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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 326 134
Rank change year-on-year +24 -192 +158
Permanent jobs citing R 47 66 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.40% 0.37% 2.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.44% 1.30% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 24 56 52
10th Percentile - - £36,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £22,750 £40,371
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £51,528 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +3.06% -10.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £58,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,065 £67,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +8.33%

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 3,259 5,058 7,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 27.79% 28.68% 41.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,877 4,186 3,548
10th Percentile £33,550 £32,500 £36,175
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,743 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.24% -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 17 May 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 17 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
Yorkshire +72 30 £75,000 +45.55% 21
North West -27 14 £57,500 +21.05% 46
North East +39 3 £48,750 -11.36% 2
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 6 (12.77%) SAS
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) GoldMine
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) AWS
1 12 (25.53%) Azure
2 9 (19.15%) GCP
2 9 (19.15%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.38%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (2.13%) dbt
4 1 (2.13%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) DAB
1 1 (2.13%) MQTT
1 1 (2.13%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.15%) Power BI
2 8 (17.02%) NoSQL
3 7 (14.89%) Data Lake
4 5 (10.64%) Tableau
5 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.13%) Impala
6 1 (2.13%) Metadata
6 1 (2.13%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (2.13%) MySQL
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.13%) Power Query
6 1 (2.13%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (2.13%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) MLflow
General
1 19 (40.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.02%) Banking
3 8 (17.02%) Finance
4 6 (12.77%) Telecoms
5 5 (10.64%) Aerospace
5 5 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (10.64%) Military
6 1 (2.13%) Marketing
6 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Senior
2 8 (17.02%) Data Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Management Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Lead
4 5 (10.64%) Lead Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Power BI Analyst
4 5 (10.64%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (10.64%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
4 5 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Data Scientist
6 3 (6.38%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Operations Support Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) HTML
2 2 (4.26%) Kafka
2 2 (4.26%) Keras
2 2 (4.26%) PyTorch
2 2 (4.26%) scikit-learn
2 2 (4.26%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.13%) .NET
3 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.13%) Express.js
3 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.13%) MERN Stack
3 1 (2.13%) Node.js
3 1 (2.13%) Plotly
3 1 (2.13%) PySpark
3 1 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.13%) React
3 1 (2.13%) Redux
3 1 (2.13%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.13%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Credit Risk
1 6 (12.77%) Market Risk
2 5 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.64%) Management Information System
2 5 (10.64%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.77%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.26%) VMS
3 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) Machine Learning
2 17 (36.17%) Artificial Intelligence
3 16 (34.04%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (29.79%) Analytics
4 14 (29.79%) Computer Science
4 14 (29.79%) ETL
5 13 (27.66%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (27.66%) Data Privacy
5 13 (27.66%) Data Science
6 9 (19.15%) Agile
6 9 (19.15%) Mentoring
6 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (17.02%) Data Engineering
7 8 (17.02%) Data Strategy
8 7 (14.89%) Data Architecture
8 7 (14.89%) Data Extraction
8 7 (14.89%) Data Management
8 7 (14.89%) Predictive Analytics
8 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (12.77%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (74.47%) Python
2 30 (63.83%) SQL
3 19 (40.43%) MATLAB
4 18 (38.30%) Java
5 16 (34.04%) C#
6 15 (31.91%) C++
7 14 (29.79%) TypeScript
8 13 (27.66%) C
8 13 (27.66%) Dart
8 13 (27.66%) JavaScript
8 13 (27.66%) PHP
8 13 (27.66%) Ruby
8 13 (27.66%) Rust
9 6 (12.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (12.77%) Perl
10 2 (4.26%) VBA
11 1 (2.13%) Bash
11 1 (2.13%) Go
11 1 (2.13%) PROC SQL
11 1 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (42.55%) Degree
2 13 (27.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (14.89%) Master's Degree
4 6 (12.77%) DBS Check
5 4 (8.51%) PhD
5 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
6 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
7 2 (4.26%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) Basel II
1 5 (10.64%) Basel III
1 5 (10.64%) Dodd-Frank
1 5 (10.64%) GDPR
1 5 (10.64%) IFRS
1 5 (10.64%) IFRS 9
1 5 (10.64%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Apache Flume
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
1 1 (2.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Kibana
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) logstash
2 1 (2.13%) Oozie
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Databricks
3 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.26%) Google
3 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.13%) Informatica
4 1 (2.13%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) SAP