Perl Contracts in the UK excluding London

Perl
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Perl skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Perl over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 300 264
Rank change year-on-year +64 -36 +85
Contract jobs citing Perl 107 97 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.82% 0.47% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.83% 1.97% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 49 104
10th Percentile £393 £359 £403
25th Percentile £470 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -1.90% +6.28%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £650
90th Percentile £575 £630 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - £48.50 £37.80
25th Percentile - £51.88 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +9.56%
75th Percentile - £65.63 £64.61
90th Percentile - £67.50 £69.33
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £61.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +13.36% +17.62% +14.13%

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 3,784 4,920 6,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.03% 23.74% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,522 3,294 4,475
10th Percentile £321 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% -2.65% -
75th Percentile £558 £582 £594
90th Percentile £638 £650 £679
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 430 324
10th Percentile £27.91 £37.55 £26.16
25th Percentile £44.51 £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.26% -0.80% +22.11%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Perl in the UK excluding London

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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend 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 31 May 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
Scotland -1 32 £500 -4.76% 19
North of England +25 30 £538 +4.62% 42
South East +48 24 £514 -2.10% 21
Yorkshire +26 18 £550 +23.60% 8
North West +4 11 £393 -23.69% 34
Midlands +12 8 £475 +32.22% 12
South West +46 7 £625 +5.93% 11
West Midlands +16 6 £475 -3.80% 6
East of England - 6 £283 - 23
East Midlands +5 2 £506 +42.13% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 9
North East - 1 £550 -
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (16.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (9.35%) JBoss
3 6 (5.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (4.67%) Confluence
5 4 (3.74%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.87%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (3.74%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (3.74%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 30 (28.04%) AWS
2 12 (11.21%) Azure
3 11 (10.28%) OpenShift
4 8 (7.48%) IaaS
5 5 (4.67%) GCP
6 4 (3.74%) OCI
7 3 (2.80%) GitHub
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.87%) SaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Glacier
9 1 (0.93%) AWS KMS
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.93%) Fivetran
9 1 (0.93%) Serverless
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (25.23%) DNS
2 10 (9.35%) Firewall
3 6 (5.61%) DHCP
4 4 (3.74%) HTTP
4 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.80%) Internet
5 3 (2.80%) Network Security
5 3 (2.80%) SAN
5 3 (2.80%) SSH
5 3 (2.80%) SSL
6 2 (1.87%) NAS
6 2 (1.87%) NetScaler
6 2 (1.87%) VPN
7 1 (0.93%) DMZ
7 1 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.93%) FTP
7 1 (0.93%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.93%) Multicast
7 1 (0.93%) SMTP
7 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.63%) Oracle Database
2 11 (10.28%) Relational Database
3 10 (9.35%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (8.41%) RDBMS
5 6 (5.61%) GIS
5 6 (5.61%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.74%) DB2
6 4 (3.74%) MySQL
6 4 (3.74%) Oracle BI EE
7 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.87%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.93%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.93%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 23 (21.50%) Git
1 23 (21.50%) Jenkins
2 19 (17.76%) JIRA
3 10 (9.35%) Bitbucket Server
3 10 (9.35%) CA Release Automation
3 10 (9.35%) SonarQube
3 10 (9.35%) Sonatype Nexus
3 10 (9.35%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.80%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.87%) Subversion
6 1 (0.93%) Vagrant
General
1 30 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.74%) Aerospace
3 4 (3.74%) Banking
3 4 (3.74%) Finance
4 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.87%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (15.89%) Linux Engineer
2 11 (10.28%) Developer
2 11 (10.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (10.28%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (9.35%) Analyst
3 10 (9.35%) Programmer
3 10 (9.35%) Python Engineer
3 10 (9.35%) Python Programmer
3 10 (9.35%) Technical Analyst
4 9 (8.41%) Administrator
4 9 (8.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 8 (7.48%) Consultant
5 8 (7.48%) Engineering Specialist
5 8 (7.48%) Network Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) Unix Engineer
6 7 (6.54%) VMware Engineer
7 6 (5.61%) Senior
7 6 (5.61%) Solutions Consultant
8 5 (4.67%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.67%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.28%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (9.35%) Spring Boot
3 6 (5.61%) SOAP
4 5 (4.67%) Node.js
5 3 (2.80%) HTML
6 2 (1.87%) CSS
6 2 (1.87%) Middleware
6 2 (1.87%) Spring
7 1 (0.93%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.93%) Flash
7 1 (0.93%) JSON
7 1 (0.93%) POSIX
7 1 (0.93%) REST
7 1 (0.93%) XML
7 1 (0.93%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.76%) Linux Command Line
1 19 (17.76%) Management Information System
2 12 (11.21%) SCADA
3 11 (10.28%) Virtual Team
4 9 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (7.48%) Operational Technology
6 5 (4.67%) Replication
7 4 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.87%) Clustering
9 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.93%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 81 (75.70%) Linux
2 42 (39.25%) Windows
3 41 (38.32%) Unix
4 20 (18.69%) Windows Server
5 15 (14.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.67%) Solaris
7 4 (3.74%) AIX
8 2 (1.87%) CentOS
8 2 (1.87%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (1.87%) HPUX
8 2 (1.87%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (28.97%) Agile
2 26 (24.30%) Microservices
3 23 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (20.56%) Continuous Integration
5 21 (19.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (18.69%) High Availability
6 20 (18.69%) Migration
7 19 (17.76%) DevOps
8 18 (16.82%) SOA
9 17 (15.89%) CI/CD
10 15 (14.02%) OO
10 15 (14.02%) Security Management
11 13 (12.15%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (12.15%) Task Automation
12 12 (11.21%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (11.21%) Server Management
12 12 (11.21%) Storage Management
13 11 (10.28%) Capacity Management
13 11 (10.28%) Workflow
14 10 (9.35%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 72 (67.29%) Python
2 49 (45.79%) SQL
3 32 (29.91%) Bash
3 32 (29.91%) PL/SQL
4 19 (17.76%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.28%) Java
5 11 (10.28%) Shell Script
6 8 (7.48%) Erlang
6 8 (7.48%) Prolog
7 6 (5.61%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.74%) ABAP
9 2 (1.87%) R
9 2 (1.87%) Tcl
10 1 (0.93%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.93%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.93%) Go
10 1 (0.93%) Groovy
10 1 (0.93%) Korn
10 1 (0.93%) PHP
10 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (36.45%) Security Cleared
2 31 (28.97%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.82%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (8.41%) Degree
5 6 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) CCIE
7 1 (0.93%) CCNP
7 1 (0.93%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) GDPR
3 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (25.23%) Active Directory
2 20 (18.69%) Docker
3 12 (11.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.74%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (2.80%) KVM
6 2 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.87%) vSphere
7 1 (0.93%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.93%) GPFS
7 1 (0.93%) NFS
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (18.69%) Kubernetes
2 16 (14.95%) Ansible
3 15 (14.02%) Progress Chef
4 10 (9.35%) Kibana
4 10 (9.35%) Terraform
5 7 (6.54%) Grafana
6 6 (5.61%) Prometheus
7 5 (4.67%) Puppet
8 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 4 (3.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (3.74%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (2.80%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.87%) BMC PATROL
10 2 (1.87%) Nagios
10 2 (1.87%) SELinux
11 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.93%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 30 (28.04%) Oracle
2 21 (19.63%) Red Hat
3 20 (18.69%) Cisco
4 15 (14.02%) VMware
5 12 (11.21%) Splunk
6 10 (9.35%) AppDynamics
7 8 (7.48%) IBM
8 6 (5.61%) Microsoft
9 5 (4.67%) Google
9 5 (4.67%) SAP
10 4 (3.74%) Adobe
10 4 (3.74%) Cloudera
11 3 (2.80%) Veritas
12 2 (1.87%) BMC
12 2 (1.87%) Dell
12 2 (1.87%) HP
12 2 (1.87%) Juniper
12 2 (1.87%) NetApp
12 2 (1.87%) Sybase
12 2 (1.87%) Symantec