Perl Contracts with Work from Home Options

Perl
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 259 385
Rank change year-on-year +14 +126 -31
Contract jobs citing Perl 104 213 255
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.71% 0.88% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.08% 2.41% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 137 187
10th Percentile £405 £420 £363
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% +5.05%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £588
90th Percentile £750 £738 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £62.20 £31.65 -
25th Percentile £62.88 £47.89 -
Median hourly rate £65.50 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.76% +50.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £67.88 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £68.40 £55.25 -
UK median hourly rate £61.75 £52.50 £46.00
% change year-on-year +17.62% +14.13% -20.00%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,999 8,854 16,837
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.14% 36.52% 38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 6,538 12,568
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.33% +8.26%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 184 183
10th Percentile £27.75 £32.03 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.20
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

Perl
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Perl as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Perl trend for jobs with a WFH option

Perl
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Perl over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 3 (2.88%) JBoss
2 2 (1.92%) CMS
3 1 (0.96%) Apache
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.96%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.96%) nginx
3 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 25 (24.04%) AWS
2 14 (13.46%) OpenShift
3 11 (10.58%) Azure
4 10 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (8.65%) GCP
6 7 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.85%) IaaS
8 3 (2.88%) Datadog
8 3 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (6.73%) 802.11
2 7 (6.73%) Firewall
3 6 (5.77%) BGP
3 6 (5.77%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (5.77%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (5.77%) Cisco ISE
3 6 (5.77%) EIGRP
3 6 (5.77%) HSRP
3 6 (5.77%) IPsec
3 6 (5.77%) NetScaler
3 6 (5.77%) OSPF
3 6 (5.77%) SNMP
3 6 (5.77%) Spanning Tree
4 3 (2.88%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.92%) DHCP
5 2 (1.92%) DNS
6 1 (0.96%) ATM
6 1 (0.96%) SAN
6 1 (0.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.77%) MySQL
3 5 (4.81%) Sybase ASE
4 4 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.85%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.92%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.96%) Big Data
7 1 (0.96%) HBase
7 1 (0.96%) Ingres
7 1 (0.96%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (22.12%) Git
2 18 (17.31%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.69%) GitLab
4 7 (6.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (6.73%) JIRA
5 4 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (3.85%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (2.88%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (2.88%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.88%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.96%) Subversion
General
1 29 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 28 (26.92%) Finance
3 10 (9.62%) Banking
4 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.81%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.85%) Front Office
6 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.96%) French Language
7 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.96%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (22.12%) Developer
2 17 (16.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 12 (11.54%) Software Engineer
5 11 (10.58%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (10.58%) Python Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Senior
6 10 (9.62%) SQL Developer
7 9 (8.65%) C++ Software Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Analyst
8 7 (6.73%) Perl Developer
8 7 (6.73%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Unix Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Unix Linux Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Consultant
9 5 (4.81%) Linux Scripter
9 5 (4.81%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) VMware Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) DBA
10 4 (3.85%) Unix Scripting Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.73%) 802.1X
1 7 (6.73%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (5.77%) Jinja
3 5 (4.81%) Middleware
4 4 (3.85%) Catalyst
4 4 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (3.85%) XML
5 3 (2.88%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.88%) Spring
5 3 (2.88%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.92%) CSS
6 2 (1.92%) Guice
6 2 (1.92%) HTML
6 2 (1.92%) REST
6 2 (1.92%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.92%) Ultra Messaging
7 1 (0.96%) jQuery
7 1 (0.96%) Kafka
7 1 (0.96%) Node.js
7 1 (0.96%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) Equities
1 6 (5.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (3.85%) Fixed Income
2 4 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.88%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.88%) Replication
4 2 (1.92%) Clustering
4 2 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (36.54%) Linux
2 25 (24.04%) Unix
3 16 (15.38%) Windows
4 4 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.96%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.96%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.73%) DevOps
2 27 (25.96%) Agile
3 24 (23.08%) OO
4 23 (22.12%) CI/CD
5 16 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 15 (14.42%) Computer Science
7 14 (13.46%) Task Automation
8 13 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (10.58%) Data Modelling
11 9 (8.65%) Analytics
11 9 (8.65%) Migration
12 8 (7.69%) Configuration Management
12 8 (7.69%) Containerisation
12 8 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (7.69%) ITIL
12 8 (7.69%) Open Source
12 8 (7.69%) Physical Data Model
13 7 (6.73%) Build Automation
13 7 (6.73%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (66.35%) Python
2 21 (20.19%) Bash
3 18 (17.31%) C++
3 18 (17.31%) Java
4 16 (15.38%) SQL
5 14 (13.46%) Tcl
6 12 (11.54%) C
7 8 (7.69%) Shell Script
8 7 (6.73%) C#
8 7 (6.73%) Go
8 7 (6.73%) Ruby
9 6 (5.77%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.85%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.85%) VBA
11 3 (2.88%) Rust
12 2 (1.92%) AWK
13 1 (0.96%) PHP
13 1 (0.96%) Scala
13 1 (0.96%) Solidity
13 1 (0.96%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 18 (17.31%) Degree
2 10 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.73%) CCNA
4 7 (6.73%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.81%) CCNP
6 4 (3.85%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.92%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.96%) EMIR
2 1 (0.96%) FATCA
2 1 (0.96%) GDPR
2 1 (0.96%) ISO 8583
2 1 (0.96%) MiFID
System Software
1 10 (9.62%) Docker
2 7 (6.73%) Firmware
3 6 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.85%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.96%) Postfix
5 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (21.15%) Ansible
2 18 (17.31%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.69%) Terraform
4 7 (6.73%) Progress Chef
4 7 (6.73%) Puppet
5 3 (2.88%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (2.88%) Kibana
5 3 (2.88%) Nagios
5 3 (2.88%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.92%) Grafana
6 2 (1.92%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.92%) NetBackup
6 2 (1.92%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.96%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.96%) SELinux
Vendors
1 10 (9.62%) Splunk
2 9 (8.65%) Sybase
3 8 (7.69%) Cisco
4 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
4 7 (6.73%) SolarWinds
5 6 (5.77%) Citrix
5 6 (5.77%) Palo Alto
5 6 (5.77%) VMware
6 3 (2.88%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.88%) BMC
6 3 (2.88%) New Relic
6 3 (2.88%) SAP
6 3 (2.88%) Veritas
7 2 (1.92%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.92%) Murex
7 2 (1.92%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.92%) Solace
7 2 (1.92%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.96%) WorldPay