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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 279 281
Rank change year-on-year +48 +2 +76
Contract jobs citing Perl 105 121 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.82% 0.58% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.88% 2.49% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 61 114
10th Percentile £392 £360 £413
25th Percentile £474 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £632
90th Percentile £581 £688 £692
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 14
10th Percentile - £48.25 £41.83
25th Percentile - £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £60.94
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -5.64% +23.01%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £73.06
90th Percentile - £66.75 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +17.12% -3.48% +20.37%

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 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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
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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -7 37 £500 -9.09% 15
North of England +23 28 £538 +4.37% 29
South East +43 23 £526 +7.90% 47
Yorkshire +19 18 £550 +23.60% 11
North West +10 10 £393 -23.69% 16
Midlands +20 7 £506 +40.85% 23
South West +47 6 £700 +51.35% 22
East of England - 6 £283 - 44
West Midlands +16 5 - - 14
East Midlands +6 2 £506 +42.13% 7
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 14 (13.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (8.57%) JBoss
3 5 (4.76%) Jupyter
4 3 (2.86%) Confluence
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.95%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (25.71%) AWS
2 13 (12.38%) Azure
3 10 (9.52%) OpenShift
4 6 (5.71%) IaaS
5 5 (4.76%) GCP
6 3 (2.86%) SaaS
7 2 (1.90%) Serverless
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.95%) Fivetran
8 1 (0.95%) GitHub
8 1 (0.95%) PaaS
8 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (24.76%) DNS
2 7 (6.67%) Firewall
3 6 (5.71%) DHCP
4 3 (2.86%) Network Security
4 3 (2.86%) SAN
4 3 (2.86%) SSL
5 2 (1.90%) NAS
5 2 (1.90%) NetScaler
5 2 (1.90%) SSH
5 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.90%) VPN
6 1 (0.95%) BGP
6 1 (0.95%) DWDM
6 1 (0.95%) HTTP
6 1 (0.95%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.95%) IPsec
6 1 (0.95%) L2TP
6 1 (0.95%) WAN
6 1 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.19%) Oracle Database
2 9 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (7.62%) RDBMS
3 8 (7.62%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.71%) GIS
4 6 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.86%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.90%) DB2
6 2 (1.90%) MySQL
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.95%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.95%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.95%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 18 (17.14%) Git
1 18 (17.14%) Jenkins
2 16 (15.24%) JIRA
3 9 (8.57%) Bitbucket Server
3 9 (8.57%) CA Release Automation
3 9 (8.57%) SonarQube
3 9 (8.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (8.57%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.86%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.90%) Subversion
6 1 (0.95%) MLflow
General
1 30 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.62%) Finance
3 6 (5.71%) Banking
4 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.81%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.86%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.95%) Aviation
8 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (15.24%) Linux Engineer
2 13 (12.38%) Developer
3 11 (10.48%) Analyst
3 11 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (10.48%) Programmer
3 11 (10.48%) Python Programmer
3 11 (10.48%) Technical Analyst
4 10 (9.52%) Network Engineer
4 10 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (8.57%) Administrator
5 9 (8.57%) Consultant
5 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 9 (8.57%) Unix Engineer
6 8 (7.62%) Engineering Specialist
6 8 (7.62%) Python Developer
7 7 (6.67%) Python Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Linux Scripter
8 6 (5.71%) Solutions Consultant
8 6 (5.71%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Unix Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (8.57%) Spring Boot
3 6 (5.71%) SOAP
4 4 (3.81%) Node.js
5 2 (1.90%) Middleware
5 2 (1.90%) Spring
6 1 (0.95%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.95%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.95%) Flash
6 1 (0.95%) HTML
6 1 (0.95%) JSON
6 1 (0.95%) Kafka
6 1 (0.95%) POSIX
6 1 (0.95%) PySpark
6 1 (0.95%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.95%) REST
6 1 (0.95%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.95%) XML
6 1 (0.95%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.10%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (15.24%) Management Information System
3 13 (12.38%) SCADA
4 9 (8.57%) Operational Technology
5 8 (7.62%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (7.62%) Virtual Team
6 6 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (5.71%) Replication
7 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.81%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) Clustering
8 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.95%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.95%) IoT
9 1 (0.95%) NVMe
9 1 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 84 (80.00%) Linux
2 45 (42.86%) Windows
3 35 (33.33%) Unix
4 20 (19.05%) Windows Server
5 14 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.76%) Solaris
7 4 (3.81%) AIX
8 2 (1.90%) CentOS
8 2 (1.90%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (1.90%) HPUX
8 2 (1.90%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.67%) Agile
2 27 (25.71%) Microservices
3 25 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (19.05%) Migration
6 18 (17.14%) DevOps
6 18 (17.14%) OO
7 17 (16.19%) CI/CD
7 17 (16.19%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (16.19%) High Availability
8 15 (14.29%) Security Management
8 15 (14.29%) SOA
9 13 (12.38%) Storage Management
10 12 (11.43%) Capacity Management
10 12 (11.43%) Containerisation
10 12 (11.43%) Server Management
11 11 (10.48%) Technical Analysis
12 10 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (9.52%) Roadmaps
12 10 (9.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 72 (68.57%) Python
2 41 (39.05%) SQL
3 32 (30.48%) Bash
4 29 (27.62%) PL/SQL
5 19 (18.10%) PowerShell
6 9 (8.57%) Shell Script
7 8 (7.62%) Java
8 5 (4.76%) Erlang
8 5 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.76%) Prolog
8 5 (4.76%) R
9 3 (2.86%) ABAP
10 2 (1.90%) Ruby
10 2 (1.90%) Tcl
11 1 (0.95%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.95%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.95%) C#
11 1 (0.95%) Korn
11 1 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 27 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 18 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (10.48%) Degree
5 6 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.95%) CCIE
7 1 (0.95%) CCNP
7 1 (0.95%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.95%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.95%) MCITP
7 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) GDPR
2 2 (1.90%) QA
3 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 21 (20.00%) Docker
3 9 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.86%) KVM
5 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.90%) vSphere
6 1 (0.95%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.95%) GPFS
6 1 (0.95%) NFS
Systems Management
1 21 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.19%) Ansible
3 14 (13.33%) Progress Chef
4 9 (8.57%) Kibana
5 8 (7.62%) Terraform
6 6 (5.71%) Grafana
6 6 (5.71%) Prometheus
7 5 (4.76%) Puppet
8 3 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.90%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (1.90%) Foglight
9 2 (1.90%) Nagios
9 2 (1.90%) SELinux
10 1 (0.95%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.95%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 24 (22.86%) Oracle
2 20 (19.05%) Cisco
2 20 (19.05%) Red Hat
3 13 (12.38%) Splunk
4 12 (11.43%) VMware
5 9 (8.57%) AppDynamics
6 8 (7.62%) IBM
7 7 (6.67%) Microsoft
8 6 (5.71%) Google
9 4 (3.81%) SAP
9 4 (3.81%) Sybase
10 3 (2.86%) Adobe
10 3 (2.86%) Cloudera
10 3 (2.86%) Veritas
11 2 (1.90%) BMC
11 2 (1.90%) HP
11 2 (1.90%) Juniper
11 2 (1.90%) NetApp
11 2 (1.90%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.90%) Synopsys