R Job Trends in London

R
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London 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 359 286 256
Rank change year-on-year -73 -30 +28
Permanent jobs citing R 63 121 276
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.28% 0.96% 1.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.17% 2.31% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 45 51 160
10th Percentile £27,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £111,563
90th Percentile £136,250 £120,000 £146,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,388 5,230 9,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.20% 41.60% 40.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,808 3,631 7,187
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,453
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £133,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

R job vacancy trend in London

R
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing R.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing R

R
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for R in London

R
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the London 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
Central London -2 14 £132,500 +96.30% 16
South London +17 3 £30,000 -71.43% 4
West London -15 3 £32,500 - 8
East London - 3 £30,500 - 6
R
England

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 8 (12.70%) WordPress
2 4 (6.35%) SAS
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.33%) Azure
2 15 (23.81%) AWS
3 11 (17.46%) GitHub
4 10 (15.87%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.76%) GCP
5 3 (4.76%) SaaS
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.59%) dbt
6 1 (1.59%) Fivetran
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.59%) Serverless
6 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.87%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) Power BI
2 8 (12.70%) SQL Server
3 7 (11.11%) Tableau
4 6 (9.52%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.35%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (6.35%) SAS EBI
7 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.17%) Metadata
8 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.59%) Big Data
9 1 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.59%) Pinecone
9 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.59%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 14 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.59%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Postman
General
1 29 (46.03%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (39.68%) Finance
2 25 (39.68%) Social Skills
3 14 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (15.87%) Banking
4 10 (15.87%) Multimedia
5 9 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 9 (14.29%) Marketing
6 8 (12.70%) Financial Institution
7 4 (6.35%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (6.35%) Legal
7 4 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Law
8 2 (3.17%) Retail
9 1 (1.59%) Advertising
9 1 (1.59%) Front Office
9 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Senior
2 16 (25.40%) Analyst
3 10 (15.87%) Software Engineer
3 10 (15.87%) Trainee
4 9 (14.29%) Qualitative Analyst
4 9 (14.29%) Quantitative Analyst
4 9 (14.29%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
4 9 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Administrator
5 8 (12.70%) Market Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Market Risk Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Senior Software Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) Trainee Administrator
5 8 (12.70%) Web Administrator
6 7 (11.11%) Data Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Auditor
7 4 (6.35%) Data Scientist
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Auditor
8 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) CSS
1 10 (15.87%) HTML
2 2 (3.17%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.17%) scikit-learn
2 2 (3.17%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.59%) .NET
3 1 (1.59%) JSON
3 1 (1.59%) Kafka
3 1 (1.59%) Keras
3 1 (1.59%) LangChain
3 1 (1.59%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.59%) NumPy
3 1 (1.59%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.59%) Pandas
3 1 (1.59%) PySpark
3 1 (1.59%) REST
3 1 (1.59%) RESTful
3 1 (1.59%) Swagger
3 1 (1.59%) XGBoost
3 1 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) Derivative
2 9 (14.29%) Market Risk
2 9 (14.29%) Reinsurance
3 6 (9.52%) Credit Risk
3 6 (9.52%) Data Structures
4 5 (7.94%) Fixed Income
5 4 (6.35%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.17%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.59%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.59%) Clustering
7 1 (1.59%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.59%) Equities
7 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.59%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.79%) Decision-Making
2 29 (46.03%) Analytics
3 18 (28.57%) AI
4 16 (25.40%) Machine Learning
5 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (22.22%) Risk Management
7 13 (20.63%) Mathematics
8 12 (19.05%) Software Engineering
9 11 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
10 10 (15.87%) Visualisation
11 9 (14.29%) Business Development
11 9 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (14.29%) ETL
11 9 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
12 8 (12.70%) Data Science
12 8 (12.70%) Quantitative Analysis
12 8 (12.70%) Regulatory Compliance
12 8 (12.70%) Software Testing
12 8 (12.70%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 60 (95.24%) Python
2 32 (50.79%) SQL
3 11 (17.46%) JavaScript
3 11 (17.46%) Julia
4 10 (15.87%) MATLAB
5 9 (14.29%) Java
6 8 (12.70%) C#
6 8 (12.70%) C++
7 5 (7.94%) VBA
8 2 (3.17%) C
8 2 (3.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Azure Certification
2 11 (17.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (15.87%) AWS Certification
3 10 (15.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 7 (11.11%) Degree
5 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) Basel III
2 7 (11.11%) GDPR
3 5 (7.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.59%) IFRS
4 1 (1.59%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (31.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Alteryx
2 5 (7.94%) Oracle
3 4 (6.35%) Databricks
3 4 (6.35%) Informatica
3 4 (6.35%) Talend
4 1 (1.59%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.59%) Foundry
4 1 (1.59%) Google
4 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.59%) Salesforce