Perl Contracts in England

Perl
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 305 421
Rank change year-on-year -62 +116 -39
Contract jobs citing Perl 176 393 398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.83% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 2.39% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 243 272
10th Percentile £425 £420 £375
25th Percentile £475 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £639 £700 £613
90th Percentile £800 £772 £749
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 3
10th Percentile £49.63 £31.65 £41.40
25th Percentile £54.69 £37.80 £41.63
Median hourly rate £61.75 £52.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.62% +14.13% -12.38%
75th Percentile £66.13 £53.75 £50.73
90th Percentile £67.70 £59.98 £51.16
UK median hourly rate £61.75 £52.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year +17.62% +18.64% -23.04%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,086 16,463 25,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.20% 34.58% 36.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,041 12,028 19,177
10th Percentile £350 £381 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +2.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 399 441
10th Percentile £35.64 £26.25 £20.25
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +21.39%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.28 £62.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.36 £62.50 £51.19
% change year-on-year -0.23% +22.11% +16.99%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Perl in England

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Perl in England

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in England

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Perl in England

Perl
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Perl in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Perl in England

Perl
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London -57 112 £600 - 26
North of England +16 23 £514 -2.14% 9
South East +8 21 £525 +5.00% 11
North West +15 17 £515 +8.42% 7
Midlands +21 9 £359 -25.16% 8
East Midlands +19 6 £356 -25.83% 4
Yorkshire +14 6 £445 -31.54% 2
South West +8 6 £590 -17.19% 17
West Midlands +2 3 £494 -12.22% 4
Perl
UK

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (3.41%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.84%) JBoss
3 3 (1.70%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.57%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.57%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Global One
1 3 (1.70%) ION MarketView
2 2 (1.14%) Advent Geneva
2 2 (1.14%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.91%) AWS
2 15 (8.52%) Azure
3 13 (7.39%) OpenShift
4 8 (4.55%) GCP
5 5 (2.84%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.27%) Datadog
6 4 (2.27%) Serverless
7 3 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.70%) GitHub
7 3 (1.70%) IaaS
7 3 (1.70%) PaaS
8 2 (1.14%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (1.14%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.57%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.93%) Wi-Fi
2 17 (9.66%) Firewall
3 14 (7.95%) BGP
3 14 (7.95%) Cisco ASA
3 14 (7.95%) IPsec
3 14 (7.95%) OSPF
4 13 (7.39%) Spanning Tree
5 12 (6.82%) Cisco Firepower
5 12 (6.82%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (6.82%) EIGRP
5 12 (6.82%) HSRP
5 12 (6.82%) NetScaler
5 12 (6.82%) SNMP
6 8 (4.55%) SSH
7 7 (3.98%) 802.11
8 4 (2.27%) DHCP
8 4 (2.27%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.70%) DNS
9 3 (1.70%) Kerberos
9 3 (1.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.23%) Relational Database
1 18 (10.23%) Sybase ASE
2 11 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 11 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (5.11%) MySQL
4 7 (3.98%) Hadoop
5 6 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.84%) Big Data
6 5 (2.84%) DB2
7 3 (1.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.14%) Data Mart
8 2 (1.14%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.14%) HBase
8 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.14%) Parquet
8 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (19.32%) Git
2 26 (14.77%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.66%) JIRA
4 7 (3.98%) JUnit
4 7 (3.98%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (3.41%) CA Release Automation
5 6 (3.41%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (2.84%) GitLab
6 5 (2.84%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.84%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.27%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.27%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.14%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (1.14%) Subversion
General
1 48 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 47 (26.70%) Finance
3 23 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.09%) Banking
5 9 (5.11%) Investment Banking
5 9 (5.11%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.98%) Front Office
7 5 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.14%) Retail
9 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.57%) Aviation
9 1 (0.57%) Electronics
9 1 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 48 (27.27%) Developer
2 20 (11.36%) Senior
3 19 (10.80%) Perl Developer
4 18 (10.23%) Java Developer
4 18 (10.23%) Software Engineer
5 14 (7.95%) Network Engineer
6 13 (7.39%) DBA
6 13 (7.39%) Sybase DBA
7 11 (6.25%) SQL Developer
8 10 (5.68%) C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Support Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Analyst
10 8 (4.55%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Database Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Sybase Engineer
11 7 (3.98%) Administrator
11 7 (3.98%) Consultant
11 7 (3.98%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.52%) Kafka
1 15 (8.52%) Spring
2 14 (7.95%) REST
2 14 (7.95%) XML
3 12 (6.82%) Jinja
4 11 (6.25%) JSON
5 9 (5.11%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (4.55%) .NET
6 8 (4.55%) Web Services
7 7 (3.98%) 802.1X
7 7 (3.98%) CSS
7 7 (3.98%) HTML
7 7 (3.98%) JPA
7 7 (3.98%) SOAP
8 6 (3.41%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.41%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (3.41%) Hibernate
8 6 (3.41%) J2EE
8 6 (3.41%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.27%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.07%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (5.68%) Algorithms
2 10 (5.68%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (5.68%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.68%) Replication
3 9 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.41%) Equities
6 5 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.27%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.27%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.70%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.70%) Derivative
8 3 (1.70%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.70%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.14%) Clustering
9 2 (1.14%) CMDB
9 2 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 64 (36.36%) Linux
2 63 (35.80%) Unix
3 26 (14.77%) Windows
4 13 (7.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.27%) Solaris
5 4 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.70%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.14%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (28.41%) Agile
2 45 (25.57%) DevOps
3 43 (24.43%) CI/CD
4 32 (18.18%) ITIL
5 30 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 21 (11.93%) Migration
8 20 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (10.80%) Computer Science
9 19 (10.80%) Configuration Management
10 18 (10.23%) OO
11 17 (9.66%) Test Automation
12 16 (9.09%) Scrum
12 16 (9.09%) Task Automation
13 15 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (7.95%) Change Management
14 14 (7.95%) SDLC
15 13 (7.39%) Data Modelling
15 13 (7.39%) ITSM
16 12 (6.82%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 127 (72.16%) Python
2 64 (36.36%) Java
3 48 (27.27%) SQL
4 33 (18.75%) Bash
5 24 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 23 (13.07%) C++
7 21 (11.93%) Shell Script
8 20 (11.36%) Tcl
9 17 (9.66%) C
10 13 (7.39%) C#
10 13 (7.39%) JavaScript
11 12 (6.82%) Ruby
11 12 (6.82%) T-SQL
12 6 (3.41%) AWK
13 5 (2.84%) Go
13 5 (2.84%) Korn
13 5 (2.84%) PHP
13 5 (2.84%) Scala
14 4 (2.27%) VBA
15 2 (1.14%) Lua
Qualifications
1 25 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.64%) Degree
3 20 (11.36%) SC Cleared
4 15 (8.52%) CCNA
4 15 (8.52%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (6.82%) CCNP
5 12 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.84%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.70%) CISSP
8 3 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.70%) OSCP
9 2 (1.14%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.14%) RHCE
9 2 (1.14%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.57%) ECIH
10 1 (0.57%) ECSA
10 1 (0.57%) GAWN
10 1 (0.57%) GCFE
10 1 (0.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.14%) GDPR
2 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.57%) DO-178B
3 1 (0.57%) EMIR
3 1 (0.57%) FATCA
3 1 (0.57%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.57%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (9.66%) Docker
2 13 (7.39%) Firmware
3 8 (4.55%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.84%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.14%) NFS
5 2 (1.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.14%) vSphere
6 1 (0.57%) Ceph
6 1 (0.57%) iptables
6 1 (0.57%) KVM
6 1 (0.57%) Lustre
6 1 (0.57%) Samba
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (24.43%) Ansible
2 24 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.39%) Puppet
4 10 (5.68%) Terraform
5 9 (5.11%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.84%) Kibana
7 4 (2.27%) Nagios
7 4 (2.27%) Opsgenie
7 4 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.70%) Control-M
8 3 (1.70%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.70%) NetBackup
8 3 (1.70%) SELinux
8 3 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.70%) yum
9 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (1.14%) Oracle ZFS
9 2 (1.14%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.57%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (15.91%) Sybase
2 21 (11.93%) Cisco
3 14 (7.95%) SolarWinds
3 14 (7.95%) Splunk
4 13 (7.39%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.82%) Citrix
5 12 (6.82%) Palo Alto
6 11 (6.25%) SAP
7 10 (5.68%) Veritas
8 7 (3.98%) EMC
8 7 (3.98%) Oracle
8 7 (3.98%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.41%) Murex
10 5 (2.84%) AppDynamics
10 5 (2.84%) IBM
10 5 (2.84%) ION Trading
10 5 (2.84%) Microsoft
10 5 (2.84%) Sun
11 4 (2.27%) New Relic
11 4 (2.27%) PagerDuty