R
UK

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 277 259
Rank change year-on-year -117 -18 +28
Permanent jobs citing R 649 1,317 2,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 1.27% 1.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% 2.91% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 441 582 878
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,371 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £89,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,528 £50,238 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.57% +0.48% -3.85%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,114 45,223 82,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.75% 43.47% 53.61%
Number of salaries quoted 24,936 28,811 44,187
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £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 £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

R
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the UK

R
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for R in the UK

R
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing R over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for R in the UK

R
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England -101 569 £62,500 -3.85% 226
UK excluding London -212 314 £51,528 +2.57% 111
London +46 305 £80,000 +6.67% 124
Work from Home -172 255 £65,000 +8.33% 82
South East -10 77 £50,000 -16.67% 37
North of England -197 67 £51,528 -6.11% 29
Midlands -14 54 £50,750 -3.33% 16
Scotland -59 47 £48,000 -2.77% 7
North West +31 40 £47,500 -28.30% 21
South West -60 38 £67,500 +35.00% 7
West Midlands +15 35 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Yorkshire -128 22 £51,528 +3.06% 5
East Midlands -15 19 £45,000 -18.18% 3
East of England +9 18 £68,750 +96.43% 10
Wales +8 7 £51,528 -1.74% 7
North East -28 5 £55,000 +23.14% 3
Northern Ireland +30 4 £33,750 - 2
Channel Islands - 2 - -

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 108 (16.64%) SAS
2 40 (6.16%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.47%) Apache
4 10 (1.54%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.77%) nginx
7 3 (0.46%) Confluence
7 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 100 (15.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 23 (3.54%) MS Visio
3 20 (3.08%) SPSS
4 19 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (2.47%) AutoCAD
6 8 (1.23%) EViews
7 7 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (1.08%) Stata
8 6 (0.92%) Trello
9 4 (0.62%) InfoPath
9 4 (0.62%) Simulink
10 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.62%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.31%) Primavera
3 1 (0.15%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 163 (25.12%) Power Platform
2 142 (21.88%) Azure
3 131 (20.18%) AWS
4 84 (12.94%) GCP
5 39 (6.01%) Figma
6 32 (4.93%) SurveyMonkey
7 21 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (2.93%) Google Analytics
9 18 (2.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (2.62%) Amazon S3
11 16 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (2.47%) Snowflake
12 14 (2.16%) Adobe Analytics
13 13 (2.00%) GitHub
14 11 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (1.69%) SaaS
15 9 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (1.39%) PowerApps
15 9 (1.39%) Serverless
16 6 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.92%) Internet
2 5 (0.77%) MQTT
2 5 (0.77%) Network Security
2 5 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (0.77%) VPN
3 4 (0.62%) Broadband
3 4 (0.62%) FTP
3 4 (0.62%) HTTP
3 4 (0.62%) RS-232
3 4 (0.62%) SMS
3 4 (0.62%) VoIP
3 4 (0.62%) Wireshark
3 4 (0.62%) WPA
4 3 (0.46%) Wireless
5 1 (0.15%) DHCP
5 1 (0.15%) DNS
5 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (24.96%) Power BI
2 145 (22.34%) Tableau
3 68 (10.48%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (8.32%) Big Data
4 54 (8.32%) SQL Server
5 45 (6.93%) Data Mining
6 29 (4.47%) Amazon QuickSight
6 29 (4.47%) NoSQL
7 25 (3.85%) Data Lake
7 25 (3.85%) Hadoop
8 22 (3.39%) MySQL
9 19 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (2.93%) QlikView
10 17 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
12 13 (2.00%) Relational Database
13 12 (1.85%) Power Query
13 12 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (1.69%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 29 (4.47%) Git
2 13 (2.00%) JIRA
3 8 (1.23%) RStudio
4 6 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.77%) MLflow
6 4 (0.62%) Subversion
7 3 (0.46%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.46%) ERwin
7 3 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.15%) NUnit
9 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 231 (35.59%) Finance
2 230 (35.44%) Analytical Skills
3 220 (33.90%) Social Skills
4 116 (17.87%) Marketing
5 75 (11.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (10.48%) Retail
7 54 (8.32%) Law
8 53 (8.17%) Banking
9 51 (7.86%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (6.63%) Front Office
11 32 (4.93%) Social Science
12 29 (4.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (2.16%) Legal
14 13 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.85%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.85%) Public Sector
16 11 (1.69%) Telecoms
17 10 (1.54%) Automotive
17 10 (1.54%) Military
18 9 (1.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 171 (26.35%) Analyst
2 142 (21.88%) Senior
3 106 (16.33%) Data Scientist
4 72 (11.09%) Lead
5 68 (10.48%) Developer
6 67 (10.32%) Data Analyst
7 52 (8.01%) Senior Analyst
8 44 (6.78%) Quantitative Developer
9 42 (6.47%) Python Developer
10 39 (6.01%) Senior Data Scientist
11 31 (4.78%) Data Engineer
12 24 (3.70%) Finance Manager
12 24 (3.70%) Service Analyst
13 23 (3.54%) Architect
14 20 (3.08%) Consultant
15 18 (2.77%) Analytics Manager
15 18 (2.77%) Data Manager
15 18 (2.77%) Programmer
16 16 (2.47%) Service Desk Analyst
16 16 (2.47%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.93%) HTML
2 16 (2.47%) OLE
3 14 (2.16%) PySpark
4 11 (1.69%) .NET
5 10 (1.54%) Django
5 10 (1.54%) JSON
6 9 (1.39%) CSS
6 9 (1.39%) GraphQL
6 9 (1.39%) React
7 8 (1.23%) Kafka
7 8 (1.23%) Pandas
8 7 (1.08%) Node.js
8 7 (1.08%) PyTorch
8 7 (1.08%) TensorFlow
9 6 (0.92%) AWS CDK
9 6 (0.92%) gRPC
9 6 (0.92%) HTML5
9 6 (0.92%) scikit-learn
10 5 (0.77%) jQuery
10 5 (0.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.25%) Algorithms
2 47 (7.24%) Onboarding
3 44 (6.78%) Fixed Income
3 44 (6.78%) Hedge funds
4 43 (6.63%) Derivative
5 39 (6.01%) Equities
6 35 (5.39%) Credit Risk
7 26 (4.01%) Management Information System
8 22 (3.39%) Market Risk
9 21 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (2.62%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.47%) Smartphone
12 11 (1.69%) Blog
12 11 (1.69%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.54%) Cloud Native
13 10 (1.54%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.23%) Product Ownership
15 7 (1.08%) Animation
15 7 (1.08%) NHS
16 6 (0.92%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.85%) Windows
2 18 (2.77%) Linux
3 7 (1.08%) Unix
4 4 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.46%) Android
5 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.31%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (39.14%) Analytics
2 229 (35.29%) Data Science
3 205 (31.59%) Business Intelligence
4 158 (24.35%) Machine Learning
5 157 (24.19%) Visualisation
6 140 (21.57%) Data Analysis
7 139 (21.42%) Agile
8 137 (21.11%) Data Visualisation
9 133 (20.49%) Mathematics
9 133 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
10 119 (18.34%) Statistics
11 109 (16.80%) Decision-Making
12 103 (15.87%) Computer Science
13 102 (15.72%) Data Modelling
14 98 (15.10%) Artificial Intelligence
15 74 (11.40%) ETL
16 71 (10.94%) Actionable Insight
16 71 (10.94%) Software Engineering
17 70 (10.79%) Data Analytics
18 67 (10.32%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 515 (79.35%) Python
2 307 (47.30%) SQL
3 32 (4.93%) MATLAB
4 31 (4.78%) C#
5 28 (4.31%) Java
5 28 (4.31%) JavaScript
6 26 (4.01%) VBA
7 24 (3.70%) C
8 18 (2.77%) T-SQL
9 14 (2.16%) C++
9 14 (2.16%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (2.00%) Scala
11 9 (1.39%) Embedded C
12 7 (1.08%) VB.NET
13 6 (0.92%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.77%) JSX
15 2 (0.31%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.31%) F#
15 2 (0.31%) Julia
Qualifications
1 278 (42.84%) Degree
2 105 (16.18%) Master's Degree
3 88 (13.56%) PhD
4 37 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.39%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.85%) Numerate Degree
7 10 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.08%) SC Cleared
10 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.92%) IIBA
11 5 (0.77%) CISA
11 5 (0.77%) CISM
11 5 (0.77%) CISSP
11 5 (0.77%) CRISC
11 5 (0.77%) SANS
12 3 (0.46%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.31%) CIMA
13 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.15%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.94%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.39%) IFRS
2 22 (3.39%) IFRS 9
3 20 (3.08%) QA
4 15 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.31%) CRD IV
5 9 (1.39%) PMO
6 6 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (0.92%) GDPR
7 5 (0.77%) NIST
8 4 (0.62%) ISO 26262
9 3 (0.46%) MISRA
10 2 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.15%) Automotive SPICE
11 1 (0.15%) AUTOSAR
11 1 (0.15%) CDISC
11 1 (0.15%) Good Clinical Practice
11 1 (0.15%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 17 (2.62%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.47%) Docker
3 2 (0.31%) IAG
4 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.92%) Terraform
3 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.15%) Backup Exec
4 1 (0.15%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.15%) Kibana
4 1 (0.15%) logstash
Vendors
1 90 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.01%) Bloomberg
3 36 (5.55%) Alteryx
3 36 (5.55%) Google
4 35 (5.39%) Databricks
5 33 (5.08%) Oracle
6 32 (4.93%) Qualtrics
7 29 (4.47%) Adobe
8 14 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.54%) F5
10 8 (1.23%) SAP
11 7 (1.08%) Pega
12 6 (0.92%) Apple
12 6 (0.92%) Coremetrics
12 6 (0.92%) Samsung
12 6 (0.92%) UiPath
13 5 (0.77%) MicroStrategy
13 5 (0.77%) Splunk
14 4 (0.62%) SIMUL8
15 3 (0.46%) Informatica