R Jobs in South Wales

R
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 105 99
Rank change year-on-year +60 -6 +7
Permanent jobs citing R 20 3 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.29% 0.20% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.53% 0.73% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 20 3 7
10th Percentile £61,050 - £49,100
25th Percentile - - £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £40,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -38.46% +6.56%
75th Percentile - £41,875 £67,285
90th Percentile - £43,000 £72,500
Wales median annual salary £62,000 £40,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +55.00% -27.12% -10.03%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 121 412 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 13.83% 26.95% 35.59%
Number of salaries quoted 108 301 207
10th Percentile £40,125 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £52,101 £51,104
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% +1.95% -2.19%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,433 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -10.00%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for R in South Wales

R
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for R in South Wales

R
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in South Wales over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for R in South Wales

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Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 27 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
Newport - 17 £62,000 -
Cardiff +35 3 £55,000 +37.50% 2
R
Wales

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (5.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Looker
1 1 (5.00%) Metadata
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (85.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 17 (85.00%) Electronics
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Senior
1 17 (85.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 17 (85.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (5.00%) Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Scientist
3 1 (5.00%) Pricing Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Pricing Data Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (90.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Mentoring
2 17 (85.00%) Signal Processing
2 17 (85.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 17 (85.00%) Systems Engineering
2 17 (85.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) Agile
4 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (5.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (5.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (5.00%) Data Science
4 1 (5.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (5.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata Management
4 1 (5.00%) Pricing Strategy
4 1 (5.00%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (85.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (85.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) IBM
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks