R Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

R
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 353 177
Rank change year-on-year -2 -176 +100
Permanent jobs citing R 98 257 846
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.76% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.36% 1.87% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 53 189 284
10th Percentile £41,054 £39,573 £40,651
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £112,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £146,250 £150,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +8.33%

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 7,187 13,756 20,121
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 39.87% 40.85% 49.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,694 11,373 14,804
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

R trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing R.

R salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing R over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

R salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 18 (18.37%) SAS
2 3 (3.06%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.06%) nginx
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
3 2 (2.04%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.02%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (5.10%) Stata
3 4 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.04%) SPSS
5 1 (1.02%) AutoCAD
5 1 (1.02%) Blender
5 1 (1.02%) ProjectWise
5 1 (1.02%) Revit
5 1 (1.02%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.57%) Azure
2 27 (27.55%) Power Platform
3 18 (18.37%) AWS
4 12 (12.24%) GCP
5 8 (8.16%) GitHub
6 4 (4.08%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.08%) Serverless
6 4 (4.08%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.06%) npm
8 2 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.04%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.04%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.02%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.08%) IPv4
2 3 (3.06%) Internet
3 2 (2.04%) ADSL
3 2 (2.04%) OSPF
3 2 (2.04%) VLAN
3 2 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (27.55%) Power BI
2 17 (17.35%) Data Lake
3 13 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (12.24%) Tableau
5 7 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 7 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.10%) Power Query
7 4 (4.08%) Metadata
7 4 (4.08%) PowerPivot
8 3 (3.06%) Big Data
8 3 (3.06%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.06%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (2.04%) GIS
9 2 (2.04%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.02%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (9.18%) Git
2 3 (3.06%) Babel
2 3 (3.06%) gulp
2 3 (3.06%) Subversion
2 3 (3.06%) webpack
3 1 (1.02%) JIRA
3 1 (1.02%) MLflow
General
1 42 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 32 (32.65%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (21.43%) Finance
4 15 (15.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (13.27%) Retail
6 9 (9.18%) Banking
6 9 (9.18%) Marketing
6 9 (9.18%) Telecoms
7 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.10%) Games
8 5 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (3.06%) Advertising
10 3 (3.06%) Fire and Rescue
10 3 (3.06%) Police
10 3 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.02%) Automotive
11 1 (1.02%) Back Office
11 1 (1.02%) Electronics
11 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (31.63%) Senior
2 20 (20.41%) Analyst
3 16 (16.33%) Data Engineer
4 13 (13.27%) Data Scientist
5 11 (11.22%) Lead
6 9 (9.18%) Architect
6 9 (9.18%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (8.16%) Data Analyst
7 8 (8.16%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (7.14%) Analytics Manager
8 7 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (7.14%) Enterprise Management Architect
8 7 (7.14%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
8 7 (7.14%) Lead Architect
8 7 (7.14%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 7 (7.14%) Programmer
8 7 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Developer
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) PySpark
2 3 (3.06%) CSS
2 3 (3.06%) HTML
2 3 (3.06%) JSON
2 3 (3.06%) Node.js
2 3 (3.06%) OAuth
2 3 (3.06%) React
2 3 (3.06%) REST
2 3 (3.06%) Sass
2 3 (3.06%) Svelte
2 3 (3.06%) Vue
3 2 (2.04%) .NET
3 2 (2.04%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.04%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.04%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.04%) XML
4 1 (1.02%) EDI
4 1 (1.02%) Keras
4 1 (1.02%) Leaflet
4 1 (1.02%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.33%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.18%) Credit Risk
2 9 (9.18%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.16%) Biopharmaceutical
3 8 (8.16%) Market Risk
4 7 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.08%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.08%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.08%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.06%) Smart City
8 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.04%) Low-Code
9 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.02%) IoT
9 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
9 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.27%) Linux
2 9 (9.18%) Windows
3 3 (3.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (41.84%) Analytics
2 36 (36.73%) Data Science
3 30 (30.61%) Business Intelligence
4 27 (27.55%) Visualisation
5 24 (24.49%) Data Visualisation
6 23 (23.47%) DevOps
7 22 (22.45%) Data Pipeline
7 22 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (21.43%) ETL
9 19 (19.39%) Mentoring
9 19 (19.39%) Statistics
10 17 (17.35%) Data Management
11 16 (16.33%) Mathematics
12 15 (15.31%) Agile
12 15 (15.31%) Computer Science
12 15 (15.31%) Data Analysis
12 15 (15.31%) Decision-Making
13 13 (13.27%) CI/CD
13 13 (13.27%) Data Architecture
13 13 (13.27%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (77.55%) Python
2 51 (52.04%) SQL
3 8 (8.16%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.14%) MATLAB
5 6 (6.12%) Bash
6 4 (4.08%) C#
6 4 (4.08%) VBA
7 3 (3.06%) C++
7 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.06%) Julia
8 2 (2.04%) Perl
8 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.02%) Fortran
9 1 (1.02%) PHP
9 1 (1.02%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (33.67%) Degree
2 6 (6.12%) DBS Check
2 6 (6.12%) Master's Degree
2 6 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.10%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (4.08%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.08%) PhD
5 3 (3.06%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.02%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.16%) GDPR
1 8 (8.16%) IFRS
1 8 (8.16%) IFRS 9
2 7 (7.14%) Basel II
2 7 (7.14%) Basel III
2 7 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.14%) Dodd-Frank
2 7 (7.14%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.06%) CDISC
4 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.04%) QA
5 1 (1.02%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.08%) Ansible
1 4 (4.08%) Puppet
2 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (20.41%) Databricks
2 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.10%) Oracle
4 4 (4.08%) Adobe
4 4 (4.08%) TikTok
5 3 (3.06%) Google
6 2 (2.04%) Apple
6 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.02%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.02%) Palantir
7 1 (1.02%) Remedy
7 1 (1.02%) SAP
7 1 (1.02%) Vertica