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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 227 272
Rank change year-on-year -89 +45 +25
Contract jobs citing Perl 110 112 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.88% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.11% 3.00% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 58 73
10th Percentile £204 £215 £351
25th Percentile £238 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +2.44% -0.10%
75th Percentile £537 £588 £575
90th Percentile £550 £679 £650
UK median daily rate £435 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -21.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile - - £50.00
25th Percentile £74.26 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% - -10.96%
75th Percentile £82.25 - £66.88
90th Percentile £84.00 - £68.00
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 5,202 3,735 5,059
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.32% 29.31% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,368 2,364 3,368
10th Percentile £330 £325 £313
25th Percentile £404 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £588
90th Percentile £644 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 184 413
10th Percentile £46.25 £21.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £58.11 £44.51 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.37 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% +2.88% -5.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £69.00
90th Percentile £77.30 £85.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -5.51%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -41 32 £208 -58.50% 20
North of England -59 30 £537 -2.36% 14
Scotland -5 23 £413 +11.34% 3
North West -25 19 £550 +29.41% 5
Midlands -52 14 £467 -24.52% 10
West Midlands -52 14 £467 -33.31% 5
East of England -26 11 £613 +2.08% 15
Yorkshire -71 10 £537 -2.36% 9
North East - 4 £550 -
South West -23 2 £513 -33.87% 6
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 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (6.36%) WebLogic
2 6 (5.45%) Confluence
2 6 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.91%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.91%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.91%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.91%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.82%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (22.73%) AWS
2 13 (11.82%) SaaS
3 11 (10.00%) Sauce Labs
4 10 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (8.18%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (8.18%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (8.18%) Amazon MSK
5 9 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (8.18%) Serverless
6 7 (6.36%) OpenShift
6 7 (6.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (5.45%) Azure
7 6 (5.45%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.64%) GCP
9 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.82%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.82%) OCI
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 24 (21.82%) Firewall
2 10 (9.09%) SAN
2 10 (9.09%) Wireless
3 8 (7.27%) TCP/IP
4 7 (6.36%) BGP
4 7 (6.36%) VLAN
5 6 (5.45%) NAS
5 6 (5.45%) WebEx
6 5 (4.55%) DNS
6 5 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (3.64%) DHCP
7 4 (3.64%) VPN
8 3 (2.73%) SNMP
9 2 (1.82%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.82%) LAN
9 2 (1.82%) SSL
9 2 (1.82%) WAN
9 2 (1.82%) WLAN
10 1 (0.91%) HTTP
10 1 (0.91%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.00%) MySQL
1 22 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.18%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.45%) Metadata
3 6 (5.45%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.73%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.82%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.91%) GIS
6 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (25.45%) Git
2 20 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 16 (14.55%) JIRA
4 11 (10.00%) Android Studio
4 11 (10.00%) Browser DevTools
4 11 (10.00%) Eclipse
4 11 (10.00%) Xcode
5 9 (8.18%) Bitbucket
5 9 (8.18%) GitLab
5 9 (8.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (5.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.91%) Introscope
7 1 (0.91%) Subversion
General
1 45 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 28 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.91%) Finance
4 10 (9.09%) Legal
5 9 (8.18%) Banking
5 9 (8.18%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (7.27%) Publishing
7 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.82%) Law
9 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.91%) French Language
Job Titles
1 20 (18.18%) Technical Support
2 13 (11.82%) Support Engineer
3 11 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 11 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 11 (10.00%) UX Engineer
4 9 (8.18%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (8.18%) Developer
5 8 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (7.27%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 8 (7.27%) Lead
6 7 (6.36%) Network Engineer
6 7 (6.36%) Senior
6 7 (6.36%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Perl Developer
8 5 (4.55%) Administrator
8 5 (4.55%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Architect
9 4 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.64%) Ajax
2 11 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 11 (10.00%) CSS
2 11 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 11 (10.00%) React
3 10 (9.09%) Node.js
4 9 (8.18%) REST
5 8 (7.27%) Loki
5 8 (7.27%) YAML
6 7 (6.36%) Spring
7 6 (5.45%) Spring Boot
7 6 (5.45%) XMPP
8 1 (0.91%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.91%) JDBC
8 1 (0.91%) JMS
8 1 (0.91%) Kafka
8 1 (0.91%) MERN Stack
8 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.91%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.45%) Data Centre
2 12 (10.91%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (10.91%) Mobile App
2 12 (10.91%) Product Ownership
3 9 (8.18%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.55%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.64%) Clustering
5 4 (3.64%) CMDB
6 2 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.82%) NVMe
6 2 (1.82%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.91%) PKI
7 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.91%) Replication
7 1 (0.91%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 73 (66.36%) Linux
2 47 (42.73%) Windows
3 42 (38.18%) Unix
4 30 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (15.45%) Windows Server
6 12 (10.91%) Android
7 10 (9.09%) CentOS
7 10 (9.09%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.73%) Solaris
9 2 (1.82%) AIX
10 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.91%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.45%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (26.36%) CI/CD
3 26 (23.64%) ITSM
3 26 (23.64%) OO
4 23 (20.91%) DevOps
5 21 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (13.64%) Microservices
6 15 (13.64%) User Experience
7 14 (12.73%) Containerisation
7 14 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (11.82%) Computer Science
8 13 (11.82%) Software Engineering
9 12 (10.91%) Agile
9 12 (10.91%) Data Protection
9 12 (10.91%) Observability
9 12 (10.91%) Scrum
9 12 (10.91%) Service Management
10 11 (10.00%) ITIL
10 11 (10.00%) Mobile Application Development
10 11 (10.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 87 (79.09%) Python
2 46 (41.82%) Java
3 44 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 27 (24.55%) SQL
5 25 (22.73%) Bash
6 23 (20.91%) JavaScript
7 20 (18.18%) Ruby
8 10 (9.09%) Shell Script
9 7 (6.36%) C#
10 3 (2.73%) C++
10 3 (2.73%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.82%) C
12 1 (0.91%) Go
12 1 (0.91%) Jython
12 1 (0.91%) PHP
12 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (20.91%) SC Cleared
1 23 (20.91%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.64%) Degree
3 10 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 10 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (9.09%) RHCE
4 9 (8.18%) CCDP
4 9 (8.18%) CCNA
4 9 (8.18%) CCNP
4 9 (8.18%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.82%) NCDA
5 2 (1.82%) RHCSA
5 2 (1.82%) VCP6
5 2 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.91%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.82%) GDPR
2 1 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 16 (14.55%) Docker
2 14 (12.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.45%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.82%) Firmware
5 2 (1.82%) GPFS
5 2 (1.82%) KVM
5 2 (1.82%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.82%) PowerHA
5 2 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.82%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.91%) Lustre
6 1 (0.91%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (25.45%) Ansible
2 25 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 11 (10.00%) Puppet
4 10 (9.09%) Grafana
5 8 (7.27%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.36%) NetBackup
7 5 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.73%) Terraform
9 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 2 (1.82%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (1.82%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (1.82%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.82%) vMotion
9 2 (1.82%) vRealize
10 1 (0.91%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.91%) SCCM
10 1 (0.91%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 37 (33.64%) Oracle
2 30 (27.27%) Red Hat
3 22 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 19 (17.27%) VMware
5 15 (13.64%) Cisco
5 15 (13.64%) ServiceNow
6 14 (12.73%) Splunk
7 10 (9.09%) Citrix
8 8 (7.27%) Veritas
9 4 (3.64%) IBM
10 3 (2.73%) Juniper
10 3 (2.73%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.82%) Brocade
11 2 (1.82%) Commvault
11 2 (1.82%) NetApp
11 2 (1.82%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.91%) Aruba
12 1 (0.91%) Dell
12 1 (0.91%) HP
12 1 (0.91%) Veeam