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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 243 294
Rank change year-on-year -162 +51 -22
Contract jobs citing Perl 53 133 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.88% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.87% 3.20% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 78 50
10th Percentile £204 £216 £203
25th Percentile £400 £431 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £578 £549 £518
90th Percentile £627 £575 £609
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £58.38
25th Percentile - - £59.69
Median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% +1.96% +21.43%
75th Percentile - - £67.19
90th Percentile - - £68.13
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% - +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 6,123 4,156 4,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.56% 27.56% 23.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,799 2,738 3,013
10th Percentile £335 £308 £325
25th Percentile £410 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -4.52% -0.50%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £588
90th Percentile £656 £619 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 186 339
10th Percentile £33.70 £29.29 £31.13
25th Percentile £53.53 £50.00 £53.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +7.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.35 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -33 21 £450 -10.45% 3
South East -83 11 £208 -58.50% 12
Midlands -55 10 £465 -2.11% 1
West Midlands -62 10 £465 -2.11% 1
North of England -94 6 £575 +9.52% 6
South West -44 4 £613 -2.00% 7
North West -62 4 £575 +46.31% 4
Yorkshire -64 2 - - 2
East of England -25 1 - - 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 5 (9.43%) Confluence
2 4 (7.55%) WebLogic
2 4 (7.55%) WebSphere
2 4 (7.55%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (3.77%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (3.77%) JBoss
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (3.77%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.89%) Apache
4 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.89%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.09%) OpenShift
2 6 (11.32%) AWS
3 4 (7.55%) ChatGPT
4 3 (5.66%) Anthropic Claude
4 3 (5.66%) GitHub
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (5.66%) SaaS
4 3 (5.66%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (3.77%) Azure
5 2 (3.77%) GCP
6 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.89%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.64%) SAN
2 6 (11.32%) NAS
3 5 (9.43%) DNS
3 5 (9.43%) Firewall
4 4 (7.55%) SSL
5 3 (5.66%) BGP
5 3 (5.66%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (5.66%) Network Security
5 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.77%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (3.77%) DMZ
6 2 (3.77%) DWDM
6 2 (3.77%) HTTP
6 2 (3.77%) Internet
6 2 (3.77%) L2TP
6 2 (3.77%) MPLS
6 2 (3.77%) Multicast
6 2 (3.77%) OSPF
6 2 (3.77%) VPN
6 2 (3.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) Relational Database
2 6 (11.32%) MongoDB
2 6 (11.32%) MySQL
3 4 (7.55%) Db2
3 4 (7.55%) Metadata
4 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.89%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.89%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Git
1 8 (15.09%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.21%) JIRA
3 4 (7.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (5.66%) Android Studio
4 3 (5.66%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (5.66%) Eclipse
4 3 (5.66%) Xcode
5 2 (3.77%) GitLab
5 2 (3.77%) Introscope
General
1 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Finance
3 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Front Office
5 2 (3.77%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (20.75%) Senior
2 10 (18.87%) Analyst
3 8 (15.09%) Developer
4 6 (11.32%) Support Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Programmer
5 5 (9.43%) Python Programmer
5 5 (9.43%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Technical Support
5 5 (9.43%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Administrator
6 4 (7.55%) AIX Administrator
6 4 (7.55%) Middleware Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Python Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.66%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) Kafka
1 6 (11.32%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (9.43%) REST
3 4 (7.55%) Celery
3 4 (7.55%) Middleware
3 4 (7.55%) Spring
3 4 (7.55%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.66%) Ajax
4 3 (5.66%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.66%) CSS
4 3 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (5.66%) GraphQL
4 3 (5.66%) React
5 2 (3.77%) 802.1X
5 2 (3.77%) JDBC
5 2 (3.77%) JMS
5 2 (3.77%) Loki
5 2 (3.77%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (1.89%) LAMP
6 1 (1.89%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Data Centre
2 8 (15.09%) Clustering
3 5 (9.43%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.55%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (7.55%) Security Posture
5 3 (5.66%) CSOC
5 3 (5.66%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (5.66%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.66%) Derivative
5 3 (5.66%) Mobile App
5 3 (5.66%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.77%) Equities
6 2 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.77%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (54.72%) Linux
2 28 (52.83%) Unix
3 16 (30.19%) Windows
4 8 (15.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (11.32%) AIX
6 4 (7.55%) Windows Server
7 3 (5.66%) Android
8 2 (3.77%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (3.77%) Solaris
8 2 (3.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.30%) CI/CD
2 13 (24.53%) Migration
2 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (20.75%) OO
4 10 (18.87%) ITIL
4 10 (18.87%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (16.98%) Data Protection
6 8 (15.09%) TDD
7 7 (13.21%) Data Lineage
7 7 (13.21%) DevOps
7 7 (13.21%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (13.21%) Generative AI
7 7 (13.21%) Software Engineering
8 6 (11.32%) AI
8 6 (11.32%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (11.32%) Data Centre Operations
8 6 (11.32%) Roadmaps
8 6 (11.32%) Security Hardening
8 6 (11.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (92.45%) Python
2 17 (32.08%) Java
3 13 (24.53%) PowerShell
3 13 (24.53%) SQL
4 12 (22.64%) Bash
5 10 (18.87%) Shell Script
6 7 (13.21%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.55%) C++
8 2 (3.77%) Jython
9 1 (1.89%) C
9 1 (1.89%) PHP
9 1 (1.89%) Ruby
9 1 (1.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.09%) Degree
3 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
4 5 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (9.43%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.66%) CCNP
5 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.77%) A+ Certification
6 2 (3.77%) CCIE
6 2 (3.77%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.89%) CCDP
7 1 (1.89%) CCNA
7 1 (1.89%) MCSE
7 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Firmware
1 6 (11.32%) PowerHA
2 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.77%) vSphere
4 1 (1.89%) Docker
4 1 (1.89%) GPFS
4 1 (1.89%) Lustre
4 1 (1.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.98%) Ansible
3 5 (9.43%) NetBackup
4 3 (5.66%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (3.77%) CA Wily
5 2 (3.77%) Grafana
5 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.77%) Puppet
5 2 (3.77%) Salt
5 2 (3.77%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.89%) Consul
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Oracle
2 10 (18.87%) IBM
2 10 (18.87%) Red Hat
3 5 (9.43%) Splunk
3 5 (9.43%) Veritas
4 4 (7.55%) Sybase
5 3 (5.66%) Clearswift
5 3 (5.66%) Commvault
5 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.66%) SolarWinds
5 3 (5.66%) Tanium
5 3 (5.66%) Trend Micro
5 3 (5.66%) Tripwire
5 3 (5.66%) Veeam
5 3 (5.66%) VMware
6 2 (3.77%) AppDynamics
6 2 (3.77%) Arista
6 2 (3.77%) Cisco
6 2 (3.77%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.77%) McAfee