R Jobs in Scotland

R
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 178 188
Rank change year-on-year -60 +10 -36
Permanent jobs citing R 46 50 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 1.12% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 2.66% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 10 26 38
10th Percentile £36,375 £34,329 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,800 £35,862 £31,917
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,600 £50,238 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +0.48% -2.44%
75th Percentile £72,350 £78,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,950 £108,206 £66,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,712 1,879 2,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 54.66% 42.01% 44.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,139 1,031 1,582
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for R in Scotland

R
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing R in Scotland.

Salary trend for R in Scotland

R
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for R in Scotland

R
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Glasgow -92 42 £43,200 -14.01% 3
Edinburgh +17 3 £72,000 +30.81% 9
R
UK

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (10.87%) SAS
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 32 (69.57%) Figma
1 32 (69.57%) SurveyMonkey
2 4 (8.70%) Azure
2 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.52%) AWS
3 3 (6.52%) GCP
4 2 (4.35%) Fivetran
5 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.17%) SaaS
5 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Power BI
2 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (2.17%) Big Data
4 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.17%) SQLite
General
1 36 (78.26%) Finance
1 36 (78.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (73.91%) Law
2 34 (73.91%) Marketing
3 32 (69.57%) Social Science
4 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (69.57%) Lead
2 4 (8.70%) Data Engineer
2 4 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (4.35%) Data Manager
3 2 (4.35%) Data Science Manager
3 2 (4.35%) Data Scientist
3 2 (4.35%) Senior User Experience Researcher
3 2 (4.35%) Senior User Researcher
3 2 (4.35%) User Experience Researcher
3 2 (4.35%) User Researcher
4 1 (2.17%) Analyst
4 1 (2.17%) Architect
4 1 (2.17%) Data Analyst
4 1 (2.17%) Data Architect
4 1 (2.17%) Developer
4 1 (2.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (2.17%) Python Developer
4 1 (2.17%) Senior Architect
4 1 (2.17%) Senior Manager
4 1 (2.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) Django
2 2 (4.35%) GraphQL
2 2 (4.35%) jQuery
2 2 (4.35%) REST
2 2 (4.35%) SOAP
2 2 (4.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 1 (2.17%) CSS
3 1 (2.17%) HTML
3 1 (2.17%) htmx
3 1 (2.17%) Kafka
3 1 (2.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Market Risk
2 2 (4.35%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.17%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (73.91%) Actionable Insight
1 34 (73.91%) Anthropology
1 34 (73.91%) Cognitive Science
1 34 (73.91%) Fintech
1 34 (73.91%) Product Management
1 34 (73.91%) Psychology
1 34 (73.91%) User Experience
1 34 (73.91%) User Research
1 34 (73.91%) UX Research
2 32 (69.57%) Business Strategy
2 32 (69.57%) Information Architecture
2 32 (69.57%) Interaction Design
2 32 (69.57%) Objectives and Key Results
2 32 (69.57%) Project Planning
2 32 (69.57%) Qualitative Research
2 32 (69.57%) Roadmaps
2 32 (69.57%) Service Design
3 16 (34.78%) Data Sharing
4 6 (13.04%) Agile
4 6 (13.04%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) Python
2 6 (13.04%) SQL
3 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.35%) C#
4 2 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) C
5 1 (2.17%) C++
5 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.17%) Embedded C
5 1 (2.17%) Ruby
5 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (76.09%) Degree
2 34 (73.91%) Master's Degree
2 34 (73.91%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.35%) IFRS
1 2 (4.35%) IFRS 9
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Vendors
1 32 (69.57%) Qualtrics
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle
3 2 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) Databricks
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.17%) Teradata