The first table below looks at the demand for R skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited R over the 3 months to 17 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
R
Rank 245 250 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Permanent jobs citing R 3 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.042% 0.014% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.070% 0.023% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
Average salary £52,500 £18,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+191.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +30.76%
All Programming Languages
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
4294 4303 3613
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 60.22% 61.03% 52.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3761 3875 3274
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
R
England

R
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West R Salary Trend

R
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing R across the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West R Salary Histogram

R
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Manchester - 2 £53,250 -
Cheshire - 1 £32,500 -
R
England

R
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 10 (76.92%) Python
1 10 (76.92%) MATLAB
2 8 (61.54%) Pharmaceutical
2 8 (61.54%) PhD
2 8 (61.54%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) OO
2 8 (61.54%) Bioinformatics
3 6 (46.15%) Grid Computing
3 6 (46.15%) jBPM
3 6 (46.15%) Ontologies
3 6 (46.15%) Web Services
3 6 (46.15%) Workflow
4 3 (23.08%) Finance
4 3 (23.08%) Data Mining
4 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) Marketing
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle Exalytics
5 2 (15.38%) Master Data Management
5 2 (15.38%) Statistics
5 2 (15.38%) Neural Network
5 2 (15.38%) Endeca
5 2 (15.38%) Essbase
5 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
5 2 (15.38%) Biology
5 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle OLAP
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (15.38%) Data Extraction
5 2 (15.38%) Hyperion Planning

R
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 6 (46.15%) Web Services
1 6 (46.15%) jBPM
2 2 (15.38%) SciPy
2 2 (15.38%) NumPy
2 2 (15.38%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (15.38%) HFM
1 2 (15.38%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (7.692%) WebTrends
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Mining
2 2 (15.38%) Essbase
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (15.38%) Big Data
2 2 (15.38%) OLAP
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
General
1 8 (61.54%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 1 (7.692%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Software Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Java Software Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) OBIEE Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Business Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Ontologies
1 6 (46.15%) Grid Computing
2 2 (15.38%) Neural Network
2 2 (15.38%) Statistics
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
2 2 (15.38%) Biology
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
2 2 (15.38%) Data Extraction
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Exalogic
2 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Exalytics
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) OO
1 8 (61.54%) Bioinformatics
2 6 (46.15%) Workflow
3 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Master Data Management
4 2 (15.38%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Data Management
4 2 (15.38%) Information Management
4 2 (15.38%) ERP
4 2 (15.38%) ETL
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) DRM
5 1 (7.692%) Data Modelling
5 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
5 1 (7.692%) Web Analytics
5 1 (7.692%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
1 10 (76.92%) MATLAB
2 8 (61.54%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) PhD
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) Hyperion
1 2 (15.38%) Endeca
2 1 (7.692%) Acxiom
2 1 (7.692%) IBM
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