Perl Contracts with Work from Home Options

Perl
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 256 373
Rank change year-on-year +12 +117 -31
Contract jobs citing Perl 98 210 261
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 0.88% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 2.41% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 135 193
10th Percentile £405 £418 £365
25th Percentile £425 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £517
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% +4.44%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £588
90th Percentile £780 £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 falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,080 8,696 16,767
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.43% 36.42% 38.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,656 6,423 12,512
10th Percentile £356 £381 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
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 132 187 184
10th Percentile £29.38 £26.96 £20.25
25th Percentile £44.88 £50.00 £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 £62.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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 12 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 (3.06%) JBoss
2 2 (2.04%) CMS
3 1 (1.02%) Apache
3 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.02%) Ethereum
3 1 (1.02%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.02%) nginx
3 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.02%) StreamWeaver
Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) EngageOne
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.45%) AWS
2 14 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 11 (11.22%) Azure
4 10 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (9.18%) GCP
6 7 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (4.08%) IaaS
8 3 (3.06%) Datadog
8 3 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.04%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.22%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (7.14%) Firewall
3 6 (6.12%) BGP
3 6 (6.12%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (6.12%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (6.12%) Cisco ISE
3 6 (6.12%) EIGRP
3 6 (6.12%) HSRP
3 6 (6.12%) IPsec
3 6 (6.12%) NetScaler
3 6 (6.12%) OSPF
3 6 (6.12%) SNMP
3 6 (6.12%) Spanning Tree
4 5 (5.10%) 802.11
5 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.04%) DHCP
6 2 (2.04%) DNS
7 1 (1.02%) NAS
7 1 (1.02%) SAN
7 1 (1.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.16%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.14%) MySQL
3 5 (5.10%) Sybase ASE
4 4 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.08%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.04%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.02%) Big Data
7 1 (1.02%) HBase
7 1 (1.02%) Ingres
7 1 (1.02%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.02%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 23 (23.47%) Git
2 18 (18.37%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.16%) GitLab
4 7 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (7.14%) JIRA
5 4 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (4.08%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.06%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (3.06%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (3.06%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.06%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.02%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 26 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.49%) Finance
3 7 (7.14%) Banking
4 5 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.10%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.08%) Front Office
5 4 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.02%) French Language
Job Titles
1 24 (24.49%) Developer
2 15 (15.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (13.27%) Network Engineer
4 11 (11.22%) Senior
5 10 (10.20%) Linux Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) Software Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) SQL Developer
6 9 (9.18%) Python Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Unix Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Analyst
8 7 (7.14%) C++ Software Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Perl Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Unix Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Consultant
9 5 (5.10%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) VMware Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Quantitative Analyst
10 4 (4.08%) Sybase DBA
10 4 (4.08%) Unix Scripting Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (6.12%) Jinja
3 5 (5.10%) 802.1X
3 5 (5.10%) Middleware
3 5 (5.10%) XML
4 4 (4.08%) Catalyst
4 4 (4.08%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.06%) HTML
5 3 (3.06%) Spring
5 3 (3.06%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.04%) CSS
6 2 (2.04%) Guice
6 2 (2.04%) REST
6 2 (2.04%) SailPoint
6 2 (2.04%) Ultra Messaging
7 1 (1.02%) jQuery
7 1 (1.02%) Kafka
7 1 (1.02%) Node.js
7 1 (1.02%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.12%) Equities
1 6 (6.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (4.08%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.08%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.08%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (4.08%) Fixed Income
2 4 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.06%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.06%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.06%) Replication
4 2 (2.04%) Clustering
4 2 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.04%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.02%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 38 (38.78%) Linux
2 28 (28.57%) Unix
3 17 (17.35%) Windows
4 4 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.04%) Solaris
5 2 (2.04%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.02%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.63%) DevOps
2 27 (27.55%) Agile
3 25 (25.51%) OO
4 21 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 14 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 14 (14.29%) Task Automation
6 13 (13.27%) Computer Science
7 12 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (11.22%) Data Modelling
8 11 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (9.18%) Analytics
10 8 (8.16%) Configuration Management
10 8 (8.16%) Containerisation
10 8 (8.16%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (8.16%) ITIL
10 8 (8.16%) Migration
10 8 (8.16%) Open Source
10 8 (8.16%) Physical Data Model
11 7 (7.14%) Change Management
11 7 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (65.31%) Python
2 21 (21.43%) Bash
3 19 (19.39%) Java
4 18 (18.37%) SQL
5 16 (16.33%) C++
6 12 (12.24%) Tcl
7 10 (10.20%) C
8 9 (9.18%) Shell Script
9 7 (7.14%) C#
9 7 (7.14%) Go
9 7 (7.14%) Ruby
10 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
11 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
12 4 (4.08%) VBA
13 3 (3.06%) Rust
14 2 (2.04%) AWK
15 1 (1.02%) PHP
15 1 (1.02%) Scala
15 1 (1.02%) Solidity
15 1 (1.02%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 17 (17.35%) Degree
2 10 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.16%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.16%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.14%) CCNA
4 7 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.10%) CCNP
6 4 (4.08%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.04%) QA
2 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.02%) EMIR
2 1 (1.02%) FATCA
2 1 (1.02%) GDPR
2 1 (1.02%) ISO 8583
2 1 (1.02%) MiFID
System Software
1 10 (10.20%) Docker
2 7 (7.14%) Firmware
3 6 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.08%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.02%) Postfix
5 1 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (22.45%) Ansible
2 18 (18.37%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.14%) Progress Chef
3 7 (7.14%) Puppet
3 7 (7.14%) Terraform
4 3 (3.06%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (3.06%) Kibana
4 3 (3.06%) Nagios
5 2 (2.04%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (2.04%) Opsgenie
5 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.02%) Grafana
6 1 (1.02%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.02%) SELinux
Vendors
1 10 (10.20%) Splunk
2 9 (9.18%) Sybase
3 8 (8.16%) Cisco
3 8 (8.16%) Red Hat
4 7 (7.14%) SolarWinds
5 6 (6.12%) Citrix
5 6 (6.12%) Palo Alto
5 6 (6.12%) VMware
6 3 (3.06%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.06%) BMC
6 3 (3.06%) New Relic
6 3 (3.06%) Oracle
6 3 (3.06%) SAP
7 2 (2.04%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.04%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.04%) Murex
7 2 (2.04%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.04%) Solace
7 2 (2.04%) TIBCO
7 2 (2.04%) Veritas