R Contracts in London

R
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 292 336 330
Rank change year-on-year +44 -6 -80
Contract jobs citing R 102 159 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.58% 0.59% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.60% 1.44% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 109 205
10th Percentile £388 £434 £349
25th Percentile £475 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £557
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.72% +1.27%
75th Percentile £763 £700 £650
90th Percentile - £930 £720
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 14
10th Percentile £32.24 - £33.03
25th Percentile £41.25 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £75.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +82.93% +23.27%
75th Percentile £47.50 - £59.75
90th Percentile £50.50 - £73.68
England median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -39.29% +86.67% +41.51%

All Programming Languages
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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,358 11,052 16,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.90% 40.82% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,852 8,230 12,504
10th Percentile £380 £413 £418
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 87 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.70 £29.08
25th Percentile £35.19 £49.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.94 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.94 £84.25 £79.28
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for R in London

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for R in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for R in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for R in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for R in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +26 16 £533 -21.83% 11
West London +17 3 £500 -2.68% 1
R
England

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.96%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.96%) SAS
2 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.96%) SPSS
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 30 (29.41%) Power Platform
2 29 (28.43%) Azure
3 21 (20.59%) AWS
3 21 (20.59%) GCP
4 6 (5.88%) Power Automate
5 5 (4.90%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.96%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.96%) GitHub
6 2 (1.96%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.96%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.98%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (29.41%) Power BI
2 17 (16.67%) Tableau
3 16 (15.69%) Big Data
4 11 (10.78%) BusinessObjects
5 9 (8.82%) Hadoop
6 7 (6.86%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.92%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.94%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.94%) Looker
8 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.96%) KDB
9 2 (1.96%) Metadata
9 2 (1.96%) MySQL
9 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.98%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (3.92%) JIRA
2 3 (2.94%) RStudio
3 2 (1.96%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.96%) Git
4 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (43.14%) Finance
2 36 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (29.41%) Social Skills
4 16 (15.69%) Front Office
5 9 (8.82%) Banking
6 7 (6.86%) Marketing
6 7 (6.86%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.90%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.94%) Advertising
8 3 (2.94%) Retail
9 2 (1.96%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.96%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.96%) Law
9 2 (1.96%) Legal
9 2 (1.96%) Local Government
9 2 (1.96%) Police
9 2 (1.96%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (26.47%) Data Scientist
2 26 (25.49%) Developer
3 17 (16.67%) Analyst
3 17 (16.67%) Quantitative Developer
4 16 (15.69%) Python Developer
5 14 (13.73%) Finance Manager
6 10 (9.80%) Data Analyst
7 6 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Qualitative Analyst
7 6 (5.88%) Quantitative Analyst
8 5 (4.90%) Consultant
8 5 (4.90%) Credit Analyst
8 5 (4.90%) Lead
9 4 (3.92%) Econometrician
10 3 (2.94%) Architect
10 3 (2.94%) Data Architect
10 3 (2.94%) Quantitative Consultant
10 3 (2.94%) Quantitative Risk Consultant
10 3 (2.94%) Report Manager
10 3 (2.94%) Risk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.94%) PyTorch
1 3 (2.94%) scikit-learn
1 3 (2.94%) Shiny
1 3 (2.94%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.96%) GeoPandas
2 2 (1.96%) HTML
2 2 (1.96%) JSON
2 2 (1.96%) Matplotlib
2 2 (1.96%) NumPy
2 2 (1.96%) Pandas
2 2 (1.96%) React
3 1 (0.98%) .NET
3 1 (0.98%) ggplot2
3 1 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (0.98%) ODBC
3 1 (0.98%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.55%) Derivative
2 20 (19.61%) Hedge funds
3 18 (17.65%) Fixed Income
4 14 (13.73%) Algorithms
4 14 (13.73%) Equities
5 6 (5.88%) Credit Derivative
6 5 (4.90%) Social Media
7 4 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.96%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.96%) Multi-touch
9 1 (0.98%) Blog
9 1 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.98%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.94%) Windows
2 1 (0.98%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (39.22%) Visualisation
2 38 (37.25%) Data Analysis
3 36 (35.29%) Data Science
4 28 (27.45%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (25.49%) Agile
6 25 (24.51%) Data Visualisation
7 22 (21.57%) Mathematics
8 19 (18.63%) Data Modelling
8 19 (18.63%) Statistics
9 18 (17.65%) Machine Learning
9 18 (17.65%) Software Engineering
10 17 (16.67%) Analytics
11 16 (15.69%) Asset Management
11 16 (15.69%) Investment Management
11 16 (15.69%) Quantitative Research
12 15 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (9.80%) Actionable Insight
13 10 (9.80%) Computer Science
13 10 (9.80%) Predictive Modelling
14 9 (8.82%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 89 (87.25%) Python
2 44 (43.14%) SQL
3 7 (6.86%) C#
3 7 (6.86%) C++
4 4 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.92%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.92%) Scala
4 4 (3.92%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.94%) Java
5 3 (2.94%) PHP
6 2 (1.96%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.98%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (18.63%) Degree
2 9 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.86%) Master's Degree
3 7 (6.86%) Numerate Degree
3 7 (6.86%) PhD
4 6 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.94%) CIMA
6 1 (0.98%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.92%) PMO
3 3 (2.94%) QA
4 2 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.96%) NCSC
4 2 (1.96%) NIST
5 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.98%) Basel II
5 1 (0.98%) Basel III
5 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (13.73%) Bloomberg
2 7 (6.86%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.88%) SAP
4 5 (4.90%) Google
5 3 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.96%) Databricks
6 2 (1.96%) ESRI
7 1 (0.98%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.98%) Cognos
7 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.98%) Snow