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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 101 105
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +15
Contract jobs citing Perl 19 9 13
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.01% 0.48% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.04% 2.08% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 9
10th Percentile - £390 £647
25th Percentile £463 £420 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £423 £725
Median % change year-on-year +12.29% -41.66% +37.31%
75th Percentile £538 £437 £750
90th Percentile £563 £583 -
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +2.31% +23.81% -28.08%

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 470 433 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.96% 23.18% 22.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 258 324
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £469
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% +4.16% -8.09%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 10
10th Percentile £33.91 £34.25 £17.46
25th Percentile £35.48 £34.73 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £47.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +156.76% -68.10%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £19.63
90th Percentile - £70.50 £50.38
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +4.17%

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 14 October 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
Birmingham +15 18 £475 +11.50%
Shropshire -26 1 - -
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 12 (63.16%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) AWS
2 12 (63.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 12 (63.16%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (63.16%) Amazon ELB
2 12 (63.16%) Amazon Glacier
2 12 (63.16%) Amazon S3
2 12 (63.16%) AWS KMS
2 12 (63.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (68.42%) DNS
2 12 (63.16%) Firewall
2 12 (63.16%) FTP
2 12 (63.16%) HTTP
2 12 (63.16%) SMTP
2 12 (63.16%) SSH
3 1 (5.26%) DHCP
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (68.42%) Git
1 13 (68.42%) Jenkins
1 13 (68.42%) JIRA
2 12 (63.16%) Vagrant
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (5.26%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (63.16%) Public Sector
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (36.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Replication
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (68.42%) Linux
1 13 (68.42%) Windows
2 12 (63.16%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (63.16%) VMS
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) DevOps
2 12 (63.16%) Change Management
2 12 (63.16%) Cloud Security
2 12 (63.16%) Configuration Management
2 12 (63.16%) Patch Management
2 12 (63.16%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (26.32%) AI
4 5 (26.32%) Business Impact Analysis
4 5 (26.32%) Impact Analysis
4 5 (26.32%) ITIL
4 5 (26.32%) ITSM
4 5 (26.32%) Observability
4 5 (26.32%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (26.32%) Service Management
5 1 (5.26%) Analytics
5 1 (5.26%) Build Automation
5 1 (5.26%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.26%) Machine Learning
5 1 (5.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (63.16%) Groovy
2 12 (63.16%) Java
2 12 (63.16%) PowerShell
3 5 (26.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) SC Cleared
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (68.42%) Active Directory
1 13 (68.42%) Docker
2 12 (63.16%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) Grafana
1 12 (63.16%) Prometheus
1 12 (63.16%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Kibana
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) ServiceNow
2 6 (31.58%) Splunk
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Juniper
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat