R Job Trends in Cambridge

R
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring R skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 61 57
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +58
Permanent jobs citing R 2 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.50% 0.34% 0.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.94% 0.66% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27,500 £70,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £75,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +66.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £32,500 £80,000 £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £30,000 £75,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -60.00% +66.67% -18.18%

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 103 301 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 25.69% 51.10% 42.61%
Number of salaries quoted 79 173 114
10th Percentile £31,191 £47,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £60,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £85,750
90th Percentile £75,400 £90,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +4.35%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

R job vacancy trend in Cambridge

R
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing R.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing R

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Multimedia
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Trainee
1 1 (50.00%) Trainee Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
1 1 (50.00%) Omics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Chemistry
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) MLOps
1 1 (50.00%) Neuroscience
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
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%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) CDISC
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) DICOM
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) HL7
1 1 (50.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft