The first table below looks at the demand for Regular Expression skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 South West 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 the South West - - -
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
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
481 769 671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 23.85% 23.77% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 460 301
Average daily rate £325 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £245 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 37
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -25.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £15.10 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region.

South West Regular Expression Hourly Rate Trend

Regular Expression
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) Bash shell
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) C++
2 6 (85.71%) Perl
2 6 (85.71%) PHP
2 6 (85.71%) MySQL
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) Web Services
2 6 (85.71%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) C
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) XSLT
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) XHTML
4 1 (14.29%) OOD
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Analysis

Regular Expression
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (85.71%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) XSLT
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) XHTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (85.71%) C++ Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) OOD
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Web Development
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash shell
1 6 (85.71%) Python
1 6 (85.71%) C++
1 6 (85.71%) Perl
1 6 (85.71%) PHP
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft