R Job Trends in the Midlands

R
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring R skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 198 174
Rank change year-on-year +9 -24 +79
Permanent jobs citing R 32 44 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.41% 0.66% 0.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.80% 2.52% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 29 32 22
10th Percentile - £37,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,875 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £58,750 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.66% +26.34% -22.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,313 £57,500
90th Percentile £74,500 £86,250 £71,000
England median annual salary £30,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -49.17% -4.00% +2.46%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,143 1,747 1,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.65% 26.22% 33.49%
Number of salaries quoted 934 958 1,472
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

R job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing R.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing R

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for R in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
West Midlands +14 27 £42,500 -20.84% 14
East Midlands -15 5 £38,445 -53.40% 13
R
England

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (6.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 24 (75.00%) Azure
2 20 (62.50%) AWS
3 14 (43.75%) GitHub
4 7 (21.88%) Azure AI
5 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.25%) GCP
6 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Power BI
2 3 (9.38%) Data Mining
3 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) JUnit
2 2 (6.25%) Maven
2 2 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 14 (43.75%) Multimedia
2 10 (31.25%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Marketing
4 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Social Housing
5 1 (3.13%) Back Office
5 1 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Trainee
2 6 (18.75%) Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Automation Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Administrator
6 2 (6.25%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Credit Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Credit Risk Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (43.75%) CSS
1 14 (43.75%) HTML
2 2 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (3.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) AI Agents
2 3 (9.38%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.38%) Credit Risk
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.13%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 10 (31.25%) Decision-Making
3 9 (28.13%) Analytics
4 7 (21.88%) AI
4 7 (21.88%) Visualisation
5 6 (18.75%) Data Analytics
5 6 (18.75%) Data Science
6 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
6 5 (15.63%) Machine Learning
6 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.63%) Statistical Modelling
6 5 (15.63%) Statistics
7 4 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (12.50%) Agile
7 4 (12.50%) Data Analysis
7 4 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (12.50%) Economics
7 4 (12.50%) Predictive Modelling
7 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (93.75%) Python
2 14 (43.75%) JavaScript
2 14 (43.75%) SQL
3 9 (28.13%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) C
4 2 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (6.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) Azure Certification
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (43.75%) AWS Certification
2 14 (43.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (15.63%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) UiPath
3 3 (9.38%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.25%) Automation Anywhere
4 2 (6.25%) Databricks
4 2 (6.25%) Google
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Civica
5 1 (3.13%) Northgate
5 1 (3.13%) Orchard