Perl Contracts in the UK excluding London

Perl
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Perl skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Perl over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 307 278
Rank change year-on-year +67 -29 +67
Contract jobs citing Perl 113 88 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.42% 0.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.79% 1.77% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 49 108
10th Percentile £369 £345 £363
25th Percentile £463 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £650
90th Percentile £575 £611 £704
UK median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - £48.50 £37.80
25th Percentile - £51.88 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% +4.58%
75th Percentile - £65.63 £58.75
90th Percentile - £67.50 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +10.24% +20.95% +9.15%

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 4,055 4,980 6,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.16% 23.63% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,670 3,270 4,422
10th Percentile £313 £322 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -2.10% -
75th Percentile £550 £582 £594
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 449 331
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.93 £26.75
25th Percentile £45.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% +17.92%
75th Percentile £68.13 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.10 £75.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Perl in the UK excluding London

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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend 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 July 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 +13 35 £513 +2.50% 21
North of England +8 29 £525 +1.94% 44
South East +39 23 £514 +5.44% 46
Yorkshire +12 16 £550 +19.57% 14
North West -2 12 £393 -23.69% 28
Midlands +6 11 £475 +20.25% 26
West Midlands +8 9 £475 +12.43% 19
South West +38 6 £625 -0.79% 36
East of England - 6 £283 - 36
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 17
East Midlands 0 2 £506 +42.13% 7
North East - 1 £550 - 2
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 16 (14.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 13 (11.50%) JBoss
3 10 (8.85%) Confluence
4 6 (5.31%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (3.54%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (3.54%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (3.54%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 39 (34.51%) AWS
2 14 (12.39%) OpenShift
3 11 (9.73%) Azure
4 9 (7.96%) IaaS
5 8 (7.08%) GCP
6 7 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (6.19%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (5.31%) Amazon ELB
7 6 (5.31%) Amazon Glacier
7 6 (5.31%) AWS KMS
7 6 (5.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (3.54%) OCI
9 3 (2.65%) GitHub
9 3 (2.65%) SaaS
10 2 (1.77%) Apigee
11 1 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.88%) Sauce Labs
11 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (27.43%) DNS
2 17 (15.04%) Firewall
3 13 (11.50%) HTTP
4 7 (6.19%) DHCP
4 7 (6.19%) SSH
4 7 (6.19%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.31%) FTP
5 6 (5.31%) SMTP
6 5 (4.42%) Internet
7 3 (2.65%) Network Security
7 3 (2.65%) SSL
8 2 (1.77%) VPN
8 2 (1.77%) Wireless
9 1 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.88%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.88%) IPsec
9 1 (0.88%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.88%) Multicast
9 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.81%) Oracle Database
2 17 (15.04%) Relational Database
3 12 (10.62%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (10.62%) RDBMS
4 8 (7.08%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (5.31%) DB2
6 6 (5.31%) GIS
6 6 (5.31%) MySQL
7 4 (3.54%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.88%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.88%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 37 (32.74%) Git
2 34 (30.09%) Jenkins
3 26 (23.01%) JIRA
4 13 (11.50%) SonarQube
4 13 (11.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (11.50%) TeamCity
5 12 (10.62%) Bitbucket Server
5 12 (10.62%) CA Release Automation
6 6 (5.31%) Vagrant
7 3 (2.65%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.77%) Subversion
9 1 (0.88%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.88%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.88%) GitLab
9 1 (0.88%) Xcode
General
1 36 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.96%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.19%) Finance
4 4 (3.54%) Aerospace
4 4 (3.54%) Banking
5 3 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.77%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (14.16%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (11.50%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (9.73%) Developer
3 11 (9.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (9.73%) Python Engineer
4 10 (8.85%) Analyst
4 10 (8.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (8.85%) Programmer
4 10 (8.85%) Python Programmer
4 10 (8.85%) Technical Analyst
5 8 (7.08%) Administrator
5 8 (7.08%) Consultant
5 8 (7.08%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 8 (7.08%) VMware Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (6.19%) Engineering Specialist
6 7 (6.19%) Network Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Linux Administrator
7 6 (5.31%) Solutions Consultant
8 5 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.39%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (11.50%) Spring Boot
3 8 (7.08%) SOAP
4 6 (5.31%) Node.js
5 5 (4.42%) RESTful
6 3 (2.65%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.65%) CSS
6 3 (2.65%) HTML
6 3 (2.65%) REST
7 2 (1.77%) Spring
8 1 (0.88%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.88%) Ajax
8 1 (0.88%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.88%) Flash
8 1 (0.88%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.88%) JSON
8 1 (0.88%) POSIX
8 1 (0.88%) React
8 1 (0.88%) XML
8 1 (0.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.47%) Management Information System
2 17 (15.04%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (11.50%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (10.62%) Virtual Team
5 10 (8.85%) Replication
5 10 (8.85%) SCADA
6 7 (6.19%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (5.31%) Onboarding
7 6 (5.31%) Operational Technology
8 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.54%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.54%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.65%) Legacy Code
9 3 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.65%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.77%) Clustering
11 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 86 (76.11%) Linux
2 44 (38.94%) Unix
2 44 (38.94%) Windows
3 19 (16.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (14.16%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.31%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (5.31%) VMS
6 3 (2.65%) Solaris
7 2 (1.77%) AIX
7 2 (1.77%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.88%) Android
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (27.43%) Agile
1 31 (27.43%) DevOps
2 30 (26.55%) Microservices
3 26 (23.01%) Migration
4 25 (22.12%) Continuous Integration
4 25 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (20.35%) CI/CD
6 19 (16.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (16.81%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (15.93%) High Availability
8 16 (14.16%) SOA
9 15 (13.27%) Change Management
9 15 (13.27%) OO
10 13 (11.50%) Code Quality
10 13 (11.50%) Deployment Automation
10 13 (11.50%) Security Management
11 12 (10.62%) Build Automation
11 12 (10.62%) Storage Management
12 11 (9.73%) Capacity Management
12 11 (9.73%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 79 (69.91%) Python
2 46 (40.71%) SQL
3 29 (25.66%) Bash
4 28 (24.78%) PL/SQL
5 23 (20.35%) Java
6 20 (17.70%) PowerShell
7 10 (8.85%) Shell Script
8 9 (7.96%) Erlang
8 9 (7.96%) JavaScript
8 9 (7.96%) Prolog
9 6 (5.31%) Groovy
10 4 (3.54%) ABAP
11 2 (1.77%) Go
11 2 (1.77%) Tcl
12 1 (0.88%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.88%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.88%) Korn
12 1 (0.88%) Ruby
12 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (34.51%) Security Cleared
2 32 (28.32%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.16%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (6.19%) Degree
5 6 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) CCIE
7 1 (0.88%) CCNP
7 1 (0.88%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.88%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.62%) QA
2 3 (2.65%) GDPR
3 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (29.20%) Active Directory
2 26 (23.01%) Docker
3 11 (9.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.31%) DFS Replication
5 4 (3.54%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.77%) GPFS
6 2 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.77%) vSphere
7 1 (0.88%) KVM
7 1 (0.88%) NFS
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (18.58%) Kubernetes
2 16 (14.16%) Terraform
3 15 (13.27%) Ansible
3 15 (13.27%) Progress Chef
4 13 (11.50%) Kibana
5 12 (10.62%) Grafana
6 11 (9.73%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 4 (3.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (3.54%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (2.65%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.77%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (1.77%) Nagios
9 2 (1.77%) Puppet
9 2 (1.77%) SELinux
10 1 (0.88%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.88%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.88%) Packer
10 1 (0.88%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 30 (26.55%) Oracle
2 22 (19.47%) Red Hat
3 18 (15.93%) Cisco
4 16 (14.16%) Splunk
5 14 (12.39%) VMware
6 13 (11.50%) AppDynamics
7 8 (7.08%) Microsoft
8 7 (6.19%) Cloudera
8 7 (6.19%) IBM
8 7 (6.19%) ServiceNow
9 5 (4.42%) Google
9 5 (4.42%) SAP
10 4 (3.54%) Adobe
11 3 (2.65%) Veritas
12 2 (1.77%) BMC
12 2 (1.77%) Juniper
12 2 (1.77%) NetApp
12 2 (1.77%) Sun
12 2 (1.77%) Sybase
12 2 (1.77%) Symantec