R Jobs with Work from Home Options

R
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for R skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited R over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 178 269
Rank change year-on-year -181 +91 +60
Permanent jobs citing R 249 806 1,019
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.74% 2.00% 1.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.80% 4.06% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 180 279 387
10th Percentile £39,573 £40,470 £37,491
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -2.04%
75th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £146,250 £150,000 £83,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

R is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,840 19,847 42,181
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.93% 49.17% 59.07%
Number of salaries quoted 11,374 14,580 24,013
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,500 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

R trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing R over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

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 39 (15.66%) SAS
2 9 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.01%) nginx
4 3 (1.20%) Apache
4 3 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.80%) Confluence
5 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 31 (12.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (3.21%) SPSS
3 2 (0.80%) EViews
3 2 (0.80%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Primavera
2 1 (0.40%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 77 (30.92%) Azure
2 62 (24.90%) Power Platform
3 59 (23.69%) AWS
4 55 (22.09%) GCP
5 13 (5.22%) Google Analytics
6 11 (4.42%) Adobe Analytics
6 11 (4.42%) Snowflake
7 8 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (3.21%) GitHub
7 8 (3.21%) PowerApps
8 7 (2.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (2.41%) Serverless
10 5 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.01%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (2.01%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.01%) MQTT
1 5 (2.01%) Reverse Proxy
1 5 (2.01%) VPN
2 4 (1.61%) Broadband
2 4 (1.61%) Internet
2 4 (1.61%) RS-232
2 4 (1.61%) SMS
2 4 (1.61%) WPA
3 3 (1.20%) DHCP
3 3 (1.20%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (24.90%) Power BI
2 54 (21.69%) Tableau
3 21 (8.43%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.23%) Big Data
5 15 (6.02%) SQL Server
6 12 (4.82%) Data Lake
6 12 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (4.82%) QlikView
7 10 (4.02%) MySQL
7 10 (4.02%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (3.21%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (2.41%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.01%) GIS
11 5 (2.01%) SQLite
12 4 (1.61%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.61%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.61%) Power Query
13 3 (1.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 12 (4.82%) Git
2 5 (2.01%) Subversion
3 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.20%) MLflow
5 2 (0.80%) JIRA
6 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 105 (42.17%) Finance
2 83 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (30.52%) Social Skills
4 37 (14.86%) Front Office
5 29 (11.65%) Banking
6 25 (10.04%) Marketing
6 25 (10.04%) Retail
7 11 (4.42%) Military
7 11 (4.42%) Pharmaceutical
7 11 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.81%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.81%) Health Technology
9 7 (2.81%) Law
9 7 (2.81%) Legal
10 5 (2.01%) Electronics
10 5 (2.01%) Local Government
10 5 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.61%) Automotive
11 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 69 (27.71%) Analyst
2 47 (18.88%) Developer
3 40 (16.06%) Python Developer
4 38 (15.26%) Senior
5 36 (14.46%) Quantitative Developer
6 34 (13.65%) Data Analyst
7 25 (10.04%) Data Scientist
8 23 (9.24%) Finance Manager
9 17 (6.83%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (6.02%) Architect
11 13 (5.22%) Consultant
12 12 (4.82%) Data Engineer
12 12 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (4.42%) Insight Analyst
14 9 (3.61%) Analytics Manager
14 9 (3.61%) Data Science Director
15 8 (3.21%) Customer Insight Analyst
15 8 (3.21%) Data Consultant
15 8 (3.21%) Embedded Engineer
15 8 (3.21%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.63%) HTML
2 13 (5.22%) CSS
3 12 (4.82%) React
4 8 (3.21%) Django
5 5 (2.01%) GraphQL
5 5 (2.01%) gRPC
5 5 (2.01%) htmx
5 5 (2.01%) jQuery
5 5 (2.01%) Knex.js
5 5 (2.01%) LEMP Stack
5 5 (2.01%) Node.js
5 5 (2.01%) PySpark
5 5 (2.01%) React Native
5 5 (2.01%) RESTful
5 5 (2.01%) Sequelize
6 4 (1.61%) AWS CDK
6 4 (1.61%) Tidyverse
7 3 (1.20%) Pandas
8 2 (0.80%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.86%) Fixed Income
1 37 (14.86%) Hedge funds
2 36 (14.46%) Derivative
2 36 (14.46%) Equities
3 21 (8.43%) Algorithms
4 17 (6.83%) Credit Risk
5 14 (5.62%) Data Structures
6 12 (4.82%) NHS
7 7 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.41%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.41%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.01%) IoT
9 5 (2.01%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.61%) Clustering
10 4 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.61%) Smart Energy
11 3 (1.20%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.62%) Linux
2 5 (2.01%) Windows
3 4 (1.61%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (41.37%) Analytics
2 72 (28.92%) Agile
2 72 (28.92%) Data Science
3 70 (28.11%) Business Intelligence
4 58 (23.29%) Data Analysis
5 54 (21.69%) Decision-Making
6 51 (20.48%) Visualisation
7 50 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (19.28%) Software Engineering
9 47 (18.88%) Asset Management
10 45 (18.07%) Statistics
11 43 (17.27%) Data Visualisation
12 40 (16.06%) Investment Management
12 40 (16.06%) Quantitative Research
13 36 (14.46%) Data Modelling
14 35 (14.06%) Mathematics
15 28 (11.24%) Machine Learning
16 27 (10.84%) Project Management
17 26 (10.44%) Data Analytics
18 25 (10.04%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 224 (89.96%) Python
2 128 (51.41%) SQL
3 23 (9.24%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.42%) C
5 10 (4.02%) VBA
6 8 (3.21%) Embedded C
6 8 (3.21%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.41%) Java
9 5 (2.01%) C++
9 5 (2.01%) JSX
9 5 (2.01%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.61%) C#
10 4 (1.61%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.20%) Scala
12 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.80%) Tcl
13 1 (0.40%) Ada
13 1 (0.40%) Julia
13 1 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (28.92%) Degree
2 20 (8.03%) Master's Degree
3 12 (4.82%) PhD
4 10 (4.02%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.61%) Numerate Degree
6 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.61%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.80%) CIMA
10 1 (0.40%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.43%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.02%) IFRS
2 10 (4.02%) IFRS 9
3 8 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.01%) QA
5 4 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.20%) CRD IV
6 3 (1.20%) GDPR
6 3 (1.20%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.80%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (4.42%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.61%) Terraform
2 3 (1.20%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (14.46%) Bloomberg
2 22 (8.84%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.23%) Adobe
3 18 (7.23%) Google
4 15 (6.02%) Databricks
5 12 (4.82%) Alteryx
6 9 (3.61%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.81%) F5
8 6 (2.41%) Apple
9 4 (1.61%) Coremetrics
9 4 (1.61%) SIMUL8
10 3 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.20%) Veeam
10 3 (1.20%) VMware
11 2 (0.80%) Cisco
11 2 (0.80%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.80%) SAP
11 2 (0.80%) Splunk
12 1 (0.40%) Apteco
12 1 (0.40%) OpenAI