R Jobs in London

R
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring R skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited R over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 265 292
Rank change year-on-year -14 +27 -83
Permanent jobs citing R 122 265 333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.93% 1.17% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.26% 2.92% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 50 147 277
10th Percentile £44,875 £41,070 £47,447
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -2.78% +7.81%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,625 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £139,500 £147,750
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +8.33%

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 5,410 9,071 13,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.45% 40.06% 46.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,577 6,884 11,027
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £103,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £123,600
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for R in London

R
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing R in London.

Salary trend for R in London

R
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in London over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

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 18 July 2025. 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 -17 11 £67,500 -18.18% 68
South London +2 2 £105,000 +138.64% 26
West London - 1 - - 32
R
England

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.56%) SAS
2 3 (2.46%) Confluence
2 3 (2.46%) nginx
3 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (9.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.10%) SPSS
3 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.64%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.64%) Sketch
5 1 (0.82%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.82%) SPSS Modeler
5 1 (0.82%) Stata
Business Applications
1 5 (4.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.46%) Primavera
3 1 (0.82%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (0.82%) Lorenzo
3 1 (0.82%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.82%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.77%) Azure
2 27 (22.13%) Power Platform
3 21 (17.21%) AWS
4 16 (13.11%) GCP
5 8 (6.56%) Snowflake
6 6 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.92%) npm
7 5 (4.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.10%) Figma
7 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (3.28%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.28%) Collibra
9 3 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.46%) GitHub
10 2 (1.64%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.64%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.64%) SaaS
11 1 (0.82%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.38%) Link 16
1 9 (7.38%) Tactical Data Link
2 8 (6.56%) VLAN
3 7 (5.74%) RS-232
3 7 (5.74%) RS-485
3 7 (5.74%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.10%) Firewall
4 5 (4.10%) Network Security
5 3 (2.46%) Broadband
5 3 (2.46%) Internet
6 1 (0.82%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.82%) BGP
6 1 (0.82%) DMVPN
6 1 (0.82%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.82%) NAS
6 1 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.13%) Power BI
2 19 (15.57%) Tableau
3 14 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (9.84%) Data Lake
5 10 (8.20%) MySQL
6 8 (6.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 8 (6.56%) Metadata
6 8 (6.56%) Relational Database
7 7 (5.74%) NoSQL
8 6 (4.92%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.28%) Big Data
9 4 (3.28%) Hadoop
9 4 (3.28%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.28%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (3.28%) Power Query
9 4 (3.28%) PowerPivot
10 3 (2.46%) Apache Hive
10 3 (2.46%) Looker
11 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (7.38%) Git
2 6 (4.92%) JIRA
2 6 (4.92%) webpack
3 3 (2.46%) Babel
3 3 (2.46%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.46%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.46%) gulp
3 3 (2.46%) Mocha
4 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.82%) GitLab
General
1 50 (40.98%) Finance
2 45 (36.89%) Social Skills
3 36 (29.51%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (14.75%) Marketing
5 15 (12.30%) Telecoms
6 11 (9.02%) Retail
7 10 (8.20%) Military
8 7 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (4.92%) Advertising
9 6 (4.92%) Public Sector
10 5 (4.10%) Games
10 5 (4.10%) Legal
11 3 (2.46%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.46%) Fire and Rescue
11 3 (2.46%) Multimedia
11 3 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.64%) Aviation
12 2 (1.64%) Banking
13 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (13.11%) Data Engineer
2 15 (12.30%) Analyst
2 15 (12.30%) Senior
3 11 (9.02%) Risk Manager
4 10 (8.20%) Developer
4 10 (8.20%) Field Engineer
5 9 (7.38%) Azure Data Engineer
5 9 (7.38%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) Technology Risk Manager
7 7 (5.74%) Lead
8 6 (4.92%) Associate Director
8 6 (4.92%) Audit Manager
8 6 (4.92%) Data Analyst
8 6 (4.92%) Data Scientist
8 6 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.92%) Senior Manager
9 5 (4.10%) Senior Audit Manager
10 4 (3.28%) Analytics Manager
10 4 (3.28%) Senior Data Scientist
10 4 (3.28%) Senior Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.20%) Node.js
2 8 (6.56%) React
3 6 (4.92%) Svelte
4 5 (4.10%) CSS
4 5 (4.10%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (4.10%) TensorFlow
5 4 (3.28%) HTML
5 4 (3.28%) scikit-learn
5 4 (3.28%) Shiny
6 3 (2.46%) D3.js
6 3 (2.46%) OAuth
6 3 (2.46%) PyMC3
6 3 (2.46%) Redux
6 3 (2.46%) REST
6 3 (2.46%) Sass
6 3 (2.46%) Statsmodels
6 3 (2.46%) Vue
6 3 (2.46%) XGBoost
7 2 (1.64%) Plotly
7 2 (1.64%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.74%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.92%) Credit Risk
2 6 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.28%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (3.28%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.46%) Autonomous Agent
4 3 (2.46%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.46%) Smart City
4 3 (2.46%) Social Media
4 3 (2.46%) Sports Betting
5 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.64%) Derivative
5 2 (1.64%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.64%) NHS
6 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.11%) Linux
2 3 (2.46%) Ubuntu
2 3 (2.46%) Unix
2 3 (2.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.82%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (37.70%) Agile
2 44 (36.07%) Analytics
3 32 (26.23%) Data Science
4 27 (22.13%) Business Development
5 23 (18.85%) Artificial Intelligence
5 23 (18.85%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (18.03%) Data Management
6 22 (18.03%) Machine Learning
6 22 (18.03%) Visualisation
7 21 (17.21%) Data Visualisation
8 20 (16.39%) Risk Management
9 18 (14.75%) Project Management
10 17 (13.93%) Internal Audit
11 16 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (12.30%) Data Analysis
12 15 (12.30%) Decision-Making
13 14 (11.48%) Data Analytics
13 14 (11.48%) Statistics
14 13 (10.66%) Computer Science
14 13 (10.66%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 74 (60.66%) Python
2 47 (38.52%) SQL
3 15 (12.30%) C
4 11 (9.02%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.74%) MATLAB
6 4 (3.28%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.46%) Scala
7 3 (2.46%) VBA
8 2 (1.64%) Bash
8 2 (1.64%) C#
8 2 (1.64%) C++
8 2 (1.64%) Java
8 2 (1.64%) PHP
8 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.82%) Dart
9 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.82%) Perl
9 1 (0.82%) Ruby
9 1 (0.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (27.05%) Degree
2 18 (14.75%) Security Cleared
3 16 (13.11%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (8.20%) Master's Degree
5 9 (7.38%) CISA
6 8 (6.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 8 (6.56%) CCNA
6 8 (6.56%) CCNP
6 8 (6.56%) CCSP
6 8 (6.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (5.74%) CISM
7 7 (5.74%) GSEC
7 7 (5.74%) SSCP
8 4 (3.28%) CCSK
8 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.28%) PhD
9 3 (2.46%) APMG
9 3 (2.46%) CISSP
10 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.02%) IFRS
2 9 (7.38%) IFRS 9
3 8 (6.56%) Data Quality
4 7 (5.74%) MIL-STD-1553
4 7 (5.74%) NIST
5 6 (4.92%) Accessibility
6 5 (4.10%) GDPR
6 5 (4.10%) PMO
7 4 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (3.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (2.46%) GRC
9 2 (1.64%) GAAP
9 2 (1.64%) IFRS 17
9 2 (1.64%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.82%) Basel III
10 1 (0.82%) DICOM
10 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.82%) HL7
10 1 (0.82%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 5 (4.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.82%) Bugsnag
2 1 (0.82%) Grafana
2 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 19 (15.57%) Databricks
3 12 (9.84%) Google
4 9 (7.38%) VMware
5 8 (6.56%) Oracle
6 7 (5.74%) SAP
6 7 (5.74%) TikTok
7 6 (4.92%) Adobe
8 4 (3.28%) Alteryx
8 4 (3.28%) Informatica
9 3 (2.46%) Pinterest
9 3 (2.46%) Vertica
10 2 (1.64%) BMC
10 2 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.82%) Autodesk
11 1 (0.82%) Cerner
11 1 (0.82%) Cisco
11 1 (0.82%) InterSystems
11 1 (0.82%) Palantir
11 1 (0.82%) Red Hat