Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with 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 4 July 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

R
Central London > City of London
6 months to
4 Jul 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 219 167 159
Rank change year-on-year -52 -8 -14
Permanent jobs citing R 82 81 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.01% 1.48% 1.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.00% 2.40% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 54 77 87
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £55,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.50% -23.57% +21.21%
75th Percentile £80,250 £76,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,750 £98,750
Central London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -25.68% +23.33%

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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
City of London
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,100 3,382 3,442
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London 50.75% 61.85% 56.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,414 3,112 3,083
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £107,500 £105,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for R in the City of London

R
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing R in the City of London.

Salary trend for R in the City of London

R
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 July 2022.

Salary histogram for R in the City of London

For the 6 months to 4 July 2022, IT jobs citing R also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region with a requirement for R.

1 60 (73.17%) Python
2 53 (64.63%) SQL
3 32 (39.02%) Analytics
3 32 (39.02%) Social Skills
4 30 (36.59%) Data Science
5 26 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (30.49%) Degree
7 22 (26.83%) Agile
8 21 (25.61%) Statistics
9 20 (24.39%) Machine Learning
10 19 (23.17%) C#
10 19 (23.17%) C++
10 19 (23.17%) Data Analysis
10 19 (23.17%) Power Platform
10 19 (23.17%) Power BI
11 18 (21.95%) Finance
11 18 (21.95%) Java
11 18 (21.95%) MATLAB
11 18 (21.95%) DevOps
11 18 (21.95%) Test Automation
12 16 (19.51%) Visualisation
12 16 (19.51%) Data Visualisation
12 16 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (19.51%) .NET
13 15 (18.29%) Microsoft
13 15 (18.29%) Mathematics
14 14 (17.07%) AWS
15 13 (15.85%) Marketing
15 13 (15.85%) Tableau
15 13 (15.85%) Mentoring

R
Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.10%) SAS
2 5 (6.10%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.66%) Confluence
4 2 (2.44%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.22%) Apache
5 1 (1.22%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 11 (13.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.10%) Maple
2 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.22%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.17%) Power Platform
2 14 (17.07%) AWS
3 11 (13.41%) Azure
4 5 (6.10%) GCP
5 4 (4.88%) GitHub
6 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.66%) Slack
7 2 (2.44%) Azure App Service
7 2 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.44%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.22%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.22%) PaaS
8 1 (1.22%) SaaS
8 1 (1.22%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) Network Security
1 5 (6.10%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.22%) Firewall
2 1 (1.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.17%) Power BI
2 13 (15.85%) Tableau
3 11 (13.41%) Relational Database
4 9 (10.98%) Hadoop
5 8 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (8.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (7.32%) Big Data
8 5 (6.10%) Neo4j
8 5 (6.10%) NoSQL
8 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (6.10%) SQL Server
9 4 (4.88%) QlikView
9 4 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (3.66%) Data Lake
10 3 (3.66%) Data Mining
10 3 (3.66%) MySQL
10 3 (3.66%) Power Query
11 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.44%) Metadata
11 2 (2.44%) Yellowfin
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) JIRA
2 4 (4.88%) Git (software)
3 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.22%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 26 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (21.95%) Finance
4 13 (15.85%) Marketing
5 11 (13.41%) Retail
6 5 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.10%) Police
7 4 (4.88%) Law
8 3 (3.66%) Games
8 3 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.22%) Advertising
9 1 (1.22%) Back Office
9 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Humanities
9 1 (1.22%) Local Government
9 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Publishing
9 1 (1.22%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 21 (25.61%) Analyst
2 18 (21.95%) Data Scientist
3 15 (18.29%) Data Analyst
3 15 (18.29%) Developer
4 8 (9.76%) Data Engineer
4 8 (9.76%) Software Developer
5 7 (8.54%) Head of Marketing
5 7 (8.54%) Salesforce Developer
6 5 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (4.88%) SQL Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) SQL Data Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Graduate
8 3 (3.66%) Graduate Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Programmer
8 3 (3.66%) Quantitative Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Senior Data Analyst
9 2 (2.44%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.51%) .NET
2 8 (9.76%) AngularJS
3 7 (8.54%) React
4 6 (7.32%) JSP
4 6 (7.32%) scikit-learn
4 6 (7.32%) TensorFlow
4 6 (7.32%) XML
5 5 (6.10%) EJB
5 5 (6.10%) HTML
5 5 (6.10%) Java EE
5 5 (6.10%) JDBC
5 5 (6.10%) JSF
5 5 (6.10%) ODBC
5 5 (6.10%) Pandas
5 5 (6.10%) SOAP
5 5 (6.10%) Spring
6 4 (4.88%) Keras
6 4 (4.88%) NumPy
7 2 (2.44%) MXNet
7 2 (2.44%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) Marketing Technology
1 7 (8.54%) Social Media
2 5 (6.10%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.10%) Cyberattack
2 5 (6.10%) Cybercrime
3 3 (3.66%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.66%) Equities
3 3 (3.66%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.66%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.22%) IoT
5 1 (1.22%) NHS
5 1 (1.22%) Online Games
5 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.32%) Windows
2 5 (6.10%) Android
2 5 (6.10%) Apple iOS
2 5 (6.10%) Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (39.02%) Analytics
2 30 (36.59%) Data Science
3 22 (26.83%) Agile
4 21 (25.61%) Statistics
5 20 (24.39%) Machine Learning
6 19 (23.17%) Data Analysis
7 18 (21.95%) DevOps
7 18 (21.95%) Test Automation
8 16 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (19.51%) Data Visualisation
8 16 (19.51%) Visualisation
9 15 (18.29%) Mathematics
10 13 (15.85%) Data Engineering
10 13 (15.85%) Mentoring
11 11 (13.41%) Data Modelling
11 11 (13.41%) OO
11 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (12.20%) Fintech
12 10 (12.20%) OOP
13 9 (10.98%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 60 (73.17%) Python
2 53 (64.63%) SQL
3 19 (23.17%) C#
3 19 (23.17%) C++
4 18 (21.95%) Java
4 18 (21.95%) MATLAB
5 12 (14.63%) Scala
6 10 (12.20%) JavaScript
7 8 (9.76%) Apple Swift
7 8 (9.76%) Dart
7 8 (9.76%) Kotlin
7 8 (9.76%) Objective-C
7 8 (9.76%) Pascal
7 8 (9.76%) Perl
7 8 (9.76%) PHP
7 8 (9.76%) Ruby
7 8 (9.76%) VB.NET
8 3 (3.66%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
9 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (30.49%) Degree
2 5 (6.10%) PhD
2 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared
2 5 (6.10%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.22%) CFA
4 1 (1.22%) CISM
4 1 (1.22%) CISSP
4 1 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.54%) QA
2 6 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.66%) CDISC
4 2 (2.44%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (1.22%) COBIT
5 1 (1.22%) GDPR
5 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.22%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (6.10%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.22%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.44%) Ansible
3 1 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.22%) Puppet
3 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.76%) Salesforce.com
3 7 (8.54%) Google
4 6 (7.32%) Oracle
5 5 (6.10%) Alteryx
6 3 (3.66%) Bloomberg
6 3 (3.66%) Databricks
6 3 (3.66%) FactSet
7 1 (1.22%) Adobe
7 1 (1.22%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.22%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.22%) ESRI
7 1 (1.22%) Hortonworks
7 1 (1.22%) Informatica
7 1 (1.22%) MicroStrategy