Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 22 January 2022

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for R skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited R over the 6 months to 22 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

R
England > South East
6 months to
22 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 242 273 313
Rank change year-on-year +31 +40 -44
Permanent jobs citing R 204 59 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.14% 0.59% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.20% 1.00% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 84 43 146
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £47,500 £35,687
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £59,688
90th Percentile £71,750 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +8.33%

R is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
South East
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,278 5,873 12,694
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.81% 58.51% 54.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,624 5,121 10,934
10th Percentile £34,647 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +6.06% +4.21%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £62,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

R
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

R
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

R
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the South East over the 6 months to 22 January 2022.

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 22 January 2022. 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
Thames Valley -34 80 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Hampshire -38 61 £41,500 -24.55% 1
Berkshire -11 38 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Surrey -40 35 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Oxfordshire -3 33 £57,500 -17.86% 2
West Sussex +13 10 £46,250 -6.57%
Buckinghamshire -46 9 £47,500 - 1
East Sussex - 9 £60,000 -
Kent - 8 £48,750 - 3
R
England

For the 6 months to 22 January 2022, IT jobs citing R also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region with a requirement for R.

1 149 (73.04%) Python
2 137 (67.16%) SQL
3 130 (63.73%) Analytics
4 95 (46.57%) Visualisation
5 90 (44.12%) Social Skills
6 86 (42.16%) Power Platform
6 86 (42.16%) Power BI
7 80 (39.22%) Data Analysis
8 74 (36.27%) Analytical Skills
9 67 (32.84%) Degree
10 64 (31.37%) Data Visualisation
11 58 (28.43%) Tableau
12 57 (27.94%) Data Management
13 56 (27.45%) Mathematics
14 54 (26.47%) Data Science
15 52 (25.49%) Azure
16 51 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
16 51 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
17 50 (24.51%) Data Analytics
18 47 (23.04%) Data Modelling
19 46 (22.55%) Agile Software Development
20 45 (22.06%) Finance
20 45 (22.06%) Actionable Insight
21 44 (21.57%) Computer Science
22 36 (17.65%) Statistics
22 36 (17.65%) Decision-Making
23 33 (16.18%) DevOps
23 33 (16.18%) SAS
23 33 (16.18%) Software Engineering
24 32 (15.69%) Statistical Analysis

R
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (16.18%) SAS
2 13 (6.37%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.92%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.96%) JBoss
4 4 (1.96%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.96%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.96%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.98%) Jupyter
Applications
1 51 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (13.73%) SPSS
3 9 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.47%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 86 (42.16%) Power Platform
2 52 (25.49%) Azure
3 25 (12.25%) AWS
4 8 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (3.92%) PaaS
4 8 (3.92%) Serverless
5 6 (2.94%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.45%) GCP
7 4 (1.96%) Azure Functions
7 4 (1.96%) IaaS
8 2 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (0.98%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.98%) Google Sheets
8 2 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.45%) ATM
2 4 (1.96%) DNS
2 4 (1.96%) Firewall
2 4 (1.96%) HTTP
2 4 (1.96%) Internet
2 4 (1.96%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.96%) SSL
2 4 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.98%) PBX
3 2 (0.98%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (42.16%) Power BI
2 58 (28.43%) Tableau
3 27 (13.24%) Big Data
4 23 (11.27%) QlikView
5 22 (10.78%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (9.80%) Relational Database
6 20 (9.80%) SQL Server
7 17 (8.33%) Hadoop
7 17 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 15 (7.35%) Metadata
9 11 (5.39%) Apache Hive
10 10 (4.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (4.41%) Spotfire
12 7 (3.43%) Data Mining
13 6 (2.94%) Power Query
14 5 (2.45%) Data Lake
14 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (1.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.96%) SQL Server 2017
Development Applications
1 10 (4.90%) Git (software)
2 9 (4.41%) JMeter
2 9 (4.41%) LoadRunner
2 9 (4.41%) NeoLoad
3 6 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (2.45%) JIRA
5 4 (1.96%) ERwin
5 4 (1.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.96%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.96%) tSQLt
6 3 (1.47%) PyCharm
6 3 (1.47%) RStudio
7 2 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.98%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.98%) Moq
7 2 (0.98%) MSTest
8 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 90 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 74 (36.27%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (22.06%) Finance
4 25 (12.25%) Marketing
5 15 (7.35%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (6.37%) Retail
7 7 (3.43%) Automotive
7 7 (3.43%) Legal
8 5 (2.45%) Banking
8 5 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.45%) Law
9 4 (1.96%) Police
9 4 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Advertising
11 1 (0.49%) Czech Language
11 1 (0.49%) Games
11 1 (0.49%) Humanities
11 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (36.76%) Analyst
2 36 (17.65%) Data Analyst
3 30 (14.71%) Data Engineer
4 20 (9.80%) Customer Analyst
5 18 (8.82%) Data Manager
5 18 (8.82%) Data Scientist
5 18 (8.82%) Metrics Analyst
5 18 (8.82%) Performance Analyst
6 14 (6.86%) Software Engineer
7 12 (5.88%) Developer
8 11 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.90%) Research Engineer
10 9 (4.41%) Junior
10 9 (4.41%) Performance Engineer
11 8 (3.92%) Programmer
11 8 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (3.43%) Graduate
12 7 (3.43%) Junior Data Scientist
12 7 (3.43%) Statistical Programmer
13 6 (2.94%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.37%) REST
2 12 (5.88%) D3.js
3 8 (3.92%) .NET
3 8 (3.92%) Shiny
4 6 (2.94%) OLE
5 5 (2.45%) Kafka
5 5 (2.45%) React
6 4 (1.96%) Velocity
6 4 (1.96%) WebAssembly
7 2 (0.98%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.98%) SignalR
7 2 (0.98%) Swagger
7 2 (0.98%) WPF
8 1 (0.49%) Flask
8 1 (0.49%) JSON
8 1 (0.49%) Matplotlib
8 1 (0.49%) Node.js
8 1 (0.49%) Pandas
8 1 (0.49%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.37%) Life Science
2 11 (5.39%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.96%) FMCG
4 4 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (1.96%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.96%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.47%) CMDB
5 3 (1.47%) Photography
5 3 (1.47%) Robotics
6 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.98%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.49%) Clustering
7 1 (0.49%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.49%) LIMS
7 1 (0.49%) User Experience
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.84%) Linux
2 7 (3.43%) Windows
3 5 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.96%) CentOS
4 4 (1.96%) Debian
4 4 (1.96%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.96%) Unix
5 2 (0.98%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (63.73%) Analytics
2 95 (46.57%) Visualisation
3 80 (39.22%) Data Analysis
4 64 (31.37%) Data Visualisation
5 57 (27.94%) Data Management
6 56 (27.45%) Mathematics
7 54 (26.47%) Data Science
8 51 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
9 50 (24.51%) Data Analytics
10 47 (23.04%) Data Modelling
11 46 (22.55%) Agile Software Development
12 45 (22.06%) Actionable Insight
13 44 (21.57%) Computer Science
14 36 (17.65%) Decision-Making
14 36 (17.65%) Statistics
15 33 (16.18%) DevOps
15 33 (16.18%) Software Engineering
16 32 (15.69%) Statistical Analysis
17 31 (15.20%) Data Security
18 30 (14.71%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 149 (73.04%) Python
2 137 (67.16%) SQL
3 28 (13.73%) Perl
4 25 (12.25%) Java
5 20 (9.80%) C++
6 16 (7.84%) T-SQL
7 13 (6.37%) Bash
7 13 (6.37%) C
7 13 (6.37%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.39%) MATLAB
9 9 (4.41%) JavaScript
10 8 (3.92%) Scala
11 6 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
11 6 (2.94%) VBA
12 5 (2.45%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.96%) C#
13 4 (1.96%) C-shell
13 4 (1.96%) Go
13 4 (1.96%) Rust
13 4 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (32.84%) Degree
2 12 (5.88%) PhD
3 8 (3.92%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.45%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.45%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.45%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.96%) CBAP
5 4 (1.96%) IIBA
5 4 (1.96%) ISEB
6 1 (0.49%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.78%) GDPR
2 17 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.92%) SLA
4 4 (1.96%) QA
5 2 (0.98%) CDISC
5 2 (0.98%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 18 (8.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.98%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (4.41%) Grafana
2 5 (2.45%) Ansible
2 5 (2.45%) Terraform
3 4 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.96%) Packer
4 1 (0.49%) Opscode Chef
4 1 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.78%) Cognos
3 9 (4.41%) AppDynamics
3 9 (4.41%) Dynatrace
3 9 (4.41%) Micro Focus
3 9 (4.41%) New Relic
4 7 (3.43%) Databricks
4 7 (3.43%) Google
4 7 (3.43%) Oracle
4 7 (3.43%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.45%) Splunk
6 4 (1.96%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.47%) Dell
7 3 (1.47%) VMware
8 2 (0.98%) Birst
8 2 (0.98%) Citrix
8 2 (0.98%) Salesforce.com
8 2 (0.98%) SAP
9 1 (0.49%) Hortonworks
9 1 (0.49%) Talend