Regular Expression Contracts in the UK excluding London

Regular Expressions (Regex)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 434 499
Rank change year-on-year +35 +65 -71
Contract jobs citing Regular Expression 4 23 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.096% 0.078%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.53% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 18
10th Percentile £363 - £499
25th Percentile £509 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.74% -11.25% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 -
90th Percentile £600 - £627
UK median daily rate £600 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +21.21% -1.05% -9.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London 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 3,274 4,364 6,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.25% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,150 3,271 4,418
10th Percentile £324 £360 £362
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.68%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 91 145
10th Percentile £21.81 £22.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £69.50
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%

Regular Expression
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Regular Expression as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Regular Expression in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Regular Expression in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Regular Expression in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Regular Expression in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Regular Expression in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Regular Expression in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Regular Expression in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Midlands +30 2 £600 -14.29%
West Midlands +26 2 £600 -14.29%
South East +1 2 £428 -16.75%
Regular Expression
UK

Regular Expression
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) SNMP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) SOC Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Network Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Unix Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (50.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Offensive Security
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Groovy
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) BC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) CASP
2 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (50.00%) GCED
2 2 (50.00%) GIAC
2 2 (50.00%) GSEC
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) LogRhythm
1 3 (75.00%) TippingPoint
1 3 (75.00%) Trend Micro
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) BMC
3 1 (25.00%) Remedy