Perl Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Perl
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Perl skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 85 104
Rank change year-on-year -42 +19 +31
Contract jobs citing Perl 5 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.27% 0.52% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.83% 1.87% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £480 £385
25th Percentile £500 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile - £631 £569
90th Percentile £569 £680 £603
England median daily rate £450 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -21.74% +2.22% +0.45%

All Programming Languages
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 606 321 431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 32.51% 27.62% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 226 320
10th Percentile £350 £359 £348
25th Percentile £406 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +2.30% -9.07%
75th Percentile £547 £583 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £643
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile £49.25 £31.25 £19.91
Median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -69.56%
75th Percentile £49.75 £96.64 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Perl relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Perl job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Perl
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Perl.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Perl

Perl
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Perl.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Perl

Perl
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
South Yorkshire -49 4 £530 - 6
West Yorkshire -20 1 £575 +4.55% 3
Perl
England

Perl
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) AI
1 4 (80.00%) Business Impact Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Impact Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) ITSM
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk