Perl Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Perl skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Perl over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Perl UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	149	107	124
Rank change year-on-year	-42	+17
Contract jobs citing Perl	793	1171	995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.68%	2.17%	1.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category	4.01%	5.58%	4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted	482	768	602
Median daily rate	£488	£438	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+11.60%	+2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£320	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£400	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.25%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	20	22	28
Median hourly rate	£40.50	£39.25	£37.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+3.18%	+4.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£37.50	£36.00	£23.89
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£57.50	£46.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£39.25	£37.50
% change year-on-year	+8.28%	+4.66%

Perl is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	19764	20993	21025
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	41.95%	38.88%	38.12%
Number of daily rates quoted	13485	14405	14060
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£300	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	389	462	425
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£37.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+13.33%	+1.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.77	£15.00	£19.03
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.80	£50.16	£51.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+1.35%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Perl as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Perl.

Contractor daily rate trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Perl over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Perl in the UK

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Perl over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Perl in the UK

Perl
Top 30 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 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-32	709	£500	+11.11%	200
London	-52	387	£525	+10.52%	92
South East	-5	125	£450	+5.88%	41
East of England	+40	67	£500	+14.28%	21
City of London	-27	59	£548	+4.28%	24
Scotland	-14	57	£419	+10.13%	13
Glasgow	-4	44	£400	-	7
Hampshire	0	42	£450	+12.50%	7
West Midlands	+37	38	£510	+48.90%	3
North West	+33	30	£500	+5.26%	17
Hertfordshire	+14	24	£420	+20.00%	4
Berkshire	+23	22	£550	+22.22%	9
Surrey	+6	22	£450	-	12
Shropshire	+23	21	£550	+10.00%	1
Cambridge	+10	20	£525	+12.00%	11
Cambridgeshire	+7	20	£525	+12.00%	13
County Antrim	-27	20	£413	+17.77%	1
Northern Ireland	-30	20	£413	+17.77%	1
Belfast	-32	20	£413	+17.77%	1
Essex	-	20	£500	-
Telford	+24	19	£550	+10.00%	1
East Midlands	+8	18	£375	-8.53%	7
Buckinghamshire	-16	17	£425	+8.97%	2
South West	-24	17	£385	-9.41%	7
West Sussex	+29	15	£383	-	4
Derbyshire	-	14	£375	-	1
Derby	-	14	£375	-	1
Leeds	+16	13	£420	-11.57%	5
West Yorkshire	-5	13	£420	-2.32%	5
Yorkshire	-9	13	£420	-2.21%	9

Perl
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Perl also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Perl.

1	1047 (66.99%)	Linux
2	862 (55.15%)	Python
3	700 (44.79%)	Unix
4	572 (36.60%)	Java
5	465 (29.75%)	SQL
6	427 (27.32%)	Finance
7	398 (25.46%)	DevOps
8	381 (24.38%)	Oracle
9	371 (23.74%)	Bash Shell
10	363 (23.22%)	Agile Software Development
11	336 (21.50%)	Puppet
12	312 (19.96%)	Jenkins
13	301 (19.26%)	Ruby
13	301 (19.26%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14	294 (18.81%)	Windows

15	280 (17.91%)	Git (software)
16	279 (17.85%)	Red Hat
17	276 (17.66%)	Opscode Chef
18	274 (17.53%)	Configuration Management
19	269 (17.21%)	Ansible
20	223 (14.27%)	Amazon AWS
21	214 (13.69%)	Apache
22	213 (13.63%)	TCP/IP
23	209 (13.37%)	Shell Script
24	206 (13.18%)	Docker
25	200 (12.80%)	Continuous Integration
26	191 (12.22%)	VMware
27	184 (11.77%)	Open Source
28	177 (11.32%)	Banking
29	176 (11.26%)	Tomcat

Perl
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	214 (13.69%)	Apache
2	176 (11.26%)	Tomcat
3	103 (6.59%)	JBoss
4	86 (5.50%)	WebLogic
5	71 (4.54%)	nginx
6	64 (4.09%)	IIS
7	62 (3.97%)	OpenStack
8	49 (3.13%)	WebSphere
9	45 (2.88%)	Confluence
10	44 (2.82%)	Oracle SOA Suite
11	38 (2.43%)	Elasticsearch
12	25 (1.60%)	Apache Spark
13	19 (1.22%)	Apache Pig
14	16 (1.02%)	SAS
15	15 (0.96%)	GlassFish
16	13 (0.83%)	MQSeries
16	13 (0.83%)	WebSphere Application Server
17	10 (0.64%)	Exchange Server 5.5
17	10 (0.64%)	MS Exchange
17	10 (0.64%)	SharePoint

Applications
1	24 (1.54%)	Microsoft Excel
2	22 (1.41%)	Microsoft Office
3	11 (0.70%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	5 (0.32%)	Photoshop
4	5 (0.32%)	SPSS
5	3 (0.19%)	Doxygen
5	3 (0.19%)	Microsoft Project
5	3 (0.19%)	SmartSuite
6	2 (0.13%)	Spreadsheet
7	1 (0.064%)	Adobe Illustrator
7	1 (0.064%)	Mozilla Thunderbird
7	1 (0.064%)	MS Visio
7	1 (0.064%)	S-PLUS

Business Applications
1	16 (1.02%)	SAP ERP
2	6 (0.38%)	Payment Gateway
3	5 (0.32%)	Oracle Applications
3	5 (0.32%)	RMDS
3	5 (0.32%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	5 (0.32%)	SimCorp Dimension
4	4 (0.26%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4	4 (0.26%)	Summit
5	3 (0.19%)	Oracle BPM
6	2 (0.13%)	Dynamics AX
6	2 (0.13%)	Loan IQ
7	1 (0.064%)	IntelliMatch
7	1 (0.064%)	Oracle Receivables
7	1 (0.064%)	Oracle Retail
7	1 (0.064%)	Orchestrade
7	1 (0.064%)	Remedy ITSM
7	1 (0.064%)	SAP MDG
7	1 (0.064%)	SAP MDM
7	1 (0.064%)	Sentinel
7	1 (0.064%)	Sophis RISQUE

Cloud Services
1	223 (14.27%)	Amazon AWS
2	80 (5.12%)	Microsoft Azure
3	43 (2.75%)	OpenShift
4	38 (2.43%)	PaaS
5	37 (2.37%)	GitHub
6	29 (1.86%)	Cloud Computing
6	29 (1.86%)	IaaS
7	22 (1.41%)	Amazon EC2
8	21 (1.34%)	AWS CloudFormation
9	19 (1.22%)	Amazon EMR
9	19 (1.22%)	Google Analytics
9	19 (1.22%)	SaaS
10	18 (1.15%)	Virtual Private Cloud
11	15 (0.96%)	Amazon S3
12	7 (0.45%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12	7 (0.45%)	AWS Lambda
12	7 (0.45%)	Google Cloud Platform
13	6 (0.38%)	Akamai
13	6 (0.38%)	IBM Cloud
14	5 (0.32%)	SoftLayer

Communications & Networking
1	213 (13.63%)	TCP/IP
2	142 (9.09%)	DNS
3	129 (8.25%)	HTTP
4	126 (8.06%)	Firewall
5	125 (8.00%)	SSL
6	79 (5.05%)	LDAP
7	64 (4.09%)	SAN
8	52 (3.33%)	Internet
9	38 (2.43%)	DHCP
9	38 (2.43%)	WAN
10	35 (2.24%)	LAN
10	35 (2.24%)	SNMP
11	34 (2.18%)	NAS
12	33 (2.11%)	SSH
13	28 (1.79%)	Network Security
14	27 (1.73%)	Kerberos
15	26 (1.66%)	VPN
16	24 (1.54%)	Wireless
17	22 (1.41%)	Multicast
17	22 (1.41%)	Wireshark

Database & Business Intelligence
1	167 (10.68%)	Relational Database
2	162 (10.36%)	MySQL
3	104 (6.65%)	SQL Server
4	100 (6.40%)	MongoDB
5	97 (6.21%)	PostgreSQL
6	83 (5.31%)	RDBMS
7	82 (5.25%)	NoSQL
8	70 (4.48%)	Hadoop
9	67 (4.29%)	Big Data
10	66 (4.22%)	Oracle Database
11	48 (3.07%)	Apache Cassandra
12	41 (2.62%)	Apache Hive
13	40 (2.56%)	DB2
14	38 (2.43%)	KDB
15	25 (1.60%)	Redis
16	18 (1.15%)	HBase
17	17 (1.09%)	InterSystems Cache
18	16 (1.02%)	Kdb+
18	16 (1.02%)	Sybase ASE
19	15 (0.96%)	Data Mart

Development Applications
1	312 (19.96%)	Jenkins
2	280 (17.91%)	Git (software)
3	124 (7.93%)	Subversion
4	100 (6.40%)	JIRA
5	73 (4.67%)	Maven
6	63 (4.03%)	Selenium
7	59 (3.77%)	Ant
8	58 (3.71%)	Cucumber
9	47 (3.01%)	Sonatype Nexus
10	39 (2.50%)	Vagrant
11	32 (2.05%)	JUnit
12	27 (1.73%)	TeamCity
13	25 (1.60%)	Team Foundation Server
14	24 (1.54%)	Bitbucket
15	23 (1.47%)	Hudson
16	21 (1.34%)	Atlassian Bamboo
16	21 (1.34%)	ProC
17	20 (1.28%)	Eclipse
17	20 (1.28%)	Gatling
18	19 (1.22%)	Grunt

General
1	427 (27.32%)	Finance
2	177 (11.32%)	Banking
3	76 (4.86%)	Front Office
4	59 (3.77%)	Investment Banking
5	53 (3.39%)	Telecoms
6	32 (2.05%)	Financial Institution
7	25 (1.60%)	Law
7	25 (1.60%)	Retail
8	13 (0.83%)	Marketing
9	12 (0.77%)	Retail Banking
10	11 (0.70%)	Manufacturing
11	8 (0.51%)	Back Office
12	7 (0.45%)	Billing
12	7 (0.45%)	Electronics
12	7 (0.45%)	Legal
13	5 (0.32%)	Prime Brokerage
14	4 (0.26%)	Games
15	3 (0.19%)	Avionics
15	3 (0.19%)	Multimedia
15	3 (0.19%)	Private Banking

Job Titles
1	409 (26.17%)	Developer
2	231 (14.78%)	DevOps Engineer
3	137 (8.77%)	Linux Engineer
4	118 (7.55%)	Administrator
5	111 (7.10%)	Analyst
6	97 (6.21%)	Consultant
7	87 (5.57%)	Architect
8	84 (5.37%)	Perl Developer
9	73 (4.67%)	Java Developer
10	71 (4.54%)	Linux Administrator
11	70 (4.48%)	Unix Engineer
12	68 (4.35%)	Systems Administrator
13	67 (4.29%)	C++ Developer
14	59 (3.77%)	Linux Systems Administrator
15	55 (3.52%)	AWS Engineer
15	55 (3.52%)	DBA
15	55 (3.52%)	Senior Developer
16	54 (3.45%)	Systems Engineer
17	51 (3.26%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
18	48 (3.07%)	AWS DevOps

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	121 (7.74%)	HTML
2	102 (6.53%)	XML
3	100 (6.40%)	Middleware
4	99 (6.33%)	J2EE
5	81 (5.18%)	.NET
6	76 (4.86%)	Web Services
7	70 (4.48%)	LAMP
8	67 (4.29%)	CSS
9	66 (4.22%)	Node.js
10	62 (3.97%)	Spring
11	57 (3.65%)	SOAP
12	56 (3.58%)	jQuery
13	55 (3.52%)	REST
14	52 (3.33%)	JSON
15	47 (3.01%)	Elastic Stack
16	41 (2.62%)	JMS
17	40 (2.56%)	AngularJS
18	39 (2.50%)	LAPP Stack
19	37 (2.37%)	Java EE
20	36 (2.30%)	Hibernate

Miscellaneous
1	140 (8.96%)	Analytical Skills
2	90 (5.76%)	Data Centre
3	76 (4.86%)	Derivative
4	71 (4.54%)	Computer Science
5	61 (3.90%)	Fixed Income
6	56 (3.58%)	Clustering
7	46 (2.94%)	Equities
8	43 (2.75%)	Linux Command Line
9	39 (2.50%)	Management Information System
10	33 (2.11%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
11	32 (2.05%)	Equity Derivative
12	30 (1.92%)	Greenfield Project
13	24 (1.54%)	Public Cloud
14	23 (1.47%)	Enterprise Software
15	21 (1.34%)	Replication
16	19 (1.22%)	Fintech
17	17 (1.09%)	Enterprise Storage
18	15 (0.96%)	Cloud Native
18	15 (0.96%)	Interest Rate Derivative
19	13 (0.83%)	Video on Demand

Operating Systems
1	1047 (66.99%)	Linux
2	700 (44.79%)	Unix
3	301 (19.26%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	294 (18.81%)	Windows
5	176 (11.26%)	Solaris
6	121 (7.74%)	CentOS
7	91 (5.82%)	AIX
8	55 (3.52%)	Ubuntu
9	44 (2.82%)	Windows Server
10	26 (1.66%)	HPUX
11	24 (1.54%)	Windows Server 2012
12	22 (1.41%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12	22 (1.41%)	Windows Server 2008
13	19 (1.22%)	VMS
14	13 (0.83%)	FreeBSD
14	13 (0.83%)	Oracle Linux
14	13 (0.83%)	SUSE
15	12 (0.77%)	Debian
16	10 (0.64%)	Windows 2000 Server
17	9 (0.58%)	Android

Processes & Methodologies
1	398 (25.46%)	DevOps
2	363 (23.22%)	Agile Software Development
3	274 (17.53%)	Configuration Management
4	200 (12.80%)	Continuous Integration
5	184 (11.77%)	Open Source
6	160 (10.24%)	Test Automation
7	122 (7.81%)	Software Engineering
8	112 (7.17%)	ITIL
8	112 (7.17%)	Scrum
9	109 (6.97%)	SDLC
10	108 (6.91%)	TDD
11	107 (6.85%)	Continuous Delivery
12	96 (6.14%)	OO
13	90 (5.76%)	Migration
14	88 (5.63%)	High Availability
15	86 (5.50%)	Performance Tuning
16	78 (4.99%)	Mentoring
17	71 (4.54%)	Analytics
18	68 (4.35%)	Kanban
19	63 (4.03%)	SOA

Programming Languages
1	862 (55.15%)	Python
2	572 (36.60%)	Java
3	465 (29.75%)	SQL
4	371 (23.74%)	Bash Shell
5	301 (19.26%)	Ruby
6	209 (13.37%)	Shell Script
7	175 (11.20%)	JavaScript
8	173 (11.07%)	PowerShell
9	164 (10.49%)	C
10	152 (9.72%)	PHP
11	143 (9.15%)	C++
12	112 (7.17%)	C#
13	97 (6.21%)	Korn
14	54 (3.45%)	Scala
15	47 (3.01%)	PL/SQL
16	39 (2.50%)	VB
17	33 (2.11%)	Groovy
18	24 (1.54%)	Go
19	22 (1.41%)	VBScript
20	21 (1.34%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	120 (7.68%)	Security Cleared
2	100 (6.40%)	Degree
3	74 (4.73%)	SC Cleared
4	46 (2.94%)	RHCE
5	39 (2.50%)	DV Cleared
6	30 (1.92%)	RHCSA
7	29 (1.86%)	CISSP
8	23 (1.47%)	Computer Science Degree
9	22 (1.41%)	Cisco Certification
10	18 (1.15%)	CCNP
11	16 (1.02%)	CCNA
12	14 (0.90%)	ISEB
13	13 (0.83%)	Master's Degree
14	12 (0.77%)	OCP
14	12 (0.77%)	Oracle Certification
15	10 (0.64%)	SANS
16	8 (0.51%)	RHCA
17	7 (0.45%)	AWS Certification
17	7 (0.45%)	Microsoft Certification
17	7 (0.45%)	OCA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	42 (2.69%)	QA
2	14 (0.90%)	MiFID
2	14 (0.90%)	SLA
3	13 (0.83%)	PCI DSS
4	5 (0.32%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	4 (0.26%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	2 (0.13%)	Data Quality
7	1 (0.064%)	EMIR
7	1 (0.064%)	HL7
7	1 (0.064%)	ISO/IEC 20000
7	1 (0.064%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7	1 (0.064%)	PMO
7	1 (0.064%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	206 (13.18%)	Docker
2	117 (7.49%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	64 (4.09%)	Active Directory
4	40 (2.56%)	NFS
5	35 (2.24%)	Virtual Machines
6	29 (1.86%)	Samba
6	29 (1.86%)	Veritas Cluster Server
7	26 (1.66%)	Hyper-V
8	25 (1.60%)	Xen
9	23 (1.47%)	vSphere
10	22 (1.41%)	KVM
10	22 (1.41%)	VirtualBox
11	21 (1.34%)	VMware ESXi
12	19 (1.22%)	LXC
13	17 (1.09%)	iptables
14	12 (0.77%)	vCloud
14	12 (0.77%)	Veritas Volume Manager
15	11 (0.70%)	Apache Flume
15	11 (0.70%)	Oracle RAC
16	10 (0.64%)	GPFS

Systems Management
1	336 (21.50%)	Puppet
2	276 (17.66%)	Opscode Chef
3	269 (17.21%)	Ansible
4	91 (5.82%)	Nagios
5	58 (3.71%)	Kubernetes
6	49 (3.13%)	ZABBIX
7	48 (3.07%)	Kibana
7	48 (3.07%)	NetBackup
8	41 (2.62%)	Terraform
9	39 (2.50%)	logstash
10	36 (2.30%)	Grafana
11	35 (2.24%)	Salt
12	20 (1.28%)	ITRS Geneos
13	19 (1.22%)	Red Hat Spacewalk
14	18 (1.15%)	Oracle RMAN
15	17 (1.09%)	Oracle ZFS
15	17 (1.09%)	vCenter Server
16	16 (1.02%)	Control-M
16	16 (1.02%)	Tivoli
17	15 (0.96%)	Veritas Storage Foundation

Vendors
1	381 (24.38%)	Oracle
2	279 (17.85%)	Red Hat
3	191 (12.22%)	VMware
4	168 (10.75%)	Sybase
5	98 (6.27%)	Splunk
6	92 (5.89%)	Microsoft
7	80 (5.12%)	IBM
8	65 (4.16%)	Sun
9	63 (4.03%)	Cisco
9	63 (4.03%)	Veritas
10	55 (3.52%)	EMC
11	49 (3.13%)	Google
12	48 (3.07%)	NetApp
13	47 (3.01%)	HP
14	43 (2.75%)	SaltStack
15	41 (2.62%)	SAP
16	32 (2.05%)	Murex
17	31 (1.98%)	AppDynamics
17	31 (1.98%)	F5
18	30 (1.92%)	WSO2