R Contracts in England

R
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 372 401 369
Rank change year-on-year +29 -32 -77
Contract jobs citing R 163 279 495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.55% 0.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 1.56% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 174 333
10th Percentile £355 £341 £307
25th Percentile £400 £461 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £640
90th Percentile £763 £784 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 21 27
10th Percentile £24.75 £20.47 £19.52
25th Percentile £26.24 £22.16 £22.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +86.67% +41.51%
75th Percentile £52.50 £75.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £77.75 - £65.52
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -39.29% +86.67% +41.51%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for R in England

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for R in England

R
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for R in England

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for R in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for R in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +44 102 £580 -3.33% 118
Midlands +34 13 £550 +37.84% 15
South East +6 10 £350 -36.36% 33
West Midlands +38 9 £550 +177.78% 12
East of England +9 8 £388 +29.17% 8
North of England -6 6 £513 -6.82% 28
South West +12 5 £525 +10.53% 7
North West -16 5 £513 -21.15% 20
East Midlands +21 4 £368 -38.75% 3
North East +20 1 - - 3
R
UK

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (9.82%) SAS
2 7 (4.29%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.68%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.23%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (6.75%) SPSS
2 7 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Primavera
2 1 (0.61%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 37 (22.70%) Azure
2 34 (20.86%) Power Platform
3 30 (18.40%) AWS
4 21 (12.88%) GCP
5 6 (3.68%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.07%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.45%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.45%) GitHub
8 3 (1.84%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.84%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.23%) Google Data Studio
9 2 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.23%) Serverless
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.61%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (20.86%) Power BI
2 29 (17.79%) Tableau
3 19 (11.66%) Big Data
4 11 (6.75%) BusinessObjects
4 11 (6.75%) Hadoop
5 8 (4.91%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.91%) Qlik Sense
6 5 (3.07%) Data Mining
6 5 (3.07%) Looker
6 5 (3.07%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.45%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.84%) Metadata
8 3 (1.84%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.45%) JIRA
1 4 (2.45%) RStudio
2 3 (1.84%) Git
3 2 (1.23%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.61%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.61%) Toad
4 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (33.13%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (31.90%) Finance
3 42 (25.77%) Social Skills
4 16 (9.82%) Front Office
5 14 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.13%) Banking
7 9 (5.52%) Marketing
7 9 (5.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (4.29%) Police
9 6 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.07%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.84%) Advertising
11 3 (1.84%) Legal
11 3 (1.84%) Retail
11 3 (1.84%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.23%) Law
12 2 (1.23%) Local Government
12 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (21.47%) Data Scientist
2 33 (20.25%) Analyst
2 33 (20.25%) Developer
3 22 (13.50%) Data Analyst
4 17 (10.43%) Python Developer
4 17 (10.43%) Quantitative Developer
5 14 (8.59%) Data Engineer
5 14 (8.59%) Finance Manager
6 9 (5.52%) Senior
7 8 (4.91%) SIEM Engineer
8 6 (3.68%) Lead
8 6 (3.68%) Qualitative Analyst
8 6 (3.68%) Quantitative Analyst
8 6 (3.68%) SQL Analyst
8 6 (3.68%) SQL Data Analyst
9 5 (3.07%) Consultant
9 5 (3.07%) Credit Analyst
10 4 (2.45%) Business Intelligence Manager
10 4 (2.45%) Data Manager
10 4 (2.45%) Econometrician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (4.29%) D3.js
3 6 (3.68%) Shiny
4 5 (3.07%) PySpark
5 3 (1.84%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.84%) React
5 3 (1.84%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.84%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.23%) .NET
6 2 (1.23%) GeoPandas
6 2 (1.23%) HTML
6 2 (1.23%) JSON
6 2 (1.23%) Kafka
6 2 (1.23%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.23%) NumPy
6 2 (1.23%) Pandas
7 1 (0.61%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.61%) ODBC
7 1 (0.61%) OLE
7 1 (0.61%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.34%) Algorithms
2 24 (14.72%) Derivative
3 20 (12.27%) Hedge funds
4 18 (11.04%) Fixed Income
5 14 (8.59%) Equities
6 8 (4.91%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (4.29%) Data Structures
8 6 (3.68%) Credit Derivative
9 5 (3.07%) Social Media
10 4 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.84%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.23%) Credit Risk
12 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.23%) Multi-touch
13 1 (0.61%) Biopharmaceutical
13 1 (0.61%) CRISPR
13 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.61%) Genomics
13 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.36%) Windows
2 9 (5.52%) Linux
3 8 (4.91%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (36.81%) Visualisation
2 52 (31.90%) Data Science
3 51 (31.29%) Data Analysis
4 43 (26.38%) Business Intelligence
5 41 (25.15%) Data Modelling
6 39 (23.93%) Analytics
7 34 (20.86%) Agile
7 34 (20.86%) Data Visualisation
7 34 (20.86%) Mathematics
7 34 (20.86%) Statistics
8 32 (19.63%) Machine Learning
9 25 (15.34%) Computer Science
10 24 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (13.50%) Software Engineering
12 17 (10.43%) Predictive Modelling
12 17 (10.43%) Quantitative Research
13 16 (9.82%) Asset Management
13 16 (9.82%) Investment Management
14 14 (8.59%) Data Pipeline
14 14 (8.59%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 138 (84.66%) Python
2 70 (42.94%) SQL
3 13 (7.98%) Java
4 8 (4.91%) C#
4 8 (4.91%) Scala
5 7 (4.29%) C++
6 5 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (3.07%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.45%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.84%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.84%) PHP
9 1 (0.61%) Bash
9 1 (0.61%) Julia
9 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (21.47%) Degree
2 23 (14.11%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.04%) SC Cleared
4 17 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (6.75%) Master's Degree
6 10 (6.13%) Numerate Degree
7 8 (4.91%) PhD
8 4 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.84%) CIMA
10 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.23%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.61%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.61%) MCITP
11 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.52%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.68%) QA
3 4 (2.45%) PMO
4 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.23%) NCSC
4 2 (1.23%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) Basel II
5 1 (0.61%) Basel III
5 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.61%) CDISC
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (6.13%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.91%) iptables
3 3 (1.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.91%) Kibana
1 8 (4.91%) logstash
2 3 (1.84%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (8.59%) Bloomberg
2 12 (7.36%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.91%) Databricks
3 8 (4.91%) SAP
4 7 (4.29%) Google
5 3 (1.84%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.23%) ESRI
6 2 (1.23%) IBM
7 1 (0.61%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.61%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.61%) Cognos
7 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle
7 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.61%) Snow
7 1 (0.61%) Workday