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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 231 282
Rank change year-on-year -195 +51 +8
Contract jobs citing Perl 45 137 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.89% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% 3.21% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 82 57
10th Percentile £204 £204 £203
25th Percentile £253 £407 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £545 £530
90th Percentile £631 £575 £653
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £58.38
25th Percentile - £65.75 £59.69
Median hourly rate - £66.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year - +4.31% +10.87%
75th Percentile - £67.25 £67.19
90th Percentile - - £68.13
UK median hourly rate - £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +2.31% +23.81%

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 6,067 4,264 4,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.91% 27.83% 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,738 2,786 2,873
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £550 £588
90th Percentile £663 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £518 £503 £530
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.09% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 205 307
10th Percentile £33.70 £30.10 £30.52
25th Percentile £53.53 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +7.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.50 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -40 19 £450 -10.45% 15
South East -92 10 £208 -56.32% 13
West Midlands -55 6 £456 -3.95% 4
Midlands -59 6 £456 -3.95% 4
North of England -90 5 £575 +10.58% 11
South West -44 4 £613 -2.00% 16
North West -59 3 £575 +46.31% 4
Yorkshire -47 2 - - 3
East of England -25 1 - - 21
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 4 (8.89%) WebSphere
1 4 (8.89%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (4.44%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (4.44%) JBoss
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (4.44%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.22%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.33%) OpenShift
2 4 (8.89%) ChatGPT
3 3 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (6.67%) GitHub
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (6.67%) SaaS
3 3 (6.67%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (4.44%) GCP
4 2 (4.44%) IaaS
5 1 (2.22%) AWS
5 1 (2.22%) Azure
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) SAN
2 5 (11.11%) DNS
3 4 (8.89%) Firewall
3 4 (8.89%) NAS
3 4 (8.89%) SSL
4 3 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (6.67%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.44%) BGP
5 2 (4.44%) DMZ
5 2 (4.44%) DWDM
5 2 (4.44%) HTTP
5 2 (4.44%) Internet
5 2 (4.44%) IPsec
5 2 (4.44%) L2TP
5 2 (4.44%) MPLS
5 2 (4.44%) OSPF
5 2 (4.44%) VPN
5 2 (4.44%) WAN
5 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (4.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) Relational Database
2 5 (11.11%) MySQL
3 4 (8.89%) Db2
3 4 (8.89%) Metadata
4 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.22%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (2.22%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.67%) Android Studio
2 3 (6.67%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (6.67%) Eclipse
2 3 (6.67%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) JIRA
2 3 (6.67%) Xcode
3 2 (4.44%) GitLab
3 2 (4.44%) Introscope
General
1 9 (20.00%) Finance
2 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Front Office
5 2 (4.44%) Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Senior
2 8 (17.78%) Analyst
3 6 (13.33%) Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Technical Support
4 5 (11.11%) Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Administrator
5 4 (8.89%) AIX Administrator
5 4 (8.89%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Middleware Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Python Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Programmer
6 3 (6.67%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Python Programmer
6 3 (6.67%) Server Administrator
6 3 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) Kafka
1 6 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (11.11%) Middleware
3 4 (8.89%) Celery
4 3 (6.67%) Ajax
4 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.67%) CSS
4 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 3 (6.67%) React
4 3 (6.67%) REST
5 2 (4.44%) 802.1X
5 2 (4.44%) JDBC
5 2 (4.44%) JMS
5 2 (4.44%) Terraform
5 2 (4.44%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (2.22%) RESTful
6 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Clustering
1 8 (17.78%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.89%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.89%) Equity Derivative
2 4 (8.89%) Private Cloud
2 4 (8.89%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.67%) CSOC
3 3 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (6.67%) Derivative
3 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.44%) Equities
4 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (55.56%) Unix
2 23 (51.11%) Linux
3 13 (28.89%) Windows
4 6 (13.33%) AIX
5 4 (8.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (6.67%) Android
7 2 (4.44%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (4.44%) Solaris
7 2 (4.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) Migration
2 11 (24.44%) Root Cause Analysis
3 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 10 (22.22%) ITIL
4 9 (20.00%) OO
5 8 (17.78%) Data Protection
5 8 (17.78%) Test Automation
6 7 (15.56%) Data Lineage
6 7 (15.56%) DevOps
6 7 (15.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (15.56%) Generative AI
7 6 (13.33%) AI
7 6 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (13.33%) Configuration Management
7 6 (13.33%) Data Centre Operations
7 6 (13.33%) OOP
7 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.33%) Security Hardening
8 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 5 (11.11%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 45 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (28.89%) Java
3 11 (24.44%) Bash
4 10 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 9 (20.00%) SQL
6 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 6 (13.33%) Shell Script
7 5 (11.11%) C++
8 2 (4.44%) C
8 2 (4.44%) Jython
9 1 (2.22%) Ruby
9 1 (2.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) A+ Certification
3 2 (4.44%) CCIE
3 2 (4.44%) CCNP
3 2 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.44%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.22%) MCSE
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Firmware
1 6 (13.33%) PowerHA
2 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.44%) vSphere
4 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.22%) Docker
4 1 (2.22%) GPFS
4 1 (2.22%) Lustre
4 1 (2.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Ansible
2 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.67%) NetBackup
3 3 (6.67%) Puppet
3 3 (6.67%) Salt
3 3 (6.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (4.44%) CA Wily
4 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
4 2 (4.44%) Tivoli
5 1 (2.22%) Consul
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) IBM
2 8 (17.78%) Oracle
3 6 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 5 (11.11%) Splunk
5 4 (8.89%) Sybase
6 3 (6.67%) Clearswift
6 3 (6.67%) Commvault
6 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 3 (6.67%) SaltStack
6 3 (6.67%) SolarWinds
6 3 (6.67%) Tanium
6 3 (6.67%) Trend Micro
6 3 (6.67%) Tripwire
6 3 (6.67%) Veeam
6 3 (6.67%) Veritas
6 3 (6.67%) VMware
7 2 (4.44%) AppDynamics
7 2 (4.44%) Arista
7 2 (4.44%) Cisco
7 2 (4.44%) Fortinet