R Jobs in the North of England

R
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 322 296
Rank change year-on-year +19 -26 -1
Permanent jobs citing R 45 59 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.34% 0.33% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.47% 1.20% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 21 53 55
10th Percentile - - £35,940
25th Percentile £45,000 £22,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,274 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +16.69% -10.48% +6.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £57,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £68,250 £84,119
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -4.00% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,068 4,916 4,864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.02% 27.54% 35.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,707 3,797 3,253
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,600 £80,000 £84,056
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the North of England

R
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing R in the North of England.

Salary trend for R in the North of England

R
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Salary histogram for R in the North of England

R
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Yorkshire +47 22 £75,000 +52.21% 39
North West -15 18 £57,000 +20.00% 70
North East +31 5 £47,500 -3.60% 16
R
England

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (22.22%) SAS
2 5 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (6.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) AWS
3 11 (24.44%) Power Platform
4 8 (17.78%) GCP
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) PuTTY
2 1 (2.22%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) Power BI
2 6 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 6 (13.33%) Tableau
3 5 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.89%) Neo4j
4 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.67%) Apache Hive
5 3 (6.67%) Big Data
5 3 (6.67%) BigQuery
5 3 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.67%) HBase
5 3 (6.67%) Impala
5 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.67%) MySQL
5 3 (6.67%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (6.67%) QlikView
5 3 (6.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Git
2 5 (11.11%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.22%) MLflow
General
1 15 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Finance
3 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.78%) Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.67%) Aerospace
5 3 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.67%) Military
6 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Senior
2 8 (17.78%) Data Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Data Modeller
4 5 (11.11%) Finance Modeller
4 5 (11.11%) Power BI Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Operations Support Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Management Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) SAS Modeller
7 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Statistical Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.89%) HTML
2 4 (8.89%) Kafka
2 4 (8.89%) Regular Expression
3 3 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (6.67%) Keras
3 3 (6.67%) Plotly
3 3 (6.67%) PySpark
3 3 (6.67%) PyTorch
3 3 (6.67%) scikit-learn
3 3 (6.67%) Shiny
3 3 (6.67%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.22%) Express.js
4 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.22%) MERN Stack
4 1 (2.22%) NLTK
4 1 (2.22%) React
4 1 (2.22%) Redux
4 1 (2.22%) Seaborn
4 1 (2.22%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Credit Risk
1 3 (6.67%) Market Risk
1 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.22%) Blog
3 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) Machine Learning
2 20 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
3 16 (35.56%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (33.33%) Analytics
5 14 (31.11%) Computer Science
5 14 (31.11%) Data Privacy
6 13 (28.89%) Data Modelling
7 12 (26.67%) ETL
8 10 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (22.22%) Data Science
9 9 (20.00%) Data Engineering
9 9 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (17.78%) Validation
11 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
11 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (13.33%) Agile
12 6 (13.33%) Data Analysis
12 6 (13.33%) Data Strategy
12 6 (13.33%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 36 (80.00%) Python
2 32 (71.11%) SQL
3 17 (37.78%) Java
3 17 (37.78%) MATLAB
4 14 (31.11%) C#
4 14 (31.11%) C++
4 14 (31.11%) JavaScript
4 14 (31.11%) TypeScript
5 13 (28.89%) C
5 13 (28.89%) Dart
5 13 (28.89%) PHP
5 13 (28.89%) Ruby
5 13 (28.89%) Rust
6 6 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (8.89%) Perl
8 3 (6.67%) Bash
8 3 (6.67%) PROC SQL
9 1 (2.22%) Go
9 1 (2.22%) Julia
9 1 (2.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (42.22%) Degree
2 13 (28.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (11.11%) DBS Check
3 5 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.89%) PhD
4 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.89%) GDPR
3 3 (6.67%) QA
4 2 (4.44%) Basel II
4 2 (4.44%) Basel III
4 2 (4.44%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (4.44%) IFRS
4 2 (4.44%) IFRS 9
4 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Apache Flume
1 3 (6.67%) HDFS
2 2 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Kibana
1 3 (6.67%) logstash
1 3 (6.67%) Oozie
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.89%) Databricks
2 4 (8.89%) Informatica
3 3 (6.67%) MicroStrategy
3 3 (6.67%) SAP
4 2 (4.44%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Talend