Perl Contracts in the UK excluding London

Perl
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 297 262 351
Rank change year-on-year -35 +89 -70
Contract jobs citing Perl 100 176 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.77% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.04% 2.73% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 109 102
10th Percentile £364 £408 £319
25th Percentile £445 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +6.28% +16.24%
75th Percentile £575 £645 £540
90th Percentile £648 £700 £624
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 2
10th Percentile £48.50 £37.80 £42.02
25th Percentile £51.88 £51.25 £43.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £46.35
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +18.66% -19.39%
75th Percentile £65.63 £64.61 £49.53
90th Percentile £67.50 £69.33 £50.68
UK median hourly rate £61.75 £52.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year +17.62% +18.64% -23.04%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,902 6,440 8,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.79% 28.19% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,298 4,502 6,171
10th Percentile £319 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +16.01%
75th Percentile £585 £592 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 324 328
10th Percentile £37.55 £26.16 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.94 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.99
Median % change year-on-year - +22.59% +24.35%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.75
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perl in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Perl in the UK excluding London

Perl
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perl within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +1 41 £538 +2.38% 5
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 the UK excluding London 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 (5.00%) JBoss
2 4 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.00%) SAS
3 3 (3.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.00%) AWS
2 14 (14.00%) OpenShift
3 12 (12.00%) Azure
4 4 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.00%) Datadog
6 2 (2.00%) GCP
6 2 (2.00%) IaaS
7 1 (1.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (19.00%) Wi-Fi
2 13 (13.00%) Firewall
3 12 (12.00%) BGP
3 12 (12.00%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (12.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (12.00%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (12.00%) EIGRP
3 12 (12.00%) HSRP
3 12 (12.00%) IPsec
3 12 (12.00%) NetScaler
3 12 (12.00%) OSPF
3 12 (12.00%) SNMP
3 12 (12.00%) Spanning Tree
4 9 (9.00%) SAN
5 7 (7.00%) 802.11
6 6 (6.00%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (4.00%) DHCP
7 4 (4.00%) DNS
7 4 (4.00%) iSCSI
7 4 (4.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.00%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.00%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (5.00%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.00%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.00%) DB2
5 3 (3.00%) MySQL
6 2 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.00%) Big Data
6 2 (2.00%) HBase
7 1 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.00%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (22.00%) Git
2 18 (18.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (11.00%) JIRA
4 6 (6.00%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (5.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.00%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.00%) Subversion
General
1 31 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.00%) Finance
3 12 (12.00%) Banking
4 9 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.00%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.00%) Aviation
7 1 (1.00%) Legal
7 1 (1.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 19 (19.00%) Network Engineer
3 18 (18.00%) Python Engineer
3 18 (18.00%) Senior
3 18 (18.00%) Software Engineer
4 15 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Developer
6 9 (9.00%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (8.00%) Unix Engineer
7 8 (8.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Linux Scripter
8 6 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Storage Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.00%) Jinja
2 10 (10.00%) REST
3 7 (7.00%) 802.1X
3 7 (7.00%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (6.00%) Middleware
5 5 (5.00%) .NET
5 5 (5.00%) Spring
5 5 (5.00%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.00%) Flash
6 4 (4.00%) Kafka
6 4 (4.00%) POSIX
7 3 (3.00%) CSS
7 3 (3.00%) HTML
8 2 (2.00%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.00%) Guice
9 1 (1.00%) Ajax
9 1 (1.00%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.00%) NVMe
5 3 (3.00%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.00%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.00%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.00%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.00%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.00%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (44.00%) Linux
2 27 (27.00%) Unix
3 18 (18.00%) Windows
4 10 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (7.00%) Windows Server
6 4 (4.00%) Solaris
7 3 (3.00%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (3.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (40.00%) DevOps
2 23 (23.00%) Agile
2 23 (23.00%) OO
3 22 (22.00%) CI/CD
4 20 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 19 (19.00%) ITIL
6 18 (18.00%) Software Engineering
7 15 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (14.00%) Change Management
8 14 (14.00%) Data Protection
9 12 (12.00%) ITSM
9 12 (12.00%) Network Management
10 11 (11.00%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (11.00%) Scrum
11 10 (10.00%) Build Automation
11 10 (10.00%) High Availability
12 9 (9.00%) Containerisation
12 9 (9.00%) Migration
13 8 (8.00%) Observability
13 8 (8.00%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 74 (74.00%) Python
2 20 (20.00%) Java
3 19 (19.00%) Bash
3 19 (19.00%) Tcl
4 14 (14.00%) C
4 14 (14.00%) C++
5 11 (11.00%) PowerShell
6 6 (6.00%) C#
7 5 (5.00%) SQL
8 4 (4.00%) Ruby
8 4 (4.00%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.00%) PHP
9 3 (3.00%) Rust
10 2 (2.00%) AWK
10 2 (2.00%) Bourne shell
10 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.00%) Korn
10 2 (2.00%) Scala
11 1 (1.00%) Go
11 1 (1.00%) Julia
Qualifications
1 16 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.00%) Degree
3 13 (13.00%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.00%) CCNA
4 11 (11.00%) CCNP
4 11 (11.00%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.00%) RHCE
7 2 (2.00%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.00%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (1.00%) DO-178B
2 1 (1.00%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (14.00%) Docker
2 13 (13.00%) Firmware
3 6 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.00%) NFS
5 3 (3.00%) GPFS
6 2 (2.00%) vSphere
7 1 (1.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (29.00%) Ansible
2 19 (19.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.00%) Progress Chef
3 8 (8.00%) Terraform
4 7 (7.00%) NetBackup
5 5 (5.00%) Kibana
6 4 (4.00%) Puppet
6 4 (4.00%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (3.00%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (3.00%) Grafana
7 3 (3.00%) Nagios
7 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 2 (2.00%) Oracle ZFS
8 2 (2.00%) SELinux
8 2 (2.00%) yum
9 1 (1.00%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 14 (14.00%) SolarWinds
2 12 (12.00%) Cisco
2 12 (12.00%) Citrix
2 12 (12.00%) Palo Alto
2 12 (12.00%) Veritas
3 10 (10.00%) EMC
4 9 (9.00%) Red Hat
5 8 (8.00%) Splunk
6 7 (7.00%) VMware
7 5 (5.00%) AppDynamics
8 3 (3.00%) BMC
8 3 (3.00%) Brocade
8 3 (3.00%) Google
8 3 (3.00%) IBM
8 3 (3.00%) NetApp
8 3 (3.00%) New Relic
8 3 (3.00%) Sybase
9 2 (2.00%) Microsoft
10 1 (1.00%) Dell
10 1 (1.00%) HP