R Contracts in Central London

R
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for R skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited R over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 147 165
Rank change year-on-year +30 +18 -33
Contract jobs citing R 15 29 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.62% 0.77% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.79% 1.82% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 26
10th Percentile £457 £417 £325
25th Percentile £475 £523 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £681 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.94% +23.81% +32.59%
75th Percentile £688 £863 £650
90th Percentile £879 £875 £688
London median daily rate £580 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £40.90
25th Percentile - - £47.88
Median hourly rate - - £57.00
75th Percentile - - £65.69
90th Percentile - - £72.78
London median hourly rate £42.50 £75.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -43.33% +68.54% +40.64%

All Programming Languages
Central London

R is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 836 1,591 1,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.47% 42.18% 43.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 1,055 1,537
10th Percentile £406 £425 £416
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £704
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £35.00 £44.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £43.13 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +137.49%
75th Percentile £50.25 £71.25 £74.38
90th Percentile - £84.25 £77.50
London median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.83% +20.00% +11.11%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for R in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in Central London.

Daily rate trend for R in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for R in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +33 15 £525 -22.94% 11
R
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (6.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SPSS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) Google Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) Tableau
3 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (13.33%) KDB
3 2 (13.33%) Looker
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.67%) Big Data
4 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (6.67%) Data Mining
4 1 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (6.67%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) CircleCI
1 1 (6.67%) RStudio
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Agriculture
3 2 (13.33%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Data Scientist
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Analytics Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Applications Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Data Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Insight Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Report Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Insight Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Modeller
3 1 (6.67%) Insight Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Insight Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
1 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 5 (33.33%) Analytics
2 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 5 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 5 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Data Science
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) CRM
4 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (13.33%) OO
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Statistics
5 2 (13.33%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Python
2 10 (66.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (13.33%) MATLAB
5 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) CIMA
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PhD
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NCSC
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Cognos
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft