Regular Expression Contracts in England

Regular Expressions (Regex)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Regular Expression skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Regular Expression over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 531 616
Rank change year-on-year +54 +85 +130
Contract jobs citing Regular Expression 8 11 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.030% 0.073%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.15% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 27
10th Percentile £419 £363 £453
25th Percentile £447 £509 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £595 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +19.00% -
75th Percentile £713 £600 £545
90th Percentile £765 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £600 £495
% change year-on-year -14.58% +21.21% -1.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Regular Expression falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Regular Expression
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Regular Expression in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Regular Expression in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regular Expression in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Regular Expression in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Regular Expression in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +39 6 £700 - 11
North West - 2 £438 -
North of England - 2 £438 - 1
Regular Expression
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (12.50%) Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LangChain
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Science
1 4 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 4 (50.00%) LLM
1 4 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 4 (50.00%) Pattern Matching
1 4 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 4 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Service Design
4 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) BeyondTrust