R Job Trends in the South East

R
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring R skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 245 231
Rank change year-on-year +2 -14 +81
Permanent jobs citing R 24 53 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.23% 0.58% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.47% 1.70% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9 25 30
10th Percentile £28,100 £39,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £41,029
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £62,000 £52,293
Median % change year-on-year -36.29% +18.56% -12.85%
75th Percentile £56,250 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £70,250 £86,750 £82,625
England median annual salary £30,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -49.17% -4.00% +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 1,629 3,113 2,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.68% 33.79% 35.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,268 1,844 2,199
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,688 £46,250 £42,899
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing R relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

R job vacancy trend in the South East

R
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing R.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing R

R
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the South East over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for R in the South East

R
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 30 December 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
Surrey -16 9 £57,500 +38.55% 5
West Sussex +1 4 - - 7
Thames Valley -7 4 £52,500 -27.59% 41
Hampshire +40 3 £30,500 -41.90% 10
East Sussex +12 2 £35,000 -60.00% 6
Berkshire -4 2 - - 28
Kent - 2 £77,500 - 10
Oxfordshire +22 1 £52,500 +16.67% 7
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 6
R
England

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) IIS
2 1 (4.17%) Jupyter
2 1 (4.17%) R Markdown
2 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
3 5 (20.83%) Snowflake
4 4 (16.67%) GitHub
5 2 (8.33%) GCP
5 2 (8.33%) Smartsheet
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Internet
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
2 2 (8.33%) DHCP
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) IP Telephony
2 2 (8.33%) IPsec
2 2 (8.33%) LAN
2 2 (8.33%) MPLS
2 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.33%) VLAN
2 2 (8.33%) VPN
2 2 (8.33%) WAN
2 2 (8.33%) Wireless
2 2 (8.33%) Wireless Security
2 2 (8.33%) Wireshark
2 2 (8.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) Tableau
2 7 (29.17%) NoSQL
3 6 (25.00%) Data Mining
4 5 (20.83%) Big Data
4 5 (20.83%) Hadoop
4 5 (20.83%) Power BI
5 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.17%) Looker
6 1 (4.17%) MySQL
6 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
General
1 15 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (45.83%) Pharmaceutical
3 7 (29.17%) Marketing
4 5 (20.83%) Finance
4 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
5 4 (16.67%) Multimedia
6 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
7 2 (8.33%) Banking
7 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (4.17%) Back Office
8 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Senior
2 6 (25.00%) Senior Manager
3 5 (20.83%) Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Data Science Manager
4 4 (16.67%) Trainee
5 3 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Data Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Developer
6 2 (8.33%) IT Manager
6 2 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Network Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Data Science Director
7 1 (4.17%) Data Science Leader
7 1 (4.17%) Data Scientist
7 1 (4.17%) Insight Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Pricing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Play Framework
2 4 (16.67%) CSS
2 4 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (8.33%) 802.1X
4 1 (4.17%) Hugging Face
4 1 (4.17%) LangChain
4 1 (4.17%) NumPy
4 1 (4.17%) Pandas
4 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.17%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Genomics
3 1 (4.17%) Molecular Biology
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Analytics
1 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (45.83%) Visualisation
2 10 (41.67%) Actionable Insight
2 10 (41.67%) Computer Science
2 10 (41.67%) Machine Learning
2 10 (41.67%) Mathematics
2 10 (41.67%) Statistics
3 9 (37.50%) Agile
3 9 (37.50%) Data Science
3 9 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
3 9 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 8 (33.33%) AI
4 8 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 8 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
5 7 (29.17%) LLM
5 7 (29.17%) Roadmaps
6 6 (25.00%) Analytical Modelling
6 6 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 6 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) Python
2 13 (54.17%) SQL
3 6 (25.00%) Java
4 5 (20.83%) Scala
5 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) Degree
2 8 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 5 (20.83%) MBA
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (8.33%) CCNA
5 2 (8.33%) CCNP
5 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Accessibility
1 5 (20.83%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) BT
2 5 (20.83%) Databricks
3 4 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (8.33%) Meraki
4 2 (8.33%) Riverbed
5 1 (4.17%) Informatica
5 1 (4.17%) Samsung