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 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 394 289 256
Rank change year-on-year -105 -33 +46
Permanent jobs citing R 655 1,270 2,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 1.28% 1.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.97% 2.95% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 439 576 864
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,528 £50,238 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.57% -4.31% +5.00%

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 33,218 43,078 87,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 24,863 27,599 43,697
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,375 £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 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

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 20 May 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 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
England -106 575 £60,000 -7.69% 391
UK excluding London -198 322 £51,528 +2.57% 235
London +26 307 £80,000 +6.67% 200
Work from Home -160 251 £65,000 +8.33% 116
South East -12 79 £49,250 -16.17% 64
North of England -180 66 £51,528 -1.74% 50
Midlands -16 57 £55,000 +15.79% 46
Scotland -63 48 £48,000 -4.45% 17
North West +18 41 £47,500 -28.30% 28
South West -64 39 £67,500 +35.00% 21
West Midlands +5 38 £55,000 +17.02% 31
East of England +4 20 £65,000 +85.71% 19
Yorkshire -132 20 £51,528 +3.06% 12
East Midlands -19 19 £45,000 -18.18% 15
Wales +1 6 £47,014 -14.34% 11
North East -25 5 £55,000 +23.14% 10
Northern Ireland +34 4 £33,750 - 6
Channel Islands - 3 £67,500 - 1

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
1 105 (16.03%) SAS
2 33 (5.04%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.83%) Apache
4 10 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.76%) nginx
7 3 (0.46%) Confluence
7 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 106 (16.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 23 (3.51%) MS Visio
3 20 (3.05%) SPSS
4 19 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (2.44%) AutoCAD
6 8 (1.22%) EViews
7 7 (1.07%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (1.07%) Stata
8 6 (0.92%) Trello
9 4 (0.61%) InfoPath
10 3 (0.46%) Simulink
11 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.61%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.31%) Primavera
3 1 (0.15%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 161 (24.58%) Power Platform
2 141 (21.53%) Azure
3 128 (19.54%) AWS
4 77 (11.76%) GCP
5 39 (5.95%) Figma
6 32 (4.89%) SurveyMonkey
7 23 (3.51%) Amazon S3
8 21 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (2.75%) Google Analytics
11 17 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (2.29%) Snowflake
13 14 (2.14%) Adobe Analytics
14 13 (1.98%) GitHub
15 12 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (1.83%) SaaS
16 9 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (1.37%) PowerApps
17 6 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
17 6 (0.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.92%) Internet
2 5 (0.76%) MQTT
2 5 (0.76%) Network Security
2 5 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
2 5 (0.76%) VPN
3 4 (0.61%) Broadband
3 4 (0.61%) FTP
3 4 (0.61%) HTTP
3 4 (0.61%) RS-232
3 4 (0.61%) SMS
3 4 (0.61%) VoIP
3 4 (0.61%) Wireshark
3 4 (0.61%) WPA
4 3 (0.46%) DHCP
4 3 (0.46%) DNS
4 3 (0.46%) Wireless
5 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (24.43%) Power BI
2 149 (22.75%) Tableau
3 80 (12.21%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (9.01%) Big Data
5 53 (8.09%) SQL Server
6 42 (6.41%) Data Mining
7 33 (5.04%) Amazon QuickSight
8 30 (4.58%) NoSQL
9 26 (3.97%) Data Lake
10 25 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 23 (3.51%) Hadoop
12 21 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (3.05%) MySQL
14 17 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (2.60%) QlikView
15 14 (2.14%) DynamoDB
15 14 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
16 13 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 11 (1.68%) Relational Database
17 11 (1.68%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 28 (4.27%) Git
2 13 (1.98%) JIRA
3 7 (1.07%) RStudio
4 5 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.76%) MLflow
4 5 (0.76%) Subversion
5 3 (0.46%) ER Studio
5 3 (0.46%) ERwin
5 3 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 236 (36.03%) Analytical Skills
2 223 (34.05%) Social Skills
3 220 (33.59%) Finance
4 118 (18.02%) Marketing
5 77 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 65 (9.92%) Retail
7 56 (8.55%) Law
8 47 (7.18%) Banking
8 47 (7.18%) Presentation Skills
9 39 (5.95%) Front Office
10 32 (4.89%) Social Science
11 27 (4.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (2.14%) Legal
13 13 (1.98%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.83%) Military
15 11 (1.68%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.37%) Financial Institution
16 9 (1.37%) Public Sector
16 9 (1.37%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 177 (27.02%) Analyst
2 138 (21.07%) Senior
3 110 (16.79%) Data Scientist
4 73 (11.15%) Lead
5 71 (10.84%) Data Analyst
6 66 (10.08%) Developer
7 52 (7.94%) Senior Analyst
8 42 (6.41%) Python Developer
8 42 (6.41%) Senior Data Scientist
9 39 (5.95%) Quantitative Developer
10 32 (4.89%) Data Engineer
11 24 (3.66%) Finance Manager
11 24 (3.66%) Service Analyst
12 23 (3.51%) Architect
13 18 (2.75%) Analytics Manager
13 18 (2.75%) Data Manager
14 17 (2.60%) Programmer
15 16 (2.44%) Senior Data Analyst
15 16 (2.44%) Service Desk Analyst
15 16 (2.44%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.66%) HTML
2 16 (2.44%) OLE
3 15 (2.29%) Django
3 15 (2.29%) React
4 14 (2.14%) CSS
5 13 (1.98%) PySpark
6 10 (1.53%) .NET
6 10 (1.53%) GraphQL
6 10 (1.53%) JSON
7 9 (1.37%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.07%) Node.js
8 7 (1.07%) PyTorch
9 6 (0.92%) gRPC
9 6 (0.92%) HTML5
9 6 (0.92%) Pandas
10 5 (0.76%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.76%) htmx
10 5 (0.76%) LEMP Stack
10 5 (0.76%) Sequelize
10 5 (0.76%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.15%) Algorithms
2 53 (8.09%) Onboarding
3 40 (6.11%) Fixed Income
4 39 (5.95%) Equities
4 39 (5.95%) Hedge funds
5 38 (5.80%) Derivative
6 32 (4.89%) Credit Risk
7 29 (4.43%) Management Information System
8 22 (3.36%) Market Risk
9 21 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (2.75%) Data Structures
11 16 (2.44%) Smartphone
12 13 (1.98%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.83%) Blog
13 12 (1.83%) NHS
14 10 (1.53%) Mobile App
15 9 (1.37%) Cloud Native
16 8 (1.22%) Product Ownership
17 7 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
17 7 (1.07%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.12%) Windows
2 20 (3.05%) Linux
3 7 (1.07%) Unix
4 4 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.46%) Android
5 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.46%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.31%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (38.78%) Analytics
2 231 (35.27%) Data Science
3 207 (31.60%) Business Intelligence
4 160 (24.43%) Visualisation
5 155 (23.66%) Machine Learning
6 144 (21.98%) Data Analysis
7 141 (21.53%) Mathematics
8 140 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
9 137 (20.92%) Data Visualisation
10 128 (19.54%) Agile
11 126 (19.24%) Statistics
12 112 (17.10%) Computer Science
12 112 (17.10%) Decision-Making
13 104 (15.88%) Data Modelling
14 98 (14.96%) Artificial Intelligence
15 76 (11.60%) Actionable Insight
15 76 (11.60%) ETL
16 75 (11.45%) Data Analytics
17 68 (10.38%) Software Engineering
18 65 (9.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 524 (80.00%) Python
2 316 (48.24%) SQL
3 34 (5.19%) JavaScript
3 34 (5.19%) MATLAB
4 32 (4.89%) C#
5 30 (4.58%) Java
6 29 (4.43%) VBA
7 24 (3.66%) C
8 18 (2.75%) T-SQL
9 16 (2.44%) C++
10 14 (2.14%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.83%) Scala
12 11 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (1.37%) Embedded C
14 7 (1.07%) TypeScript
14 7 (1.07%) VB.NET
15 5 (0.76%) JSX
16 3 (0.46%) Julia
17 2 (0.31%) Apex Code
17 2 (0.31%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 288 (43.97%) Degree
2 108 (16.49%) Master's Degree
3 90 (13.74%) PhD
4 39 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.51%) Security Cleared
6 14 (2.14%) Numerate Degree
7 10 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.07%) SC Cleared
9 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.92%) IIBA
9 6 (0.92%) SANS
10 5 (0.76%) CISA
10 5 (0.76%) CISM
10 5 (0.76%) CISSP
10 5 (0.76%) CRISC
10 5 (0.76%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.31%) CIMA
11 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.15%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.01%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.90%) IFRS
2 19 (2.90%) IFRS 9
3 18 (2.75%) QA
4 16 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.83%) CRD IV
6 6 (0.92%) GDPR
6 6 (0.92%) NIST
7 5 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.46%) ISO 26262
8 3 (0.46%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.46%) MISRA
8 3 (0.46%) PMO
9 1 (0.15%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 21 (3.21%) Docker
2 19 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) IAG
Systems Management
1 11 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.92%) Terraform
3 3 (0.46%) Backup Exec
4 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.15%) Kibana
5 1 (0.15%) logstash
Vendors
1 88 (13.44%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.95%) Bloomberg
3 35 (5.34%) Oracle
4 34 (5.19%) Alteryx
4 34 (5.19%) Google
5 32 (4.89%) Qualtrics
6 31 (4.73%) Databricks
7 29 (4.43%) Adobe
8 15 (2.29%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.53%) F5
10 8 (1.22%) SAP
11 7 (1.07%) Pega
12 6 (0.92%) Apple
12 6 (0.92%) Coremetrics
12 6 (0.92%) Samsung
12 6 (0.92%) UiPath
13 5 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
14 4 (0.61%) SIMUL8
15 3 (0.46%) Red Hat
15 3 (0.46%) Veeam