Perforce Contract Job Trends

Perforce
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Perforce products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Perforce over the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Perforce Software, Inc.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 548 612
Rank change year-on-year -33 +64 +182
Contract jobs citing Perforce 6 7 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.019% 0.047%
As % of the Vendors category 0.036% 0.042% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 14
10th Percentile £343 £211 £401
25th Percentile £372 £268 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £375 £560
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% -33.04% +1.82%
75th Percentile £454 £424 £600
90th Percentile £464 £530 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £396 £560
% change year-on-year +6.51% -29.38% +17.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

Perforce falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16,625 16,492 21,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.56% 44.90% 45.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,418 9,726 13,628
10th Percentile £283 £300 £260
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 849 510 673
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.96 £17.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -27.04% +75.44%
75th Percentile £39.50 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.72 £71.45 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £29.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -23.05% -32.16% +94.32%

Perforce
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Perforce relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Perforce job vacancy trend in the UK

Perforce
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Perforce.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Perforce

Perforce
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Perforce.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Perforce

Perforce
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perforce within the UK over the 6 months to 7 November 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
England -23 6 £421 +12.33% 26
UK excluding London -35 6 £421 +6.51% 17
North of England - 6 £421 -
North West - 6 £421 -
Work from Home +15 1 £469 +18.58% 15

Perforce
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) Grunt
1 6 (100.00%) gulp
1 6 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) UI Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Ajax
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) CSS3
1 6 (100.00%) Enzyme
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) HTML5
1 6 (100.00%) Jest
1 6 (100.00%) JSON
1 6 (100.00%) LESS
1 6 (100.00%) Nightwatchjs
1 6 (100.00%) Node.js
1 6 (100.00%) React
1 6 (100.00%) Redux
1 6 (100.00%) REST
1 6 (100.00%) Sass
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
2 3 (50.00%) XHR
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 6 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) API Integration
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft