The first table below looks at the demand for Regular Expression skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Regular Expression over the 3 months to 18 June 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 London 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Regular Expressions (Regex)
Rank 383 407 448
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +41
Contract jobs citing Regular Expression 9 6 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.039% 0.023% 0.022%
As % of the Application Development category 0.128% 0.078% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
Average daily rate £225 £575 £253
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-60.86% +127.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £515 £145
10% offered a daily rate of more than £271 £655 £361
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
7004 7668 9600
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 30.37% 28.80% 30.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5074 5192 6534
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £613
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 104 117
Average hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +8.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £19.52 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £67.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
Regular Expression
England

Regular Expression
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Regular Expression Daily Rate Trend

Regular Expression
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Regular Expression across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London Regular Expression Daily Rate Histogram

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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +10 7 £225 -58.13% 2
Twickenham - - - -
Regular Expression
England

Regular Expression
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 9 (47.37%) C#
1 9 (47.37%) Java
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 8 (42.11%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) Cisco
2 8 (42.11%) Citrix
3 7 (36.84%) MS Excel
4 6 (31.58%) MS Office
4 6 (31.58%) Ant
4 6 (31.58%) .NET
4 6 (31.58%) Change Management
4 6 (31.58%) Internet
4 6 (31.58%) BGP
4 6 (31.58%) CheckPoint
4 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
4 6 (31.58%) VPN
4 6 (31.58%) E-Commerce
4 6 (31.58%) Ethernet
4 6 (31.58%) MS PowerPoint
4 6 (31.58%) VLAN
4 6 (31.58%) Load Balancing
4 6 (31.58%) NetScaler
4 6 (31.58%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (26.32%) XenServer
5 5 (26.32%) Cacti
5 5 (26.32%) Open Source
5 5 (26.32%) Finance
5 5 (26.32%) HTTP
5 5 (26.32%) Nagios

Regular Expression
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 (31.58%) .NET
2 3 (15.79%) HTML
3 2 (10.53%) CGI
4 1 (5.263%) ASP
4 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.263%) COM
4 1 (5.263%) CSS
4 1 (5.263%) XML
4 1 (5.263%) XSL
4 1 (5.263%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.263%) IIS
2 1 (5.263%) Apache
2 1 (5.263%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (36.84%) MS Excel
2 6 (31.58%) MS PowerPoint
2 6 (31.58%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Ethernet
1 6 (31.58%) VPN
1 6 (31.58%) Internet
1 6 (31.58%) BGP
1 6 (31.58%) VLAN
1 6 (31.58%) NetScaler
1 6 (31.58%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (26.32%) Firewall
2 5 (26.32%) HTTP
3 2 (10.53%) SAN
3 2 (10.53%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (5.263%) MS Access
2 1 (5.263%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Ant
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing
2 2 (10.53%) German Language
3 1 (5.263%) Retail
3 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Network Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) C# Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Junior
4 4 (21.05%) Junior Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Junior C# Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Graduate Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Graduate
5 3 (15.79%) Graduate C# Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Architect
6 2 (10.53%) VMware Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
7 1 (5.263%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (5.263%) DBA
7 1 (5.263%) Programmer
7 1 (5.263%) Web Developer
7 1 (5.263%) UNIX Developer
7 1 (5.263%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Open Source
2 3 (15.79%) Equities
2 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
3 2 (10.53%) Firmware
3 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
4 1 (5.263%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) UNIX
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
3 1 (5.263%) Windows XP
3 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.263%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.263%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) E-Commerce
1 6 (31.58%) Change Management
1 6 (31.58%) Load Balancing
2 2 (10.53%) ITIL
2 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
2 2 (10.53%) ITSM
3 1 (5.263%) Information Security
3 1 (5.263%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (5.263%) Business Analysis
3 1 (5.263%) Web Development
3 1 (5.263%) ETL
3 1 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (5.263%) PRINCE
3 1 (5.263%) SSADM
3 1 (5.263%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (5.263%) Build Automation
3 1 (5.263%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) C#
1 9 (47.37%) Java
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) VB
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) Perl
3 3 (15.79%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.53%) C
4 2 (10.53%) C++
5 1 (5.263%) VB.NET
5 1 (5.263%) VBScript
5 1 (5.263%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Degree
1 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) XenServer
2 2 (10.53%) Xen
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.263%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.263%) Samba
3 1 (5.263%) VMware ESX
3 1 (5.263%) Snort
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Nagios
1 5 (26.32%) Cacti
2 2 (10.53%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 2 (10.53%) Ionix
2 2 (10.53%) BladeLogic
2 2 (10.53%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Cisco
1 8 (42.11%) Citrix
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) CheckPoint
3 4 (21.05%) Oracle
4 3 (15.79%) VMware
5 2 (10.53%) Symantec
5 2 (10.53%) Opsware
5 2 (10.53%) HP
5 2 (10.53%) BMC
5 2 (10.53%) CA
5 2 (10.53%) NetApp
6 1 (5.263%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.263%) Business Objects
6 1 (5.263%) Tableau
6 1 (5.263%) Google
City of London
Unix Programmer / Linux Programmer / DeveloperArgyll Scott are urgently recruiting for a strong programmer with in-depth knowledge in Unix/Linux systems and tools, Who can lead and participate...
Argyll Scott International
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Job Title: Graduate Developer (C#, Java, ANT)Location: LondonContract: 6 months+Rate: £200-250 per dayGraduate Developer (C#, Java, ANT)Role:A great opportunity for a graduate who...
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 10 June 2013
City, London
They are on the look out for innovative and passionate developer with a good level of experience within Microsoft .Net and SQL server... Regular Expression and Scripting experience...
Hays Finance Technology
Rate: £100.00 - £200.00 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
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