The first table below looks at the demand for R skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited R over the 3 months to 24 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
R
Rank 149 152 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Permanent jobs citing R 4 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.127% 0.087% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.219% 0.188% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
Average salary £54,000 £36,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £42,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+11.76% +30.76%
All Programming Languages
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1827 1597 1618
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 58.06% 46.22% 46.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1115 1237 1177
Average salary £39,000 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £48,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
R
UK

R
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland R Salary Trend

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Edinburgh - 4 £54,000 -
R
UK

R
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) OLAP
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) ERP
1 3 (75.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Hyperion
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (75.00%) Essbase
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) HFM
1 3 (75.00%) Information Management
1 3 (75.00%) Endeca
1 3 (75.00%) Marketing
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle OLAP
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 3 (75.00%) Hyperion Planning
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Exalogic
1 3 (75.00%) Big Data
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Exalytics
1 3 (75.00%) Master Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) DRM

R
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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.

Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (75.00%) HFM
1 3 (75.00%) Hyperion Planning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) OLAP
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (75.00%) Essbase
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle OLAP
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (75.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) FileMaker
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Business Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) OBIEE Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Exalogic
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Exalytics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ERP
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) Information Management
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Master Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) DRM
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Hyperion
1 3 (75.00%) Endeca
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