R Jobs in the UK excluding London

R
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 262 321
Rank change year-on-year -198 +59 +52
Permanent jobs citing R 322 757 792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 1.28% 1.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.43% 3.20% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 215 251 332
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,528 £50,238 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% -4.31% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,035 £64,625
90th Percentile £84,000 £81,250 £76,826
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,500 23,662 33,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.41% 40.01% 45.71%
Number of salaries quoted 16,335 13,344 21,181
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing R in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing R in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for R in the UK excluding London

R
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing R within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East -12 79 £49,250 -16.17% 48
North of England -180 66 £51,528 -1.74% 29
Midlands -16 57 £55,000 +15.79% 27
Scotland -63 48 £48,000 -4.45% 12
North West +18 41 £47,500 -28.30% 18
South West -64 39 £67,500 +35.00% 13
West Midlands +5 38 £55,000 +17.02% 20
East of England +4 20 £65,000 +85.71% 8
Yorkshire -132 20 £51,528 +3.06% 4
East Midlands -19 19 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Wales +1 6 £47,014 -14.34% 5
North East -25 5 £55,000 +23.14% 7
Northern Ireland +34 4 £33,750 - 4
Channel Islands - 3 £67,500 - 1
R
UK

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 52 (16.15%) SAS
2 13 (4.04%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.73%) Apache
4 5 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.24%) nginx
6 2 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 59 (18.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.97%) AutoCAD
2 16 (4.97%) MS Visio
3 9 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.17%) SPSS
5 6 (1.86%) Trello
6 4 (1.24%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.93%) Simulink
8 2 (0.62%) EViews
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 84 (26.09%) Power Platform
2 40 (12.42%) Azure
3 32 (9.94%) AWS
3 32 (9.94%) Figma
3 32 (9.94%) SurveyMonkey
4 21 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.97%) GCP
6 11 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (3.11%) Google Analytics
8 8 (2.48%) Adobe Analytics
9 7 (2.17%) GitHub
10 5 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.55%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.55%) SaaS
11 4 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.24%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (1.24%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.24%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.86%) Internet
2 5 (1.55%) Network Security
3 4 (1.24%) Broadband
3 4 (1.24%) FTP
3 4 (1.24%) HTTP
3 4 (1.24%) MQTT
3 4 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (1.24%) RS-232
3 4 (1.24%) SMS
3 4 (1.24%) VoIP
3 4 (1.24%) VPN
3 4 (1.24%) Wireshark
3 4 (1.24%) WPA
4 3 (0.93%) DHCP
4 3 (0.93%) DNS
5 2 (0.62%) Wireless
6 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (25.78%) Power BI
2 68 (21.12%) Tableau
3 29 (9.01%) SQL Server
4 26 (8.07%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (6.83%) Big Data
6 16 (4.97%) Data Lake
7 13 (4.04%) MySQL
7 13 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (2.48%) Oracle Database
9 8 (2.48%) QlikView
9 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.17%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.86%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.55%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.24%) GIS
13 4 (1.24%) PowerPivot
13 4 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (8.07%) Git
2 8 (2.48%) JIRA
3 6 (1.86%) RStudio
4 5 (1.55%) Subversion
5 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
General
1 110 (34.16%) Social Skills
2 106 (32.92%) Finance
3 102 (31.68%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (18.63%) Marketing
5 52 (16.15%) Law
6 50 (15.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 49 (15.22%) Retail
8 32 (9.94%) Social Science
9 28 (8.70%) Banking
10 24 (7.45%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (6.21%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (3.73%) Military
13 11 (3.42%) Legal
14 10 (3.11%) Telecoms
15 9 (2.80%) Manufacturing
15 9 (2.80%) Retail Finance
16 8 (2.48%) Automotive
16 8 (2.48%) Investment Banking
17 7 (2.17%) Electronics
18 6 (1.86%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 98 (30.43%) Analyst
2 77 (23.91%) Senior
3 59 (18.32%) Lead
4 54 (16.77%) Data Scientist
5 36 (11.18%) Data Analyst
6 30 (9.32%) Senior Analyst
7 25 (7.76%) Senior Data Scientist
8 20 (6.21%) Developer
9 17 (5.28%) Programmer
10 16 (4.97%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.97%) Service Analyst
10 16 (4.97%) Service Desk Analyst
10 16 (4.97%) Systems Programmer
11 13 (4.04%) Analytics Manager
12 12 (3.73%) Embedded Engineer
13 11 (3.42%) Architect
14 10 (3.11%) Business Analyst
14 10 (3.11%) Senior Data Analyst
14 10 (3.11%) Software Engineer
15 8 (2.48%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.21%) HTML
2 16 (4.97%) OLE
3 10 (3.11%) CSS
4 9 (2.80%) .NET
4 9 (2.80%) Django
4 9 (2.80%) JSON
4 9 (2.80%) React
5 7 (2.17%) GraphQL
6 6 (1.86%) HTML5
7 5 (1.55%) jQuery
7 5 (1.55%) REST
8 4 (1.24%) COM
8 4 (1.24%) gRPC
8 4 (1.24%) Knex.js
8 4 (1.24%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (1.24%) Node.js
8 4 (1.24%) PySpark
8 4 (1.24%) React Native
8 4 (1.24%) RESTful
8 4 (1.24%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 55 (17.08%) Algorithms
2 24 (7.45%) Credit Risk
3 22 (6.83%) Market Risk
4 21 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 16 (4.97%) Smartphone
6 14 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (4.04%) Management Information System
8 11 (3.42%) Data Structures
8 11 (3.42%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.80%) NHS
10 6 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.86%) Clustering
10 6 (1.86%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.55%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.55%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.55%) Replication
12 4 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.24%) IoT
12 4 (1.24%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.39%) Windows
2 19 (5.90%) Linux
3 7 (2.17%) Unix
4 4 (1.24%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.62%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.31%) Android
7 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (33.85%) Analytics
2 100 (31.06%) Data Science
3 93 (28.88%) Business Intelligence
4 69 (21.43%) Data Analysis
5 68 (21.12%) Visualisation
6 67 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (20.19%) Machine Learning
8 64 (19.88%) Decision-Making
9 61 (18.94%) Mathematics
10 60 (18.63%) Agile
11 53 (16.46%) Actionable Insight
11 53 (16.46%) Computer Science
12 52 (16.15%) Data Visualisation
13 51 (15.84%) Statistics
14 47 (14.60%) Artificial Intelligence
15 46 (14.29%) Roadmaps
16 42 (13.04%) Data Analytics
17 41 (12.73%) Business Strategy
18 39 (12.11%) Data Modelling
18 39 (12.11%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 215 (66.77%) Python
2 107 (33.23%) SQL
3 27 (8.39%) JavaScript
4 22 (6.83%) C#
4 22 (6.83%) Java
5 21 (6.52%) C
6 13 (4.04%) PowerShell
6 13 (4.04%) VBA
7 9 (2.80%) Embedded C
8 7 (2.17%) Scala
8 7 (2.17%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.17%) VB.NET
9 6 (1.86%) C++
10 5 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.55%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.55%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.24%) JSX
12 3 (0.93%) Julia
13 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.62%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 155 (48.14%) Degree
2 76 (23.60%) Master's Degree
3 62 (19.25%) PhD
4 29 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (6.21%) Security Cleared
6 10 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (1.86%) IIBA
8 6 (1.86%) SANS
8 6 (1.86%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.55%) CISA
9 5 (1.55%) CISM
9 5 (1.55%) CISSP
9 5 (1.55%) CRISC
9 5 (1.55%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.39%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.97%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.97%) IFRS
2 16 (4.97%) IFRS 9
3 12 (3.73%) CRD IV
4 11 (3.42%) QA
5 6 (1.86%) NIST
6 4 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.93%) GDPR
7 3 (0.93%) ISO 26262
7 3 (0.93%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.93%) MISRA
8 1 (0.31%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 19 (5.90%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.28%) Docker
3 3 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (3.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.93%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.94%) Qualtrics
3 19 (5.90%) Oracle
4 17 (5.28%) Alteryx
5 14 (4.35%) Google
6 12 (3.73%) Adobe
7 10 (3.11%) Databricks
8 6 (1.86%) Coremetrics
8 6 (1.86%) Pega
8 6 (1.86%) UiPath
9 5 (1.55%) MicroStrategy
9 5 (1.55%) SAP
10 4 (1.24%) Apple
10 4 (1.24%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.24%) SIMUL8
11 3 (0.93%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.93%) Veeam
11 3 (0.93%) VMware
12 2 (0.62%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.62%) Meraki