Regular Expression Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Regular Expressions (Regex)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Regular Expression skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Regular Expression 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.60% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £84.68 - -
25th Percentile £89.46 - -
Median hourly rate £92.11 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £92.11 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 109 114 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 12.98% 25.39% 23.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 48 37
10th Percentile £153 £418 £325
25th Percentile £406 £464 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +33.33% -17.50%
75th Percentile £581 £613 £538
90th Percentile £700 £680 £635
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -17.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 45 54
10th Percentile £65.00 £41.95 -
25th Percentile £69.13 £43.00 -
Median hourly rate £88.56 £65.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.24% +51.16% +4.88%
75th Percentile £92.11 - £65.00
90th Percentile - £71.80 -
East of England median hourly rate £68.21 £62.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +9.14% +45.35% +4.24%

Regular Expression
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Regular Expression relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Regular Expression job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Regular Expression
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Regular Expression.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Regular Expression

Regular Expression
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 September 2026. 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
Stevenage - 5 - - 12
Regular Expression
East of England

Regular Expression
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) HTTP
General
1 4 (80.00%) Back Office
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) JSON
1 5 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) CSOC
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Network Packet Capture
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
1 5 (100.00%) Threat Detection
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Red Team
2 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 5 (100.00%) NFS
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware