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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 234 262
Rank change year-on-year -45 +28 +56
Contract jobs citing Perl 133 115 144
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.83% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.82% 2.95% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 54 87
10th Percentile - £203 £313
25th Percentile £204 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £438 £467
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -6.32% -9.32%
75th Percentile £537 £598 £575
90th Percentile £550 £700 £637
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -18.18% -3.34% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £65.75 - £48.13
25th Percentile £74.26 - £50.94
Median hourly rate £77.00 - £56.25
75th Percentile £82.25 - £60.94
90th Percentile £84.00 - £63.38
UK median hourly rate £75.63 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.35% +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 4,720 3,902 5,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.00% 28.25% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,055 2,328 3,386
10th Percentile £325 £335 £325
25th Percentile £403 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% -2.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £589
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.14% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 188 393
10th Percentile £46.25 £21.25 £37.50
25th Percentile £53.53 £45.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 24 January 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
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 24 January 2026.

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 24 January 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
South East -12 40 £208 -20.19% 22
North of England -39 37 £537 +13.05% 5
Scotland -16 29 £425 -2.86% 12
North West -16 21 £550 +34.80% 3
Midlands -40 14 £501 -11.10% 6
West Midlands -42 14 £501 -11.10% 4
Yorkshire -55 12 £531 -3.45% 1
East of England -15 11 £613 +2.08% 16
North East - 6 £550 - 1
South West -15 4 £513 -34.92% 4
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 9 (6.77%) Confluence
1 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.26%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.75%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 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 34 (25.56%) AWS
2 20 (15.04%) SaaS
3 18 (13.53%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (12.78%) Sauce Labs
5 15 (11.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 12 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (8.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (7.52%) OpenShift
9 9 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (6.77%) Amazon MSK
9 9 (6.77%) Amazon S3
9 9 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.77%) Serverless
10 8 (6.02%) Azure
11 6 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.51%) Entra ID
12 4 (3.01%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (3.01%) Amazon Glacier
12 4 (3.01%) AWS KMS
12 4 (3.01%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 31 (23.31%) Firewall
2 16 (12.03%) Wireless
3 11 (8.27%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.77%) BGP
4 9 (6.77%) DNS
5 6 (4.51%) SAN
5 6 (4.51%) VLAN
5 6 (4.51%) WebEx
6 5 (3.76%) DHCP
6 5 (3.76%) HTTP
6 5 (3.76%) LAN
6 5 (3.76%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (3.76%) WAN
6 5 (3.76%) WLAN
7 4 (3.01%) FTP
7 4 (3.01%) NAS
7 4 (3.01%) SMTP
7 4 (3.01%) SSH
7 4 (3.01%) VPN
8 3 (2.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (24.06%) Relational Database
2 31 (23.31%) MySQL
3 13 (9.77%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.51%) Metadata
4 6 (4.51%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.01%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.50%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.50%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.75%) GIS
7 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (26.32%) Git
2 21 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 18 (13.53%) Browser DevTools
3 18 (13.53%) JIRA
4 17 (12.78%) Android Studio
4 17 (12.78%) Eclipse
4 17 (12.78%) Xcode
5 10 (7.52%) GitLab
6 9 (6.77%) Bitbucket
6 9 (6.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (3.01%) Vagrant
8 2 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 53 (39.85%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.56%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.53%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.77%) Finance
5 10 (7.52%) Banking
6 9 (6.77%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (6.77%) Legal
7 8 (6.02%) Publishing
8 2 (1.50%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.75%) French Language
9 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (22.56%) Technical Support
2 19 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 18 (13.53%) Technical Engineer
3 18 (13.53%) Technical Support Engineer
3 18 (13.53%) UX Engineer
4 14 (10.53%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 14 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (9.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (7.52%) Network Engineer
7 8 (6.02%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (6.02%) Developer
7 8 (6.02%) Lead
8 7 (5.26%) Site Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Perl Developer
9 6 (4.51%) Senior
10 5 (3.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.54%) Ajax
2 19 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 18 (13.53%) CSS
3 18 (13.53%) GraphQL
3 18 (13.53%) React
4 11 (8.27%) Node.js
5 8 (6.02%) YAML
6 7 (5.26%) REST
7 6 (4.51%) XMPP
8 5 (3.76%) Loki
9 3 (2.26%) AWS CDK
9 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (2.26%) Spring
10 2 (1.50%) SOAP
10 2 (1.50%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.75%) 802.1X
11 1 (0.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.79%) Mobile App
2 11 (8.27%) Data Centre
2 11 (8.27%) Product Ownership
3 10 (7.52%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (7.52%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.76%) Reference Data
4 5 (3.76%) Replication
5 4 (3.01%) CMDB
5 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.50%) NVMe
7 2 (1.50%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.75%) PKI
8 1 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 88 (66.17%) Linux
2 57 (42.86%) Windows
3 53 (39.85%) Unix
4 29 (21.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (15.04%) Android
6 14 (10.53%) Windows Server
7 10 (7.52%) CentOS
7 10 (7.52%) Ubuntu
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (3.01%) VMS
9 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.50%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (1.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (28.57%) OO
1 38 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (24.06%) CI/CD
3 30 (22.56%) DevOps
4 29 (21.80%) ITSM
5 22 (16.54%) User Experience
6 20 (15.04%) Agile
7 18 (13.53%) Mobile Application Development
7 18 (13.53%) Observability
8 16 (12.03%) Computer Science
8 16 (12.03%) Containerisation
8 16 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (12.03%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (11.28%) Service Management
10 13 (9.77%) OOP
10 13 (9.77%) Process Improvement
11 12 (9.02%) ITIL
12 11 (8.27%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (8.27%) Microservices
12 11 (8.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 112 (84.21%) Python
2 61 (45.86%) Java
3 45 (33.83%) PowerShell
4 33 (24.81%) JavaScript
5 32 (24.06%) Bash
6 26 (19.55%) SQL
7 20 (15.04%) Ruby
8 14 (10.53%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.26%) C#
10 5 (3.76%) Go
11 4 (3.01%) Groovy
12 3 (2.26%) C++
12 3 (2.26%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.50%) C
13 2 (1.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (18.05%) SC Cleared
1 24 (18.05%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.53%) Degree
3 13 (9.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (8.27%) CCDP
4 11 (8.27%) CCNP
4 11 (8.27%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (7.52%) RHCE
6 9 (6.77%) AWS Certification
7 8 (6.02%) CCNA
8 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.50%) NCDA
8 2 (1.50%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.50%) VCP6
8 2 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.75%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.50%) GDPR
2 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 25 (18.80%) Docker
2 13 (9.77%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.51%) KVM
3 6 (4.51%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (3.01%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.50%) GPFS
5 2 (1.50%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.50%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.75%) Lustre
6 1 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (24.81%) Ansible
2 27 (20.30%) Kubernetes
3 17 (12.78%) Grafana
4 15 (11.28%) Prometheus
4 15 (11.28%) Terraform
5 11 (8.27%) Puppet
6 6 (4.51%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (3.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (3.76%) NetBackup
8 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 2 (1.50%) Fluentd
9 2 (1.50%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.50%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.50%) Nagios
9 2 (1.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (1.50%) Packer
9 2 (1.50%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 47 (35.34%) Oracle
2 32 (24.06%) Microsoft
3 30 (22.56%) ServiceNow
4 28 (21.05%) Red Hat
5 24 (18.05%) Splunk
6 18 (13.53%) Cisco
6 18 (13.53%) VMware
7 9 (6.77%) Citrix
8 6 (4.51%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.51%) Veritas
9 5 (3.76%) Commvault
9 5 (3.76%) SolarWinds
10 4 (3.01%) F5
11 3 (2.26%) Juniper
11 3 (2.26%) Meraki
12 2 (1.50%) Brocade
12 2 (1.50%) NetApp
13 1 (0.75%) Aruba
13 1 (0.75%) Infoblox
13 1 (0.75%) Veeam