Hybrid/Remote R Job Trends

R
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring R skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 273 279
Rank change year-on-year -42 +6 -90
Permanent jobs citing R 59 177 225
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 1.08% 1.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.44% 2.50% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 40 79 147
10th Percentile £47,375 £38,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £47,500 £50,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,300 £146,250
UK median annual salary £30,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -49.17% -7.69% +4.00%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

R falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,099 7,069 10,046
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.26% 43.19% 46.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,088 4,426 8,565
10th Percentile £37,000 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% -5.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing R and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

R job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing R.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing R

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing R over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

R salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.39%) SPSS
4 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.69%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 25 (42.37%) Power Platform
2 22 (37.29%) Azure
3 9 (15.25%) AWS
4 5 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (8.47%) GCP
5 4 (6.78%) Serverless
6 3 (5.08%) Azure AI
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.39%) npm
8 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.69%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.69%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.69%) Google Docs
8 1 (1.69%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.69%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (42.37%) Power BI
2 11 (18.64%) Tableau
3 10 (16.95%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.08%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.39%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.39%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.39%) Looker
6 2 (3.39%) Metadata
6 2 (3.39%) MySQL
7 1 (1.69%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.69%) Big Data
7 1 (1.69%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.69%) Power Query
7 1 (1.69%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Git
1 4 (6.78%) MLflow
2 2 (3.39%) CircleCI
2 2 (3.39%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.39%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) Mocha
2 2 (3.39%) webpack
General
1 19 (32.20%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
3 15 (25.42%) Finance
4 7 (11.86%) Retail
5 3 (5.08%) Marketing
5 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.39%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.69%) Law
7 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 10 (16.95%) Developer
2 9 (15.25%) Analyst
2 9 (15.25%) Data Scientist
3 8 (13.56%) Data Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Audit Manager
4 7 (11.86%) Auditor
4 7 (11.86%) Azure Data Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Internal Audit Manager
4 7 (11.86%) Internal Auditor
4 7 (11.86%) IT Audit Manager
4 7 (11.86%) IT Auditor
4 7 (11.86%) IT Manager
5 6 (10.17%) Senior
6 4 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Automation Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) D3.js
1 2 (3.39%) Grails
1 2 (3.39%) Hibernate
1 2 (3.39%) Node.js
1 2 (3.39%) PySpark
1 2 (3.39%) React
1 2 (3.39%) Redux
1 2 (3.39%) Spring
1 2 (3.39%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.69%) Hugging Face
2 1 (1.69%) LangChain
2 1 (1.69%) NumPy
2 1 (1.69%) Pandas
2 1 (1.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.69%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.69%) Shiny
2 1 (1.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) AI Agents
1 3 (5.08%) Algorithms
1 3 (5.08%) Social Media
2 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.69%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.69%) Life Science
3 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Linux
1 9 (15.25%) Unix
2 7 (11.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) Analytics
2 30 (50.85%) Data Science
3 27 (45.76%) Machine Learning
4 26 (44.07%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (40.68%) AI
6 23 (38.98%) Visualisation
7 21 (35.59%) Decision-Making
7 21 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (32.20%) Data Visualisation
9 17 (28.81%) Data Analysis
10 16 (27.12%) DevOps
11 13 (22.03%) Data Analytics
12 11 (18.64%) Agile
12 11 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (16.95%) Actionable Insight
13 10 (16.95%) CI/CD
13 10 (16.95%) Storytelling
14 9 (15.25%) Data Engineering
14 9 (15.25%) SDLC
14 9 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 53 (89.83%) Python
2 34 (57.63%) SQL
3 9 (15.25%) Java
4 6 (10.17%) Scala
5 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.78%) MATLAB
6 2 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.39%) VBA
7 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) Degree
2 7 (11.86%) ACCA
2 7 (11.86%) CIMA
2 7 (11.86%) CISA
2 7 (11.86%) CISSP
2 7 (11.86%) Master's Degree
3 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.08%) PhD
5 2 (3.39%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.69%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.25%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) IFRS
3 1 (1.69%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.69%) PMO
3 1 (1.69%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Databricks
1 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.25%) Google
3 7 (11.86%) Oracle
4 3 (5.08%) UiPath
5 1 (1.69%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.69%) Civica
5 1 (1.69%) Northgate
5 1 (1.69%) Orchard
5 1 (1.69%) Sage
5 1 (1.69%) Samsung