R Job Trends in Birmingham

R
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring R skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 109 95
Rank change year-on-year +34 -14 +47
Permanent jobs citing R 24 20 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.40% 1.06% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.47% 3.47% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 22 12 3
10th Percentile - - £44,325
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £47,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £40,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% -24.88% -
75th Percentile £65,938 £47,500 £54,875
90th Percentile £72,250 £64,375 -
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £53,688 £53,250
% change year-on-year -20.84% +0.82% -11.25%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

R falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 371 576 401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.66% 30.52% 32.95%
Number of salaries quoted 315 258 374
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,525 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -4.55%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing R relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

R job vacancy trend in Birmingham

R
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing R.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing R

R
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in Birmingham over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for R in Birmingham

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 21 (87.50%) Azure
2 16 (66.67%) AWS
3 12 (50.00%) GitHub
4 7 (29.17%) Azure AI
5 2 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) JUnit
2 2 (8.33%) Maven
2 2 (8.33%) Mockito
General
1 12 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Back Office
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Trainee
2 6 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Automation Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Automation Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Credit Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Credit Risk Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Risk Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Engagement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) CSS
1 12 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (12.50%) Credit Risk
3 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 7 (29.17%) AI
3 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
4 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Analytics
5 3 (12.50%) Data Science
5 3 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (12.50%) Economics
5 3 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 3 (12.50%) Statistical Modelling
5 3 (12.50%) Statistics
5 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
6 2 (8.33%) Credit Risk Modelling
6 2 (8.33%) Microservices
6 2 (8.33%) Risk Analytics
6 2 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) Python
2 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (41.67%) SQL
4 9 (37.50%) Java
5 2 (8.33%) Bash
5 2 (8.33%) C
5 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 12 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 12 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) UiPath
3 3 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.33%) Automation Anywhere
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) Google