R Jobs in the UK excluding London

R
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 254 318
Rank change year-on-year -207 +64 +52
Permanent jobs citing R 323 802 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 1.33% 1.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.43% 3.32% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 216 255 326
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,528 £50,238 £50,119
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% +0.24% -2.68%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,070 £64,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,515 24,145 32,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.73% 40.07% 46.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16,386 13,576 21,262
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,244
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing R in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for R in the UK excluding London

R
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
South East -14 77 £48,500 -19.17% 43
North of England -199 67 £51,528 -6.11% 53
Midlands -6 57 £55,000 +12.82% 39
Scotland -56 49 £49,764 -0.94% 15
North West +23 41 £47,500 -29.63% 30
South West -67 39 £67,500 +35.00% 18
West Midlands +4 38 £55,000 +15.79% 28
Yorkshire -137 21 £51,528 +3.06% 17
East of England +10 20 £65,000 +85.71% 15
East Midlands -15 19 £45,000 -18.18% 11
Wales +3 7 £51,528 -1.74% 11
North East -26 5 £55,000 +23.14% 6
Northern Ireland +30 4 £33,750 - 7
Channel Islands - 3 £67,500 - 1
R
UK

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 55 (17.03%) SAS
2 16 (4.95%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.64%) Apache
4 5 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.24%) nginx
6 2 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 58 (17.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.95%) AutoCAD
2 16 (4.95%) MS Visio
3 9 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.17%) SPSS
5 6 (1.86%) Trello
6 4 (1.24%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.93%) Simulink
8 2 (0.62%) EViews
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 82 (25.39%) Power Platform
2 39 (12.07%) Azure
3 33 (10.22%) AWS
4 32 (9.91%) Figma
4 32 (9.91%) SurveyMonkey
5 21 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (4.95%) GCP
7 12 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (3.10%) Google Analytics
9 8 (2.48%) Adobe Analytics
10 7 (2.17%) GitHub
11 5 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.55%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.55%) SaaS
12 4 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.24%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.24%) Serverless
12 4 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.86%) Internet
2 5 (1.55%) Network Security
3 4 (1.24%) Broadband
3 4 (1.24%) FTP
3 4 (1.24%) HTTP
3 4 (1.24%) MQTT
3 4 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (1.24%) RS-232
3 4 (1.24%) SMS
3 4 (1.24%) VoIP
3 4 (1.24%) VPN
3 4 (1.24%) Wireshark
3 4 (1.24%) WPA
4 3 (0.93%) DHCP
4 3 (0.93%) DNS
5 2 (0.62%) Wireless
6 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (25.08%) Power BI
2 67 (20.74%) Tableau
3 30 (9.29%) SQL Server
4 25 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (6.81%) Big Data
6 16 (4.95%) Data Lake
7 14 (4.33%) MySQL
7 14 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.10%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (2.48%) Oracle Database
9 8 (2.48%) QlikView
9 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.17%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.86%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.55%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.24%) GIS
13 4 (1.24%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 25 (7.74%) Git
2 8 (2.48%) JIRA
3 6 (1.86%) RStudio
4 4 (1.24%) Subversion
5 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
General
1 112 (34.67%) Social Skills
2 107 (33.13%) Finance
3 102 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (18.58%) Marketing
5 52 (16.10%) Law
5 52 (16.10%) Retail
6 50 (15.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (9.91%) Social Science
8 31 (9.60%) Banking
9 27 (8.36%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (6.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (3.72%) Military
12 11 (3.41%) Legal
13 10 (3.10%) Telecoms
14 9 (2.79%) Manufacturing
14 9 (2.79%) Retail Finance
15 8 (2.48%) Automotive
15 8 (2.48%) Investment Banking
16 7 (2.17%) Electronics
17 6 (1.86%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 100 (30.96%) Analyst
2 80 (24.77%) Senior
3 57 (17.65%) Lead
4 53 (16.41%) Data Scientist
5 35 (10.84%) Data Analyst
6 33 (10.22%) Senior Analyst
7 24 (7.43%) Senior Data Scientist
8 20 (6.19%) Developer
9 17 (5.26%) Programmer
10 16 (4.95%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.95%) Service Analyst
10 16 (4.95%) Service Desk Analyst
10 16 (4.95%) Systems Programmer
11 13 (4.02%) Analytics Manager
12 12 (3.72%) Embedded Engineer
13 11 (3.41%) Architect
14 10 (3.10%) Business Analyst
14 10 (3.10%) Senior Data Analyst
14 10 (3.10%) Software Engineer
15 8 (2.48%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.19%) HTML
2 16 (4.95%) OLE
3 10 (3.10%) CSS
4 9 (2.79%) .NET
4 9 (2.79%) Django
4 9 (2.79%) JSON
4 9 (2.79%) React
5 7 (2.17%) GraphQL
6 6 (1.86%) HTML5
7 5 (1.55%) jQuery
7 5 (1.55%) REST
8 4 (1.24%) COM
8 4 (1.24%) gRPC
8 4 (1.24%) Knex.js
8 4 (1.24%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (1.24%) Node.js
8 4 (1.24%) PySpark
8 4 (1.24%) React Native
8 4 (1.24%) RESTful
8 4 (1.24%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.72%) Algorithms
2 27 (8.36%) Credit Risk
3 22 (6.81%) Market Risk
4 21 (6.50%) Onboarding
5 16 (4.95%) Smartphone
6 14 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (4.02%) Management Information System
8 11 (3.41%) Public Cloud
9 10 (3.10%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.79%) NHS
11 6 (1.86%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.86%) Clustering
11 6 (1.86%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.55%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.55%) Replication
13 4 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
13 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.24%) IoT
13 4 (1.24%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.36%) Windows
2 19 (5.88%) Linux
3 7 (2.17%) Unix
4 4 (1.24%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.62%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.31%) Android
7 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (33.13%) Analytics
2 98 (30.34%) Data Science
3 92 (28.48%) Business Intelligence
4 69 (21.36%) Data Analysis
5 68 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (20.74%) Visualisation
7 65 (20.12%) Machine Learning
8 63 (19.50%) Agile
8 63 (19.50%) Decision-Making
8 63 (19.50%) Mathematics
9 53 (16.41%) Actionable Insight
9 53 (16.41%) Statistics
10 52 (16.10%) Computer Science
11 51 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
12 48 (14.86%) Artificial Intelligence
13 46 (14.24%) Roadmaps
14 42 (13.00%) Data Analytics
15 41 (12.69%) Business Strategy
16 39 (12.07%) Service Design
17 38 (11.76%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 216 (66.87%) Python
2 106 (32.82%) SQL
3 27 (8.36%) JavaScript
4 22 (6.81%) C#
4 22 (6.81%) Java
5 21 (6.50%) C
6 13 (4.02%) PowerShell
6 13 (4.02%) VBA
7 9 (2.79%) Embedded C
8 8 (2.48%) Scala
9 7 (2.17%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.17%) VB.NET
10 6 (1.86%) C++
11 5 (1.55%) MATLAB
11 5 (1.55%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.24%) JSX
13 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.62%) Julia
13 2 (0.62%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 157 (48.61%) Degree
2 76 (23.53%) Master's Degree
3 62 (19.20%) PhD
4 29 (8.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (6.19%) Security Cleared
6 10 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (1.86%) IIBA
8 6 (1.86%) SANS
8 6 (1.86%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.55%) CISA
9 5 (1.55%) CISM
9 5 (1.55%) CISSP
9 5 (1.55%) CRISC
9 5 (1.55%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.05%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.88%) IFRS
2 19 (5.88%) IFRS 9
3 16 (4.95%) Accessibility
4 15 (4.64%) CRD IV
5 12 (3.72%) QA
6 6 (1.86%) NIST
7 4 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.93%) GDPR
8 3 (0.93%) ISO 26262
8 3 (0.93%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.93%) MISRA
9 1 (0.31%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 19 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.26%) Docker
3 3 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.93%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.91%) Qualtrics
3 20 (6.19%) Oracle
4 17 (5.26%) Alteryx
5 14 (4.33%) Google
6 12 (3.72%) Adobe
7 11 (3.41%) Databricks
8 6 (1.86%) Coremetrics
8 6 (1.86%) Pega
8 6 (1.86%) UiPath
9 5 (1.55%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.55%) SAP
10 4 (1.24%) Apple
10 4 (1.24%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.24%) SIMUL8
11 3 (0.93%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.93%) Veeam
11 3 (0.93%) VMware
12 2 (0.62%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.62%) Meraki