Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 July 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

R
England > East of England
6 months to
1 Jul 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 188 143 156
Rank change year-on-year -45 +13 +36
Permanent jobs citing R 104 59 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.39% 1.31% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.13% 2.95% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 28
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,375 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £46,829
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +17.45% -21.95%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £61,411 £70,500 £71,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

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 East of England with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
East of England
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,325 2,003 1,848
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.40% 44.32% 50.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,301 1,196 1,445
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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 1 July 2022.

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 1 July 2022. 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 -44 38 £59,000 +2.61% 4
Essex - 29 £35,500 - 1
Hertfordshire -38 26 £53,000 - 3
Bedfordshire -17 5 - -
Suffolk -13 4 £50,000 -9.09%
Norfolk +4 2 £59,313 -
R
England

For the 6 months to 1 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 East of England region with a requirement for R.

1 75 (72.12%) Python
2 49 (47.12%) Social Skills
3 48 (46.15%) Data Science
4 43 (41.35%) Analytics
5 42 (40.38%) SQL
6 39 (37.50%) Computer Science
7 36 (34.62%) Visualisation
8 35 (33.65%) Statistics
9 34 (32.69%) Machine Learning
10 33 (31.73%) Degree
11 32 (30.77%) SAS
11 32 (30.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 31 (29.81%) Risk Management
13 29 (27.88%) MATLAB
14 28 (26.92%) PhD
14 28 (26.92%) Life Science
14 28 (26.92%) Mentoring
15 27 (25.96%) Mathematics
16 25 (24.04%) Analytical Skills
17 23 (22.12%) Software Engineering
18 22 (21.15%) Java
18 22 (21.15%) Artificial Intelligence
19 20 (19.23%) Data Analysis
19 20 (19.23%) Big Data
19 20 (19.23%) Data Analytics
20 19 (18.27%) Data Strategy
21 18 (17.31%) Open Source
22 17 (16.35%) Finance
22 17 (16.35%) Data Entry
22 17 (16.35%) Pharmacovigilance

R
Co-occurring IT Skills in the East of England 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 32 (30.77%) SAS
2 15 (14.42%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) R Markdown
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) SPSS
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.73%) GCP
1 7 (6.73%) Power Platform
2 4 (3.85%) Azure
3 3 (2.88%) AWS
4 1 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.96%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.23%) Big Data
2 12 (11.54%) Data Mart
2 12 (11.54%) Hadoop
3 10 (9.62%) Apache Hive
4 9 (8.65%) Data Mining
5 7 (6.73%) Power BI
6 5 (4.81%) ClickHouse
6 5 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.85%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.88%) Tableau
9 2 (1.92%) Metadata
10 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.96%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.96%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Git (software)
General
1 49 (47.12%) Social Skills
2 32 (30.77%) Pharmaceutical
3 25 (24.04%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (16.35%) Finance
4 17 (16.35%) Public Sector
5 15 (14.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Local Government
8 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Publishing
9 1 (0.96%) Law
9 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (17.31%) Analyst
2 17 (16.35%) Data Analyst
3 15 (14.42%) Computer Scientist
3 15 (14.42%) Computer Vision Scientist
3 15 (14.42%) Machine Learning Scientist
3 15 (14.42%) Research Scientist
3 15 (14.42%) Senior Computer Scientist
4 13 (12.50%) Research Engineer
4 13 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 13 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Data Manager
6 8 (7.69%) Data Scientist
6 8 (7.69%) Programmer
6 8 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (7.69%) Senior Data Analyst
6 8 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
7 6 (5.77%) Developer
8 5 (4.81%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (3.85%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.38%) PyTorch
1 16 (15.38%) scikit-learn
1 16 (15.38%) TensorFlow
2 5 (4.81%) AngularJS
2 5 (4.81%) CSS
2 5 (4.81%) D3.js
2 5 (4.81%) GraphQL
2 5 (4.81%) HTML
2 5 (4.81%) HTML5
2 5 (4.81%) HTML5 Canvas
2 5 (4.81%) LESS
2 5 (4.81%) Material-UI
2 5 (4.81%) React
2 5 (4.81%) REST
2 5 (4.81%) Sass
2 5 (4.81%) SVG
2 5 (4.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 5 (4.81%) Vue.js
3 3 (2.88%) Shiny
4 2 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (26.92%) Life Science
2 17 (16.35%) Pharmacovigilance
3 15 (14.42%) Acoustics
3 15 (14.42%) Cyber Defence
3 15 (14.42%) Cyberattack
3 15 (14.42%) Cybercrime
4 14 (13.46%) Algorithms
5 8 (7.69%) Social Media
6 5 (4.81%) Blog
7 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.92%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.96%) Biotechnology
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.92%) Linux
2 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (46.15%) Data Science
2 43 (41.35%) Analytics
3 39 (37.50%) Computer Science
4 36 (34.62%) Visualisation
5 35 (33.65%) Statistics
6 34 (32.69%) Machine Learning
7 31 (29.81%) Risk Management
8 28 (26.92%) Mentoring
9 27 (25.96%) Mathematics
10 23 (22.12%) Software Engineering
11 22 (21.15%) Artificial Intelligence
12 20 (19.23%) Data Analysis
12 20 (19.23%) Data Analytics
13 19 (18.27%) Data Strategy
14 18 (17.31%) Open Source
15 17 (16.35%) Analytical Thinking
15 17 (16.35%) Data Entry
15 17 (16.35%) Decision-Making
16 16 (15.38%) Project Management
17 15 (14.42%) Neural Network
Programming Languages
1 75 (72.12%) Python
2 42 (40.38%) SQL
3 29 (27.88%) MATLAB
4 22 (21.15%) Java
5 13 (12.50%) Julia
6 12 (11.54%) PL/SQL
7 5 (4.81%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.81%) Scala
7 5 (4.81%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.88%) C++
9 2 (1.92%) C
9 2 (1.92%) Perl
9 2 (1.92%) SAS Macro
10 1 (0.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (31.73%) Degree
2 28 (26.92%) PhD
3 3 (2.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.92%) CDISC
3 1 (0.96%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 2 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (12.50%) Cisco IPCC
2 2 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (13.46%) Oracle
2 8 (7.69%) Facebook
3 5 (4.81%) Google
3 5 (4.81%) Netlify
4 1 (0.96%) Databricks
4 1 (0.96%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.96%) Teradata