R Jobs in the Midlands

R
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 224 267 247
Rank change year-on-year +43 -20 +33
Permanent jobs citing R 36 58 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.52% 0.45% 0.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.33% 1.77% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 16 45 48
10th Percentile - £28,750 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £55,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +19.57% -3.16%
75th Percentile £58,125 £76,250 £57,625
90th Percentile £61,250 £84,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +4.17%

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 1,546 3,276 3,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.37% 25.47% 35.28%
Number of salaries quoted 976 2,691 1,743
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for R in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 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
West Midlands +37 21 £53,594 -2.56% 18
East Midlands +40 15 £44,960 -0.09% 10
R
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 11 (30.56%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.78%) AWS
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) Power BI
2 5 (13.89%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (5.56%) Data Mining
3 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.56%) Tableau
4 1 (2.78%) Big Data
4 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
General
1 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
3 5 (13.89%) Marketing
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Police
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Data Scientist
2 3 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (5.56%) Developer
3 2 (5.56%) Lead
3 2 (5.56%) Lead Data Scientist
3 2 (5.56%) Power BI Analyst
3 2 (5.56%) Senior
3 2 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (5.56%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Scientist
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Developer
4 1 (2.78%) Business Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) Credit Risk Manager
4 1 (2.78%) Data Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) Risk Manager
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (52.78%) HTML
2 2 (5.56%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) JSON
2 2 (5.56%) XML
3 1 (2.78%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.78%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.78%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.78%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 28 (77.78%) Artificial Intelligence
3 26 (72.22%) Computer Science
4 19 (52.78%) Data Privacy
5 12 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (30.56%) Analytics
6 11 (30.56%) Data Science
7 10 (27.78%) Data Analysis
8 9 (25.00%) Mathematics
8 9 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
9 8 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (22.22%) Decision-Making
10 7 (19.44%) Data Engineering
10 7 (19.44%) Statistics
11 6 (16.67%) Deep Learning
11 6 (16.67%) Visualisation
12 5 (13.89%) Bayesian Methods
12 5 (13.89%) Data Analytics
12 5 (13.89%) Data Visualisation
12 5 (13.89%) Exploratory Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) Python
2 34 (94.44%) SQL
3 24 (66.67%) C++
3 24 (66.67%) Java
4 21 (58.33%) C#
5 19 (52.78%) C
5 19 (52.78%) Dart
5 19 (52.78%) JavaScript
5 19 (52.78%) MATLAB
5 19 (52.78%) PHP
5 19 (52.78%) Ruby
5 19 (52.78%) Rust
5 19 (52.78%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (75.00%) Degree
2 19 (52.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Databricks
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle