R
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 363 285
Rank change year-on-year -6 -78 -24
Permanent jobs citing R 417 580 1,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.75% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.26% 2.03% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 186 413 628
10th Percentile £37,789 £38,750 £40,371
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £47,487
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £95,063 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £129,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £53,250 £54,882
% change year-on-year +16.43% -2.97% +12.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18,475 28,549 49,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.83% 37.06% 45.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,198 22,650 31,697
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

R
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the UK

R
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for R in the UK

R
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing R over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for R in the UK

R
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the UK over the 6 months to 19 February 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
England -11 395 £62,000 -4.62% 448
UK excluding London +62 244 £62,000 +16.43% 188
London -59 160 £70,000 -13.85% 306
Work from Home -12 155 £60,000 -20.00% 220
South East +81 96 £62,000 +18.56% 73
North of England +49 64 £62,500 +21.29% 49
Midlands +6 46 £53,688 +15.46% 16
Yorkshire +59 37 £62,500 +21.29% 11
West Midlands +2 33 £45,000 -15.49% 8
North West -7 17 £58,750 +6.82% 29
South West +25 16 £66,250 -6.13% 15
East Midlands +25 13 £82,500 +97.60% 7
North East +32 10 £39,866 -18.81% 9
East of England -4 9 £100,000 +73.91% 25
Wales +38 8 £62,000 +20.32% 3
Scotland +29 4 £65,000 +22.03% 8
Channel Islands - 1 - -

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 70 (16.79%) SAS
2 34 (8.15%) Confluence
3 9 (2.16%) Mule
4 7 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.96%) Apache
6 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.48%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 44 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.16%) Weka
3 7 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.20%) SPSS
4 5 (1.20%) Stata
5 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.24%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (1.44%) GoldMine
2 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.48%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.48%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 102 (24.46%) Power Platform
2 77 (18.47%) Azure
3 63 (15.11%) AWS
4 32 (7.67%) GCP
5 17 (4.08%) Amazon S3
5 17 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (3.84%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (2.88%) IBM Watson
8 11 (2.64%) Serverless
9 9 (2.16%) Snowflake
9 9 (2.16%) Typeform
10 8 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.20%) SaaS
13 4 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.96%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.72%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (0.72%) Azure Machine Learning
14 3 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.15%) Broadband
1 34 (8.15%) Wireshark
2 10 (2.40%) HTTP
3 6 (1.44%) DAB
4 4 (0.96%) Internet
5 2 (0.48%) 5G
5 2 (0.48%) ADSL
6 1 (0.24%) Link 16
6 1 (0.24%) RS-232
6 1 (0.24%) RS-485
6 1 (0.24%) Tactical Data Link
6 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (25.66%) Tableau
2 101 (24.22%) Power BI
3 47 (11.27%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (10.07%) Data Mining
5 35 (8.39%) Amazon QuickSight
6 29 (6.95%) NoSQL
7 28 (6.71%) Relational Database
8 25 (6.00%) SQL Server
9 19 (4.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (3.60%) DynamoDB
11 12 (2.88%) QlikView
12 8 (1.92%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.92%) MySQL
12 8 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.68%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.68%) Power Query
14 6 (1.44%) Big Data
14 6 (1.44%) Data Lake
15 5 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (0.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 48 (11.51%) Rational DOORS
2 34 (8.15%) Fiddler
3 12 (2.88%) Git
4 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.24%) MLflow
5 1 (0.24%) RStudio
General
1 196 (47.00%) Analytical Skills
2 128 (30.70%) Social Skills
3 78 (18.71%) Finance
3 78 (18.71%) Marketing
4 62 (14.87%) Electronics
5 44 (10.55%) Advertising
6 31 (7.43%) Manufacturing
7 25 (6.00%) Banking
8 23 (5.52%) Retail
8 23 (5.52%) Telecoms
9 22 (5.28%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (5.04%) Pharmaceutical
11 20 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (4.32%) Law
12 18 (4.32%) Public Sector
13 14 (3.36%) Legal
14 8 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.20%) Military
17 2 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 128 (30.70%) Senior
2 86 (20.62%) Data Scientist
3 76 (18.23%) Analyst
4 58 (13.91%) Systems Engineer
5 48 (11.51%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 34 (8.15%) Service Delivery Executive
7 32 (7.67%) Senior Analyst
8 27 (6.47%) Data Analyst
8 27 (6.47%) Senior Data Scientist
9 26 (6.24%) Lead
10 22 (5.28%) Data Manager
11 19 (4.56%) Consultant
11 19 (4.56%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.08%) Analytics Manager
13 13 (3.12%) Programmer
14 12 (2.88%) Analytics Consultant
14 12 (2.88%) Audit Manager
14 12 (2.88%) Managing Consultant
14 12 (2.88%) Risk Manager
14 12 (2.88%) Technology Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.59%) XML
2 35 (8.39%) CSS
2 35 (8.39%) HTML
3 34 (8.15%) CSS3
4 18 (4.32%) JSON
5 10 (2.40%) TensorFlow
6 9 (2.16%) PySpark
6 9 (2.16%) scikit-learn
7 8 (1.92%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.92%) Shiny
8 6 (1.44%) .NET
8 6 (1.44%) Pandas
9 5 (1.20%) NumPy
10 4 (0.96%) Flask
10 4 (0.96%) Kafka
11 3 (0.72%) Keras
11 3 (0.72%) SciPy
11 3 (0.72%) Web Services
12 2 (0.48%) Node.js
12 2 (0.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 73 (17.51%) Algorithms
2 36 (8.63%) Mobile App
3 34 (8.15%) Social Media
4 26 (6.24%) Credit Risk
5 22 (5.28%) Robotics
6 20 (4.80%) Product Ownership
7 14 (3.36%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.88%) Blockchain
9 11 (2.64%) Data Structures
10 10 (2.40%) SCADA
11 9 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (2.16%) Life Science
12 8 (1.92%) Market Risk
13 7 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (1.44%) Multi-touch
15 4 (0.96%) Biopharmaceutical
15 4 (0.96%) Digital Media
15 4 (0.96%) Replication
16 3 (0.72%) IoT
16 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.44%) Windows
2 5 (1.20%) Linux
3 4 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.72%) Unix
5 2 (0.48%) Android
5 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (45.56%) Analytics
2 157 (37.65%) Data Science
3 145 (34.77%) Machine Learning
4 128 (30.70%) Visualisation
5 112 (26.86%) Business Intelligence
6 111 (26.62%) Mentoring
7 107 (25.66%) Statistics
8 97 (23.26%) Mathematics
9 92 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
10 90 (21.58%) Computer Science
11 89 (21.34%) Data Visualisation
12 82 (19.66%) Data Analysis
13 73 (17.51%) Artificial Intelligence
14 69 (16.55%) Actionable Insight
15 67 (16.07%) Decision-Making
16 66 (15.83%) ETL
17 65 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
18 61 (14.63%) Agile
19 59 (14.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 59 (14.15%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 302 (72.42%) Python
2 252 (60.43%) SQL
3 39 (9.35%) MATLAB
4 37 (8.87%) JavaScript
5 26 (6.24%) Java
6 23 (5.52%) C++
7 19 (4.56%) T-SQL
8 15 (3.60%) C
9 10 (2.40%) Scala
10 9 (2.16%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.92%) C#
12 6 (1.44%) VBA
13 4 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.72%) Rust
15 2 (0.48%) Bash
15 2 (0.48%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.48%) Fortran
15 2 (0.48%) Perl
15 2 (0.48%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 106 (25.42%) Degree
2 49 (11.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 29 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (5.76%) Master's Degree
5 19 (4.56%) DBS Check
6 17 (4.08%) Security Cleared
7 15 (3.60%) Numerate Degree
8 14 (3.36%) SC Cleared
9 6 (1.44%) MBA
10 4 (0.96%) PhD
11 3 (0.72%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.72%) CISM
11 3 (0.72%) CISSP
11 3 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.72%) CRISC
12 2 (0.48%) MOS
13 1 (0.24%) CFA
13 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.24%) GSEC
13 1 (0.24%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.51%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 28 (6.71%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.40%) GDPR
3 10 (2.40%) SLA
4 9 (2.16%) CDISC
4 9 (2.16%) IFRS
4 9 (2.16%) IFRS 9
5 8 (1.92%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.68%) Basel II
6 7 (1.68%) Basel III
6 7 (1.68%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.96%) QA
8 3 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.72%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.24%) MIL-STD-1553
9 1 (0.24%) PERC
9 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (1.20%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (0.48%) Kibana
2 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 60 (14.39%) IBM
2 52 (12.47%) Microsoft
3 47 (11.27%) Google
4 42 (10.07%) Databricks
5 23 (5.52%) Oracle
6 15 (3.60%) SAP
7 8 (1.92%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.20%) Intel
9 2 (0.48%) Adobe
9 2 (0.48%) Apple
9 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.48%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.48%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.48%) Vertica
10 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.24%) Apteco
10 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.24%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.24%) eFront
10 1 (0.24%) Palantir