Perl Contracts

Perl
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 284 428
Rank change year-on-year -100 +144 -39
Contract jobs citing Perl 220 519 502
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.93% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.69% 2.74% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 317 341
10th Percentile £405 £425 £378
25th Percentile £456 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £634 £676 £613
90th Percentile £783 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +12.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 3
10th Percentile £49.63 £37.80 £36.40
25th Percentile £54.69 £47.89 £38.50
Median hourly rate £61.75 £52.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.62% +14.13% -20.00%
75th Percentile £66.13 £58.75 £50.73
90th Percentile £67.70 £65.78 £51.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £50.20
% change year-on-year +14.29% +4.58% -12.70%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,032 18,971 31,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.10% 34.05% 36.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,198 13,653 23,242
10th Percentile £350 £385 £388
25th Percentile £425 £458 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £663
90th Percentile £763 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 437 498
10th Percentile £31.95 £30.45 £19.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year - +20.77% +15.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £76.63 £78.00 £70.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +25.00%

Perl
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perl over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Perl in the UK

Perl
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Perl in the UK

Perl
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Perl over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Perl in the UK

Perl
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 June 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
England -68 173 £550 -4.35% 59
London -62 109 £600 - 16
Work from Home +7 98 £550 - 26
UK excluding London -38 86 £513 -2.38% 46
Scotland -9 28 £513 -2.38% 7
North of England +15 23 £514 -2.14% 6
South East -1 20 £525 +23.53% 11
North West +11 17 £515 +8.42% 4
Midlands +17 9 £359 -25.16% 4
South West +17 6 £590 -17.19% 13
East Midlands +16 6 £356 -25.83% 3
Yorkshire +15 6 £445 -31.54% 2
West Midlands +3 3 £494 -12.22% 1

Perl
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.27%) JBoss
3 4 (1.82%) Confluence
4 3 (1.36%) CMS
5 2 (0.91%) Apache
5 2 (0.91%) nginx
5 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.91%) StreamWeaver
6 1 (0.45%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.45%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.91%) EngageOne
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) ION MarketView
2 3 (1.36%) Global One
3 2 (0.91%) Advent Geneva
3 2 (0.91%) Front Arena
4 1 (0.45%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 41 (18.64%) AWS
2 27 (12.27%) Azure
3 23 (10.45%) OpenShift
4 17 (7.73%) GCP
5 12 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (3.64%) IaaS
8 7 (3.18%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.27%) PaaS
11 4 (1.82%) Datadog
12 3 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.36%) GitHub
12 3 (1.36%) Serverless
12 3 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (0.91%) Amazon MSK
13 2 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.91%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.45%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.18%) Wi-Fi
2 14 (6.36%) Firewall
3 13 (5.91%) SNMP
3 13 (5.91%) Spanning Tree
4 12 (5.45%) BGP
4 12 (5.45%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (5.45%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (5.45%) Cisco ISE
4 12 (5.45%) EIGRP
4 12 (5.45%) HSRP
4 12 (5.45%) IPsec
4 12 (5.45%) NetScaler
4 12 (5.45%) OSPF
5 9 (4.09%) SSH
6 7 (3.18%) DHCP
6 7 (3.18%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.73%) 802.11
7 6 (2.73%) DNS
8 5 (2.27%) SAN
9 4 (1.82%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 18 (8.18%) Sybase ASE
3 11 (5.00%) RDBMS
4 10 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.09%) Hadoop
5 9 (4.09%) MySQL
6 8 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (3.18%) Big Data
8 6 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.27%) DB2
9 5 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.91%) Data Mart
11 2 (0.91%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.91%) HBase
11 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (19.55%) Git
2 36 (16.36%) Jenkins
3 22 (10.00%) JIRA
4 15 (6.82%) GitLab
5 9 (4.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (3.18%) JUnit
7 6 (2.73%) CA Release Automation
7 6 (2.73%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (2.27%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (2.27%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.27%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.82%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.91%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.91%) Subversion
12 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
General
1 67 (30.45%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.73%) Finance
3 31 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.18%) Banking
5 11 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.09%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.18%) Front Office
8 5 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.36%) Legal
10 2 (0.91%) Retail
11 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.45%) Aviation
11 1 (0.45%) Electronics
11 1 (0.45%) French Language
Job Titles
1 61 (27.73%) Developer
2 24 (10.91%) Senior
3 23 (10.45%) Perl Developer
4 21 (9.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 19 (8.64%) Java Developer
6 19 (8.64%) Network Engineer
7 16 (7.27%) Linux Engineer
7 16 (7.27%) Python Engineer
8 13 (5.91%) DBA
8 13 (5.91%) Sybase DBA
9 11 (5.00%) SQL Developer
10 10 (4.55%) Consultant
11 9 (4.09%) C++ Software Engineer
11 9 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.09%) Support Engineer
11 9 (4.09%) Unix Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) Database Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) Sybase Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.64%) Spring
1 19 (8.64%) XML
2 16 (7.27%) REST
3 14 (6.36%) JSON
4 13 (5.91%) Kafka
5 12 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (5.45%) Jinja
6 11 (5.00%) HTML
7 9 (4.09%) Web Services
8 8 (3.64%) CSS
9 7 (3.18%) .NET
9 7 (3.18%) JPA
9 7 (3.18%) SOAP
10 6 (2.73%) 802.1X
10 6 (2.73%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.73%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (2.73%) J2EE
10 6 (2.73%) LDAP
10 6 (2.73%) Middleware
10 6 (2.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.45%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (6.36%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (5.45%) Algorithms
3 12 (5.45%) Data Structures
4 11 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.55%) Replication
6 9 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (4.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.73%) Equities
9 4 (1.82%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.82%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.36%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.36%) Derivative
10 3 (1.36%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.36%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.36%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.36%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 84 (38.18%) Linux
2 78 (35.45%) Unix
3 34 (15.45%) Windows
4 13 (5.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.18%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.27%) Solaris
7 3 (1.36%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.91%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (31.36%) Agile
2 61 (27.73%) DevOps
3 53 (24.09%) CI/CD
4 36 (16.36%) Computer Science
4 36 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (15.00%) ITIL
6 32 (14.55%) OO
7 27 (12.27%) Task Automation
8 26 (11.82%) Software Engineering
9 25 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (11.36%) Migration
10 21 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (9.09%) Scrum
12 18 (8.18%) Configuration Management
12 18 (8.18%) Data Modelling
12 18 (8.18%) Data Protection
13 17 (7.73%) Test Automation
14 15 (6.82%) Analytics
14 15 (6.82%) Change Management
14 15 (6.82%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 157 (71.36%) Python
2 69 (31.36%) Java
3 54 (24.55%) SQL
4 42 (19.09%) Bash
5 27 (12.27%) PowerShell
6 22 (10.00%) C++
6 22 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 19 (8.64%) Tcl
8 18 (8.18%) C
9 16 (7.27%) JavaScript
10 12 (5.45%) C#
10 12 (5.45%) Ruby
10 12 (5.45%) T-SQL
11 11 (5.00%) Go
12 6 (2.73%) AWK
12 6 (2.73%) PHP
12 6 (2.73%) Scala
13 5 (2.27%) Korn
14 4 (1.82%) Rust
14 4 (1.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (18.18%) Degree
2 27 (12.27%) Security Cleared
3 24 (10.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (10.45%) SC Cleared
5 15 (6.82%) CCNA
5 15 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (5.45%) CCNP
7 5 (2.27%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.82%) CISSP
9 3 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.36%) GCIA
9 3 (1.36%) GCIH
9 3 (1.36%) GIAC
9 3 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.36%) OSCP
9 3 (1.36%) SANS
10 2 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.91%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.91%) RHCE
10 2 (0.91%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.82%) QA
2 5 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.91%) GDPR
3 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.45%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.45%) EMIR
4 1 (0.45%) FATCA
4 1 (0.45%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.45%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.45%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (9.09%) Docker
2 14 (6.36%) Firmware
3 10 (4.55%) Active Directory
4 7 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.91%) NFS
6 2 (0.91%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.91%) vSphere
7 1 (0.45%) Ceph
7 1 (0.45%) iptables
7 1 (0.45%) KVM
7 1 (0.45%) Lustre
7 1 (0.45%) Postfix
7 1 (0.45%) Samba
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (21.36%) Ansible
2 34 (15.45%) Kubernetes
3 14 (6.36%) Puppet
3 14 (6.36%) Terraform
4 10 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.27%) Kibana
5 5 (2.27%) NetBackup
5 5 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.82%) Nagios
6 4 (1.82%) Opsgenie
6 4 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.36%) Control-M
7 3 (1.36%) CSIRT
7 3 (1.36%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (1.36%) PingFederate
7 3 (1.36%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.36%) SELinux
7 3 (1.36%) yum
8 2 (0.91%) Grafana
Vendors
1 28 (12.73%) Sybase
2 18 (8.18%) Cisco
3 17 (7.73%) Red Hat
4 14 (6.36%) SolarWinds
4 14 (6.36%) Splunk
5 12 (5.45%) Citrix
5 12 (5.45%) Palo Alto
5 12 (5.45%) Veritas
6 11 (5.00%) SAP
7 8 (3.64%) Oracle
7 8 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.64%) VMware
8 7 (3.18%) EMC
9 6 (2.73%) ION Trading
9 6 (2.73%) Microsoft
9 6 (2.73%) Murex
10 5 (2.27%) AppDynamics
10 5 (2.27%) IBM
10 5 (2.27%) Sun
11 4 (1.82%) PagerDuty