Perl Contracts in the West Midlands

Perl
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 108 131
Rank change year-on-year +16 +23 +5
Contract jobs citing Perl 5 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.37% 0.15% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.46% 0.71% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £426 -
25th Percentile - £445 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £494 £375
Median % change year-on-year - +31.67% -27.47%
75th Percentile - £545 £506
90th Percentile - £567 £578
England median daily rate £531 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.41% -8.33% +14.29%
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 £65.00 £55.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +17.12% +5.71% +14.13%

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 343 425 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.50% 21.83% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 308 439
10th Percentile £235 £260 £362
25th Percentile £401 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £456 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -13.10% +14.57%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £689 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 8
10th Percentile £16.85 £40.10 £21.73
25th Percentile £17.87 £55.00 £23.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%
75th Percentile £31.33 £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile £33.91 £69.75 £98.25
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the West Midlands

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Perl in the West Midlands

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Perl in the West Midlands

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 1 May 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
Warwickshire +6 4 - -
Birmingham +16 1 - - 3
Perl
England

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) NetScaler
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 2 (40.00%) Operations Management
1 2 (40.00%) Release Management
1 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Network Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) BMC
1 2 (40.00%) Dell
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft