R Contracts in the City of London

R
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 145 156
Rank change year-on-year +36 +11 -37
Contract jobs citing R 16 27 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.73% 0.74% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.15% 1.71% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 27
10th Percentile £466 £442 £325
25th Percentile £477 £558 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £681 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% +23.86% +12.82%
75th Percentile £687 £875 £650
90th Percentile £879 - £680
Central London median daily rate £533 £681 £550
% change year-on-year -21.83% +23.86% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £40.85
25th Percentile - - £47.75
Median hourly rate - - £60.50
75th Percentile - - £69.63
90th Percentile - - £74.35
Central London median hourly rate - - £60.50

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 744 1,583 1,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.79% 43.52% 44.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 1,035 1,474
10th Percentile £413 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £690 £738 £703
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £565 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -8.87% +3.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 10
10th Percentile - £35.00 £43.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £47.19 £46.50
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +86.82%
75th Percentile £50.25 £65.00 £69.25
90th Percentile - £84.13 £77.63
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +138.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for R in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for R in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SPSS
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Power Automate
3 3 (18.75%) PowerApps
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Google Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
2 3 (18.75%) Tableau
3 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (12.50%) BigQuery
3 2 (12.50%) KDB
3 2 (12.50%) Looker
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.25%) Big Data
4 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
1 1 (6.25%) RStudio
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Agriculture
2 2 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Analytics Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Applications Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Data Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Insight Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Report Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
3 1 (6.25%) Insight Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Data Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
1 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
1 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Visualisation
2 6 (37.50%) Analytics
2 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (31.25%) Data Analysis
3 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
3 5 (31.25%) Statistical Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (25.00%) Data Science
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) CRM
5 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Statistical Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) Data Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Open Source
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Statistics
6 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 11 (68.75%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (12.50%) MATLAB
4 2 (12.50%) Scala
5 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CIMA
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) PhD
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) PMO
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Salesforce
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Cognos