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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 244 251
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 +110
Contract jobs citing Perl 46 97 212
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.66% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.25% 1.90% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 58 139
10th Percentile £390 £405 £423
25th Percentile £438 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -3.16% +5.77%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £674
90th Percentile £738 £773 £738
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £62.20 £31.65
25th Percentile £72.50 £62.88 £47.89
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.50% +24.76% +50.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £67.88 £53.75
90th Percentile - £68.40 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £61.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +13.36% +17.62% +14.13%

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 3,669 5,111 8,622
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.60% 34.60% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,593 3,664 6,373
10th Percentile £351 £355 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £673
90th Percentile £811 £800 £780
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 136 190
10th Percentile £27.44 £31.88 £25.98
25th Percentile £45.75 £44.88 £49.76
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.50 £85.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.62%

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 18 June 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 5 (10.87%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (6.52%) JBoss
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (6.52%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) AWS
2 11 (23.91%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) OpenShift
4 6 (13.04%) GitHub
5 5 (10.87%) GCP
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) Kong
7 3 (6.52%) OCI
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) DNS
2 5 (10.87%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.70%) DHCP
3 4 (8.70%) SSH
4 3 (6.52%) HTTP
5 2 (4.35%) Firewall
5 2 (4.35%) HTTPS
6 1 (2.17%) Internet
6 1 (2.17%) SMTP
6 1 (2.17%) SNMP
6 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle Database
1 6 (13.04%) Relational Database
2 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.87%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.52%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (6.52%) Hazelcast
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (6.52%) Redis
3 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.35%) DB2
4 2 (4.35%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (4.35%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.17%) GIS
5 1 (2.17%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.17%) Informix
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Git
2 9 (19.57%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.70%) JIRA
4 3 (6.52%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (6.52%) CA Release Automation
4 3 (6.52%) Maven
4 3 (6.52%) SonarQube
4 3 (6.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (6.52%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.17%) Subversion
General
1 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Banking
2 5 (10.87%) Investment Banking
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Front Office
5 2 (4.35%) Military
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.17%) Arabic Language
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) French Language
6 1 (2.17%) German Language
6 1 (2.17%) Japanese Language
6 1 (2.17%) Korean Language
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Spanish Language
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Developer
2 6 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Analyst
3 5 (10.87%) Java Developer
3 5 (10.87%) Network Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Programmer
3 5 (10.87%) Python Programmer
3 5 (10.87%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Unix Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Consultant
5 3 (6.52%) DBA
5 3 (6.52%) DevOps Specialist
5 3 (6.52%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (6.52%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Unix Scripter
5 3 (6.52%) Unix Scripting Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) Spring
2 6 (13.04%) Kafka
3 4 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.52%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.52%) CSS
4 3 (6.52%) HTML
4 3 (6.52%) J2EE
4 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.35%) Middleware
5 2 (4.35%) Node.js
5 2 (4.35%) RESTful
5 2 (4.35%) Swing
5 2 (4.35%) Vue
5 2 (4.35%) XML
6 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.17%) React
6 1 (2.17%) REST
6 1 (2.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Management Information System
2 5 (10.87%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.35%) Clustering
3 2 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.35%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.35%) Legacy Code
3 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.17%) Replication
4 1 (2.17%) SCADA
4 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (50.00%) Linux
2 16 (34.78%) Unix
3 9 (19.57%) Windows
4 6 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.35%) CentOS
6 2 (4.35%) SUSE
6 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.17%) AIX
7 1 (2.17%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.17%) OpenVMS
7 1 (2.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) DevOps
1 12 (26.09%) Migration
2 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
3 9 (19.57%) Microservices
4 8 (17.39%) OO
4 8 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.22%) Computer Science
5 7 (15.22%) Workflow
6 6 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 6 (13.04%) Storage Management
7 5 (10.87%) Capacity Management
7 5 (10.87%) Data Protection
7 5 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (10.87%) High Availability
7 5 (10.87%) Scrum
7 5 (10.87%) Task Automation
7 5 (10.87%) Technical Analysis
8 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (8.70%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 35 (76.09%) Python
2 17 (36.96%) SQL
3 14 (30.43%) Java
4 12 (26.09%) Bash
5 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
6 6 (13.04%) PL/SQL
6 6 (13.04%) Shell Script
7 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.70%) Ruby
8 2 (4.35%) C++
8 2 (4.35%) Korn
9 1 (2.17%) ABAP
9 1 (2.17%) ActionScript
9 1 (2.17%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (2.17%) COBOL
9 1 (2.17%) PHP
9 1 (2.17%) Tcl
9 1 (2.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (15.22%) Degree
3 2 (4.35%) CEH
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.35%) CISSP
3 2 (4.35%) CREST Certified
3 2 (4.35%) OSCP
4 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.17%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Docker
2 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.17%) KVM
5 1 (2.17%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
1 10 (21.74%) Progress Chef
2 9 (19.57%) Ansible
3 7 (15.22%) Puppet
4 5 (10.87%) Terraform
5 4 (8.70%) Grafana
6 3 (6.52%) Control-M
6 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 3 (6.52%) Istio
6 3 (6.52%) Kibana
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (6.52%) Rundeck
7 2 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (4.35%) Nagios
8 1 (2.17%) HAProxy
8 1 (2.17%) TADDM
8 1 (2.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Red Hat
2 10 (21.74%) Oracle
3 4 (8.70%) Splunk
4 3 (6.52%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco
5 2 (4.35%) Google
5 2 (4.35%) IBM
5 2 (4.35%) VMware
6 1 (2.17%) Adobe
6 1 (2.17%) Commvault
6 1 (2.17%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.17%) NetApp
6 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.17%) SAP
6 1 (2.17%) Synopsys