Regular Expression Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Regular Expressions (Regex)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Regular Expression skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 487 706
Rank change year-on-year -53 +219 +47
Permanent jobs citing Regular Expression 41 5 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.019% 0.030%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.83% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18 3 1
10th Percentile £53,875 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,625 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £46,000 £23,000
Median % change year-on-year +46.74% +100.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £46,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £43,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +55.17% -24.35% -25.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Regular Expression falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,931 4,706 13,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.79% 17.69% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,804 3,639 10,252
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,660 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £81,175
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

Regular Expression
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Regular Expression job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Regular Expression
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Regular Expression.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Regular Expression

Regular Expression
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regular Expression in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Regular Expression in the UK excluding London

Regular Expression
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 Regular Expression within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 April 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
East of England - 22 - -
South East -27 13 £67,500 +55.17% 3
North West -21 6 £55,000 +19.57%
North of England -52 6 £55,000 +19.57%
Regular Expression
UK

Regular Expression
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (17.07%) Azure
2 6 (14.63%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (29.27%) DNS
1 12 (29.27%) Firewall
2 2 (4.88%) NAS
2 2 (4.88%) NetScaler
2 2 (4.88%) SAN
2 2 (4.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Big Data
General
1 8 (19.51%) German Language
1 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (14.63%) Law
2 6 (14.63%) Police
2 6 (14.63%) Retail
3 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Applications Architect
1 10 (24.39%) Architect
2 8 (19.51%) Security Architect
2 8 (19.51%) Security Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 6 (14.63%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Design Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) ArcSight Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (63.41%) JSON
1 26 (63.41%) XML
2 22 (53.66%) HTML
3 10 (24.39%) LDAP
4 8 (19.51%) XMPP
5 4 (9.76%) JSON Schema
6 1 (2.44%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 28 (68.29%) Onboarding
2 22 (53.66%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (14.63%) Cyberattack
3 6 (14.63%) Low-Code
3 6 (14.63%) Management Information System
3 6 (14.63%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (4.88%) PKI
4 2 (4.88%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (53.66%) Unix
2 13 (31.71%) Linux
2 13 (31.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (31.71%) Windows
3 12 (29.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) AI
1 22 (53.66%) Data Analysis
1 22 (53.66%) LLM
2 17 (41.46%) SIEM
3 10 (24.39%) Application Security
4 8 (19.51%) Antivirus Management
4 8 (19.51%) Architectural Design
4 8 (19.51%) Pattern Matching
4 8 (19.51%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (19.51%) Validation
5 6 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (14.63%) Resource Management
5 6 (14.63%) Roadmaps
5 6 (14.63%) Security Operations
5 6 (14.63%) Server Management
5 6 (14.63%) Threat Detection
6 2 (4.88%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (4.88%) High Availability
6 2 (4.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (2.44%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (68.29%) Python
2 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.44%) Bash
4 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (53.66%) Degree
2 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
3 13 (31.71%) DV Cleared
4 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 12 (29.27%) Active Directory
1 12 (29.27%) vSphere
2 1 (2.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Ansible
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 12 (29.27%) VMware
3 8 (19.51%) Red Hat
4 6 (14.63%) McAfee
5 2 (4.88%) Citrix
5 2 (4.88%) NetApp
6 1 (2.44%) ArcSight