Perl Contracts in the UK excluding London

Perl
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Perl skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Perl over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 266 334
Rank change year-on-year -49 +68 -63
Contract jobs citing Perl 86 166 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.73% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 2.63% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 101 111
10th Percentile £356 £375 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% +7.69% +11.43%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £540
90th Percentile £601 £700 £613
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile £48.50 £37.80 -
25th Percentile £51.88 £51.25 £48.95
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +4.58% -12.70%
75th Percentile £65.63 £58.75 £51.45
90th Percentile £67.50 £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £61.75 £52.50 £46.00
% change year-on-year +17.62% +14.13% -20.00%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Perl falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,046 6,305 8,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.66% 27.78% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,329 4,405 6,152
10th Percentile £320 £338 £340
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £578 £594 £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 443 323 327
10th Percentile £37.55 £27.68 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +24.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £78.00 £67.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 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
Scotland +1 28 £513 -2.38% 9
North of England +7 23 £514 -2.14% 9
South East +6 20 £500 +17.65% 9
North West +9 17 £515 +8.42% 5
Midlands +16 9 £359 -25.16% 6
Yorkshire +13 6 £445 -31.54% 4
East Midlands +12 6 £356 -25.83% 3
South West +5 6 £590 -17.19% 14
West Midlands +12 3 £494 -12.22% 3
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 (5.81%) JBoss
2 4 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.49%) Confluence
4 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.33%) StreamWeaver
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) EngageOne
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.16%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.77%) AWS
2 9 (10.47%) Azure
2 9 (10.47%) OpenShift
3 4 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.49%) Datadog
5 2 (2.33%) GCP
5 2 (2.33%) IaaS
6 1 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (19.77%) Wi-Fi
2 13 (15.12%) Firewall
3 12 (13.95%) BGP
3 12 (13.95%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (13.95%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (13.95%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (13.95%) EIGRP
3 12 (13.95%) HSRP
3 12 (13.95%) IPsec
3 12 (13.95%) NetScaler
3 12 (13.95%) OSPF
3 12 (13.95%) SNMP
3 12 (13.95%) Spanning Tree
4 5 (5.81%) 802.11
5 4 (4.65%) SAN
6 3 (3.49%) DHCP
6 3 (3.49%) DNS
7 2 (2.33%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.33%) NAS
7 2 (2.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.14%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (5.81%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.65%) Hadoop
4 4 (4.65%) MySQL
5 3 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.33%) Big Data
6 2 (2.33%) HBase
7 1 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.16%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (22.09%) Git
2 16 (18.60%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.79%) JIRA
4 6 (6.98%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (5.81%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (5.81%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (5.81%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.33%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.33%) Subversion
General
1 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.63%) Finance
3 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.81%) Banking
4 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.16%) Aviation
6 1 (1.16%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (23.26%) Senior
2 19 (22.09%) Network Engineer
3 16 (18.60%) Software Engineer
4 13 (15.12%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (12.79%) Developer
6 10 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (11.63%) Python Engineer
7 9 (10.47%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) C++ Software Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) Unix Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) Unix Linux Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) VMware Engineer
11 4 (4.65%) Administrator
11 4 (4.65%) Unix Scripting Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.95%) Jinja
2 7 (8.14%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (8.14%) REST
3 6 (6.98%) Middleware
4 5 (5.81%) .NET
4 5 (5.81%) 802.1X
4 5 (5.81%) HTML
4 5 (5.81%) Spring
4 5 (5.81%) Spring Boot
5 4 (4.65%) Kafka
6 3 (3.49%) CSS
7 2 (2.33%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.33%) Guice
7 2 (2.33%) XML
8 1 (1.16%) Ajax
8 1 (1.16%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.81%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (4.65%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.49%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.49%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.33%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.16%) CMDB
6 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.16%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (41.86%) Linux
2 25 (29.07%) Unix
3 14 (16.28%) Windows
4 7 (8.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.65%) Solaris
6 3 (3.49%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.53%) DevOps
2 22 (25.58%) Agile
3 21 (24.42%) OO
4 19 (22.09%) CI/CD
4 19 (22.09%) ITIL
5 16 (18.60%) Software Engineering
6 14 (16.28%) Change Management
6 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (15.12%) Computer Science
8 12 (13.95%) ITSM
8 12 (13.95%) Network Management
9 11 (12.79%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (12.79%) Migration
9 11 (12.79%) Scrum
10 10 (11.63%) Build Automation
11 9 (10.47%) Containerisation
11 9 (10.47%) Data Protection
12 8 (9.30%) OOD
13 7 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (8.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 60 (69.77%) Python
2 19 (22.09%) Bash
3 17 (19.77%) Java
3 17 (19.77%) Tcl
4 12 (13.95%) C
4 12 (13.95%) C++
5 11 (12.79%) PowerShell
6 6 (6.98%) C#
7 5 (5.81%) SQL
8 4 (4.65%) Ruby
8 4 (4.65%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.49%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.49%) PHP
9 3 (3.49%) Rust
10 2 (2.33%) AWK
10 2 (2.33%) Bourne shell
10 2 (2.33%) Korn
10 2 (2.33%) Scala
11 1 (1.16%) Go
11 1 (1.16%) Julia
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.12%) Degree
2 13 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.79%) CCNA
3 11 (12.79%) CCNP
3 11 (12.79%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (10.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.49%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.33%) RHCE
6 2 (2.33%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.16%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (1.16%) DO-178B
2 1 (1.16%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (15.12%) Firmware
2 11 (12.79%) Docker
3 6 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.81%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.33%) vSphere
6 1 (1.16%) NFS
6 1 (1.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (30.23%) Ansible
2 14 (16.28%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.30%) Progress Chef
4 5 (5.81%) Kibana
4 5 (5.81%) Terraform
5 4 (4.65%) NetBackup
5 4 (4.65%) Puppet
5 4 (4.65%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (3.49%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (3.49%) Nagios
7 2 (2.33%) Oracle ZFS
7 2 (2.33%) SELinux
7 2 (2.33%) yum
8 1 (1.16%) CFEngine
8 1 (1.16%) Grafana
8 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (16.28%) SolarWinds
2 12 (13.95%) Cisco
2 12 (13.95%) Citrix
2 12 (13.95%) Palo Alto
3 9 (10.47%) Red Hat
4 8 (9.30%) Splunk
5 7 (8.14%) EMC
5 7 (8.14%) VMware
6 6 (6.98%) Veritas
7 5 (5.81%) AppDynamics
8 3 (3.49%) BMC
8 3 (3.49%) New Relic
9 2 (2.33%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.33%) Microsoft
9 2 (2.33%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.16%) Alteryx
10 1 (1.16%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (1.16%) Dell
10 1 (1.16%) HP
10 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow