Perl Contract Job Trends

Perl
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 358 382
Rank change year-on-year -205 +24 -93
Contract jobs citing Perl 90 176 216
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.58% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.66% 1.72% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 99 139
10th Percentile £204 £400 £400
25th Percentile £408 £444 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £515 £548
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% -5.94% -0.45%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £630
90th Percentile £613 £630 £752
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £74.81 £65.75 £49.63
25th Percentile £75.63 £66.88 £54.69
Median hourly rate £77.00 £70.00 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +13.36% +17.62%
75th Percentile - £74.38 £66.13
90th Percentile - £76.25 £67.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +18.46% +8.33% +14.29%

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 13,723 10,253 13,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.97% 33.90% 30.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,926 6,935 9,287
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £626 £650
90th Percentile £720 £751 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 242 547
10th Percentile £34.91 £25.81 £31.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £33.91 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -12.10% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.55 £82.66 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% -5.38% +4.00%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Perl job vacancy trend in the UK

Perl
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the UK

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Perl
Top 13 Contract Job 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 26 June 2026. 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
UK excluding London -152 66 £460 -8.00% 16
England -192 65 £500 -3.85% 13
Work from Home -73 28 £213 -58.74% 3
Scotland -20 22 £440 -12.00% 2
London -106 18 £525 -4.55% 2
South East -64 16 £208 -59.63% 7
North of England -82 11 £537 -0.09%
West Midlands -57 9 £465 -2.11%
Midlands -64 9 £465 -2.11%
Yorkshire -58 7 £537 -2.36%
East of England -31 4 - - 2
South West -35 4 £613 -2.00% 4
North West -47 4 £575 +46.31%

Perl
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (11.11%) Confluence
2 7 (7.78%) Apache
3 4 (4.44%) WebLogic
3 4 (4.44%) WebSphere
3 4 (4.44%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (2.22%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (2.22%) JBoss
4 2 (2.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (2.22%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.11%) CICS
5 1 (1.11%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.11%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Front Arena
1 2 (2.22%) Global One
2 1 (1.11%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.89%) AWS
2 10 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 9 (10.00%) Azure
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
4 4 (4.44%) AWS KMS
4 4 (4.44%) ChatGPT
4 4 (4.44%) GitHub
4 4 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.33%) GCP
5 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (3.33%) SaaS
5 3 (3.33%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (2.22%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.22%) IaaS
6 2 (2.22%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.22%) PaaS
7 1 (1.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.44%) SAN
2 10 (11.11%) Firewall
3 8 (8.89%) DNS
3 8 (8.89%) NAS
4 5 (5.56%) SSL
5 4 (4.44%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.33%) BGP
6 3 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (3.33%) Network Security
7 2 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (2.22%) DMZ
7 2 (2.22%) DWDM
7 2 (2.22%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.22%) Internet
7 2 (2.22%) IPsec
7 2 (2.22%) L2TP
7 2 (2.22%) MPLS
7 2 (2.22%) OSPF
7 2 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.56%) MySQL
1 14 (15.56%) Relational Database
2 8 (8.89%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.67%) Db2
4 5 (5.56%) Metadata
5 4 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.22%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.22%) Tableau
7 1 (1.11%) Big Data
7 1 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.11%) KDB
7 1 (1.11%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.11%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 17 (18.89%) Jenkins
2 15 (16.67%) Git
2 15 (16.67%) JIRA
3 5 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (3.33%) Android Studio
4 3 (3.33%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (3.33%) Eclipse
4 3 (3.33%) Xcode
5 2 (2.22%) GitLab
5 2 (2.22%) Introscope
6 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.44%) Finance
3 11 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.78%) Banking
5 5 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.44%) Front Office
6 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.33%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.33%) Publishing
8 2 (2.22%) Back Office
9 1 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Law
9 1 (1.11%) Legal
9 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (16.67%) Senior
2 14 (15.56%) Analyst
3 10 (11.11%) Developer
4 9 (10.00%) Technical Support
5 7 (7.78%) Support Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Programmer
6 6 (6.67%) Python Programmer
6 6 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Lead
7 5 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Perl Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Consultant
8 4 (4.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.00%) REST
2 6 (6.67%) Kafka
2 6 (6.67%) Middleware
2 6 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (6.67%) Spring
2 6 (6.67%) YAML
3 5 (5.56%) Loki
3 5 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 4 (4.44%) Ajax
4 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.44%) Celery
4 4 (4.44%) LAMP
4 4 (4.44%) React
5 3 (3.33%) CSS
5 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.33%) GraphQL
5 3 (3.33%) Web Services
6 2 (2.22%) JDBC
6 2 (2.22%) MERN Stack
6 2 (2.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.78%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.67%) Clustering
4 5 (5.56%) Derivative
4 5 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.44%) Equity Derivative
5 4 (4.44%) Replication
5 4 (4.44%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.33%) CSOC
6 3 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.22%) SCADA
7 2 (2.22%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 58 (64.44%) Linux
2 36 (40.00%) Unix
3 27 (30.00%) Windows
4 15 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (6.67%) Windows Server
6 5 (5.56%) CentOS
6 5 (5.56%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.44%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (3.33%) AIX
8 3 (3.33%) Android
9 2 (2.22%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (2.22%) Solaris
9 2 (2.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 26 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (25.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (23.33%) DevOps
5 17 (18.89%) Root Cause Analysis
6 16 (17.78%) OO
7 15 (16.67%) Agile
7 15 (16.67%) Migration
8 12 (13.33%) Process Improvement
9 11 (12.22%) Data Protection
10 10 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 10 (11.11%) ITSM
10 10 (11.11%) OOP
11 9 (10.00%) ITIL
11 9 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (10.00%) Software Engineering
11 9 (10.00%) TDD
12 8 (8.89%) Roadmaps
13 7 (7.78%) SIEM
13 7 (7.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (81.11%) Python
2 29 (32.22%) SQL
3 28 (31.11%) Java
4 26 (28.89%) PowerShell
5 24 (26.67%) Bash
6 14 (15.56%) JavaScript
7 13 (14.44%) Shell Script
8 9 (10.00%) Ruby
9 4 (4.44%) C++
9 4 (4.44%) Groovy
9 4 (4.44%) PHP
9 4 (4.44%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.33%) C
11 2 (2.22%) C#
11 2 (2.22%) Jython
12 1 (1.11%) COBOL
12 1 (1.11%) JCL
12 1 (1.11%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 1 (1.11%) Scala
12 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.56%) Degree
4 10 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 5 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.56%) RHCE
7 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.33%) CCNP
8 3 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.22%) A+ Certification
9 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (2.22%) CCIE
9 2 (2.22%) MCSE
9 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.22%) NCDA
9 2 (2.22%) VCP6
9 2 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.11%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 6 (6.67%) Docker
2 3 (3.33%) Firmware
2 3 (3.33%) PowerHA
2 3 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.22%) Postfix
3 2 (2.22%) Varnish
3 2 (2.22%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.11%) GPFS
4 1 (1.11%) Lustre
4 1 (1.11%) NFS
4 1 (1.11%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 23 (25.56%) Ansible
2 15 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.11%) Grafana
4 8 (8.89%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.78%) NetBackup
5 7 (7.78%) Puppet
5 7 (7.78%) Terraform
6 2 (2.22%) CA Wily
6 2 (2.22%) Control-M
6 2 (2.22%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.22%) Tivoli
6 2 (2.22%) vMotion
6 2 (2.22%) vRealize
7 1 (1.11%) Consul
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (1.11%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.11%) Salt
Vendors
1 18 (20.00%) Oracle
2 15 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 7 (7.78%) IBM
3 7 (7.78%) Veritas
4 6 (6.67%) Splunk
5 5 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.56%) Sybase
6 4 (4.44%) Cisco
6 4 (4.44%) Clearswift
6 4 (4.44%) SolarWinds
6 4 (4.44%) Tanium
6 4 (4.44%) Tripwire
7 3 (3.33%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.33%) Imperva
7 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.33%) Trend Micro
7 3 (3.33%) VMware
8 2 (2.22%) McAfee
8 2 (2.22%) Murex
8 2 (2.22%) NetApp