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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 281 328
Rank change year-on-year -189 +47 +47
Permanent jobs citing R 317 696 766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 1.23% 1.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.38% 3.17% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 208 250 313
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,313 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,238 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.48% -4.31% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £64,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £76,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 23,016 21,974 33,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.29% 38.86% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,658 12,979 20,973
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 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -21 81 £50,000 -17.83% 45
North of England -174 61 £51,528 -6.21% 23
Midlands -17 58 £55,000 +22.22% 25
Scotland -69 47 £45,600 -9.23% 12
North West +14 42 £47,500 -20.86% 11
South West -66 41 £67,500 +34.36% 12
West Midlands -17 40 £56,252 +40.63% 17
East of England -4 19 £65,000 +85.71% 14
East Midlands -19 18 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Yorkshire -130 14 £55,000 +0.22% 8
North East -34 5 £55,000 +23.14% 4
Northern Ireland +24 4 £33,750 - 3
Wales -3 3 £40,000 -23.72% 5
Channel Islands - 3 £67,500 -
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 46 (14.51%) SAS
2 5 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.26%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.26%) nginx
4 3 (0.95%) Apache
5 2 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 56 (17.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (5.05%) AutoCAD
2 16 (5.05%) MS Visio
3 9 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.89%) Trello
6 5 (1.58%) SPSS
7 4 (1.26%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 85 (26.81%) Power Platform
2 42 (13.25%) Azure
3 32 (10.09%) Figma
3 32 (10.09%) SurveyMonkey
4 31 (9.78%) AWS
5 21 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (5.05%) GCP
7 11 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (3.15%) Google Analytics
9 8 (2.52%) Adobe Analytics
10 7 (2.21%) GitHub
11 5 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.58%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.58%) SaaS
12 4 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.26%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (1.26%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.26%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.89%) Internet
2 5 (1.58%) Network Security
2 5 (1.58%) RS-232
3 4 (1.26%) Broadband
3 4 (1.26%) FTP
3 4 (1.26%) HTTP
3 4 (1.26%) MQTT
3 4 (1.26%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (1.26%) SMS
3 4 (1.26%) VoIP
3 4 (1.26%) VPN
3 4 (1.26%) Wireshark
3 4 (1.26%) WPA
4 3 (0.95%) DHCP
4 3 (0.95%) DNS
5 2 (0.63%) Wireless
6 1 (0.32%) RS-485
6 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (26.50%) Power BI
2 69 (21.77%) Tableau
3 28 (8.83%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (8.83%) SQL Server
4 22 (6.94%) Big Data
5 16 (5.05%) Data Lake
6 15 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (4.10%) MySQL
8 10 (3.15%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (2.52%) Oracle Database
9 8 (2.52%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.21%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.21%) QlikView
11 6 (1.89%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.58%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.26%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.26%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 29 (9.15%) Git
2 8 (2.52%) JIRA
2 8 (2.52%) Subversion
3 6 (1.89%) RStudio
4 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
General
1 101 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 97 (30.60%) Finance
3 94 (29.65%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (18.93%) Marketing
5 52 (16.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (16.40%) Law
6 38 (11.99%) Retail
7 32 (10.09%) Social Science
8 20 (6.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 17 (5.36%) Banking
10 15 (4.73%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (3.79%) Military
12 11 (3.47%) Legal
13 10 (3.15%) Telecoms
14 9 (2.84%) Manufacturing
15 8 (2.52%) Investment Banking
16 7 (2.21%) Electronics
17 6 (1.89%) Automotive
17 6 (1.89%) Financial Institution
18 5 (1.58%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 88 (27.76%) Analyst
2 71 (22.40%) Senior
3 61 (19.24%) Lead
4 54 (17.03%) Data Scientist
5 37 (11.67%) Data Analyst
6 25 (7.89%) Senior Data Scientist
7 24 (7.57%) Developer
8 21 (6.62%) Senior Analyst
9 17 (5.36%) Programmer
10 16 (5.05%) Data Engineer
10 16 (5.05%) Service Analyst
10 16 (5.05%) Service Desk Analyst
10 16 (5.05%) Systems Programmer
11 13 (4.10%) Analytics Manager
12 11 (3.47%) Architect
12 11 (3.47%) Embedded Engineer
12 11 (3.47%) Senior Developer
13 10 (3.15%) Senior Data Analyst
14 9 (2.84%) Business Analyst
14 9 (2.84%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.62%) HTML
2 16 (5.05%) OLE
3 11 (3.47%) CSS
3 11 (3.47%) React
4 10 (3.15%) Django
5 9 (2.84%) .NET
5 9 (2.84%) JSON
6 7 (2.21%) GraphQL
7 6 (1.89%) HTML5
8 5 (1.58%) jQuery
8 5 (1.58%) PySpark
8 5 (1.58%) REST
9 4 (1.26%) COM
9 4 (1.26%) gRPC
9 4 (1.26%) Knex.js
9 4 (1.26%) LEMP Stack
9 4 (1.26%) Node.js
9 4 (1.26%) React Native
9 4 (1.26%) RESTful
9 4 (1.26%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 55 (17.35%) Algorithms
2 22 (6.94%) Market Risk
3 20 (6.31%) Onboarding
4 16 (5.05%) Smartphone
5 14 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (4.10%) Credit Risk
6 13 (4.10%) Data Structures
6 13 (4.10%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.47%) NHS
7 11 (3.47%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.89%) Clustering
8 6 (1.89%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.58%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.58%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.58%) Replication
10 4 (1.26%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.26%) IoT
10 4 (1.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.52%) Windows
2 19 (5.99%) Linux
3 7 (2.21%) Unix
4 5 (1.58%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.63%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.32%) Android
7 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (32.81%) Analytics
2 102 (32.18%) Data Science
3 94 (29.65%) Business Intelligence
4 70 (22.08%) Data Analysis
5 67 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (20.82%) Visualisation
7 65 (20.50%) Machine Learning
8 64 (20.19%) Decision-Making
9 52 (16.40%) Computer Science
10 51 (16.09%) Actionable Insight
10 51 (16.09%) Agile
10 51 (16.09%) Data Visualisation
11 49 (15.46%) Mathematics
12 47 (14.83%) Artificial Intelligence
13 46 (14.51%) Roadmaps
14 42 (13.25%) Data Analytics
15 41 (12.93%) Business Strategy
16 40 (12.62%) Data Modelling
17 39 (12.30%) Service Design
17 39 (12.30%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 212 (66.88%) Python
2 111 (35.02%) SQL
3 29 (9.15%) JavaScript
4 22 (6.94%) C#
4 22 (6.94%) Java
5 20 (6.31%) C
6 13 (4.10%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.79%) VBA
8 10 (3.15%) Embedded C
9 7 (2.21%) Scala
9 7 (2.21%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.21%) VB.NET
10 6 (1.89%) C++
11 5 (1.58%) Julia
11 5 (1.58%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.26%) JSX
13 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.63%) Tcl
14 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 143 (45.11%) Degree
2 76 (23.97%) Master's Degree
3 62 (19.56%) PhD
4 29 (9.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (6.31%) Security Cleared
6 10 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.21%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (1.89%) IIBA
8 6 (1.89%) SANS
8 6 (1.89%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.58%) CISA
9 5 (1.58%) CISM
9 5 (1.58%) CISSP
9 5 (1.58%) CRISC
9 5 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.52%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.05%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.47%) QA
4 7 (2.21%) IFRS
4 7 (2.21%) IFRS 9
5 6 (1.89%) NIST
6 3 (0.95%) CRD IV
6 3 (0.95%) GDPR
6 3 (0.95%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.32%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.32%) MISRA
System Software
1 19 (5.99%) Active Directory
1 19 (5.99%) Docker
2 3 (0.95%) Hyper-V
2 3 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.95%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.09%) Qualtrics
3 18 (5.68%) Oracle
4 17 (5.36%) Alteryx
5 14 (4.42%) Google
6 12 (3.79%) Adobe
7 11 (3.47%) Databricks
8 6 (1.89%) Coremetrics
8 6 (1.89%) Pega
8 6 (1.89%) UiPath
9 5 (1.58%) SAP
10 4 (1.26%) Apple
10 4 (1.26%) MicroStrategy
10 4 (1.26%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.26%) SIMUL8
11 3 (0.95%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.95%) Veeam
11 3 (0.95%) VMware
12 2 (0.63%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.63%) Meraki