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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 229 297
Rank change year-on-year -125 +68 -34
Contract jobs citing Perl 82 107 100
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.84% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.45% 2.87% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 52 52
10th Percentile £204 £393 £364
25th Percentile £204 £470 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £514 £515
Median % change year-on-year -17.32% -0.19% -1.90%
75th Percentile £500 £570 £575
90th Percentile £537 £575 £648
UK median daily rate £450 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -13.46% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £69.04 - £48.50
25th Percentile £76.32 - £51.88
Median hourly rate £78.75 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82.69 - £65.63
90th Percentile £84.00 - £67.50
UK median hourly rate £78.75 £70.00 £61.75
% change year-on-year +12.50% +13.36% +17.62%

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 5,648 3,728 4,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.66% 29.09% 23.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,553 2,494 3,298
10th Percentile £328 £322 £319
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £562 £585
90th Percentile £644 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 493 162 426
10th Percentile £40.25 £27.95 £37.55
25th Percentile £55.00 £44.63 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.37 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% +1.40% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.85 £85.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.36
% change year-on-year +13.04% -7.79% -0.23%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -9 27 £425 -15.00% 1
South East -52 23 £208 -59.63% 4
North of England -91 12 £537 -0.09% 1
West Midlands -55 11 £465 -2.11%
Midlands -55 11 £465 -2.11%
East of England -25 9 - - 4
Yorkshire -63 9 £531 -3.45%
North West -41 3 £563 +43.13% 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 6 (7.32%) WebLogic
2 5 (6.10%) Confluence
3 4 (4.88%) WebSphere
3 4 (4.88%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.44%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (2.44%) JBoss
4 2 (2.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (2.44%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (1.22%) Apache
5 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.85%) OpenShift
2 10 (12.20%) AWS
3 7 (8.54%) SaaS
4 6 (7.32%) Sauce Labs
5 4 (4.88%) ChatGPT
6 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.44%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (2.44%) Azure
7 2 (2.44%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.44%) OCI
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.22%) GCP
8 1 (1.22%) GitHub
8 1 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.29%) SAN
2 10 (12.20%) NAS
3 5 (6.10%) Firewall
4 4 (4.88%) DNS
5 3 (3.66%) SSL
5 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.44%) BGP
6 2 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (2.44%) HTTP
6 2 (2.44%) Network Security
7 1 (1.22%) BIG-IP
7 1 (1.22%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.22%) InfiniBand
7 1 (1.22%) IPsec
7 1 (1.22%) L2TP
7 1 (1.22%) Multicast
7 1 (1.22%) VLAN
7 1 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.17%) Relational Database
2 17 (20.73%) MySQL
3 10 (12.20%) Metadata
4 7 (8.54%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.88%) DB2
6 2 (2.44%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (2.44%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.44%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (17.07%) Git
2 12 (14.63%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.76%) JIRA
4 6 (7.32%) Android Studio
4 6 (7.32%) Browser DevTools
4 6 (7.32%) Eclipse
4 6 (7.32%) Xcode
5 5 (6.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (3.66%) GitLab
7 2 (2.44%) Introscope
8 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.98%) Finance
4 8 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (9.76%) Publishing
5 2 (2.44%) Banking
5 2 (2.44%) Front Office
5 2 (2.44%) Law
5 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.22%) Legal
6 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (18.29%) Technical Support
2 12 (14.63%) Developer
3 10 (12.20%) Support Engineer
4 9 (10.98%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Lead
5 8 (9.76%) Perl Developer
5 8 (9.76%) Technical Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Technical Support Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Analyst
6 6 (7.32%) Programmer
6 6 (7.32%) Python Programmer
6 6 (7.32%) Technical Analyst
6 6 (7.32%) UX Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Senior
7 5 (6.10%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.63%) REST
2 9 (10.98%) Ajax
2 9 (10.98%) YAML
3 8 (9.76%) Loki
4 6 (7.32%) AngularJS
4 6 (7.32%) CSS
4 6 (7.32%) GraphQL
4 6 (7.32%) Kafka
4 6 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (7.32%) React
5 5 (6.10%) Spring
5 5 (6.10%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.88%) Celery
6 4 (4.88%) Middleware
7 2 (2.44%) JDBC
7 2 (2.44%) JMS
7 2 (2.44%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (1.22%) LAMP
8 1 (1.22%) Node.js
8 1 (1.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Legacy Systems
1 12 (14.63%) Management Information System
2 10 (12.20%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.32%) Mobile App
4 5 (6.10%) Clustering
4 5 (6.10%) Reference Data
5 4 (4.88%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (3.66%) CMDB
6 3 (3.66%) Derivative
7 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.44%) NVMe
8 1 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.22%) Equities
8 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (56.10%) Linux
2 41 (50.00%) Unix
3 30 (36.59%) Windows
4 18 (21.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (9.76%) CentOS
5 8 (9.76%) Ubuntu
5 8 (9.76%) Windows Server
6 6 (7.32%) Android
7 3 (3.66%) AIX
8 2 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (35.37%) CI/CD
3 22 (26.83%) OO
4 16 (19.51%) DevOps
5 15 (18.29%) Data Protection
6 14 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (15.85%) OOP
8 12 (14.63%) Computer Science
8 12 (14.63%) ITSM
9 11 (13.41%) Migration
9 11 (13.41%) Process Improvement
10 10 (12.20%) Agile
10 10 (12.20%) Data Architecture
10 10 (12.20%) Software Engineering
11 9 (10.98%) Observability
11 9 (10.98%) TDD
12 8 (9.76%) Data Deduplication
12 8 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (9.76%) RBAC
12 8 (9.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 64 (78.05%) Python
2 34 (41.46%) Java
3 29 (35.37%) SQL
4 22 (26.83%) PowerShell
5 18 (21.95%) JavaScript
6 10 (12.20%) Ruby
7 9 (10.98%) Shell Script
8 8 (9.76%) Bash
9 6 (7.32%) C#
10 3 (3.66%) C++
11 2 (2.44%) C
11 2 (2.44%) Jython
11 2 (2.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (17.07%) Degree
2 12 (14.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (9.76%) RHCE
3 8 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.76%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.44%) CCNP
4 2 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.44%) NCDA
4 2 (2.44%) VCP6
4 2 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.22%) CCDP
5 1 (1.22%) CCIE
5 1 (1.22%) CCNA
5 1 (1.22%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (3.66%) Firmware
1 3 (3.66%) PowerHA
1 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.44%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (2.44%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.22%) GPFS
3 1 (1.22%) Lustre
3 1 (1.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 26 (31.71%) Ansible
2 17 (20.73%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.20%) Grafana
3 10 (12.20%) NetBackup
4 9 (10.98%) Puppet
5 8 (9.76%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.44%) CA Wily
6 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (2.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (2.44%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (2.44%) Terraform
6 2 (2.44%) Tivoli
6 2 (2.44%) vMotion
6 2 (2.44%) vRealize
7 1 (1.22%) Consul
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (1.22%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.22%) Salt
Vendors
1 25 (30.49%) Oracle
2 18 (21.95%) Red Hat
3 10 (12.20%) Veritas
4 7 (8.54%) IBM
4 7 (8.54%) Splunk
5 6 (7.32%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.88%) Sybase
7 3 (3.66%) Cisco
7 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.66%) VMware
8 2 (2.44%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.44%) Brocade
8 2 (2.44%) Commvault
8 2 (2.44%) NetApp
9 1 (1.22%) Arista
9 1 (1.22%) Citrix
9 1 (1.22%) F5
9 1 (1.22%) Fortinet
9 1 (1.22%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.22%) McAfee