Perl Contracts in Scotland

Perl
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Perl skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Perl over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 81 146
Rank change year-on-year +7 +65 -24
Contract jobs citing Perl 51 85 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.37% 3.14% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.19% 9.15% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 50 12
10th Percentile £374 £453 £401
25th Percentile £464 £480 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £465
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +12.90% -1.06%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £510
90th Percentile £739 £638 £522
UK median daily rate £550 £564 £525
% change year-on-year -2.48% +7.43% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £52.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year +20.95% +18.64% -23.04%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

Perl is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 623 929 946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.96% 34.37% 27.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 665 660
10th Percentile £360 £406 £363
25th Percentile £413 £433 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £550
90th Percentile £650 £656 £638
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £55.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.81 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in Scotland

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Perl in Scotland

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in Scotland

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in Scotland

Perl
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Glasgow +9 44 £550 -4.35% 2
Edinburgh +11 5 £463 -10.63% 2
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (9.80%) SAS
2 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.61%) AWS
2 9 (17.65%) Azure
3 8 (15.69%) OpenShift
4 5 (9.80%) IaaS
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.69%) SAN
2 5 (9.80%) DHCP
2 5 (9.80%) DNS
2 5 (9.80%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (9.80%) iSCSI
3 4 (7.84%) NAS
4 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.96%) HTTP
5 1 (1.96%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) DB2
2 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (21.57%) Git
2 8 (15.69%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.80%) JIRA
General
1 17 (33.33%) Finance
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (27.45%) Banking
3 8 (15.69%) Investment Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 22 (43.14%) Python Engineer
2 21 (41.18%) Linux Engineer
3 14 (27.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Unix Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 9 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (15.69%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (15.69%) Linux Scripter
6 8 (15.69%) Network Engineer
6 8 (15.69%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Hardware Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 6 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
8 5 (9.80%) Unix Scripter
8 5 (9.80%) Unix Scripting Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) Middleware
2 6 (11.76%) REST
3 5 (9.80%) Flash
3 5 (9.80%) POSIX
4 3 (5.88%) Spring
5 2 (3.92%) Redfish
6 1 (1.96%) .NET
6 1 (1.96%) CSS
6 1 (1.96%) Guice
6 1 (1.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (9.80%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.80%) NVMe
3 4 (7.84%) Client/Server
3 4 (7.84%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (5.88%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.92%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.92%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (70.59%) Linux
2 23 (45.10%) Unix
3 10 (19.61%) Windows
4 8 (15.69%) Windows Server
5 4 (7.84%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (39.22%) OO
2 17 (33.33%) Agile
2 17 (33.33%) DevOps
3 13 (25.49%) Computer Science
4 12 (23.53%) Data Protection
5 9 (17.65%) Observability
6 8 (15.69%) CI/CD
6 8 (15.69%) High Availability
6 8 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (13.73%) Containerisation
7 7 (13.73%) Task Automation
8 6 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (11.76%) Investment Management
8 6 (11.76%) SDLC
8 6 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (11.76%) Wealth Management
9 5 (9.80%) Capacity Management
9 5 (9.80%) Problem Management
9 5 (9.80%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (90.20%) Python
2 9 (17.65%) Java
3 6 (11.76%) SQL
4 3 (5.88%) C
5 2 (3.92%) Rust
6 1 (1.96%) Bash
6 1 (1.96%) PHP
6 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) Degree
2 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (9.80%) NFS
3 4 (7.84%) Docker
3 4 (7.84%) GPFS
4 2 (3.92%) Firmware
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.80%) Ansible
2 5 (9.80%) NetBackup
2 5 (9.80%) Terraform
3 4 (7.84%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 3 (5.88%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (5.88%) Grafana
4 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (17.65%) Veritas
2 7 (13.73%) VMware
3 4 (7.84%) Brocade
3 4 (7.84%) EMC
3 4 (7.84%) Google
3 4 (7.84%) IBM
3 4 (7.84%) NetApp
3 4 (7.84%) Sybase
4 3 (5.88%) BMC
5 2 (3.92%) HP
6 1 (1.96%) Dell
6 1 (1.96%) F5