R Jobs in the South East

R
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 321 293
Rank change year-on-year +140 -28 -6
Permanent jobs citing R 130 83 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.35% 0.44% 0.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.24% 1.57% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 97 70 51
10th Percentile £57,700 £38,583 £42,500
25th Percentile - £40,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £50,000 £61,700
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -18.96% +2.83%
75th Percentile - £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile - £79,375 £95,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +4.17%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,479 5,298 5,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.80% 28.35% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,687 4,150 3,596
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -7.56% +8.18%
75th Percentile £68,000 £67,500 £73,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for R in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the South East over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for R in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Isle of Wight - 83 £62,000 -
Thames Valley +45 19 £100,000 +66.67% 66
Buckinghamshire +41 10 £52,500 -19.23% 2
Middlesex -9 10 - - 1
Berkshire +29 9 £105,000 +75.00% 59
East Sussex +23 7 - -
Hampshire +81 5 £52,500 -8.70% 14
West Sussex +38 3 £52,500 - 3
Surrey +38 2 £32,000 -34.02% 8
Kent +37 1 £50,000 -27.27% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (3.08%) SAS
2 2 (1.54%) Apache
2 2 (1.54%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 8 (6.15%) Azure
3 4 (3.08%) IBM Watson
4 3 (2.31%) AWS
5 2 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (0.77%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (0.77%) DHCP
1 1 (0.77%) DNS
1 1 (0.77%) Firewall
1 1 (0.77%) IP Telephony
1 1 (0.77%) IPsec
1 1 (0.77%) LAN
1 1 (0.77%) MPLS
1 1 (0.77%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.77%) VLAN
1 1 (0.77%) VPN
1 1 (0.77%) WAN
1 1 (0.77%) Wireless
1 1 (0.77%) Wireless Security
1 1 (0.77%) Wireshark
1 1 (0.77%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.69%) Power BI
2 6 (4.62%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.08%) QlikView
4 3 (2.31%) Pinecone
4 3 (2.31%) Weaviate
5 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.54%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (63.85%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (2.31%) MLflow
General
1 84 (64.62%) Electronics
2 11 (8.46%) Finance
2 11 (8.46%) Social Skills
3 6 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.62%) Legal
3 6 (4.62%) Telecoms
4 5 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (3.85%) Retail
5 3 (2.31%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.77%) Local Government
6 1 (0.77%) Marketing
6 1 (0.77%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 87 (66.92%) Senior
2 83 (63.85%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 83 (63.85%) Systems Engineer
3 14 (10.77%) Analyst
4 6 (4.62%) Security Analyst
5 4 (3.08%) Analytics Manager
5 4 (3.08%) Audit Manager
5 4 (3.08%) Data Analyst
5 4 (3.08%) Data Analytics Manager
5 4 (3.08%) Data Manager
5 4 (3.08%) Data Scientist
5 4 (3.08%) Programmer
5 4 (3.08%) Risk Manager
5 4 (3.08%) SAS Programmer
5 4 (3.08%) Technology Risk Manager
6 3 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (1.54%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (1.54%) C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (1.54%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (1.54%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.31%) HTML
2 3 (2.31%) PyTorch
2 3 (2.31%) scikit-learn
2 3 (2.31%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.54%) Kafka
3 2 (1.54%) NumPy
3 2 (1.54%) Pandas
4 1 (0.77%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 86 (66.15%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.62%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.08%) Biopharmaceutical
3 4 (3.08%) Blockchain
3 4 (3.08%) Robotics
4 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.54%) Linux
1 2 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (71.54%) Mentoring
2 89 (68.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 83 (63.85%) Signal Processing
3 83 (63.85%) Systems Engineering
3 83 (63.85%) Technical Leadership
4 29 (22.31%) Machine Learning
5 23 (17.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 19 (14.62%) Computer Science
7 16 (12.31%) Data Privacy
8 10 (7.69%) Agile
8 10 (7.69%) Analytics
8 10 (7.69%) Coaching
8 10 (7.69%) Creative Thinking
9 9 (6.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (6.15%) Decision-Making
11 7 (5.38%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (5.38%) Information Security
11 7 (5.38%) Regulatory Compliance
11 7 (5.38%) Statistical Analysis
12 6 (4.62%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.69%) Python
2 28 (21.54%) SQL
3 22 (16.92%) C++
4 19 (14.62%) Java
4 19 (14.62%) MATLAB
5 17 (13.08%) C#
6 16 (12.31%) C
6 16 (12.31%) Dart
6 16 (12.31%) JavaScript
6 16 (12.31%) PHP
6 16 (12.31%) Ruby
6 16 (12.31%) Rust
6 16 (12.31%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.77%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 83 (63.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 25 (19.23%) Degree
3 18 (13.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.62%) CISM
4 6 (4.62%) CISSP
4 6 (4.62%) CRISC
4 6 (4.62%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.08%) PhD
6 2 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.77%) CCNP
7 1 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.77%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (63.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 6 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.62%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (2.31%) Docker
2 2 (1.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (2.31%) Kubeflow
1 3 (2.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 87 (66.92%) IBM
2 6 (4.62%) Databricks
2 6 (4.62%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.77%) Cisco
3 1 (0.77%) Remedy
3 1 (0.77%) Riverbed
3 1 (0.77%) SAP