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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 312 301
Rank change year-on-year +141 -11 -28
Permanent jobs citing R 152 81 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.57% 0.46% 0.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.04% 1.59% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 116 66 54
10th Percentile - £38,250 £42,500
25th Percentile - £40,000 £46,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £74,063
90th Percentile - £81,875 £86,500
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 2,518 5,083 5,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.00% 28.85% 39.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,730 4,051 3,672
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,895 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -5.98% +6.36%
75th Percentile £68,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 31 May 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 31 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
Isle of Wight - 101 £62,000 -
Thames Valley +46 19 £100,000 +66.67% 17
Middlesex -8 13 - - 2
Buckinghamshire +40 10 £52,500 -19.23%
Berkshire +23 9 £105,000 +75.00% 9
East Sussex +23 7 - - 1
Hampshire +76 6 £52,500 -4.11% 8
Surrey +34 3 £47,250 -2.58% 6
West Sussex +33 2 £52,500 - 6
Kent +35 1 £50,000 -35.48% 1
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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 (2.63%) SAS
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
2 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.55%) Power Platform
2 10 (6.58%) Azure
3 7 (4.61%) IBM Watson
4 4 (2.63%) AWS
5 3 (1.97%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (0.66%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (0.66%) DHCP
1 1 (0.66%) DNS
1 1 (0.66%) Firewall
1 1 (0.66%) IP Telephony
1 1 (0.66%) IPsec
1 1 (0.66%) LAN
1 1 (0.66%) MPLS
1 1 (0.66%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.66%) VLAN
1 1 (0.66%) VPN
1 1 (0.66%) WAN
1 1 (0.66%) Wireless
1 1 (0.66%) Wireless Security
1 1 (0.66%) Wireshark
1 1 (0.66%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.55%) Power BI
2 8 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.61%) QlikView
4 3 (1.97%) Pinecone
4 3 (1.97%) Weaviate
5 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 101 (66.45%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (1.97%) MLflow
General
1 102 (67.11%) Electronics
2 13 (8.55%) Finance
3 11 (7.24%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.92%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.26%) Retail
6 6 (3.95%) Legal
7 5 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.29%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Local Government
9 1 (0.66%) Marketing
9 1 (0.66%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 106 (69.74%) Senior
2 101 (66.45%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 101 (66.45%) Systems Engineer
3 13 (8.55%) Analyst
4 7 (4.61%) Analytics Manager
4 7 (4.61%) Audit Manager
4 7 (4.61%) Data Analytics Manager
4 7 (4.61%) Data Manager
4 7 (4.61%) Risk Manager
4 7 (4.61%) Technology Risk Manager
5 6 (3.95%) Security Analyst
6 5 (3.29%) Data Scientist
7 4 (2.63%) Programmer
7 4 (2.63%) SAS Programmer
8 3 (1.97%) Data Analyst
8 3 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (1.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 2 (1.32%) C++ Software Engineer
9 2 (1.32%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
9 2 (1.32%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.53%) HTML
2 3 (1.97%) PyTorch
2 3 (1.97%) scikit-learn
2 3 (1.97%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.32%) Kafka
3 2 (1.32%) NumPy
3 2 (1.32%) Pandas
4 1 (0.66%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.66%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 104 (68.42%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.61%) Blockchain
2 7 (4.61%) Robotics
3 6 (3.95%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.63%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.32%) Linux
1 2 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 107 (70.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 101 (66.45%) Signal Processing
3 101 (66.45%) Systems Engineering
3 101 (66.45%) Technical Leadership
4 33 (21.71%) Machine Learning
5 26 (17.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 19 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 16 (10.53%) Data Privacy
8 14 (9.21%) Analytics
9 13 (8.55%) Agile
9 13 (8.55%) Coaching
9 13 (8.55%) Creative Thinking
10 9 (5.92%) Decision-Making
10 9 (5.92%) Natural Language Processing
10 9 (5.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (5.26%) Data Analytics
11 8 (5.26%) Project Delivery
12 7 (4.61%) Data Science
12 7 (4.61%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (26.32%) Python
2 33 (21.71%) SQL
3 22 (14.47%) C++
4 19 (12.50%) Java
4 19 (12.50%) MATLAB
5 17 (11.18%) C#
6 16 (10.53%) C
6 16 (10.53%) Dart
6 16 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 16 (10.53%) PHP
6 16 (10.53%) Ruby
6 16 (10.53%) Rust
6 16 (10.53%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.66%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 101 (66.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 25 (16.45%) Degree
3 18 (11.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.95%) CISM
4 6 (3.95%) CISSP
4 6 (3.95%) CRISC
4 6 (3.95%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.63%) PhD
6 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.66%) CCNP
7 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.66%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (66.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.95%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.66%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (1.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.97%) Kubeflow
1 3 (1.97%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 108 (71.05%) IBM
2 9 (5.92%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (0.66%) Cisco
4 1 (0.66%) Remedy
4 1 (0.66%) Riverbed
4 1 (0.66%) SAP