Regular Expression Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Regular Expressions (Regex)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Regular Expression skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Regular Expression 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.31% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 292 49 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 30.13% 17.88% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 39 66
10th Percentile £384 £450 £387
25th Percentile £450 £483 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £534 £445
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +19.99% -15.23%
75th Percentile £559 £631 £538
90th Percentile £675 £655 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.35
25th Percentile - - £16.94
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £102.00 £24.64
% change year-on-year -44.61% +313.96% -64.80%

Regular Expression
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Regular Expression job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Regular Expression
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Regular Expression

Regular Expression
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
Sheffield - 3 £525 - 1
Regular Expression
Yorkshire

Regular Expression
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 3 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 3 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (100.00%) Image Processing
1 3 (100.00%) KYC
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (100.00%) OCR
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Intelligent Automation
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft