Regular Expression Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Regular Expressions (Regex)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Regular Expression skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Regular Expression over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 340 459
Rank change year-on-year +41 +119 +150
Contract jobs citing Regular Expression 5 5 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.033% 0.070%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.14% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 15
10th Percentile - £592 £439
25th Percentile £456 £595 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +23.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £519 - £510
90th Percentile - - £539
UK median daily rate £513 £600 £495
% change year-on-year -14.58% +21.21% -1.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Regular Expression
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Regular Expression as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Regular Expression trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Regular Expression
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LangChain
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
1 5 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (60.00%) LLM
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (40.00%) Feature Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared