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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 239 251
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 +57
Contract jobs citing Perl 133 116 156
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.78% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.87% 2.89% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 62 107
10th Percentile - £203 £305
25th Percentile £204 £348 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £575
90th Percentile £559 £700 £671
UK median daily rate £472 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -14.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £61.31 - -
25th Percentile £67.88 - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £79.13 - -
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 4,635 4,010 5,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.49% 26.86% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,992 2,414 3,445
10th Percentile £314 £335 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% -2.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £570 £577 £600
90th Percentile £644 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 194 316
10th Percentile £41.25 £21.48 £37.52
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.87 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -1.73% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.50 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

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 20 December 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
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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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 -11 42 £208 +1.22% 11
North of England -24 34 £550 +22.22% 3
Scotland -6 31 £425 -2.86% 3
North West -3 25 £550 +29.41%
West Midlands -20 17 £475 +13.10% 1
Midlands -27 17 £475 +13.10% 4
North East - 7 £550 -
South West -1 5 £513 -34.92% 2
East of England -28 5 £613 +2.08% 13
Yorkshire -50 5 £559 +1.64% 3
Northern Ireland -10 1 - -
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 13 (9.77%) Confluence
2 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.51%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.01%) JBoss
5 3 (2.26%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.75%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.75%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.50%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (31.58%) AWS
2 24 (18.05%) SaaS
3 22 (16.54%) Amazon EC2
4 21 (15.79%) Sauce Labs
5 19 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 13 (9.77%) Amazon S3
7 12 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (9.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (8.27%) OpenShift
9 10 (7.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (6.77%) Amazon MSK
10 9 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (6.77%) Azure
10 9 (6.77%) Serverless
11 8 (6.02%) Amazon ELB
11 8 (6.02%) Amazon Glacier
11 8 (6.02%) AWS KMS
12 6 (4.51%) Entra ID
13 5 (3.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 36 (27.07%) Firewall
2 20 (15.04%) Wireless
3 16 (12.03%) DNS
4 15 (11.28%) TCP/IP
5 13 (9.77%) HTTP
6 9 (6.77%) BGP
7 8 (6.02%) DHCP
7 8 (6.02%) FTP
7 8 (6.02%) SMTP
7 8 (6.02%) SSH
8 6 (4.51%) VLAN
8 6 (4.51%) WebEx
9 5 (3.76%) LAN
9 5 (3.76%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (3.76%) SSL
9 5 (3.76%) WAN
9 5 (3.76%) WLAN
10 4 (3.01%) VPN
11 3 (2.26%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (2.26%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (29.32%) Relational Database
2 34 (25.56%) MySQL
3 17 (12.78%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.51%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.76%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.01%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.50%) DB2
7 2 (1.50%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.50%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.75%) GIS
8 1 (0.75%) Metadata
8 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (33.08%) Git
2 28 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 26 (19.55%) JIRA
4 22 (16.54%) Browser DevTools
5 21 (15.79%) Android Studio
5 21 (15.79%) Eclipse
5 21 (15.79%) Xcode
6 13 (9.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (8.27%) Bitbucket
7 11 (8.27%) GitLab
8 8 (6.02%) Vagrant
9 4 (3.01%) SonarQube
9 4 (3.01%) TeamCity
10 3 (2.26%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (2.26%) CA Release Automation
11 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.75%) JUnit
11 1 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 50 (37.59%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (16.54%) Public Sector
4 17 (12.78%) Finance
5 13 (9.77%) Banking
6 9 (6.77%) Legal
7 3 (2.26%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.75%) French Language
9 1 (0.75%) Front Office
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (24.81%) Technical Support
2 22 (16.54%) Support Engineer
2 22 (16.54%) Technical Engineer
2 22 (16.54%) Technical Support Engineer
2 22 (16.54%) UX Engineer
3 19 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (13.53%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 17 (12.78%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (9.77%) AWS DevOps
6 13 (9.77%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (7.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 10 (7.52%) Network Engineer
8 8 (6.02%) Analyst
8 8 (6.02%) Technical Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) Developer
9 7 (5.26%) Programmer
9 7 (5.26%) Python Programmer
9 7 (5.26%) Senior
10 6 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (19.55%) AngularJS
2 25 (18.80%) Ajax
3 22 (16.54%) CSS
3 22 (16.54%) GraphQL
3 22 (16.54%) React
4 12 (9.02%) Node.js
5 6 (4.51%) REST
5 6 (4.51%) XMPP
6 5 (3.76%) SOAP
6 5 (3.76%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.01%) AWS CDK
7 4 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.01%) RESTful
8 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (2.26%) Spring
9 2 (1.50%) Loki
10 1 (0.75%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.75%) J2SE
10 1 (0.75%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.80%) Mobile App
2 11 (8.27%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.77%) Data Centre
3 9 (6.77%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.77%) Replication
4 8 (6.02%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.26%) CMDB
5 3 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.50%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.75%) Mali
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 95 (71.43%) Linux
2 61 (45.86%) Windows
3 59 (44.36%) Unix
4 24 (18.05%) Android
5 22 (16.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (8.27%) Windows Server
7 8 (6.02%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (6.02%) VMS
8 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.50%) CentOS
9 2 (1.50%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.50%) Solaris
9 2 (1.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.08%) OO
2 31 (23.31%) DevOps
3 28 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 26 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (19.55%) User Experience
5 22 (16.54%) Mobile Application Development
6 21 (15.79%) Agile
7 20 (15.04%) ITSM
8 19 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (12.03%) Containerisation
9 16 (12.03%) Observability
10 15 (11.28%) Microservices
10 15 (11.28%) Service Management
11 14 (10.53%) Computer Science
12 13 (9.77%) Configuration Management
12 13 (9.77%) Migration
13 11 (8.27%) AI
13 11 (8.27%) Change Management
13 11 (8.27%) ITIL
13 11 (8.27%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 119 (89.47%) Python
2 68 (51.13%) Java
3 38 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 38 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 34 (25.56%) Bash
5 19 (14.29%) SQL
6 15 (11.28%) Shell Script
7 12 (9.02%) Ruby
8 8 (6.02%) Groovy
9 7 (5.26%) Go
10 4 (3.01%) C++
11 3 (2.26%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.26%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.50%) C#
12 2 (1.50%) Tcl
13 1 (0.75%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.75%) C
13 1 (0.75%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 28 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 28 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.03%) Degree
3 11 (8.27%) CCDP
3 11 (8.27%) CCNP
3 11 (8.27%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (8.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.77%) AWS Certification
5 8 (6.02%) CCNA
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.50%) RHCE
6 2 (1.50%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.26%) QA
2 2 (1.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 33 (24.81%) Docker
2 21 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 11 (8.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.02%) DFS Replication
5 6 (4.51%) KVM
5 6 (4.51%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.50%) GPFS
6 2 (1.50%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.75%) Lustre
7 1 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 21 (15.79%) Ansible
2 21 (15.79%) Terraform
3 15 (11.28%) Grafana
3 15 (11.28%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.51%) Progress Chef
4 6 (4.51%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (3.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.01%) Kibana
7 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.26%) Packer
7 3 (2.26%) Puppet
8 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 2 (1.50%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.50%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.50%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.50%) Nagios
8 2 (1.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.75%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 49 (36.84%) Oracle
2 37 (27.82%) Microsoft
2 37 (27.82%) ServiceNow
3 32 (24.06%) Splunk
4 23 (17.29%) Red Hat
5 16 (12.03%) Cisco
5 16 (12.03%) VMware
6 9 (6.77%) Citrix
7 7 (5.26%) F5
8 6 (4.51%) Palo Alto
9 5 (3.76%) SolarWinds
10 4 (3.01%) AppDynamics
10 4 (3.01%) Infoblox
10 4 (3.01%) MuleSoft
11 3 (2.26%) Cloudera
11 3 (2.26%) Commvault
11 3 (2.26%) Juniper
11 3 (2.26%) Meraki
12 2 (1.50%) Veritas
13 1 (0.75%) Cadence