R Job Trends in Cheshire

R
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring R skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 58 59
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +46
Permanent jobs citing R 5 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.40% 0.34% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.03% 1.12% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £39,725 £38,544
25th Percentile £27,500 £42,688 £49,859
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £50,250 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -40.30% -28.80% +41.15%
75th Percentile £32,500 £57,688 £72,433
90th Percentile - £60,575 -
North West median annual salary £30,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -44.55% -12.00% +6.38%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 124 178 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 9.84% 29.92% 36.29%
Number of salaries quoted 101 102 149
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,375 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £63,625 £82,548
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

R job vacancy trend in Cheshire

R
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing R.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing R

R
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington +5 2 - - 7
Macclesfield - 2 £30,000 - 2
Knutsford - 1 - -
R
North West

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (40.00%) WordPress
2 1 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Multimedia
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
1 2 (40.00%) Graduate
1 2 (40.00%) Trainee
1 2 (40.00%) Trainee Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Web Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Data Science
1 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (60.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Pega