The first table below looks at the demand for Regular Expression skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Regular Expression over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Regular Expressions (Regex)
Rank 88 - 99
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Regular Expression 4 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.378% - 0.130%
As % of the Application Development category 0.901% - 0.402%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 2
Average salary £40,000 - £22,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
% change year-on-year
- +10.34%
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
444 466 498
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 42.01% 34.78% 32.30%
Number of salaries quoted 284 368 369
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £29,950 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £43,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Regular Expression
Scotland

Regular Expression
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Regular Expression across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Edinburgh Regular Expression Jobs Demand Trend

Regular Expression
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Regular Expression across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Regular Expression Salary Trend

Regular Expression
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Regular Expression also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Regular Expression.

1 8 (72.73%) SQL
1 8 (72.73%) XPath
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 5 (45.45%) Python
3 5 (45.45%) XML
3 5 (45.45%) .NET
3 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 5 (45.45%) jQuery
3 5 (45.45%) Automated Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Ajax
4 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
4 4 (36.36%) WCF
4 4 (36.36%) SWIFT
4 4 (36.36%) HTML5
4 4 (36.36%) OO
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 4 (36.36%) XQuery
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (36.36%) C#
4 4 (36.36%) Oracle
4 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
4 4 (36.36%) CSS
4 4 (36.36%) OOD
4 4 (36.36%) Web Services
5 3 (27.27%) MySQL
5 3 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
6 2 (18.18%) Facebook
6 2 (18.18%) Project Management
6 2 (18.18%) Management Information System

Regular Expression
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Regular Expression also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Regular Expression. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (45.45%) .NET
1 5 (45.45%) XML
1 5 (45.45%) jQuery
2 4 (36.36%) HTML5
2 4 (36.36%) Web Services
2 4 (36.36%) WCF
2 4 (36.36%) Ajax
2 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
2 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
2 4 (36.36%) CSS
3 1 (9.091%) Servlets
3 1 (9.091%) Spring MVC
3 1 (9.091%) Hibernate
3 1 (9.091%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) JUnit
1 1 (9.091%) Eclipse
1 1 (9.091%) JMeter
1 1 (9.091%) Subversion
1 1 (9.091%) Maven
1 1 (9.091%) Selenium
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) .NET Developer
2 4 (36.36%) C# Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior C# Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior .NET Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Developer
2 4 (36.36%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Junior
4 1 (9.091%) Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Junior Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) SWIFT
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) UNIX
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
1 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Automated Testing
2 4 (36.36%) OO
2 4 (36.36%) OOD
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 1 (9.091%) MVC
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) Refactoring
4 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.091%) SIEM
4 1 (9.091%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
1 8 (72.73%) XPath
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 5 (45.45%) Python
4 4 (36.36%) XQuery
4 4 (36.36%) C#
5 1 (9.091%) Java
5 1 (9.091%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (9.091%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Facebook