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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 94 108
Rank change year-on-year -40 +14 +40
Contract jobs citing Perl 13 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.48% 0.36% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.88% 1.38% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £450 - £439
25th Percentile £463 £675 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £700 £563
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +24.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £559 £725 £621
90th Percentile £561 - £644
England median daily rate £460 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -16.36% -4.35% -

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 691 362 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.40% 26.14% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 219 306
10th Percentile £358 £348 £260
25th Percentile £425 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% +8.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £561 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £658
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 15
10th Percentile - £16.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £56.50 £17.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £20.24 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +186.56% -59.52% +127.27%
75th Percentile £68.50 £28.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.90 £52.50 £67.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the West Midlands

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 1 March 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 - 6 £465 - 1
Birmingham - 4 £559 - 3
Warwickshire -17 3 - - 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 7 (53.85%) Confluence
2 5 (38.46%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Glacier
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) FTP
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
1 1 (7.69%) SMTP
1 1 (7.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Git
1 7 (53.85%) JIRA
2 6 (46.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
1 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow Architect
1 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Spring
1 6 (46.15%) Spring Boot
2 3 (23.08%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) CMDB
3 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (7.69%) VMS
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (69.23%) Scrum
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (46.15%) Innovative Thinking
2 6 (46.15%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) ITSM
2 6 (46.15%) Kanban
2 6 (46.15%) Microservices
2 6 (46.15%) Pair Programming
2 6 (46.15%) TDD
3 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
3 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) AI
5 3 (23.08%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Process Management
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Shell Script
2 7 (53.85%) Java
3 6 (46.15%) SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Python
5 1 (7.69%) Groovy
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) DFS Replication
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) ServiceNow
2 6 (46.15%) Red Hat
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle
4 3 (23.08%) Splunk