Regular Expression Contracts in the UK excluding London

Regular Expressions (Regex)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Regular Expression skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Regular Expression over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 412 487
Rank change year-on-year +16 +75 -46
Contract jobs citing Regular Expression 5 25 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.11% 0.072%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.61% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 16
10th Percentile £330 £470 £498
25th Percentile £428 £474 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £545 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% +4.81% +38.67%
75th Percentile £595 £650 £600
90th Percentile £598 £650 £616
UK median daily rate £600 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +21.21% -1.00% -6.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Regular Expression falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,379 4,118 6,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.90% 18.13% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,196 3,065 4,323
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £406 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £652
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 91 138
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £19.22
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.02
90th Percentile £74.48 £78.00 £77.10
UK median hourly rate £49.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.85% +23.81% +16.67%

Regular Expression
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Regular Expression in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Regular Expression in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regular Expression in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Regular Expression in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Regular Expression in the UK excluding London

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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 Regular Expression within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +1 2 £428 -20.47%
Scotland - 2 - - 1
Midlands +17 1 £600 -14.29%
West Midlands +17 1 £600 -14.29%
Regular Expression
UK

Regular Expression
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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Adverity
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Google Data Studio
1 2 (40.00%) Google Sheets
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (40.00%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) SOC Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Social Media Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Social Media
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Data Collection
2 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Social Listening
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Web Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CASP
2 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) GCED
2 1 (20.00%) GIAC
2 1 (20.00%) GSEC
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Brandwatch
1 2 (40.00%) Facebook
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Hootsuite
1 2 (40.00%) Instagram
1 2 (40.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (40.00%) TippingPoint
1 2 (40.00%) Trend Micro
1 2 (40.00%) Twitter
1 2 (40.00%) YouTube
2 1 (20.00%) BMC
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Remedy