Regular Expression Contracts in England

Regular Expressions (Regex)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 631 749
Rank change year-on-year +94 +118 -145
Contract jobs citing Regular Expression 13 34 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.067% 0.049%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.29% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 25 21
10th Percentile £329 £448 £495
25th Percentile £394 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -0.10% -6.45%
75th Percentile £597 £550 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £595 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +19.00% -0.05% -9.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 advertised in England 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 7,511 11,830 19,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.18% 23.22% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,348 8,740 14,514
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £428 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +0.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 139 218
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £21.70
25th Percentile £39.92 £45.63 £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 median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 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
London +93 5 - - 3
South East +8 4 £398 -24.29%
West Midlands +38 2 £600 -14.29%
Midlands +37 2 £600 -14.29%
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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) GCP
1 2 (15.38%) IaaS
1 2 (15.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) Kerberos
3 1 (7.69%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Security Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) SOC Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Unix Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) JSON
1 5 (38.46%) XML
2 3 (23.08%) JSON Schema
2 3 (23.08%) KML
2 3 (23.08%) XML Schema
3 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (15.38%) LDAP
3 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 2 (15.38%) OAuth
3 2 (15.38%) OpenID
3 2 (15.38%) SAML
3 2 (15.38%) XACML
3 2 (15.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (15.38%) Cyberattack
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 2 (15.38%) Taxonomies
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) SIEM
2 3 (23.08%) CAD
2 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (23.08%) High Availability
2 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (15.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) RBAC
3 2 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (15.38%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Perl
3 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) CISSP
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) BC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) CASP
4 2 (15.38%) CEH
4 2 (15.38%) CISM
4 2 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (15.38%) GCED
4 2 (15.38%) GIAC
4 2 (15.38%) GSEC
4 2 (15.38%) RHCE
4 2 (15.38%) SANS
5 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Host Intrusion Detection System
2 2 (15.38%) Kibana
2 2 (15.38%) logstash
2 2 (15.38%) PingFederate
2 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) LogRhythm
2 3 (23.08%) TippingPoint
2 3 (23.08%) Trend Micro
3 2 (15.38%) AlienVault
3 2 (15.38%) ArcSight
3 2 (15.38%) Carbon Black
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Citrix
3 2 (15.38%) Google
3 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
3 2 (15.38%) Ping Identity
3 2 (15.38%) Symantec
4 1 (7.69%) BMC
4 1 (7.69%) Remedy