R Job Trends in Leeds

R
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring R skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 77 104
Rank change year-on-year -14 +27 +31
Permanent jobs citing R 14 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.05% 0.97% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.64% 3.04% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 6
10th Percentile - £48,950 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £61,250 £31,448
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £62,500 £42,764
Median % change year-on-year -51.20% +46.15% -14.47%
75th Percentile £32,750 £71,875 £52,884
90th Percentile £50,950 £87,389 £60,817
West Yorkshire median annual salary £30,500 £62,500 £51,528
% change year-on-year -51.20% +21.29% +3.06%

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 385 329 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.86% 32.07% 40.14%
Number of salaries quoted 298 202 429
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,325 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,185 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.82% -4.35% -

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

R job vacancy trend in Leeds

R
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing R.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing R

R
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in Leeds over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for R in Leeds

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (85.71%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) Internet
Development Applications
1 14 (100.00%) Git
General
1 12 (85.71%) Multimedia
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Trainee
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) CSS
1 12 (85.71%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) Grails
2 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 2 (14.29%) Spring
2 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 12 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) AI
3 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) Data Management
3 2 (14.29%) Data Science
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) AWS Certification
1 12 (85.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 12 (85.71%) Azure Certification
1 12 (85.71%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Microsoft