Perl Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Perl
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 97 103
Rank change year-on-year -46 +6 +18
Contract jobs citing Perl 11 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.35% 0.36% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 1.39% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £426 - £426
25th Percentile £455 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - £494
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.67%
75th Percentile £467 - £545
90th Percentile £487 - £567
England median daily rate £453 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -13.81% -6.67% -6.25%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 667 361 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.11% 25.88% 22.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 218 313
10th Percentile £350 £235 £260
25th Percentile £412 £400 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +2.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £550
90th Percentile £619 £679 £638
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 13
10th Percentile £48.75 £16.83 £40.10
25th Percentile £56.50 £19.12 £55.00
Median hourly rate £61.32 £28.18 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.59% -50.99% +96.13%
75th Percentile £67.84 £33.91 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £50.00 £69.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Perl job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Perl

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Perl

Perl
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Shropshire - 5 £466 -
Warwickshire -21 4 £413 -
Birmingham -22 2 - - 2
Perl
England

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (45.45%) Confluence
2 4 (36.36%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (45.45%) Git
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Administrator
1 3 (27.27%) AIX Administrator
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Server Administrator
1 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Spring
1 5 (45.45%) Spring Boot
2 3 (27.27%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Data Centre
2 3 (27.27%) Clustering
2 3 (27.27%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
1 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (27.27%) AIX
2 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Scrum
2 6 (54.55%) ITIL
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (45.45%) Innovative Thinking
3 5 (45.45%) Kanban
3 5 (45.45%) Microservices
3 5 (45.45%) Pair Programming
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) TDD
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
4 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (27.27%) ITSM
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Process Management
5 3 (27.27%) Project Management
5 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
1 5 (45.45%) Shell Script
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Firmware
1 3 (27.27%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle
3 3 (27.27%) IBM
3 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow