R Shiny
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Shiny skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Shiny over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 685 888 960
Rank change year-on-year +203 +72 +166
Permanent jobs citing Shiny 7 8 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.008% 0.028%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.083% 0.038% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £49,266 £29,726 -
25th Percentile £53,113 £32,173 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £37,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.67% -25.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,313 £38,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £87,325 - £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Shiny falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

Shiny
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Shiny in the UK

Shiny
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Shiny in the UK

Shiny
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Shiny over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Shiny in the UK

Shiny
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Shiny within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +173 7 £56,500 +50.67% 10
London +109 7 £56,500 +50.67% 8
Work from Home +195 2 £46,702 +24.54% 12

Shiny
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) OCI
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Relational Database
2 3 (42.86%) MySQL
2 3 (42.86%) Power BI
2 3 (42.86%) Tableau
3 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
3 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
3 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (28.57%) Redis
4 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (42.86%) Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Advertising
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Police
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Scientist
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Development Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Development Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) Next.js
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) Plotly
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Vue
3 1 (14.29%) EDI
3 1 (14.29%) Tidyverse
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Media
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Multi-touch
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Analytics
1 6 (85.71%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (42.86%) Marketing Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 2 (28.57%) LLM
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Predictive Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Development Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing Mix
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) R
3 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 1 (14.29%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker