R Job Trends in West London

R
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West London requiring R skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Permanent jobs citing R 3 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 0.58% 0.52% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.56% 2.44% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £27,650 £59,750 -
25th Percentile £27,875 £63,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.43% - -
75th Percentile £55,125 £75,625 -
90th Percentile £68,550 £78,250 -
London median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -13.33% -

All Programming Languages
West 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 West London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 54 82 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 10.53% 21.24% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 32 42 78
10th Percentile £29,900 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £40,104 £54,125 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,200 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.11% +12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £87,500 £80,638
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.23%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing R relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West London.

R job vacancy trend in West London

R
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing R.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing R

R
Salary Histogram in West London

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in West London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for R in West London

R
Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the West London region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Harrow - 1 £30,000 -
Richmond upon Thames - 1 £30,500 - 2
R
London

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Multimedia
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Trainee
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Trainee Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks