R Jobs in the Thames Valley

R
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 204 223
Rank change year-on-year +37 +19 -14
Permanent jobs citing R 12 39 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.35% 0.58% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.52% 2.04% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6 34 17
10th Percentile £46,875 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,563 £40,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £116,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £85,000 £95,750
South East median annual salary £62,000 £48,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +27.84% -19.17% +6.67%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 787 1,909 2,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 23.19% 28.40% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 510 1,562 1,398
10th Percentile £37,150 £36,250 £34,875
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for R in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing R in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for R in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for R in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire +22 10 £105,000 +75.00% 13
Buckinghamshire +34 1 £52,500 -19.23% 1
Oxfordshire +24 1 £50,000 +33.33% 6
R
South East

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (33.33%) SAS
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Pinecone
1 3 (25.00%) Weaviate
2 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Games
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Programmer
1 4 (33.33%) SAS Programmer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Scientist
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 4 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 3 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (16.67%) Kafka
3 2 (16.67%) NumPy
3 2 (16.67%) Pandas
4 1 (8.33%) JSON
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (8.33%) Web Services
4 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (8.33%) Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) TM Forum
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 6 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 5 (41.67%) Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Immunology
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (25.00%) Data Science
4 3 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (25.00%) Fintech
4 3 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 3 (25.00%) MLOps
4 3 (25.00%) User Experience
5 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) C++
3 3 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Fortran
4 1 (8.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) DBS Check
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 2 (16.67%) PhD
4 1 (8.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubeflow
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes