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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 108 114
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing Perl 8 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.54% 0.34% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.08% 1.61% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile - £381 £363
25th Percentile £463 £413 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £750
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -43.33% +42.31%
75th Percentile £488 £440 -
90th Percentile - £525 -
England median daily rate £515 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -6.24% -0.23% +2.33%
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 £61.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% +17.62% +4.58%

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 384 434 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.70% 21.13% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 306 367
10th Percentile £269 £260 £313
25th Percentile £400 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
England median daily rate £521 £543 £555
% change year-on-year -4.01% -2.25% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 8
10th Percentile £28.18 £36.36 £21.73
25th Percentile £33.91 £47.75 £23.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +96.13% -49.45%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile - £72.50 £98.25
England median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.69% +4.00% +19.05%

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 2 July 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 +14 6 £475 -3.80% 8
Warwickshire -4 2 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon ELB
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon Glacier
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) AWS KMS
1 5 (62.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) FTP
2 5 (62.50%) HTTP
2 5 (62.50%) SMTP
2 5 (62.50%) SSH
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
1 5 (62.50%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Support Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) VMS
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Change Management
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
1 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) Patch Management
1 5 (62.50%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Operations Management
2 2 (25.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Network Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
3 5 (62.50%) Groovy
3 5 (62.50%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) DFS Replication
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Grafana
1 7 (87.50%) Prometheus
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) BMC
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft