R Jobs in the East of England

R
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring R skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited R over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 200 191
Rank change year-on-year +22 -9 +4
Permanent jobs citing R 13 14 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.34% 0.23% 0.076%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 0.89% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 2
10th Percentile £53,500 £53,750 £34,375
25th Percentile £73,750 £56,250 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +71.43% -18.60%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £49,688
90th Percentile - - £52,125
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,023 1,581 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.64% 25.67% 32.65%
Number of salaries quoted 758 1,283 743
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,250 £43,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £66,219 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for R in the East of England

R
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing R in the East of England.

Salary trend for R in the East of England

R
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for R in the East of England

R
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Cambridgeshire +33 9 £77,500 -3.13% 25
Hertfordshire +27 2 £70,000 - 4
Essex - 2 £100,000 - 17
R
England

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

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

Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
1 4 (30.77%) Tableau
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 11 (84.62%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Retail
3 3 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Automotive
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Pricing Manager
1 7 (53.85%) Technical Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
2 1 (7.69%) Junior
2 1 (7.69%) Junior Data Scientist
2 1 (7.69%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) FHIR
1 1 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (7.69%) CRISPR
1 1 (7.69%) Genomics
1 1 (7.69%) Life Science
1 1 (7.69%) Omics
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Data Science
2 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning
3 8 (61.54%) Mathematics
3 8 (61.54%) Statistics
4 7 (53.85%) Statistical Modelling
5 6 (46.15%) People Management
5 6 (46.15%) Price Optimisation
6 5 (38.46%) Data Analysis
7 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
7 4 (30.77%) Data Privacy
8 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (23.08%) Data Collection
8 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
8 3 (23.08%) Data Strategy
8 3 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (23.08%) Quality Management
8 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
9 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
9 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Degree
2 7 (53.85%) Postgraduate
3 6 (46.15%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (7.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) CDISC
2 1 (7.69%) DICOM
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
2 1 (7.69%) HL7
2 1 (7.69%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Facebook
1 1 (7.69%) YouTube