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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 234 269
Rank change year-on-year -110 +35 +4
Contract jobs citing Perl 94 98 123
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.76% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 2.67% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 46 63
10th Percentile £204 £379 £368
25th Percentile £204 £465 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -18.62% +1.94% -1.90%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £575
90th Percentile £550 £584 £680
UK median daily rate £450 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -15.75% -2.89% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 2
10th Percentile - - £48.25
25th Percentile £74.26 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% +13.04% -5.64%
75th Percentile £82.25 - £63.75
90th Percentile £84.00 - £66.75
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% +4.35%

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 5,429 3,667 4,861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.14% 28.60% 23.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,498 2,417 3,293
10th Percentile £327 £325 £319
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 187 390
10th Percentile £46.25 £22.38 £35.52
25th Percentile £56.77 £43.51 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.25 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -1.54%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -47 27 £208 -59.67% 5
Scotland -6 24 £425 -15.00% 8
North of England -69 22 £544 +1.12% 1
North West -33 13 £550 +39.95%
West Midlands -52 12 £460 - 2
Midlands -55 12 £460 -9.09% 2
East of England -20 9 - - 6
Yorkshire -62 8 £531 -3.45% 1
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 7 (7.45%) WebLogic
2 6 (6.38%) Confluence
2 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.38%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.26%) WebSphere
3 4 (4.26%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.13%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (2.13%) JBoss
4 2 (2.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (2.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (2.13%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (1.06%) Apache
5 1 (1.06%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.06%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.96%) AWS
2 9 (9.57%) OpenShift
3 8 (8.51%) SaaS
4 6 (6.38%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.38%) Sauce Labs
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.26%) Serverless
6 3 (3.19%) Azure
6 3 (3.19%) ChatGPT
6 3 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.13%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.13%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.13%) OCI
8 1 (1.06%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.89%) Firewall
2 11 (11.70%) SAN
3 7 (7.45%) VLAN
4 6 (6.38%) BGP
4 6 (6.38%) NAS
4 6 (6.38%) WebEx
5 5 (5.32%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (4.26%) DNS
6 4 (4.26%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.19%) SSL
7 3 (3.19%) Wireless
8 2 (2.13%) DHCP
8 2 (2.13%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (2.13%) HTTP
9 1 (1.06%) InfiniBand
9 1 (1.06%) LAN
9 1 (1.06%) Network Security
9 1 (1.06%) VPN
9 1 (1.06%) WAN
9 1 (1.06%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.21%) Relational Database
2 18 (19.15%) MySQL
3 9 (9.57%) Metadata
4 8 (8.51%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.19%) DB2
7 2 (2.13%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (2.13%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (20.21%) Git
2 15 (15.96%) Jenkins
3 12 (12.77%) JIRA
4 6 (6.38%) Android Studio
4 6 (6.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (6.38%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (6.38%) Eclipse
4 6 (6.38%) Xcode
5 5 (5.32%) GitLab
6 4 (4.26%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.13%) Introscope
8 1 (1.06%) Subversion
General
1 36 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.47%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.64%) Legal
4 9 (9.57%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (9.57%) Finance
5 8 (8.51%) Publishing
6 5 (5.32%) Banking
7 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.13%) Front Office
8 2 (2.13%) Law
9 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (17.02%) Technical Support
2 11 (11.70%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (10.64%) Developer
4 9 (9.57%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (9.57%) Support Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Lead
6 7 (7.45%) Perl Developer
6 7 (7.45%) Technical Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Technical Support Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Administrator
7 6 (6.38%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) UX Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Analyst
8 5 (5.32%) Programmer
8 5 (5.32%) Python Programmer
8 5 (5.32%) Senior
8 5 (5.32%) Software Developer
8 5 (5.32%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (4.26%) Middleware Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.64%) Ajax
2 9 (9.57%) REST
3 8 (8.51%) Loki
3 8 (8.51%) YAML
4 6 (6.38%) AngularJS
4 6 (6.38%) CSS
4 6 (6.38%) GraphQL
4 6 (6.38%) React
4 6 (6.38%) Spring
4 6 (6.38%) Spring Boot
4 6 (6.38%) XMPP
5 4 (4.26%) Middleware
5 4 (4.26%) Node.js
6 2 (2.13%) JDBC
6 2 (2.13%) JMS
6 2 (2.13%) Kafka
6 2 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.13%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (1.06%) LAMP
7 1 (1.06%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.96%) Data Centre
2 12 (12.77%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (12.77%) Product Ownership
3 11 (11.70%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.38%) Clustering
4 6 (6.38%) Mobile App
5 5 (5.32%) Reference Data
6 4 (4.26%) CMDB
7 3 (3.19%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (2.13%) Derivative
8 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.13%) NVMe
8 2 (2.13%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.06%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.06%) PKI
9 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 61 (64.89%) Linux
2 39 (41.49%) Unix
3 38 (40.43%) Windows
4 31 (32.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (18.09%) Windows Server
6 8 (8.51%) CentOS
6 8 (8.51%) Ubuntu
7 6 (6.38%) Android
8 3 (3.19%) AIX
8 3 (3.19%) Solaris
9 2 (2.13%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (38.30%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (31.91%) CI/CD
3 23 (24.47%) ITSM
4 22 (23.40%) OO
5 19 (20.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (20.21%) DevOps
6 15 (15.96%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (14.89%) Computer Science
8 12 (12.77%) OOP
8 12 (12.77%) Process Improvement
9 11 (11.70%) Agile
9 11 (11.70%) Data Protection
9 11 (11.70%) Software Engineering
10 10 (10.64%) ITIL
10 10 (10.64%) Knowledge Management
10 10 (10.64%) Microservices
10 10 (10.64%) Migration
10 10 (10.64%) Scrum
11 9 (9.57%) Service Management
11 9 (9.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 73 (77.66%) Python
2 37 (39.36%) Java
3 36 (38.30%) PowerShell
4 29 (30.85%) SQL
5 21 (22.34%) Bash
6 18 (19.15%) JavaScript
7 14 (14.89%) Ruby
8 9 (9.57%) Shell Script
9 6 (6.38%) C#
10 3 (3.19%) C++
11 2 (2.13%) C
11 2 (2.13%) Jython
11 2 (2.13%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.06%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (20.21%) SC Cleared
1 19 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.02%) Degree
3 11 (11.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (9.57%) CCDP
4 9 (9.57%) CCNA
4 9 (9.57%) CCNP
4 9 (9.57%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (8.51%) RHCE
6 5 (5.32%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.13%) NCDA
7 2 (2.13%) VCP6
7 2 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.06%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 10 (10.64%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.32%) Docker
4 3 (3.19%) Firmware
4 3 (3.19%) PowerHA
5 2 (2.13%) GPFS
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.13%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.06%) Lustre
6 1 (1.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (29.79%) Ansible
2 17 (18.09%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.64%) Grafana
4 9 (9.57%) Puppet
5 8 (8.51%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.45%) NetBackup
7 5 (5.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (2.13%) CA Wily
8 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 2 (2.13%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (2.13%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (2.13%) Terraform
8 2 (2.13%) Tivoli
8 2 (2.13%) vMotion
8 2 (2.13%) vRealize
9 1 (1.06%) Salt
9 1 (1.06%) SCOrch
9 1 (1.06%) SELinux
Vendors
1 31 (32.98%) Red Hat
2 29 (30.85%) Oracle
3 15 (15.96%) Microsoft
4 14 (14.89%) VMware
5 11 (11.70%) Cisco
6 10 (10.64%) Citrix
7 8 (8.51%) IBM
7 8 (8.51%) Veritas
8 6 (6.38%) ServiceNow
8 6 (6.38%) Splunk
9 3 (3.19%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.19%) Sybase
10 2 (2.13%) AppDynamics
10 2 (2.13%) Brocade
10 2 (2.13%) Commvault
10 2 (2.13%) NetApp
11 1 (1.06%) Dell
11 1 (1.06%) HP
11 1 (1.06%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.06%) Veeam