The first table below looks at the demand for R skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited R over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
R
Rank 195 217 238
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +21
Contract jobs citing R 8 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.125% 0.013% 0.071%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.300% 0.035% 0.169%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
Average daily rate £475 - £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £375 £625
% change year-on-year
-3.33% -40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.00 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -6.97%
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2664 2885 4138
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.76% 36.68% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2061 2166 3141
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 37
Average hourly rate £39.51 £32.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.55% +16.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.39 £15.00 £17.24
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
R
London

R
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing R across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

City of London R Jobs Demand Trend

R
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing R across the City of London region.

City of London R Daily Rate Trend

R
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing R across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London R Daily Rate Histogram

R
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing R also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited R.

1 10 (66.67%) Mathematics
1 10 (66.67%) Degree
1 10 (66.67%) Hadoop
1 10 (66.67%) Big Data
2 9 (60.00%) Statistics
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 8 (53.33%) C++
3 8 (53.33%) Java
3 8 (53.33%) Data Mining
3 8 (53.33%) SAS
3 8 (53.33%) SPSS
3 8 (53.33%) Apache Hive
3 8 (53.33%) Analytics
4 7 (46.67%) Apache Pig
4 7 (46.67%) HBase
4 7 (46.67%) Mahout
4 7 (46.67%) Python
4 7 (46.67%) PhD
4 7 (46.67%) Scala
4 7 (46.67%) Data Analysis
5 6 (40.00%) Neural Network
5 6 (40.00%) Physics
5 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (40.00%) Social Network
5 6 (40.00%) Predictive Modelling
5 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (40.00%) Apache
5 6 (40.00%) Grid Computing
5 6 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (40.00%) MapReduce

R
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing R also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited R. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (40.00%) MapReduce
2 2 (13.33%) ASP
3 1 (6.667%) Apache Avro
Application Platforms
1 8 (53.33%) SAS
2 7 (46.67%) Apache Pig
3 6 (40.00%) Apache
4 1 (6.667%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (6.667%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 8 (53.33%) SPSS
2 1 (6.667%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Hadoop
1 10 (66.67%) Big Data
2 8 (53.33%) Data Mining
2 8 (53.33%) Apache Hive
3 7 (46.67%) HBase
3 7 (46.67%) Mahout
4 6 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.667%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (6.667%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (6.667%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.667%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Data Scientist
2 6 (40.00%) Research Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Quantitative Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Research Scientist
5 2 (13.33%) Credit Risk Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Business Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Data Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Business Objects Developer
6 1 (6.667%) MI Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Research Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Data Manager
6 1 (6.667%) Hadoop Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 9 (60.00%) Statistics
3 6 (40.00%) Neural Network
3 6 (40.00%) Physics
3 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (40.00%) Social Network
3 6 (40.00%) Grid Computing
3 6 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (13.33%) Credit Risk
5 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
5 1 (6.667%) Economics
5 1 (6.667%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) Windows
1 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Analytics
2 7 (46.67%) Data Analysis
3 6 (40.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Stochastic Calculus
4 2 (13.33%) Monte Carlo Method
4 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.667%) ETL
5 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
5 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
5 1 (6.667%) Benchmarking
5 1 (6.667%) BDD
5 1 (6.667%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (6.667%) Statistical Analysis
5 1 (6.667%) TDD
5 1 (6.667%) Validation
5 1 (6.667%) Customer Insight
5 1 (6.667%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) C++
2 8 (53.33%) Java
3 7 (46.67%) Python
3 7 (46.67%) Scala
4 2 (13.33%) C
5 1 (6.667%) VBA
5 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.667%) MATLAB
5 1 (6.667%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Degree
2 7 (46.67%) PhD
3 2 (13.33%) Postgraduate
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Business Objects
2 1 (6.667%) Teradata
2 1 (6.667%) Murex
2 1 (6.667%) Calypso