Perl Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Perl
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 255 224 272
Rank change year-on-year -31 +48 +136
Contract jobs citing Perl 49 121 215
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.79% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.32% 2.36% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 70 139
10th Percentile £358 £405 £425
25th Percentile £475 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £644 £675
90th Percentile £738 £758 £732
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £64.40 £62.20 £48.56
25th Percentile £65.75 £62.88 £51.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +24.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £74.75 £67.88 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £68.40 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +17.12% -3.48% +20.37%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Perl falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

Perl
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Perl trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Perl
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Perl.

Perl daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Perl over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Perl daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Perl.

Perl hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (6.12%) JBoss
1 3 (6.12%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Synopsys PrimeTime
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.45%) AWS
2 10 (20.41%) Azure
3 7 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 4 (8.16%) GitHub
5 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.12%) Kong
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.08%) GCP
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.29%) DNS
2 4 (8.16%) DHCP
2 4 (8.16%) SSH
2 4 (8.16%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.08%) HTTP
3 2 (4.08%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.04%) Firewall
4 1 (2.04%) SMTP
4 1 (2.04%) SNMP
4 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (10.20%) RDBMS
1 5 (10.20%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.12%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (6.12%) Hazelcast
2 3 (6.12%) Redis
3 2 (4.08%) MariaDB
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.04%) DB2
4 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.04%) GIS
4 1 (2.04%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.04%) Informix
4 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.04%) MySQL
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
1 10 (20.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.16%) JIRA
2 4 (8.16%) Maven
3 3 (6.12%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (6.12%) CA Release Automation
3 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
3 3 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (6.12%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.04%) Gatling
5 1 (2.04%) JMeter
5 1 (2.04%) Subversion
5 1 (2.04%) TestDirector
General
1 8 (16.33%) Banking
1 8 (16.33%) Investment Banking
2 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Finance
3 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Front Office
4 2 (4.08%) Retail
5 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.04%) Arabic Language
5 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) French Language
5 1 (2.04%) German Language
5 1 (2.04%) Japanese Language
5 1 (2.04%) Korean Language
5 1 (2.04%) Military
5 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.04%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (18.37%) Analyst
1 9 (18.37%) Developer
1 9 (18.37%) Linux Engineer
1 9 (18.37%) Programmer
1 9 (18.37%) Python Programmer
1 9 (18.37%) Technical Analyst
2 8 (16.33%) Network Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Unix Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Linux Scripter
4 6 (12.24%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Unix Scripter
4 6 (12.24%) Unix Scripting Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Senior
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) DevOps Specialist
6 3 (6.12%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) Spring
2 4 (8.16%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (8.16%) Kafka
3 3 (6.12%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.12%) J2EE
3 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.08%) Middleware
4 2 (4.08%) Node.js
4 2 (4.08%) Swing
4 2 (4.08%) Vue
4 2 (4.08%) XML
5 1 (2.04%) CSS
5 1 (2.04%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.04%) HTML
5 1 (2.04%) React
5 1 (2.04%) REST
5 1 (2.04%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.08%) Clustering
4 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.08%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.08%) SystemC
4 2 (4.08%) Verilog
5 1 (2.04%) ASIC
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Replication
5 1 (2.04%) SCADA
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (65.31%) Linux
2 19 (38.78%) Unix
3 12 (24.49%) Windows
4 6 (12.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.08%) CentOS
6 2 (4.08%) SUSE
6 2 (4.08%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.04%) AIX
7 1 (2.04%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.04%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) OO
2 10 (20.41%) CI/CD
2 10 (20.41%) DevOps
2 10 (20.41%) Storage Management
3 9 (18.37%) Capacity Management
3 9 (18.37%) Containerisation
3 9 (18.37%) Migration
3 9 (18.37%) Technical Analysis
4 7 (14.29%) Microservices
5 6 (12.24%) Computer Science
5 6 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.20%) High Availability
7 4 (8.16%) Agile
7 4 (8.16%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (6.12%) Batch Management
8 3 (6.12%) Code Quality
8 3 (6.12%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 42 (85.71%) Python
2 12 (24.49%) Bash
3 11 (22.45%) Java
4 10 (20.41%) SQL
5 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
5 6 (12.24%) Shell Script
6 5 (10.20%) Ruby
7 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.16%) Tcl
8 3 (6.12%) C++
8 3 (6.12%) PL/SQL
8 3 (6.12%) R
9 2 (4.08%) C
9 2 (4.08%) Korn
9 2 (4.08%) PHP
9 2 (4.08%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (2.04%) ABAP
10 1 (2.04%) ActionScript
10 1 (2.04%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (2.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (12.24%) Degree
2 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
2 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.04%) CEH
4 1 (2.04%) CISSP
4 1 (2.04%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.04%) IBM Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.04%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 14 (28.57%) Docker
2 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.04%) KVM
4 1 (2.04%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (26.53%) Kubernetes
2 11 (22.45%) Progress Chef
3 10 (20.41%) Ansible
4 7 (14.29%) Puppet
5 6 (12.24%) Terraform
6 4 (8.16%) Grafana
7 3 (6.12%) Control-M
7 3 (6.12%) Istio
7 3 (6.12%) Kibana
7 3 (6.12%) Prometheus
7 3 (6.12%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (6.12%) Rundeck
8 2 (4.08%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (4.08%) Nagios
9 1 (2.04%) HAProxy
9 1 (2.04%) TADDM
9 1 (2.04%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) Red Hat
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle
3 4 (8.16%) Splunk
4 3 (6.12%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco
5 2 (4.08%) IBM
5 2 (4.08%) VMware
6 1 (2.04%) Adobe
6 1 (2.04%) Commvault
6 1 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.04%) NetApp
6 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.04%) SAP
6 1 (2.04%) Synopsys