R Jobs in the UK excluding London

R
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 475 282
Rank change year-on-year +156 -193 +40
Permanent jobs citing R 291 316 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.42% 1.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.79% 1.38% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 196 208 255
10th Percentile £45,000 £28,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,938 £40,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £55,000 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% +9.48% -3.85%
75th Percentile - £69,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,125 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -4.00% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,434 22,861 22,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.50% 30.66% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,760 16,543 13,080
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,307 £67,500 £71,194
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
South East +150 152 £62,000 +24.00% 441
North of England +38 46 £67,500 +31.00% 313
Midlands +64 36 £51,750 -5.91% 258
Yorkshire +73 27 £75,000 +36.36% 125
South West +87 23 £52,500 -22.22% 157
West Midlands +39 21 £53,594 -2.56% 137
Wales +64 20 £62,000 +55.00% 37
North West -16 16 £57,500 +21.05% 153
East Midlands +43 15 £44,960 -0.09% 103
Scotland +80 9 £39,000 -14.47% 58
East of England +35 7 £100,000 +53.85% 215
North East +45 3 £48,750 -11.36% 35
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 14 (4.81%) SAS
2 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.03%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.69%) Apache
4 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 12 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.69%) SPSS
4 1 (0.34%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 48 (16.49%) Power Platform
2 42 (14.43%) Azure
3 26 (8.93%) AWS
4 9 (3.09%) GCP
5 7 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (2.41%) IBM Watson
6 6 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (2.06%) GitHub
7 4 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (1.37%) Serverless
8 3 (1.03%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.34%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.34%) dbt
9 1 (0.34%) OCI
9 1 (0.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) IPv4
2 3 (1.03%) VLAN
2 3 (1.03%) VPN
3 2 (0.69%) OSPF
4 1 (0.34%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.34%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
4 1 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.34%) IPsec
4 1 (0.34%) LAN
4 1 (0.34%) MPLS
4 1 (0.34%) MQTT
4 1 (0.34%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.34%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.34%) WAN
4 1 (0.34%) Wireless
4 1 (0.34%) Wireless Security
4 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (16.49%) Power BI
2 20 (6.87%) Tableau
3 11 (3.78%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.44%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.09%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.75%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.75%) QlikView
7 6 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.72%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (1.37%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.03%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.03%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.69%) Big Data
11 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.69%) Looker
11 2 (0.69%) Metadata
11 2 (0.69%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 118 (40.55%) Rational DOORS
2 17 (5.84%) Git
3 4 (1.37%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.37%) MLflow
3 4 (1.37%) Subversion
4 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 119 (40.89%) Electronics
2 45 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (15.46%) Social Skills
3 35 (12.03%) Finance
4 19 (6.53%) Telecoms
5 17 (5.84%) Retail
6 9 (3.09%) Banking
6 9 (3.09%) Legal
6 9 (3.09%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.09%) Marketing
7 7 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.06%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.72%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.72%) Military
9 5 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Police
12 1 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 148 (50.86%) Senior
2 119 (40.89%) Systems Engineer
3 118 (40.55%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 38 (13.06%) Analyst
5 26 (8.93%) Data Scientist
6 17 (5.84%) Senior Analyst
7 12 (4.12%) Lead
8 11 (3.78%) Analytics Manager
8 11 (3.78%) Data Analyst
8 11 (3.78%) Data Analytics Manager
8 11 (3.78%) Data Manager
9 10 (3.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 10 (3.44%) Power BI Analyst
9 10 (3.44%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (2.75%) Risk Manager
11 7 (2.41%) Audit Manager
11 7 (2.41%) Data Engineer
11 7 (2.41%) Technology Risk Manager
12 6 (2.06%) Security Analyst
12 6 (2.06%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (17.53%) HTML
2 7 (2.41%) PyTorch
2 7 (2.41%) scikit-learn
2 7 (2.41%) TensorFlow
3 4 (1.37%) Kafka
4 3 (1.03%) .NET
4 3 (1.03%) CSS
4 3 (1.03%) Keras
4 3 (1.03%) NumPy
4 3 (1.03%) Pandas
4 3 (1.03%) React
5 2 (0.69%) JSON
5 2 (0.69%) PySpark
5 2 (0.69%) Regular Expression
5 2 (0.69%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (0.69%) XML
6 1 (0.34%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.34%) Node.js
6 1 (0.34%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.34%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 127 (43.64%) Algorithms
2 10 (3.44%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.41%) Blockchain
3 7 (2.41%) Robotics
4 6 (2.06%) Credit Risk
4 6 (2.06%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.72%) Market Risk
5 5 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.37%) Biopharmaceutical
6 4 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.37%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.34%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.34%) CRISPR
8 1 (0.34%) Genomics
8 1 (0.34%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.34%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.47%) Linux
2 7 (2.41%) Windows
3 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.69%) VMS
4 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (49.48%) Mentoring
2 128 (43.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 119 (40.89%) Systems Engineering
4 118 (40.55%) Signal Processing
4 118 (40.55%) Technical Leadership
5 93 (31.96%) Machine Learning
6 75 (25.77%) Artificial Intelligence
7 61 (20.96%) Computer Science
8 53 (18.21%) Analytics
9 51 (17.53%) Data Privacy
9 51 (17.53%) Data Science
10 49 (16.84%) Business Intelligence
11 27 (9.28%) Agile
12 26 (8.93%) Data Analysis
12 26 (8.93%) Decision-Making
13 25 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (8.25%) Actionable Insight
14 24 (8.25%) Mathematics
15 23 (7.90%) Data Modelling
16 22 (7.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 149 (51.20%) Python
2 127 (43.64%) SQL
3 62 (21.31%) C++
3 62 (21.31%) Java
4 58 (19.93%) MATLAB
5 56 (19.24%) C#
6 52 (17.87%) JavaScript
7 49 (16.84%) TypeScript
8 48 (16.49%) C
8 48 (16.49%) Dart
8 48 (16.49%) PHP
8 48 (16.49%) Ruby
8 48 (16.49%) Rust
9 10 (3.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (2.41%) Julia
11 6 (2.06%) Perl
11 6 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.06%) VBA
12 5 (1.72%) Bash
13 1 (0.34%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 118 (40.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 86 (29.55%) Degree
3 50 (17.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.15%) DBS Check
5 9 (3.09%) Master's Degree
5 9 (3.09%) PhD
6 8 (2.75%) Security Cleared
7 6 (2.06%) CISM
7 6 (2.06%) CISSP
7 6 (2.06%) CRISC
7 6 (2.06%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.72%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.69%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.34%) CCNP
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (40.55%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 9 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.06%) GDPR
4 6 (2.06%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.37%) Basel II
5 4 (1.37%) Basel III
5 4 (1.37%) Dodd-Frank
5 4 (1.37%) IFRS
5 4 (1.37%) IFRS 9
5 4 (1.37%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.69%) QA
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (2.41%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) HDFS
3 1 (0.34%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 5 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.37%) Ansible
2 4 (1.37%) Puppet
3 3 (1.03%) Kibana
3 3 (1.03%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.69%) Terraform
5 1 (0.34%) logstash
5 1 (0.34%) Oozie
Vendors
1 125 (42.96%) IBM
2 23 (7.90%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.81%) Databricks
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle
5 3 (1.03%) Genesys
5 3 (1.03%) Verint
6 2 (0.69%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.69%) Google
6 2 (0.69%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.69%) SAP
7 1 (0.34%) Adobe
7 1 (0.34%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.34%) Cisco
7 1 (0.34%) Facebook
7 1 (0.34%) Informatica
7 1 (0.34%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.34%) Remedy
7 1 (0.34%) Riverbed
7 1 (0.34%) YouTube