Regular Expression Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Regular Expression skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Regular Expression over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Regular Expressions (Regex)
Rank 508 552 529
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -23
Contract jobs citing Regular Expression 10 10 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.024% 0.019% 0.077%
As % of the Application Development category 0.089% 0.071% 0.273%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 17
Average daily rate £320 £435 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.43% +11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £337 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £347 £675 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £450
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 11298 13988 16114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.21% 26.19% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7248 8388 9560
Average daily rate £375 £355 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.63% -11.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 367 558
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.30 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.10% -6.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Regular Expression
UK

Regular Expression
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Regular Expression across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England Regular Expression Jobs Demand Trend

Regular Expression
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Regular Expression across the England region.

England Regular Expression Daily Rate Trend

Regular Expression
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Regular Expression across the England region.

England Regular Expression Hourly Rate Trend

Regular Expression
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Regular Expression within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +28 3 £340 -32.67%
South East +21 3 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
North West - 2 £350 -
Regular Expression
UK

Regular Expression
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Regular Expression also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Regular Expression.

1 17 (51.52%) Linux
2 13 (39.39%) Open Source
3 12 (36.36%) Internet
3 12 (36.36%) Citrix
3 12 (36.36%) Cisco
3 12 (36.36%) SQL Server
4 11 (33.33%) C#
4 11 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 11 (33.33%) HTTP
5 10 (30.30%) VPN
5 10 (30.30%) E-Commerce
5 10 (30.30%) Ethernet
5 10 (30.30%) CheckPoint
5 10 (30.30%) BGP
5 10 (30.30%) Java
5 10 (30.30%) Web Services
5 10 (30.30%) Change Management
5 10 (30.30%) Scrum
5 10 (30.30%) Agile Software Development
5 10 (30.30%) VLAN
5 10 (30.30%) Load Balancing
5 10 (30.30%) NetScaler
5 10 (30.30%) Cisco Nexus
6 9 (27.27%) XenServer
6 9 (27.27%) Cacti
6 9 (27.27%) Firewall
6 9 (27.27%) XML
6 9 (27.27%) CSS
6 9 (27.27%) .NET
6 9 (27.27%) Nagios

Regular Expression
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Regular Expression also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Regular Expression. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (30.30%) Web Services
2 9 (27.27%) XML
2 9 (27.27%) CSS
2 9 (27.27%) .NET
2 9 (27.27%) XHTML
3 7 (21.21%) HTML
4 6 (18.18%) RESTful
5 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET
6 4 (12.12%) XSLT
6 4 (12.12%) .NET Framework
6 4 (12.12%) Ruby on Rails
6 4 (12.12%) LINQ
6 4 (12.12%) Lucene
6 4 (12.12%) Ajax
6 4 (12.12%) Sinatra
7 2 (6.061%) CGI
7 2 (6.061%) JPA
7 2 (6.061%) JAX-RS
8 1 (3.030%) XSL
8 1 (3.030%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 5 (15.15%) Apache
2 4 (12.12%) Apache Solr
3 3 (9.091%) Tomcat
4 2 (6.061%) OpenStack
5 1 (3.030%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.030%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.030%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (36.36%) Internet
2 11 (33.33%) HTTP
3 10 (30.30%) VPN
3 10 (30.30%) Ethernet
3 10 (30.30%) BGP
3 10 (30.30%) VLAN
3 10 (30.30%) NetScaler
3 10 (30.30%) Cisco Nexus
4 9 (27.27%) Firewall
5 2 (6.061%) SAN
5 2 (6.061%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.061%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.21%) MySQL
3 4 (12.12%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (12.12%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (12.12%) RavenDB
4 1 (3.030%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.030%) MS Access
4 1 (3.030%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Visual Studio
1 4 (12.12%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (6.061%) German Language
1 2 (6.061%) Marketing
2 1 (3.030%) Retail
2 1 (3.030%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.030%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) Developer
2 10 (30.30%) Network Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) C++ Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Agile .NET Developer
4 4 (12.12%) C# Developer
4 4 (12.12%) .NET Developer
4 4 (12.12%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (9.091%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.091%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (9.091%) Analyst
6 2 (6.061%) Architect
6 2 (6.061%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.061%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.061%) VMware Architect
7 1 (3.030%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.030%) UNIX Administrator
7 1 (3.030%) SQL DBA
7 1 (3.030%) DBA
7 1 (3.030%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (3.030%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (39.39%) Open Source
2 7 (21.21%) Computer Science
3 4 (12.12%) NHS
4 2 (6.061%) Firmware
4 2 (6.061%) Replication
4 2 (6.061%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.030%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.030%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) UNIX
3 3 (9.091%) Windows
4 2 (6.061%) Debian
5 1 (3.030%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.030%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.030%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (3.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.030%) Windows XP
5 1 (3.030%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) E-Commerce
1 10 (30.30%) Change Management
1 10 (30.30%) Scrum
1 10 (30.30%) Agile Software Development
1 10 (30.30%) Load Balancing
2 8 (24.24%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (18.18%) ITIL
4 5 (15.15%) Web Development
5 4 (12.12%) OO
5 4 (12.12%) PRINCE2
5 4 (12.12%) OOD
5 4 (12.12%) TDD
5 4 (12.12%) Analytics
6 3 (9.091%) Systems Analysis
7 2 (6.061%) Configuration Management
7 2 (6.061%) ITSM
7 2 (6.061%) Memory Management
8 1 (3.030%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (3.030%) Business Analysis
8 1 (3.030%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) C#
1 11 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 10 (30.30%) Java
3 8 (24.24%) Python
3 8 (24.24%) C++
3 8 (24.24%) Perl
4 7 (21.21%) SQL
4 7 (21.21%) Bash shell
5 6 (18.18%) C
5 6 (18.18%) PHP
6 5 (15.15%) T-SQL
7 4 (12.12%) VB
7 4 (12.12%) Ruby
8 2 (6.061%) Shell Script
8 2 (6.061%) Groovy
8 2 (6.061%) AWK
8 2 (6.061%) sed
9 1 (3.030%) VB.NET
9 1 (3.030%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) Degree
4 1 (3.030%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) XenServer
2 2 (6.061%) Xen
2 2 (6.061%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.061%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.030%) Snort
3 1 (3.030%) Samba
3 1 (3.030%) VMware ESX
3 1 (3.030%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Cacti
1 9 (27.27%) Nagios
2 2 (6.061%) Tivoli
2 2 (6.061%) BladeLogic
2 2 (6.061%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 2 (6.061%) Ionix
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Citrix
1 12 (36.36%) Cisco
2 10 (30.30%) CheckPoint
3 8 (24.24%) Oracle
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
5 3 (9.091%) VMware
6 2 (6.061%) JBoss
6 2 (6.061%) Symantec
6 2 (6.061%) BMC
6 2 (6.061%) CA
6 2 (6.061%) NetApp
6 2 (6.061%) HP
6 2 (6.061%) Opsware
7 1 (3.030%) Tableau
7 1 (3.030%) Google
7 1 (3.030%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.030%) Business Objects
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