Pattern Matching Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Pattern Matching
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Pattern Matching skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Pattern Matching 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £68,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £67,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Pattern Matching falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40,036 25,962 50,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 75.19% 92.18% 85.84%
Number of salaries quoted 23,982 13,613 37,710
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Pattern Matching
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Pattern Matching relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Pattern Matching job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Pattern Matching
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pattern Matching.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pattern Matching

Pattern Matching
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pattern Matching within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. 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
South East - 2 £67,500 - 2
Pattern Matching
UK

Pattern Matching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 2 (100.00%) XMPP
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Antivirus Management
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp