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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 242 262
Rank change year-on-year -27 +20 -49
Permanent jobs citing R 129 298 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.01% 1.24% 1.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.47% 3.10% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 54 202 289
10th Percentile £46,386 £43,200 £47,489
25th Percentile £57,813 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,000 £149,625 £150,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +4.17%

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 5,233 9,628 15,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.95% 40.07% 48.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,554 7,577 11,995
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £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 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -6 19 £67,500 -14.29% 9
South London -2 1 £105,000 +138.64%
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 15 (11.63%) SAS
2 3 (2.33%) Confluence
2 3 (2.33%) nginx
3 2 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.43%) SPSS
3 6 (4.65%) Stata
4 5 (3.88%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (1.55%) Adobe XD
6 2 (1.55%) Sketch
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.78%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.55%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.55%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.55%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.78%) Lorenzo
3 1 (0.78%) Primavera
3 1 (0.78%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.71%) AWS
1 28 (21.71%) Power Platform
2 24 (18.60%) Azure
3 14 (10.85%) GCP
4 9 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (6.20%) Snowflake
6 6 (4.65%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.88%) Serverless
8 4 (3.10%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.33%) Collibra
9 3 (2.33%) GitHub
9 3 (2.33%) npm
10 2 (1.55%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.55%) Figma
10 2 (1.55%) SaaS
11 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.98%) Link 16
1 9 (6.98%) Tactical Data Link
2 8 (6.20%) VLAN
3 7 (5.43%) RS-232
3 7 (5.43%) RS-485
3 7 (5.43%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.88%) Internet
5 4 (3.10%) Firewall
5 4 (3.10%) HTTP
6 3 (2.33%) Network Security
7 1 (0.78%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.78%) BGP
7 1 (0.78%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.78%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.78%) NAS
7 1 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.71%) Power BI
2 26 (20.16%) Tableau
3 20 (15.50%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (9.30%) Data Lake
5 9 (6.98%) Amazon QuickSight
5 9 (6.98%) MySQL
5 9 (6.98%) NoSQL
6 8 (6.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 8 (6.20%) Relational Database
7 7 (5.43%) Hadoop
7 7 (5.43%) Metadata
8 6 (4.65%) BigQuery
8 6 (4.65%) DynamoDB
9 5 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.88%) Apache Hive
9 5 (3.88%) Data Mining
10 4 (3.10%) MongoDB
10 4 (3.10%) Power Query
10 4 (3.10%) PowerPivot
11 3 (2.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Git
2 3 (2.33%) Babel
2 3 (2.33%) gulp
2 3 (2.33%) JIRA
2 3 (2.33%) webpack
3 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.78%) GitLab
4 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (37.98%) Social Skills
2 41 (31.78%) Finance
3 40 (31.01%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.95%) Marketing
4 18 (13.95%) Telecoms
5 10 (7.75%) Military
5 10 (7.75%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.98%) Retail
7 7 (5.43%) Advertising
7 7 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.88%) Games
9 4 (3.10%) Electronics
9 4 (3.10%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.10%) Legal
9 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.33%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.55%) Banking
12 1 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (17.83%) Senior
2 19 (14.73%) Analyst
3 15 (11.63%) Data Engineer
4 10 (7.75%) Field Engineer
5 9 (6.98%) Azure Data Engineer
5 9 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (6.20%) Analytics Manager
6 8 (6.20%) Developer
6 8 (6.20%) Risk Manager
6 8 (6.20%) Senior Manager
7 7 (5.43%) Data Analyst
7 7 (5.43%) Lead
8 6 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Data Manager
8 6 (4.65%) Data Scientist
8 6 (4.65%) Technology Risk Manager
9 5 (3.88%) Audit Manager
10 4 (3.10%) Reliability Engineer
10 4 (3.10%) Senior Audit Manager
10 4 (3.10%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.43%) Node.js
2 6 (4.65%) TensorFlow
3 5 (3.88%) CSS
3 5 (3.88%) JSON
3 5 (3.88%) React
3 5 (3.88%) Shiny
4 4 (3.10%) HTML
4 4 (3.10%) REST
4 4 (3.10%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.33%) OAuth
5 3 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.33%) PyMC3
5 3 (2.33%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.33%) Sass
5 3 (2.33%) Statsmodels
5 3 (2.33%) Svelte
5 3 (2.33%) Vue
5 3 (2.33%) XGBoost
6 2 (1.55%) Kafka
6 2 (1.55%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.43%) Management Information System
1 7 (5.43%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.88%) Credit Risk
3 4 (3.10%) Robotics
3 4 (3.10%) SCADA
3 4 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.33%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.33%) Autonomous Agent
4 3 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.33%) Smart City
4 3 (2.33%) Sports Betting
5 2 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.55%) Derivative
5 2 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.55%) NHS
6 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.78%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.78%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.08%) Linux
2 3 (2.33%) Ubuntu
2 3 (2.33%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.98%) Analytics
2 42 (32.56%) Visualisation
3 36 (27.91%) Data Visualisation
4 34 (26.36%) Data Science
5 33 (25.58%) Agile
6 31 (24.03%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (22.48%) Artificial Intelligence
8 25 (19.38%) Statistics
9 22 (17.05%) Business Development
10 20 (15.50%) Project Management
11 19 (14.73%) Data Management
11 19 (14.73%) Machine Learning
12 18 (13.95%) Data Analysis
13 17 (13.18%) Risk Management
14 16 (12.40%) Computer Science
14 16 (12.40%) Data Modelling
14 16 (12.40%) Mentoring
14 16 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (10.85%) Data Analytics
15 14 (10.85%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 91 (70.54%) Python
2 58 (44.96%) SQL
3 19 (14.73%) C
4 16 (12.40%) MATLAB
5 8 (6.20%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.10%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.33%) VBA
8 2 (1.55%) Bash
8 2 (1.55%) C#
8 2 (1.55%) C++
8 2 (1.55%) Java
8 2 (1.55%) PHP
8 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.78%) Dart
9 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.78%) Perl
9 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.78%) Ruby
9 1 (0.78%) Rust
9 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (30.23%) Degree
2 15 (11.63%) Security Cleared
3 14 (10.85%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (6.20%) CCNA
4 8 (6.20%) CCNP
4 8 (6.20%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.43%) GSEC
5 7 (5.43%) Master's Degree
5 7 (5.43%) SSCP
6 6 (4.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 6 (4.65%) CCSP
6 6 (4.65%) CISA
6 6 (4.65%) CISM
7 5 (3.88%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (2.33%) CCSK
8 3 (2.33%) CISSP
9 2 (1.55%) CFA
9 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) IFRS
2 9 (6.98%) IFRS 9
3 8 (6.20%) Data Quality
4 7 (5.43%) MIL-STD-1553
5 6 (4.65%) NIST
6 4 (3.10%) GDPR
6 4 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (3.10%) SLA
7 3 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.33%) GRC
7 3 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.55%) PMO
9 1 (0.78%) DICOM
9 1 (0.78%) GAAP
9 1 (0.78%) HL7
9 1 (0.78%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.78%) SEPA
9 1 (0.78%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (3.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.78%) Bugsnag
2 1 (0.78%) Grafana
2 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.63%) Databricks
2 15 (11.63%) Oracle
3 10 (7.75%) Google
4 7 (5.43%) VMware
5 6 (4.65%) Adobe
5 6 (4.65%) SAP
6 5 (3.88%) Intel
6 5 (3.88%) TikTok
6 5 (3.88%) Vertica
7 3 (2.33%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.33%) Informatica
8 2 (1.55%) BMC
8 2 (1.55%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.78%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.78%) Cerner
9 1 (0.78%) Cisco
9 1 (0.78%) Palantir
9 1 (0.78%) Pinterest
9 1 (0.78%) Red Hat