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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 248 288
Rank change year-on-year -178 +40 -6
Contract jobs citing Perl 52 131 92
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.84% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.85% 3.02% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 78 55
10th Percentile £204 £204 £203
25th Percentile £400 £322 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £581
90th Percentile £631 £563 £695
UK median daily rate £468 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -6.50% -6.19% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.75 £57.50
Median hourly rate £77.00 £66.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +10.83% +2.67%
75th Percentile - £67.25 £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £86.00 £59.50 £64.25
% change year-on-year +44.54% -7.39% +22.38%

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 6,122 4,336 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.61% 27.80% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,723 2,802 2,737
10th Percentile £331 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £582
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +3.65% -3.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 203 269
10th Percentile £23.72 £33.91 £27.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -36 28 £469 -8.76% 11
South East -97 8 £208 - 23
North of England -85 7 £575 +10.58% 7
South West -43 4 £613 - 16
North West -52 4 £575 +54.36% 5
West Midlands -61 3 £500 +5.26% 7
Midlands -62 3 £500 +5.26% 7
East of England -36 2 - - 32
Yorkshire -44 2 - - 1
North East -42 1 £475 -11.21% 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 2 (3.85%) Confluence
1 2 (3.85%) JBoss
1 2 (3.85%) WebSphere
1 2 (3.85%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.92%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.92%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.38%) OpenShift
2 5 (9.62%) GCP
3 4 (7.69%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) ChatGPT
3 4 (7.69%) IaaS
4 3 (5.77%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (5.77%) GitHub
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (5.77%) SaaS
4 3 (5.77%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.92%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) SAN
2 4 (7.69%) NAS
3 3 (5.77%) DNS
3 3 (5.77%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (5.77%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (5.77%) iSCSI
4 2 (3.85%) BGP
4 2 (3.85%) DMZ
4 2 (3.85%) DWDM
4 2 (3.85%) Firewall
4 2 (3.85%) Internet
4 2 (3.85%) IPsec
4 2 (3.85%) L2TP
4 2 (3.85%) MPLS
4 2 (3.85%) OSPF
4 2 (3.85%) SSL
4 2 (3.85%) VPN
4 2 (3.85%) WAN
4 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) Relational Database
2 6 (11.54%) MySQL
3 4 (7.69%) Db2
3 4 (7.69%) Metadata
4 3 (5.77%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.92%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.92%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.69%) Git
3 3 (5.77%) Android Studio
3 3 (5.77%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (5.77%) Eclipse
3 3 (5.77%) Xcode
4 2 (3.85%) JIRA
5 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.92%) GitLab
General
1 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.85%) Finance
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Front Office
5 2 (3.85%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) Senior
2 9 (17.31%) Developer
3 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Integration Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Senior Integration Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Analyst
4 7 (13.46%) Python Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Support Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Technical Support
5 5 (9.62%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 4 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Network Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Perl Developer
7 3 (5.77%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) Terraform
2 4 (7.69%) Celery
2 4 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 4 (7.69%) Kafka
2 4 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (7.69%) REST
3 3 (5.77%) Ajax
3 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.77%) CSS
3 3 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.77%) Middleware
3 3 (5.77%) React
4 2 (3.85%) 802.1X
4 2 (3.85%) POSIX
5 1 (1.92%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (1.92%) Android SDK
5 1 (1.92%) Flash
5 1 (1.92%) React Native
5 1 (1.92%) RESTful
5 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Distributed Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Private Cloud
2 5 (9.62%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.62%) Security Posture
3 4 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.69%) Equity Derivative
3 4 (7.69%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.77%) Clustering
4 3 (5.77%) CSOC
4 3 (5.77%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (5.77%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (5.77%) Derivative
4 3 (5.77%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (5.77%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.85%) Equities
5 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.85%) NVMe
5 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 31 (59.62%) Linux
2 19 (36.54%) Unix
3 12 (23.08%) Windows
4 4 (7.69%) Android
5 3 (5.77%) AIX
5 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.92%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.69%) CI/CD
2 15 (28.85%) Test Automation
3 12 (23.08%) Configuration Management
3 12 (23.08%) OO
3 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (21.15%) Validation
5 10 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (19.23%) Open Source
6 9 (17.31%) DevOps
7 8 (15.38%) Computer Science
7 8 (15.38%) Data Protection
7 8 (15.38%) Migration
7 8 (15.38%) Release Automation
7 8 (15.38%) Secure Coding
7 8 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 7 (13.46%) Data Lineage
8 7 (13.46%) Generative AI
8 7 (13.46%) OOP
8 7 (13.46%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (96.15%) Python
2 15 (28.85%) Java
3 12 (23.08%) SQL
4 10 (19.23%) Bash
5 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 7 (13.46%) Shell Script
7 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
8 5 (9.62%) C++
9 2 (3.85%) C
10 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.92%) Ruby
10 1 (1.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Degree
2 6 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) A+ Certification
4 2 (3.85%) CCIE
4 2 (3.85%) CCNP
4 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.85%) CompTIA CySA+
4 2 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.92%) MCSE
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (13.46%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (5.77%) Docker
3 3 (5.77%) Firmware
3 3 (5.77%) NFS
3 3 (5.77%) PowerHA
4 2 (3.85%) GPFS
4 2 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (3.85%) vSphere
5 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.92%) Lustre
5 1 (1.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 15 (28.85%) Ansible
2 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.69%) Puppet
4 3 (5.77%) NetBackup
4 3 (5.77%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.77%) Salt
4 3 (5.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (1.92%) Consul
5 1 (1.92%) Packer
5 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) SaltStack
1 10 (19.23%) VMware
2 7 (13.46%) IBM
3 6 (11.54%) Oracle
4 5 (9.62%) Red Hat
4 5 (9.62%) Splunk
5 4 (7.69%) Sybase
5 4 (7.69%) Veritas
6 3 (5.77%) Clearswift
6 3 (5.77%) Commvault
6 3 (5.77%) Google
6 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
6 3 (5.77%) SolarWinds
6 3 (5.77%) Tanium
6 3 (5.77%) Trend Micro
6 3 (5.77%) Tripwire
6 3 (5.77%) Veeam
7 2 (3.85%) Arista
7 2 (3.85%) Cisco
7 2 (3.85%) Fortinet