Regular Expressions (Regex)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Regular Expression skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Regular Expression over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 980 1126
Rank change year-on-year +95 +146 -267
Permanent jobs citing Regular Expression 23 18 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.017% 0.052%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.055% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4 14 53
10th Percentile £30,350 £51,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £41,375 £61,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% +19.23% +20.93%
75th Percentile £68,375 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £69,950 - £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £23,000 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,929 32,454 61,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.53% 30.47% 39.95%
Number of salaries quoted 15,703 19,819 30,667
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

Regular Expression
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Regular Expression as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Regular Expression in the UK

Regular Expression
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Regular Expression.

Salary trend for Regular Expression in the UK

Regular Expression
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regular Expression over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Regular Expression in the UK

Regular Expression
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Regular Expression within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +40 20 £23,000 - 1
England +132 18 £65,000 -16.13% 5
South West - 14 - -
Wales - 5 £23,000 -
Work from Home +100 3 £65,000 +8.33% 4
London +140 2 £67,000 -17.54% 3
South East +4 1 - -

Regular Expression
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Solr
1 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) AWS
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
1 2 (8.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (21.74%) Games
2 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Talend Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Domain Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Junior
5 1 (4.35%) Junior Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (69.57%) JSON
1 16 (69.57%) XML
2 14 (60.87%) JSON Schema
2 14 (60.87%) KML
3 9 (39.13%) XML Schema
4 2 (8.70%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (8.70%) Apache Camel
4 2 (8.70%) Lucene
4 2 (8.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) CAD
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
3 5 (21.74%) Mathematics
3 5 (21.74%) OO
3 5 (21.74%) OOD
3 5 (21.74%) OOP
3 5 (21.74%) Statistics
4 2 (8.70%) API Development
4 2 (8.70%) Data Modelling
4 2 (8.70%) Design Patterns
4 2 (8.70%) ETL
4 2 (8.70%) Integration Testing
4 2 (8.70%) Logical Data Model
4 2 (8.70%) Physical Data Model
4 2 (8.70%) SDLC
4 2 (8.70%) Test Automation
4 2 (8.70%) Unit Testing
5 1 (4.35%) High Availability
5 1 (4.35%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Groovy
2 4 (17.39%) C++
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) XPath
5 1 (4.35%) Python
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) NCSC
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Talend
3 1 (4.35%) BMC
3 1 (4.35%) Remedy
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk