Perl Scripter Contracts

Perl Scripter
UK

The median Perl Scripter daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 698 -
Rank change year-on-year +124 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Perl Scripter 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.003% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.004% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Perl Scripter
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Perl Scripter in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Perl Scripter in the UK

Perl Scripter
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl Scripter.

Daily rate trend for Perl Scripter in the UK

Perl Scripter
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl Scripter.

Hourly rate trend for Perl Scripter in the UK

Perl Scripter
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl Scripter within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Work from Home - 4 £650 -
London - 3 - -
England - 3 - -
UK excluding London +70 2 £650 -
Scotland +34 2 £650 -

Perl Scripter Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Perl Scripter contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Perl Scripter in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Perl
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Git
4 1 (20.00%) NAS
4 1 (20.00%) Puppet
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) SAN
4 1 (20.00%) Veritas
4 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) Grafana
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (20.00%) Data Deduplication
4 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift

Perl Scripter Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NAS
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Data Deduplication
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Perl
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase
1 1 (20.00%) Veritas