R Job Trends in the East of England

R
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring R skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 178 137
Rank change year-on-year +32 -41 +62
Permanent jobs citing R 13 6 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.31% 0.17% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.44% 0.54% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile - £42,025 £30,300
25th Percentile £27,500 £45,438 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £53,250 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.66% +47.92% -20.00%
75th Percentile £32,563 £61,438 £42,000
90th Percentile £47,300 £65,075 £45,300
England median annual salary £30,500 £60,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -49.17% -9.43% +6.00%

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 533 1,112 790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.75% 31.53% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 422 501 610
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,438 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,000 £74,938
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

R job vacancy trend in the East of England

R
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing R.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing R

R
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 2026. 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
Hertfordshire +14 5 £30,000 -53.85% 2
Cambridgeshire - 4 £30,000 - 4
Essex -3 2 £30,000 -27.71% 5
Suffolk -15 1 £30,000 - 3
Bedfordshire - 1 £30,500 - 3
R
England

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (46.15%) WordPress
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Big Data
1 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
1 3 (23.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Git
General
1 7 (53.85%) Multimedia
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Trainee
2 6 (46.15%) Administrator
2 6 (46.15%) Trainee Administrator
2 6 (46.15%) Web Administrator
3 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Data Science Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Pricing Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) CSS
1 7 (53.85%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) Matplotlib
2 3 (23.08%) NumPy
2 3 (23.08%) Pandas
2 3 (23.08%) PyTorch
2 3 (23.08%) scikit-learn
2 3 (23.08%) Seaborn
2 3 (23.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Biopharmaceutical
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Data Science
1 6 (46.15%) Web Development
2 5 (38.46%) Machine Learning
2 5 (38.46%) Statistical Modelling
3 4 (30.77%) Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Data Analysis
3 4 (30.77%) Data Analytics
4 3 (23.08%) AI
4 3 (23.08%) Data Munging
4 3 (23.08%) Generative AI
4 3 (23.08%) LLM
4 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) Feature Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Predictive Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Reinforcement Learning
5 2 (15.38%) Statistics
5 2 (15.38%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) AWS Certification
1 7 (53.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 7 (53.85%) Azure Certification
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Postgraduate
4 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
4 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (7.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft