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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 237 286
Rank change year-on-year -179 +49 -11
Contract jobs citing Perl 49 137 88
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.89% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.82% 3.20% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 81 55
10th Percentile £204 £204 £203
25th Percentile £351 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +5.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £534
90th Percentile £631 £575 £665
UK median daily rate £471 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -5.85% -2.95% -6.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £58.38
25th Percentile - £65.75 £59.69
Median hourly rate £77.00 £66.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +4.31% +10.87%
75th Percentile - £67.25 £67.19
90th Percentile - - £68.13
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £66.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.79% +2.31% +23.81%

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 6,004 4,281 4,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.67% 27.76% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,692 2,778 2,828
10th Percentile £329 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £584
90th Percentile £669 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +3.90% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 448 210 282
10th Percentile £29.96 £31.25 £35.06
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.00 £54.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.15 £76.38 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +4.00%

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 August 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 29 August 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 -44 21 £470 -6.47% 17
South East -90 10 £208 -48.38% 16
North of England -89 7 £563 +8.17% 12
West Midlands -47 6 £456 -3.95% 3
Midlands -57 6 £456 -3.95% 3
South West -41 4 £613 - 21
North West -67 4 £575 +46.31% 7
Yorkshire -52 2 - - 2
East of England -27 1 - - 28
North East -40 1 £475 -11.21% 3
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 4 (8.16%) WebSphere
1 4 (8.16%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (4.08%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (4.08%) JBoss
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (4.08%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.04%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 4 (8.16%) ChatGPT
3 3 (6.12%) Anthropic Claude
3 3 (6.12%) GCP
3 3 (6.12%) GitHub
3 3 (6.12%) IaaS
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (6.12%) SaaS
3 3 (6.12%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (4.08%) AWS
4 2 (4.08%) Azure
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.41%) SAN
2 5 (10.20%) DNS
3 4 (8.16%) Firewall
3 4 (8.16%) NAS
3 4 (8.16%) SSL
4 3 (6.12%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.08%) BGP
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (4.08%) DMZ
5 2 (4.08%) DWDM
5 2 (4.08%) Internet
5 2 (4.08%) IPsec
5 2 (4.08%) MPLS
5 2 (4.08%) Network Security
5 2 (4.08%) OSPF
5 2 (4.08%) VPN
5 2 (4.08%) WAN
5 2 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (4.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) Relational Database
2 5 (10.20%) MySQL
3 4 (8.16%) Db2
3 4 (8.16%) Metadata
4 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.08%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.04%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (2.04%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.16%) Git
3 3 (6.12%) Android Studio
3 3 (6.12%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (6.12%) Eclipse
3 3 (6.12%) GitLab
3 3 (6.12%) JIRA
3 3 (6.12%) Xcode
4 2 (4.08%) Introscope
General
1 10 (20.41%) Finance
2 9 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Front Office
5 2 (4.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Senior
2 8 (16.33%) Analyst
3 7 (14.29%) Developer
4 5 (10.20%) Python Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Support Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Technical Support
4 5 (10.20%) Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Administrator
5 4 (8.16%) AIX Administrator
5 4 (8.16%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Middleware Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (8.16%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Programmer
6 3 (6.12%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Python Programmer
6 3 (6.12%) Server Administrator
6 3 (6.12%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) Kafka
1 6 (12.24%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (10.20%) Middleware
3 4 (8.16%) Celery
4 3 (6.12%) Ajax
4 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.12%) CSS
4 3 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.12%) GraphQL
4 3 (6.12%) React
4 3 (6.12%) REST
4 3 (6.12%) Terraform
5 2 (4.08%) 802.1X
5 2 (4.08%) JDBC
5 2 (4.08%) JMS
5 2 (4.08%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (2.04%) RESTful
6 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Clustering
1 8 (16.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.20%) Private Cloud
3 4 (8.16%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (8.16%) Equity Derivative
3 4 (8.16%) Security Posture
4 3 (6.12%) CSOC
4 3 (6.12%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (6.12%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.12%) Derivative
4 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.12%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.12%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.08%) Equities
5 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (51.02%) Linux
1 25 (51.02%) Unix
2 14 (28.57%) Windows
3 6 (12.24%) AIX
4 5 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.12%) Android
6 2 (4.08%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (4.08%) Solaris
6 2 (4.08%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.53%) CI/CD
1 13 (26.53%) Migration
2 11 (22.45%) Root Cause Analysis
3 10 (20.41%) ITIL
3 10 (20.41%) OO
4 9 (18.37%) DevOps
4 9 (18.37%) Test Automation
5 8 (16.33%) Data Protection
6 7 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 7 (14.29%) Data Lineage
6 7 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (14.29%) Generative AI
6 7 (14.29%) OOP
6 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (12.24%) AI
7 6 (12.24%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (12.24%) Data Centre Operations
7 6 (12.24%) Security Hardening
8 5 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (10.20%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 48 (97.96%) Python
2 14 (28.57%) Java
3 11 (22.45%) Bash
4 10 (20.41%) PowerShell
4 10 (20.41%) SQL
5 7 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 6 (12.24%) JavaScript
7 5 (10.20%) C++
8 2 (4.08%) C
8 2 (4.08%) Jython
9 1 (2.04%) Ruby
9 1 (2.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Degree
2 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) A+ Certification
4 2 (4.08%) CCIE
4 2 (4.08%) CCNP
4 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.08%) CompTIA CySA+
4 2 (4.08%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.04%) MCSE
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Firmware
1 6 (12.24%) PowerHA
2 4 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.08%) Docker
3 2 (4.08%) GPFS
3 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.08%) vSphere
4 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.04%) Lustre
4 1 (2.04%) NFS
4 1 (2.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (20.41%) Ansible
2 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.12%) NetBackup
3 3 (6.12%) Puppet
3 3 (6.12%) Salt
3 3 (6.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (4.08%) CA Wily
4 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
4 2 (4.08%) Tivoli
5 1 (2.04%) Consul
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (2.04%) Packer
5 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) IBM
2 8 (16.33%) Oracle
3 6 (12.24%) Red Hat
4 5 (10.20%) Splunk
5 4 (8.16%) SaltStack
5 4 (8.16%) Sybase
5 4 (8.16%) Veritas
5 4 (8.16%) VMware
6 3 (6.12%) Clearswift
6 3 (6.12%) Commvault
6 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
6 3 (6.12%) SolarWinds
6 3 (6.12%) Tanium
6 3 (6.12%) Trend Micro
6 3 (6.12%) Tripwire
6 3 (6.12%) Veeam
7 2 (4.08%) AppDynamics
7 2 (4.08%) Arista
7 2 (4.08%) Cisco
7 2 (4.08%) Fortinet