When we last looked atjob trends from indeed.com,job listingsfor"R statistics" were on the rise but were still around half the volume of listings for "SAS statistics". Three-and-a-half years later, R has overtaken SAS in job listings for "statistics" .
I added python to the search this time; job listings for "Pythonstatistics" have risen at a similar rate to those for R, but with a somewhathigher volume for R.
Since data science is popular job role these days, let's do the same search for "data scientist" :
For "data scientist" jobs, R and Python track very closely, with Python just edging out R in the past few months. This is most likely because R and Python (but unlike SAS) appear together in many data scientist job listings.
You can explore other job titles at indeed.com . (And thanks to reader SK for the suggestion to revisit these searches!)