The first table below looks at the demand for R skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited R over the 3 months to 21 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 Programming Languages category for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
R
Rank - - 90
Permanent jobs citing R 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham - - 0.077%
As % of the Programming Languages category - - 0.196%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £35,750
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +18.88%
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
761 659 510
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 45.14% 45.51% 39.32%
Number of salaries quoted 661 611 462
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
R
West Midlands

R
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing R across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Birmingham R Jobs Demand Trend

R
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham R Salary Trend

R
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing R 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 R.

1 5 (83.33%) LAN
1 5 (83.33%) VoIP
1 5 (83.33%) WAN
1 5 (83.33%) CCNA
1 5 (83.33%) Nortel
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (83.33%) Avaya
1 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
1 5 (83.33%) C
1 5 (83.33%) IP Telephony
1 5 (83.33%) Nortel Meridian
1 5 (83.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (16.67%) HBase
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (16.67%) Neo4j
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Pig
2 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Solr
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Lucene
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Python

R
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing R 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 R. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Pig
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) LAN
1 5 (83.33%) VoIP
1 5 (83.33%) WAN
1 5 (83.33%) IP Telephony
1 5 (83.33%) Nortel Meridian
1 5 (83.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) HBase
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
1 1 (16.67%) Neo4j
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (83.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Support
1 5 (83.33%) Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Support Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Analytics
1 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CCNA
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Nortel
1 5 (83.33%) Avaya