R Job Trends in Brighton

R
East Sussex > Brighton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Brighton requiring R skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 48 41
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +40
Permanent jobs citing R 2 1 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Brighton 0.65% 0.33% 3.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.50% 0.52% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £29,300 - £40,000
25th Percentile £30,875 £83,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £87,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +40.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £38,375 £91,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £39,500 - -
East Sussex median annual salary £35,000 £87,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -60.00% +40.00% -12.28%

All Programming Languages
Brighton

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 Brighton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 133 191 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Brighton 43.46% 62.83% 53.67%
Number of salaries quoted 121 137 159
10th Percentile £38,750 £27,500 £29,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,458 £75,000
East Sussex median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% -4.17%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

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

R job vacancy trend in Brighton

R
Salary Trend in Brighton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Brighton citing R.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Brighton citing R

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brighton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Multimedia
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft