R Job Trends in England

R
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring R skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 374 390
Rank change year-on-year -143 +16 -54
Permanent jobs citing R 195 306 551
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.71% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 2.33% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 169 132 376
10th Percentile £27,500 £41,375 £35,625
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,500 £109,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,069 13,155 27,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.35% 30.31% 30.78%
Number of salaries quoted 11,703 8,902 21,411
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,663 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

R job vacancy trend in England

R
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing R.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing R

R
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in England over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for R in England

R
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the England region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
London -73 63 £80,000 +10.34% 110
North of England -24 40 £45,037 -30.71% 48
South East -52 34 £57,500 -7.26% 55
Midlands -41 27 £37,500 -28.91% 21
North West -5 25 £45,019 -21.02% 22
East of England -9 18 £55,000 -45.00% 19
West Midlands -21 16 £36,750 -31.55% 6
East Midlands -35 11 £49,000 +22.75% 15
South West -80 11 £42,500 -10.53% 26
Yorkshire -45 9 £37,500 -50.00% 19
North East -54 6 £66,720 +40.46% 7
R
UK

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 40 (20.51%) WordPress
2 28 (14.36%) SharePoint
3 27 (13.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (3.08%) SAS
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (8.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.03%) SPSS
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (51.79%) Azure
2 60 (30.77%) AWS
3 47 (24.10%) GitHub
4 40 (20.51%) Power Platform
5 31 (15.90%) SaaS
6 28 (14.36%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (13.85%) Entra ID
7 27 (13.85%) Mimecast
8 7 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.59%) dbt
9 6 (3.08%) Dataform
10 5 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.56%) GCP
11 4 (2.05%) Smartsheet
12 2 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.03%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 2 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.03%) Serverless
12 2 (1.03%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (23.08%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.51%) Power BI
2 25 (12.82%) Tableau
3 23 (11.79%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (3.59%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.59%) Looker
6 7 (3.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (3.08%) Data Vault
7 6 (3.08%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (3.08%) Metabase
8 5 (2.56%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (2.05%) SAS EBI
10 3 (1.54%) OLAP
10 3 (1.54%) Power Query
10 3 (1.54%) PowerPivot
10 3 (1.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.03%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 52 (26.67%) Git
2 28 (14.36%) JIRA
3 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.51%) Postman
General
1 67 (34.36%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (23.08%) Multimedia
3 41 (21.03%) Social Skills
4 39 (20.00%) Legal
5 35 (17.95%) Finance
6 17 (8.72%) Marketing
7 15 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (5.64%) Banking
9 9 (4.62%) Investment Banking
9 9 (4.62%) Public Sector
10 8 (4.10%) Financial Institution
11 6 (3.08%) Law
11 6 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.56%) Manufacturing
13 4 (2.05%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (2.05%) Local Government
13 4 (2.05%) Retail
14 2 (1.03%) Games
14 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 48 (24.62%) Administrator
2 46 (23.59%) Trainee
3 40 (20.51%) Trainee Administrator
3 40 (20.51%) Web Administrator
4 34 (17.44%) Analyst
4 34 (17.44%) Senior
5 31 (15.90%) Data Scientist
6 21 (10.77%) Support Engineer
7 20 (10.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 20 (10.26%) 3rd Line Support
7 20 (10.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 15 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
9 14 (7.18%) Data Analyst
10 11 (5.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (5.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
10 11 (5.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (5.64%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (5.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 11 (5.64%) Software Engineer
11 10 (5.13%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (23.59%) CSS
1 46 (23.59%) HTML
2 4 (2.05%) PySpark
2 4 (2.05%) scikit-learn
3 3 (1.54%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.54%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.03%) .NET
4 2 (1.03%) Django
4 2 (1.03%) EDI
4 2 (1.03%) NumPy
4 2 (1.03%) Pandas
4 2 (1.03%) REST
5 1 (0.51%) JSON
5 1 (0.51%) Kafka
5 1 (0.51%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.51%) RESTful
5 1 (0.51%) SciPy
5 1 (0.51%) Swagger
5 1 (0.51%) XGBoost
5 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.67%) Derivative
2 9 (4.62%) Market Risk
2 9 (4.62%) Reinsurance
3 6 (3.08%) Credit Risk
3 6 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.56%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.05%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.05%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.54%) Clustering
7 2 (1.03%) AS400
7 2 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.03%) iSeries
7 2 (1.03%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.03%) NHS
7 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.51%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (0.51%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (0.51%) Linux
1 1 (0.51%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (35.90%) Analytics
2 52 (26.67%) Decision-Making
3 43 (22.05%) Business Intelligence
4 41 (21.03%) AI
4 41 (21.03%) Web Development
5 38 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (18.97%) Data Science
7 35 (17.95%) Visualisation
8 33 (16.92%) Workflow
9 32 (16.41%) Machine Learning
10 30 (15.38%) Mentoring
11 28 (14.36%) Change Management
11 28 (14.36%) Technical Leadership
12 27 (13.85%) Identity Management
12 27 (13.85%) Incident Management
13 26 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 26 (13.33%) Mathematics
14 21 (10.77%) Data Engineering
14 21 (10.77%) Data Modelling
15 18 (9.23%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 160 (82.05%) Python
2 82 (42.05%) SQL
3 54 (27.69%) JavaScript
4 17 (8.72%) Julia
5 16 (8.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (5.13%) Java
6 10 (5.13%) MATLAB
7 9 (4.62%) C#
7 9 (4.62%) C++
8 5 (2.56%) VBA
9 4 (2.05%) C
9 4 (2.05%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.03%) RPG
10 2 (1.03%) Scala
11 1 (0.51%) Bash
11 1 (0.51%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.51%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 48 (24.62%) Azure Certification
2 47 (24.10%) Microsoft Certification
3 45 (23.08%) AWS Certification
3 45 (23.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 24 (12.31%) Degree
5 8 (4.10%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.54%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.54%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) ACCA
7 1 (0.51%) CFA
7 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (13.33%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.62%) GDPR
4 8 (4.10%) Basel III
5 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.03%) IFRS
6 2 (1.03%) IFRS 9
6 2 (1.03%) QA
7 1 (0.51%) DO-254
7 1 (0.51%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.51%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.51%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (13.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.05%) Docker
3 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (13.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.03%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 99 (50.77%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.85%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (3.59%) Alteryx
3 7 (3.59%) Databricks
4 6 (3.08%) Cognos
4 6 (3.08%) HubSpot
4 6 (3.08%) MicroStrategy
4 6 (3.08%) Oracle
5 4 (2.05%) Informatica
5 4 (2.05%) Talend
6 3 (1.54%) SAP
7 2 (1.03%) Google
7 2 (1.03%) IBM
7 2 (1.03%) Infor
7 2 (1.03%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.51%) Civica
8 1 (0.51%) Foundry
8 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.51%) Northgate
8 1 (0.51%) Orchard