Regular Expression Contracts

Regular Expressions (Regex)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Regular Expression skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Regular Expression over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 670 803
Rank change year-on-year +90 +133 -153
Contract jobs citing Regular Expression 14 46 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.077% 0.059%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.33% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 32 33
10th Percentile £428 £438 £428
25th Percentile £592 £470 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £600
90th Percentile - £650 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £595 £533 £600
% change year-on-year +11.74% -11.25% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Regular Expression is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,875 13,886 24,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 23.26% 27.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,163 10,138 17,667
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 153 241
10th Percentile £21.01 £31.60 £22.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.84 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.81% +30.61% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Regular Expression as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Regular Expression in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Regular Expression.

Daily rate trend for Regular Expression in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regular Expression over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Regular Expression in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Regular Expression.

Hourly rate trend for Regular Expression in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England +91 11 £595 +19.00% 3
Work from Home +114 5 £600 +23.08% 4
London +100 5 - - 2
UK excluding London +46 4 £595 +11.74% 1
West Midlands +32 2 £600 -14.29%
Midlands +28 2 £600 -14.29%
South East +5 2 £428 -16.75%

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) IaaS
1 3 (21.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Network Security
2 3 (21.43%) Kerberos
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (7.14%) SNMP
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Splunk Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Unix Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) JSON
1 3 (21.43%) JSON Schema
1 3 (21.43%) KML
1 3 (21.43%) LDAP
1 3 (21.43%) Node.js
1 3 (21.43%) OAuth
1 3 (21.43%) OpenID
1 3 (21.43%) SAML
1 3 (21.43%) XACML
1 3 (21.43%) XML
1 3 (21.43%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (14.29%) Cyberattack
2 2 (14.29%) Taxonomies
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) SIEM
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (21.43%) CAD
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
2 3 (21.43%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) High Availability
2 3 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
2 3 (21.43%) Information Security
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) RBAC
2 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
2 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 2 (14.29%) Offensive Security
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) Perl
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (7.14%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) CISSP
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) BC Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) CASP
4 2 (14.29%) CEH
4 2 (14.29%) CISM
4 2 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (14.29%) GCED
4 2 (14.29%) GIAC
4 2 (14.29%) GSEC
4 2 (14.29%) RHCE
4 2 (14.29%) SANS
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
1 3 (21.43%) PingFederate
1 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (14.29%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) LogRhythm
2 3 (21.43%) Ping Identity
2 3 (21.43%) TippingPoint
2 3 (21.43%) Trend Micro
3 2 (14.29%) AlienVault
3 2 (14.29%) ArcSight
3 2 (14.29%) Carbon Black
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) Citrix
3 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) Symantec
4 1 (7.14%) BMC
4 1 (7.14%) Remedy