R Jobs in the North West

R
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 258 272
Rank change year-on-year -16 +14 -23
Permanent jobs citing R 16 41 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.21% 0.40% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.68% 1.36% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9 35 20
10th Percentile £43,550 - £36,700
25th Percentile £45,000 £22,750 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £60,022
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -20.86% +7.18%
75th Percentile £76,250 £61,250 £73,438
90th Percentile £93,778 £67,750 £84,125
England median annual salary £62,000 £61,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.22% -2.00% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,349 3,011 2,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.10% 29.10% 39.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,134 2,421 1,741
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,546 £42,500 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for R in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for R in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester +47 6 £72,500 +28.89% 78
Cheshire -8 6 £52,500 +123.40% 35
Merseyside +36 4 £50,000 -25.93% 19
R
England

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (12.50%) SAS
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Power BI
1 4 (25.00%) Tableau
2 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
3 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.25%) Neo4j
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.25%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) ER Studio
1 2 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) MLflow
General
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
1 4 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Data Modeller
2 2 (12.50%) Finance Modeller
2 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Power BI Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Finance Systems Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Scientist
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) HTML
2 3 (18.75%) Keras
2 3 (18.75%) PyTorch
2 3 (18.75%) scikit-learn
2 3 (18.75%) TensorFlow
3 1 (6.25%) Hugging Face
3 1 (6.25%) NLTK
3 1 (6.25%) NumPy
3 1 (6.25%) OpenCV
3 1 (6.25%) Pandas
3 1 (6.25%) Regular Expression
3 1 (6.25%) Seaborn
3 1 (6.25%) SpaCy
3 1 (6.25%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.25%) Blog
2 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (43.75%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (43.75%) Data Science
3 6 (37.50%) Statistics
4 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
4 5 (31.25%) Deep Learning
5 4 (25.00%) Analytics
5 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Data Privacy
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 3 (18.75%) Natural Language Processing
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Statistical Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) Statistical Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (81.25%) SQL
3 7 (43.75%) Java
4 6 (37.50%) MATLAB
5 5 (31.25%) C++
5 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (25.00%) C
6 4 (25.00%) C#
6 4 (25.00%) Dart
6 4 (25.00%) PHP
6 4 (25.00%) Ruby
6 4 (25.00%) Rust
6 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (6.25%) Julia
8 1 (6.25%) VB
8 1 (6.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) DBS Check
4 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Google
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle