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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 247 268
Rank change year-on-year -24 +21 +49
Contract jobs citing Perl 130 114 144
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.72% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.82% 2.71% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 65 103
10th Percentile - £203 £305
25th Percentile £204 £348 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £426 £467
Median % change year-on-year +7.51% -8.78% -9.32%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £569
90th Percentile £559 £700 £658
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £68.30 - -
25th Percentile £72.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +14.25% +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 4,614 4,208 5,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.84% 26.56% 25.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,980 2,507 3,543
10th Percentile £313 £331 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £565 £581 £600
90th Percentile £644 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 219 332
10th Percentile £40.63 £21.85 £32.84
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £68.00 £69.22 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £82.25
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +3.20% +3.31% -3.20%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 -7 39 £208 +1.22% 21
North of England -16 34 £550 +15.79% 3
Scotland -7 31 £440 -5.88% 6
North West +6 25 £550 +29.41%
West Midlands -18 17 £475 +12.29%
Midlands -24 17 £475 +12.29% 2
North East - 7 £550 -
South West -9 5 £513 -34.92% 2
Yorkshire -41 5 £559 +1.64% 3
East of England -20 4 £613 +2.08% 4
Northern Ireland -8 2 - -
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 15 (11.54%) Confluence
2 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.62%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.08%) JBoss
5 3 (2.31%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.54%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.77%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.77%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.54%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (34.62%) AWS
2 23 (17.69%) Amazon EC2
3 21 (16.15%) SaaS
4 20 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 19 (14.62%) Sauce Labs
6 15 (11.54%) Amazon S3
7 12 (9.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (8.46%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (8.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (8.46%) Azure
9 10 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
9 10 (7.69%) Amazon Glacier
9 10 (7.69%) AWS KMS
10 9 (6.92%) OpenShift
11 8 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.15%) Amazon MSK
11 8 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (6.15%) Serverless
12 7 (5.38%) GCP
13 6 (4.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 38 (29.23%) Firewall
2 20 (15.38%) Wireless
3 18 (13.85%) DNS
4 16 (12.31%) HTTP
4 16 (12.31%) TCP/IP
5 10 (7.69%) FTP
5 10 (7.69%) SMTP
5 10 (7.69%) SSH
6 9 (6.92%) BGP
7 8 (6.15%) DHCP
8 6 (4.62%) VLAN
8 6 (4.62%) WebEx
9 5 (3.85%) LAN
9 5 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (3.85%) SSL
9 5 (3.85%) WAN
9 5 (3.85%) WLAN
10 4 (3.08%) VPN
11 3 (2.31%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (2.31%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (27.69%) Relational Database
2 31 (23.85%) MySQL
3 18 (13.85%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.62%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.08%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.31%) DB2
7 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.54%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.54%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.77%) GIS
9 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 45 (34.62%) Git
2 27 (20.77%) Jenkins
2 27 (20.77%) JIRA
3 20 (15.38%) Browser DevTools
4 19 (14.62%) Android Studio
4 19 (14.62%) Eclipse
4 19 (14.62%) Xcode
5 12 (9.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (7.69%) Bitbucket
6 10 (7.69%) GitLab
6 10 (7.69%) Vagrant
7 4 (3.08%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.08%) TeamCity
8 3 (2.31%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (2.31%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.77%) JUnit
9 1 (0.77%) Subversion
General
1 49 (37.69%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.46%) Public Sector
3 20 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.31%) Finance
5 12 (9.23%) Banking
6 9 (6.92%) Legal
7 3 (2.31%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.77%) French Language
9 1 (0.77%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 29 (22.31%) Technical Support
2 20 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (15.38%) Support Engineer
2 20 (15.38%) Technical Engineer
2 20 (15.38%) Technical Support Engineer
2 20 (15.38%) UX Engineer
3 18 (13.85%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 17 (13.08%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (9.23%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (9.23%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) Network Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Analyst
7 9 (6.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Technical Analyst
8 8 (6.15%) Programmer
8 8 (6.15%) Python Programmer
9 7 (5.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) Developer
10 6 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.46%) AngularJS
2 21 (16.15%) Ajax
3 20 (15.38%) CSS
3 20 (15.38%) GraphQL
3 20 (15.38%) React
4 11 (8.46%) Node.js
5 6 (4.62%) RESTful
5 6 (4.62%) XMPP
6 5 (3.85%) SOAP
6 5 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.08%) AWS CDK
7 4 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.08%) REST
8 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (2.31%) Spring
9 1 (0.77%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.77%) J2SE
9 1 (0.77%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.69%) Mobile App
2 11 (8.46%) Product Ownership
2 11 (8.46%) Replication
3 10 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 9 (6.92%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.92%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.31%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.54%) Clustering
7 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.54%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.77%) FPGA
8 1 (0.77%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 95 (73.08%) Linux
2 59 (45.38%) Windows
3 56 (43.08%) Unix
4 23 (17.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (16.92%) Android
6 10 (7.69%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (7.69%) VMS
6 10 (7.69%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.31%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.54%) CentOS
8 2 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (1.54%) Solaris
8 2 (1.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (31.54%) OO
2 34 (26.15%) DevOps
3 26 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (19.23%) CI/CD
5 24 (18.46%) User Experience
6 22 (16.92%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (15.38%) Mobile Application Development
8 19 (14.62%) Agile
9 18 (13.85%) ITSM
10 16 (12.31%) Microservices
11 15 (11.54%) Configuration Management
11 15 (11.54%) Containerisation
11 15 (11.54%) Migration
11 15 (11.54%) Service Management
12 14 (10.77%) Observability
13 13 (10.00%) Change Management
13 13 (10.00%) Patch Management
14 12 (9.23%) Cloud Security
14 12 (9.23%) Computer Science
15 11 (8.46%) AI
Programming Languages
1 117 (90.00%) Python
2 66 (50.77%) Java
3 36 (27.69%) PowerShell
4 34 (26.15%) Bash
4 34 (26.15%) JavaScript
5 16 (12.31%) SQL
6 15 (11.54%) Shell Script
7 11 (8.46%) Ruby
8 10 (7.69%) Groovy
9 7 (5.38%) Go
10 4 (3.08%) C++
11 3 (2.31%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.31%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.54%) Tcl
13 1 (0.77%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.77%) C
13 1 (0.77%) C#
13 1 (0.77%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 30 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 30 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.77%) Degree
3 11 (8.46%) CCDP
3 11 (8.46%) CCNP
3 11 (8.46%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.15%) AWS Certification
5 8 (6.15%) CCNA
6 2 (1.54%) RHCE
6 2 (1.54%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.62%) QA
2 2 (1.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (26.15%) Docker
2 23 (17.69%) Active Directory
3 11 (8.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (7.69%) DFS Replication
5 6 (4.62%) KVM
5 6 (4.62%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.31%) GPFS
7 2 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.77%) Lustre
8 1 (0.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 22 (16.92%) Terraform
3 19 (14.62%) Ansible
4 15 (11.54%) Grafana
4 15 (11.54%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.62%) Progress Chef
5 6 (4.62%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (3.08%) Kibana
8 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.31%) Packer
8 3 (2.31%) Puppet
9 2 (1.54%) BladeLogic
9 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 2 (1.54%) Fluentd
9 2 (1.54%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.54%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.54%) Nagios
9 2 (1.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (1.54%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 45 (34.62%) Oracle
2 37 (28.46%) ServiceNow
3 35 (26.92%) Microsoft
4 30 (23.08%) Splunk
5 24 (18.46%) Red Hat
6 16 (12.31%) Cisco
6 16 (12.31%) VMware
7 9 (6.92%) Citrix
8 7 (5.38%) F5
9 6 (4.62%) Palo Alto
10 5 (3.85%) SolarWinds
11 4 (3.08%) AppDynamics
11 4 (3.08%) Infoblox
11 4 (3.08%) MuleSoft
12 3 (2.31%) Cloudera
12 3 (2.31%) Commvault
12 3 (2.31%) Juniper
12 3 (2.31%) Meraki
13 2 (1.54%) HP
13 2 (1.54%) IBM