The first table below looks at the demand for Regular Expression skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Regular Expression over the 3 months to 24 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 Gloucestershire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Regular Expressions (Regex)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Regular Expression 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £450
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
68 166 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 25.09% 25.78% 26.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 95 57
Average daily rate £400 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +41.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £241 £325 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £713 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £21.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £37.90 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Regular Expression
South West

Regular Expression
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire Regular Expression Jobs Demand Trend

Regular Expression
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 6 (100.00%) C++
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
1 6 (100.00%) Web Services
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) C

Regular Expression
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 6 (100.00%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) C++ Developer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C++
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (50.00%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle