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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 287 274
Rank change year-on-year +47 -13 +57
Contract jobs citing Perl 128 91 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.83% 0.51% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.99% 2.05% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 57 103
10th Percentile £204 £203 £252
25th Percentile £322 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £594
90th Percentile £560 £693 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 £57.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.83% +4.35% -21.23%
75th Percentile £67.25 £62.50 £65.39
90th Percentile - - £67.22
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £64.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year +3.50% +22.38% -28.08%

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 4,279 4,437 5,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.66% 24.75% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,767 2,813 3,836
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 275 345
10th Percentile £33.91 £30.00 £38.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £53.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.50 £81.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +3.17% +11.40%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Perl 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 September 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 19 September 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
Scotland +1 42 £514 +6.15%
South East +32 34 £208 +1.22% 10
North of England -18 20 £520 +3.17% 5
Midlands -4 19 £475 +13.10% 7
West Midlands +3 18 £475 +13.10% 3
North West -6 10 £402 -14.83% 5
South West +22 7 - - 5
Yorkshire -14 6 £559 +1.64%
East of England -1 4 £500 +17.65% 7
Northern Ireland -4 4 - - 2
North East - 4 £535 -
East Midlands -5 1 £475 - 4
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (15.63%) Confluence
2 6 (4.69%) JBoss
2 6 (4.69%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (3.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (3.13%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.78%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (3.13%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (35.16%) AWS
2 17 (13.28%) Amazon EC2
2 17 (13.28%) Amazon S3
3 16 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 14 (10.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (9.38%) Amazon ELB
5 12 (9.38%) Amazon Glacier
5 12 (9.38%) AWS KMS
5 12 (9.38%) Azure
5 12 (9.38%) OpenShift
5 12 (9.38%) SaaS
6 11 (8.59%) Sauce Labs
7 9 (7.03%) IaaS
8 8 (6.25%) GCP
9 4 (3.13%) Apigee
9 4 (3.13%) OCI
10 3 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.34%) GitHub
11 2 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.53%) Firewall
2 23 (17.97%) DNS
3 20 (15.63%) HTTP
4 13 (10.16%) TCP/IP
5 12 (9.38%) FTP
5 12 (9.38%) SMTP
5 12 (9.38%) SSH
6 11 (8.59%) Wireless
7 8 (6.25%) DHCP
8 5 (3.91%) Network Security
9 4 (3.13%) Internet
9 4 (3.13%) SSL
10 3 (2.34%) BGP
10 3 (2.34%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (2.34%) LAN
10 3 (2.34%) NX-OS
10 3 (2.34%) WAN
10 3 (2.34%) WLAN
11 1 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.78%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.88%) Relational Database
2 22 (17.19%) MySQL
3 12 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.47%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (5.47%) RDBMS
4 7 (5.47%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.69%) DB2
5 6 (4.69%) GIS
5 6 (4.69%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.13%) Oracle BI EE
7 3 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.56%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 47 (36.72%) Git
2 33 (25.78%) Jenkins
3 26 (20.31%) JIRA
4 12 (9.38%) Browser DevTools
4 12 (9.38%) Vagrant
5 11 (8.59%) Android Studio
5 11 (8.59%) Eclipse
5 11 (8.59%) Xcode
6 6 (4.69%) SonarQube
6 6 (4.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (4.69%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.91%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (3.91%) CA Release Automation
8 4 (3.13%) GitLab
9 3 (2.34%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.34%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.78%) JUnit
General
1 45 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.31%) Public Sector
3 12 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.25%) Finance
5 4 (3.13%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.13%) Banking
6 3 (2.34%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.56%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 19 (14.84%) Technical Support
2 17 (13.28%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (11.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (10.94%) Developer
5 13 (10.16%) Analyst
5 13 (10.16%) Support Engineer
5 13 (10.16%) Technical Analyst
5 13 (10.16%) Technical Engineer
5 13 (10.16%) Technical Support Engineer
6 12 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
6 12 (9.38%) Programmer
6 12 (9.38%) Python Programmer
6 12 (9.38%) UX Engineer
7 11 (8.59%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (8.59%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 10 (7.81%) Linux Engineer
8 10 (7.81%) Python Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
10 7 (5.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 14 (10.94%) CSS
3 12 (9.38%) Ajax
3 12 (9.38%) GraphQL
3 12 (9.38%) React
4 10 (7.81%) SOAP
5 7 (5.47%) Node.js
6 6 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (4.69%) RESTful
6 6 (4.69%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.13%) AWS CDK
7 4 (3.13%) REST
8 2 (1.56%) HTML
8 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (1.56%) Spring
9 1 (0.78%) Flash
9 1 (0.78%) J2SE
9 1 (0.78%) JMS
9 1 (0.78%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 15 (11.72%) Replication
3 14 (10.94%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (10.94%) Mobile App
4 11 (8.59%) Virtual Team
5 10 (7.81%) Onboarding
6 8 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (4.69%) Operational Technology
7 6 (4.69%) SCADA
8 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.13%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.34%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.34%) Legacy Code
9 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.34%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.56%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 88 (68.75%) Linux
2 63 (49.22%) Unix
3 41 (32.03%) Windows
4 13 (10.16%) Android
4 13 (10.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (9.38%) Amazon Linux
5 12 (9.38%) VMS
6 2 (1.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.56%) CentOS
6 2 (1.56%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (1.56%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.56%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.78%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (27.34%) OO
2 31 (24.22%) Agile
2 31 (24.22%) DevOps
3 27 (21.09%) CI/CD
4 23 (17.97%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (17.19%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (13.28%) Change Management
8 16 (12.50%) Cloud Security
9 15 (11.72%) Configuration Management
9 15 (11.72%) Observability
10 14 (10.94%) Migration
10 14 (10.94%) Task Automation
11 13 (10.16%) Capacity Management
11 13 (10.16%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (10.16%) High Availability
11 13 (10.16%) Patch Management
11 13 (10.16%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (10.16%) Storage Management
11 13 (10.16%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 111 (86.72%) Python
2 51 (39.84%) Java
3 34 (26.56%) SQL
4 26 (20.31%) JavaScript
5 22 (17.19%) Bash
6 15 (11.72%) PowerShell
6 15 (11.72%) Shell Script
7 12 (9.38%) Groovy
8 11 (8.59%) PL/SQL
9 9 (7.03%) Erlang
9 9 (7.03%) Prolog
10 8 (6.25%) Go
11 4 (3.13%) ABAP
12 3 (2.34%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.56%) Tcl
14 1 (0.78%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.78%) C
14 1 (0.78%) C++
14 1 (0.78%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 34 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 32 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.81%) Degree
4 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.34%) CCDP
5 3 (2.34%) CCNP
6 2 (1.56%) RHCE
6 2 (1.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.81%) QA
2 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (21.88%) Docker
2 19 (14.84%) Active Directory
3 12 (9.38%) DFS Replication
4 11 (8.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (4.69%) KVM
6 4 (3.13%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.56%) GPFS
8 1 (0.78%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (22.66%) Terraform
2 21 (16.41%) Ansible
2 21 (16.41%) Kubernetes
3 19 (14.84%) Grafana
3 19 (14.84%) Prometheus
4 8 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 6 (4.69%) Kibana
6 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 4 (3.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (3.13%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (2.34%) Packer
8 2 (1.56%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.56%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.56%) Nagios
8 2 (1.56%) Puppet
9 1 (0.78%) BladeLogic
9 1 (0.78%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 33 (25.78%) Oracle
2 30 (23.44%) ServiceNow
3 23 (17.97%) Splunk
4 21 (16.41%) Microsoft
5 16 (12.50%) Red Hat
6 13 (10.16%) VMware
7 7 (5.47%) F5
8 6 (4.69%) AppDynamics
8 6 (4.69%) Cisco
9 5 (3.91%) IBM
10 4 (3.13%) Adobe
10 4 (3.13%) Cloudera
10 4 (3.13%) Google
10 4 (3.13%) Infoblox
10 4 (3.13%) MuleSoft
10 4 (3.13%) SAP
11 3 (2.34%) Commvault
11 3 (2.34%) Meraki
11 3 (2.34%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.34%) SolarWinds