19.49%) SC Cleared
1 23 (19.49%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.41%) Degree
3 12 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (8.47%) AWS Certification
4 10 (8.47%) CCDP
4 10 (8.47%) CCNP
4 10 (8.47%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (8.47%) RHCE
5 8 (6.78%) CCNA
6 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.69%) NCDA
6 2 (1.69%) RHCSA
6 2 (1.69%) VCP6
6 2 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.69%) GDPR
2 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 19 (16.10%) Docker
2 13 (11.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.17%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.08%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.54%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.69%) GPFS
6 2 (1.69%) KVM
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.69%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.85%) Lustre
7 1 (0.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (21.19%) Ansible
2 19 (16.10%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.32%) Grafana
3 11 (9.32%) Puppet
4 9 (7.63%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.08%) Terraform
6 5 (4.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (4.24%) NetBackup
7 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 2 (1.69%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.69%) vMotion
8 2 (1.69%) vRealize
9 1 (0.85%) Salt
9 1 (0.85%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.85%) SELinux
Vendors
1 40 (33.90%) Oracle
2 30 (25.42%) Microsoft
3 27 (22.88%) ServiceNow
4 24 (20.34%) Red Hat
5 22 (18.64%) Splunk
6 18 (15.25%) VMware
7 17 (14.41%) Cisco
8 9 (7.63%) Citrix
9 6 (5.08%) Veritas
10 5 (4.24%) Palo Alto
11 4 (3.39%) SolarWinds
12 3 (2.54%) Juniper
13 2 (1.69%) Brocade
13 2 (1.69%) Commvault
13 2 (1.69%) F5
13 2 (1.69%) Meraki
13 2 (1.69%) NetApp
14 1 (0.85%) Arista
14 1 (0.85%) LogicMonitor
14 1 (0.85%) Mellanox