Perl Contracts

Perl
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 368 286
Rank change year-on-year +1 -82 +127
Contract jobs citing Perl 185 217 502
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.50% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.73% 1.63% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 140 315
10th Percentile £393 £396 £413
25th Percentile £425 £430 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% +2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £602 £675
90th Percentile £632 £750 £742
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 12
10th Percentile £65.75 £50.75 £37.80
25th Percentile £66.88 £57.50 £47.89
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% +20.95% +9.15%
75th Percentile £74.38 £66.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £67.85 £65.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% +4.58%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,680 13,287 18,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.58% 30.65% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,203 9,330 13,600
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -2.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 540 454
10th Percentile £27.00 £31.25 £30.23
25th Percentile £34.94 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £78.58 £75.00 £79.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% +17.92%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the UK

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 July 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 +20 138 £515 -6.03% 424
UK excluding London +67 113 £500 - 229
London -1 59 £550 -5.38% 224
Work from Home -23 48 £515 +0.49% 150
Scotland +13 35 £513 +2.50% 21
North of England +8 29 £525 +1.94% 44
South East +39 23 £514 +5.44% 46
Yorkshire +12 16 £550 +19.57% 14
North West -2 12 £393 -23.69% 28
Midlands +6 11 £475 +20.25% 26
West Midlands +8 9 £475 +12.43% 19
South West +38 6 £625 -0.79% 36
East of England - 6 £283 - 36
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 17
East Midlands 0 2 £506 +42.13% 7
North East - 1 £550 - 2

Perl
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (8.65%) Confluence
1 16 (8.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 14 (7.57%) JBoss
3 6 (3.24%) Apache
3 6 (3.24%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.16%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.08%) IIS
5 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.54%) nginx
6 1 (0.54%) SAS
6 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.24%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.16%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (2.16%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.62%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 71 (38.38%) AWS
2 38 (20.54%) Azure
3 22 (11.89%) GCP
4 20 (10.81%) OpenShift
5 14 (7.57%) GitHub
6 10 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (5.41%) Amazon S3
7 9 (4.86%) IaaS
8 6 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.24%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (3.24%) Amazon Glacier
8 6 (3.24%) AWS KMS
8 6 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.70%) Nutanix
10 4 (2.16%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.16%) Azure API Management
10 4 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.16%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 50 (27.03%) DNS
2 24 (12.97%) Firewall
3 22 (11.89%) HTTP
4 19 (10.27%) TCP/IP
5 13 (7.03%) DHCP
6 9 (4.86%) Network Security
6 9 (4.86%) SSH
6 9 (4.86%) VPN
7 8 (4.32%) Internet
8 7 (3.78%) SMTP
9 6 (3.24%) BGP
9 6 (3.24%) FTP
9 6 (3.24%) IPsec
9 6 (3.24%) OSPF
9 6 (3.24%) SSL
10 5 (2.70%) Multicast
11 4 (2.16%) SNMP
11 4 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (2.16%) Wireless
12 3 (1.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.51%) Relational Database
2 24 (12.97%) Oracle Database
3 16 (8.65%) RDBMS
4 14 (7.57%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.03%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (6.49%) DB2
7 10 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (4.32%) MySQL
9 7 (3.78%) GIS
10 5 (2.70%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.16%) Big Data
11 4 (2.16%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.16%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.16%) MariaDB
11 4 (2.16%) Oracle BI EE
12 3 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.62%) Hazelcast
12 3 (1.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (27.03%) Jenkins
2 49 (26.49%) Git
3 33 (17.84%) JIRA
4 19 (10.27%) TeamCity
5 16 (8.65%) SonarQube
6 15 (8.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (7.03%) Bitbucket Server
7 13 (7.03%) CA Release Automation
8 8 (4.32%) Subversion
8 8 (4.32%) Vagrant
9 7 (3.78%) Liquibase
10 5 (2.70%) Bitbucket
11 4 (2.16%) Ant
11 4 (2.16%) Maven
11 4 (2.16%) Toad
12 3 (1.62%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.62%) GitLab
12 3 (1.62%) SoapUI
13 2 (1.08%) JUnit
13 2 (1.08%) Snyk
General
1 69 (37.30%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.68%) Finance
3 17 (9.19%) Banking
4 12 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.78%) Financial Institution
5 7 (3.78%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.16%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.62%) Front Office
9 2 (1.08%) Arabic Language
9 2 (1.08%) French Language
9 2 (1.08%) German Language
9 2 (1.08%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.08%) Korean Language
9 2 (1.08%) Military
9 2 (1.08%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (14.59%) Developer
2 19 (10.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (9.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (9.73%) Linux Engineer
4 16 (8.65%) Administrator
5 15 (8.11%) Network Engineer
6 13 (7.03%) Linux Administrator
6 13 (7.03%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (7.03%) Python Engineer
7 11 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (5.95%) Consultant
7 11 (5.95%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.41%) Analyst
8 10 (5.41%) Programmer
8 10 (5.41%) Python Programmer
8 10 (5.41%) Technical Analyst
9 9 (4.86%) VMware Engineer
10 8 (4.32%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 7 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (3.78%) Engineering Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.73%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (9.19%) Kafka
3 14 (7.57%) Spring Boot
4 13 (7.03%) SOAP
5 12 (6.49%) Spring
6 10 (5.41%) AngularJS
7 9 (4.86%) Node.js
7 9 (4.86%) RESTful
8 8 (4.32%) REST
8 8 (4.32%) XML
9 7 (3.78%) Middleware
10 6 (3.24%) React
11 4 (2.16%) CSS
11 4 (2.16%) HTML
11 4 (2.16%) IBM Integration Bus
11 4 (2.16%) Web Services
12 3 (1.62%) 802.1X
12 3 (1.62%) EDI
12 3 (1.62%) GraphQL
12 3 (1.62%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.97%) Management Information System
2 17 (9.19%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (9.19%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (7.57%) Replication
3 14 (7.57%) Virtual Team
4 11 (5.95%) SCADA
5 10 (5.41%) Clustering
5 10 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (3.78%) Operational Technology
7 6 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.70%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.16%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.62%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.62%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 2 (1.08%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 116 (62.70%) Linux
2 62 (33.51%) Unix
3 58 (31.35%) Windows
4 26 (14.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (9.19%) Windows Server
6 9 (4.86%) Solaris
7 7 (3.78%) AIX
8 6 (3.24%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (3.24%) VMS
9 4 (2.16%) CentOS
9 4 (2.16%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.08%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (1.08%) Debian
10 2 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (1.08%) SUSE
11 1 (0.54%) Android
11 1 (0.54%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.54%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (32.43%) DevOps
2 49 (26.49%) Agile
3 44 (23.78%) CI/CD
4 36 (19.46%) Microservices
4 36 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
6 34 (18.38%) Migration
7 31 (16.76%) High Availability
8 27 (14.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (10.81%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (10.27%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (10.27%) Task Automation
11 18 (9.73%) Computer Science
12 17 (9.19%) Change Management
12 17 (9.19%) SOA
13 16 (8.65%) Cloud Security
13 16 (8.65%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (8.11%) Build Automation
14 15 (8.11%) OO
14 15 (8.11%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (75.68%) Python
2 67 (36.22%) SQL
3 58 (31.35%) Bash
4 55 (29.73%) Java
5 38 (20.54%) PL/SQL
6 33 (17.84%) PowerShell
7 21 (11.35%) Shell Script
8 20 (10.81%) JavaScript
9 9 (4.86%) Erlang
9 9 (4.86%) Go
9 9 (4.86%) Prolog
10 7 (3.78%) C++
10 7 (3.78%) Groovy
10 7 (3.78%) Korn
11 5 (2.70%) PHP
11 5 (2.70%) TypeScript
12 4 (2.16%) C
12 4 (2.16%) Ruby
12 4 (2.16%) Scala
12 4 (2.16%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 49 (26.49%) Security Cleared
2 41 (22.16%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.35%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (11.35%) Degree
4 15 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.24%) CCNP
6 4 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.62%) CCIE
7 3 (1.62%) CEH
7 3 (1.62%) CISSP
7 3 (1.62%) OSCP
7 3 (1.62%) SANS
8 2 (1.08%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.54%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.54%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.54%) ISACA
9 1 (0.54%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.54%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.54%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.57%) QA
2 8 (4.32%) GDPR
3 5 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.62%) SEPA
5 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 46 (24.86%) Docker
2 38 (20.54%) Active Directory
3 18 (9.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.78%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.24%) DFS Replication
6 4 (2.16%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.62%) NFS
8 2 (1.08%) GPFS
8 2 (1.08%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 2 (1.08%) Veritas File System
8 2 (1.08%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 2 (1.08%) VirtualBox
8 2 (1.08%) vSphere
9 1 (0.54%) Firmware
9 1 (0.54%) KVM
9 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.54%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 40 (21.62%) Ansible
2 39 (21.08%) Kubernetes
3 27 (14.59%) Progress Chef
4 25 (13.51%) Terraform
5 15 (8.11%) Grafana
6 14 (7.57%) Kibana
6 14 (7.57%) Prometheus
7 13 (7.03%) Puppet
8 10 (5.41%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (3.78%) QRadar
9 7 (3.78%) Tivoli
10 6 (3.24%) Control-M
11 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 4 (2.16%) Nagios
11 4 (2.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (2.16%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (1.62%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (1.62%) Istio
12 3 (1.62%) Rundeck
12 3 (1.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 45 (24.32%) Oracle
2 35 (18.92%) Red Hat
3 27 (14.59%) VMware
4 26 (14.05%) Cisco
4 26 (14.05%) Splunk
5 20 (10.81%) IBM
6 14 (7.57%) AppDynamics
6 14 (7.57%) Microsoft
7 10 (5.41%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.32%) Google
9 7 (3.78%) Cloudera
10 6 (3.24%) CyberArk
10 6 (3.24%) Sybase
11 5 (2.70%) F5
11 5 (2.70%) Qualys
11 5 (2.70%) SaltStack
11 5 (2.70%) SAP
12 4 (2.16%) Adobe
12 4 (2.16%) Arista
12 4 (2.16%) Fortinet