The first table below looks at the demand for Regular Expression skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Regular Expression over the 3 months to 23 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Regular Expressions (Regex)
Rank 151 146 155
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Regular Expression 6 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.192% 0.058% 0.057%
As % of the Application Development category 0.458% 0.167% 0.167%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 2
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £22,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% +46.06%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1310 1201 1198
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 41.92% 34.88% 34.01%
Number of salaries quoted 796 963 888
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Regular Expression
UK

Regular Expression
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Regular Expression Salary Trend

Regular Expression
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Regular Expression within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh +10 5 £40,000 +23.07%
Glasgow - 1 - -
Regular Expression
UK

Regular Expression
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 10 (83.33%) SQL
1 10 (83.33%) XPath
2 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (50.00%) .NET
3 6 (50.00%) C#
3 6 (50.00%) CSS
3 6 (50.00%) XML
3 6 (50.00%) Automated Testing
3 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 6 (50.00%) jQuery
4 5 (41.67%) HTML5
4 5 (41.67%) WCF
4 5 (41.67%) Ajax
4 5 (41.67%) .NET Framework
4 5 (41.67%) SWIFT
4 5 (41.67%) Oracle
4 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET
4 5 (41.67%) Web Services
4 5 (41.67%) XQuery
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (41.67%) OO
4 5 (41.67%) Python
4 5 (41.67%) OOD
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) MySQL
5 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (16.67%) Windows
6 2 (16.67%) Linux
6 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing

Regular Expression
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 6 (50.00%) .NET
1 6 (50.00%) CSS
1 6 (50.00%) XML
1 6 (50.00%) jQuery
2 5 (41.67%) HTML5
2 5 (41.67%) WCF
2 5 (41.67%) Ajax
2 5 (41.67%) .NET Framework
2 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET
2 5 (41.67%) Web Services
3 1 (8.333%) SAX
3 1 (8.333%) HTML
3 1 (8.333%) DOM
3 1 (8.333%) Servlets
3 1 (8.333%) Hibernate
3 1 (8.333%) Spring
3 1 (8.333%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (8.333%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.333%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.333%) Data Mining
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Eclipse
1 1 (8.333%) JUnit
1 1 (8.333%) JMeter
1 1 (8.333%) NUnit
1 1 (8.333%) Subversion
1 1 (8.333%) Maven
1 1 (8.333%) Jasmine
1 1 (8.333%) Selenium
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Developer
2 5 (41.67%) .NET Developer
2 5 (41.67%) C# Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior C# Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior .NET Developer
2 5 (41.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Junior
4 1 (8.333%) Junior Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) SWIFT
2 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.333%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 5 (41.67%) OO
2 5 (41.67%) OOD
3 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Project Management
4 1 (8.333%) MVC
4 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (8.333%) TDD
4 1 (8.333%) SIEM
4 1 (8.333%) Web Application Development
4 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.333%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
1 10 (83.33%) XPath
2 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (50.00%) C#
4 5 (41.67%) XQuery
4 5 (41.67%) Python
5 2 (16.67%) Bash shell
6 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
6 1 (8.333%) Perl
6 1 (8.333%) C++
6 1 (8.333%) Java
6 1 (8.333%) C
6 1 (8.333%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) PCI DSS
1 1 (8.333%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) Facebook