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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 191 278
Rank change year-on-year -45 +87 -49
Permanent jobs citing R 25 41 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.19% 0.72% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.33% 3.05% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 23 19 42
10th Percentile £27,950 £40,774 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,875 £43,750 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £53,688 £58,752
Median % change year-on-year -30.15% -8.62% +46.88%
75th Percentile £69,303 £65,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £71,750 £130,446
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% -4.00%

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 1,883 1,345 3,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.06% 23.77% 23.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,295 1,026 2,359
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

R
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

R
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

R
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for R in the Midlands

R
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 19 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
West Midlands -25 15 £37,500 -31.82% 6
East Midlands -23 10 £45,000 +12.73% 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 6 (24.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) AWS
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) GitHub
2 7 (28.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.00%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (16.00%) Smartsheet
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) Tableau
3 1 (4.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Git
General
1 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Multimedia
3 5 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 4 (16.00%) Law
5 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Games
7 1 (4.00%) Finance
7 1 (4.00%) iGaming
7 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Data Scientist
2 6 (24.00%) Administrator
2 6 (24.00%) Trainee
2 6 (24.00%) Trainee Administrator
2 6 (24.00%) Web Administrator
3 4 (16.00%) Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Data Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Data Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Junior
4 3 (12.00%) Junior Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Junior Data Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Junior Data Scientist
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Systems Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (4.00%) Blazor Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior .NET Software Developer
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) CSS
1 6 (24.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) Blazor
3 1 (4.00%) Django
3 1 (4.00%) LightGBM
3 1 (4.00%) Matplotlib
3 1 (4.00%) NumPy
3 1 (4.00%) Pandas
3 1 (4.00%) PySpark
3 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.00%) SciPy
3 1 (4.00%) Seaborn
3 1 (4.00%) Streamlit
3 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) IoT
1 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Online Games
1 1 (4.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Data Science
2 9 (36.00%) Decision-Making
3 8 (32.00%) Analytics
3 8 (32.00%) Data Analysis
4 7 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (28.00%) Visualisation
5 6 (24.00%) Web Development
6 5 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) AI
7 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.00%) Data Governance
7 4 (16.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (16.00%) Mathematics
7 4 (16.00%) Statistics
8 3 (12.00%) Business Case
8 3 (12.00%) Data Architecture
8 3 (12.00%) Data Strategy
8 3 (12.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (52.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (16.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 7 (28.00%) Azure Certification
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (24.00%) AWS Certification
3 6 (24.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Civica
2 1 (4.00%) Databricks
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) Northgate
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) Orchard