The first table below looks at the demand for R skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited R over the 3 months to 19 June 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
R
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing R 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year
+6.38% +1.62%
All Programming Languages
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2608 2559 1959
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 49.45% 53.52% 45.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2292 2304 1749
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands R Salary Trend

R
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 (62.50%) LAN
1 5 (62.50%) VoIP
1 5 (62.50%) WAN
1 5 (62.50%) CCNA
1 5 (62.50%) Nortel
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (62.50%) Avaya
1 5 (62.50%) C
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
1 5 (62.50%) Nortel Meridian
1 5 (62.50%) Unified Communications
1 5 (62.50%) IP Telephony
2 1 (12.50%) Lucene
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) HBase
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) Neo4j
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Pig
2 1 (12.50%) ElasticSearch
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) Load Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Smart Meter
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Solr
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB

R
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 (12.50%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Pig
1 1 (12.50%) ElasticSearch
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) LAN
1 5 (62.50%) VoIP
1 5 (62.50%) WAN
1 5 (62.50%) Nortel Meridian
1 5 (62.50%) Unified Communications
1 5 (62.50%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) HBase
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
1 1 (12.50%) Neo4j
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Technical Support
1 5 (62.50%) Support Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Technical Support Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Compliance Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Search Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Risk Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
1 1 (12.50%) Analytics
1 1 (12.50%) Load Testing
1 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
1 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
1 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) VBA
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CCNA
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Nortel
1 5 (62.50%) Avaya
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