Regular Expression Contracts with Work from Home Options

Regular Expressions (Regex)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 458 597
Rank change year-on-year +115 +139 -118
Contract jobs citing Regular Expression 5 18 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.070% 0.056%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% 0.28% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 16
10th Percentile £592 £439 £363
25th Percentile £595 £481 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -2.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile - £495 £561
90th Percentile - £539 £647
UK median daily rate £600 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +21.21% -1.05% -9.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,622 6,458 13,219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.90% 25.29% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,541 4,803 9,764
10th Percentile £331 £394 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £549
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.55% +13.09%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £726
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 120
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%

Regular Expression
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Regular Expression as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Regular Expression trend for jobs with a WFH option

Regular Expression
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Regular Expression.

Regular Expression daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Regular Expression
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Search Processing Language
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CEH
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
1 2 (40.00%) RHCE
1 2 (40.00%) SANS
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) LogRhythm
2 2 (40.00%) AlienVault
2 2 (40.00%) ArcSight
2 2 (40.00%) Carbon Black
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) TippingPoint
3 1 (20.00%) Trend Micro