R Jobs with Work from Home Options

R
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for R skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited R over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 176 277
Rank change year-on-year -177 +101 +42
Permanent jobs citing R 258 852 940
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 2.05% 1.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.87% 4.17% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 191 284 381
10th Percentile £39,573 £40,651 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,402 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £146,250 £150,000 -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +0.26%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

R is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,763 20,419 40,362
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.76% 49.23% 58.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11,409 15,015 23,794
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

R
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

R trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing R.

R salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing R over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

R salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 41 (15.89%) SAS
2 12 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.33%) Apache
4 5 (1.94%) nginx
5 3 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.78%) Confluence
6 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.39%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 30 (11.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (3.10%) SPSS
3 2 (0.78%) EViews
3 2 (0.78%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Primavera
2 1 (0.39%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 84 (32.56%) Azure
2 66 (25.58%) AWS
3 62 (24.03%) GCP
3 62 (24.03%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.43%) Google Analytics
5 11 (4.26%) Adobe Analytics
5 11 (4.26%) Snowflake
6 9 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (3.49%) GitHub
7 8 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (3.10%) PowerApps
8 7 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.33%) Serverless
10 5 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.94%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (1.94%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.94%) MQTT
1 5 (1.94%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (1.94%) VPN
2 4 (1.55%) Broadband
2 4 (1.55%) Internet
2 4 (1.55%) RS-232
2 4 (1.55%) SMS
2 4 (1.55%) WPA
3 3 (1.16%) DHCP
3 3 (1.16%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (24.03%) Power BI
2 54 (20.93%) Tableau
3 19 (7.36%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (6.98%) Big Data
5 16 (6.20%) SQL Server
6 13 (5.04%) Data Lake
6 13 (5.04%) QlikView
7 11 (4.26%) MySQL
7 11 (4.26%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (3.10%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (2.71%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.94%) GIS
11 5 (1.94%) Power Query
12 4 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.55%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.55%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.16%) Looker
Development Applications
1 11 (4.26%) Git
2 5 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.55%) Subversion
4 3 (1.16%) MLflow
5 2 (0.78%) JIRA
6 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 114 (44.19%) Finance
2 85 (32.95%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (30.62%) Social Skills
4 43 (16.67%) Front Office
5 32 (12.40%) Banking
6 28 (10.85%) Retail
7 25 (9.69%) Marketing
8 15 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.26%) Military
9 11 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.71%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.71%) Health Technology
11 7 (2.71%) Law
11 7 (2.71%) Legal
12 5 (1.94%) Electronics
12 5 (1.94%) Local Government
12 5 (1.94%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.55%) Automotive
13 4 (1.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 71 (27.52%) Analyst
2 52 (20.16%) Developer
3 44 (17.05%) Python Developer
4 43 (16.67%) Quantitative Developer
5 41 (15.89%) Senior
6 33 (12.79%) Data Analyst
7 25 (9.69%) Data Scientist
8 24 (9.30%) Finance Manager
9 20 (7.75%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (5.81%) Architect
11 14 (5.43%) Consultant
12 13 (5.04%) Data Engineer
13 12 (4.65%) Insight Analyst
13 12 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (3.49%) Analytics Manager
14 9 (3.49%) Data Science Director
15 8 (3.10%) Analytics Consultant
15 8 (3.10%) Customer Insight Analyst
15 8 (3.10%) Data Consultant
15 8 (3.10%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.59%) HTML
2 11 (4.26%) CSS
3 10 (3.88%) React
4 6 (2.33%) Django
4 6 (2.33%) PySpark
5 5 (1.94%) AWS CDK
5 5 (1.94%) GraphQL
5 5 (1.94%) gRPC
5 5 (1.94%) jQuery
5 5 (1.94%) Knex.js
5 5 (1.94%) LEMP Stack
5 5 (1.94%) Node.js
5 5 (1.94%) React Native
5 5 (1.94%) RESTful
5 5 (1.94%) Sequelize
6 4 (1.55%) Pandas
6 4 (1.55%) Tidyverse
7 3 (1.16%) .NET
7 3 (1.16%) htmx
8 2 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.67%) Fixed Income
1 43 (16.67%) Hedge funds
2 42 (16.28%) Derivative
3 38 (14.73%) Equities
4 22 (8.53%) Algorithms
5 20 (7.75%) Credit Risk
6 13 (5.04%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.88%) NHS
8 7 (2.71%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.33%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.94%) IoT
10 5 (1.94%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.55%) Clustering
11 4 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.55%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.43%) Linux
2 5 (1.94%) Windows
3 4 (1.55%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (40.31%) Analytics
2 80 (31.01%) Agile
3 73 (28.29%) Data Science
4 69 (26.74%) Business Intelligence
5 57 (22.09%) Data Analysis
6 54 (20.93%) Decision-Making
6 54 (20.93%) Software Engineering
7 53 (20.54%) Asset Management
8 52 (20.16%) Visualisation
9 50 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (18.22%) Statistics
11 46 (17.83%) Investment Management
11 46 (17.83%) Quantitative Research
12 44 (17.05%) Data Visualisation
13 38 (14.73%) Mathematics
14 36 (13.95%) Data Modelling
15 30 (11.63%) Machine Learning
16 27 (10.47%) Artificial Intelligence
16 27 (10.47%) Project Management
17 26 (10.08%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 233 (90.31%) Python
2 128 (49.61%) SQL
3 21 (8.14%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.26%) C
5 10 (3.88%) VBA
6 8 (3.10%) Embedded C
6 8 (3.10%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.71%) Java
8 6 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.94%) C#
9 5 (1.94%) C++
9 5 (1.94%) JSX
9 5 (1.94%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.55%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.16%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.16%) Scala
12 2 (0.78%) Tcl
13 1 (0.39%) Ada
13 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (29.46%) Degree
2 20 (7.75%) Master's Degree
3 12 (4.65%) PhD
4 11 (4.26%) Security Cleared
5 10 (3.88%) Numerate Degree
6 7 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.55%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.78%) CIMA
10 1 (0.39%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.75%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.04%) IFRS
2 13 (5.04%) IFRS 9
3 8 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.33%) CRD IV
5 5 (1.94%) QA
6 4 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.16%) GDPR
7 3 (1.16%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.78%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (3.49%) Docker
2 3 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.16%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.94%) Terraform
2 3 (1.16%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (14.73%) Bloomberg
2 23 (8.91%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.36%) Google
4 18 (6.98%) Adobe
5 17 (6.59%) Databricks
6 12 (4.65%) Alteryx
7 9 (3.49%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.71%) F5
9 6 (2.33%) Apple
10 4 (1.55%) Coremetrics
10 4 (1.55%) SIMUL8
11 3 (1.16%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.16%) Splunk
11 3 (1.16%) Veeam
11 3 (1.16%) VMware
12 2 (0.78%) Cisco
12 2 (0.78%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.78%) SAP
13 1 (0.39%) ESRI
13 1 (0.39%) Oracle