R Contracts in the Midlands

R
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 161 161
Rank change year-on-year +37 0 -11
Contract jobs citing R 13 2 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.058% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.11% 0.21% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 30
10th Percentile £360 £183 £356
25th Percentile £475 £185 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £193 £495
Median % change year-on-year +185.34% -61.06% +16.47%
75th Percentile - £197 £540
90th Percentile - £198 £589
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.73 - -
England median hourly rate £43.75 £67.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +80.00% +41.51%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 617 939 1,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.49% 27.15% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 701 999
10th Percentile £260 £313 £315
25th Percentile £350 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +16.13%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £625
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 19
10th Percentile £22.42 £20.24 £17.07
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £51.78 £33.39 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.10% -4.61% -9.68%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £86.00 £45.34
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +16.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for R in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for R in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
West Midlands +36 9 £550 +177.78% 30
East Midlands +21 4 £368 +96.00% 18
R
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Power Query
2 1 (7.69%) QlikView
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Police
3 1 (7.69%) Back Office
3 1 (7.69%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (7.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Process Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Process Mapping Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Process Mapping Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Report Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) Anaconda
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
1 8 (61.54%) Ubuntu
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Data Pipeline
1 9 (69.23%) Visualisation
2 8 (61.54%) DataOps
2 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 8 (61.54%) RBAC
2 8 (61.54%) SIEM
3 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Data Science
4 2 (15.38%) ETL
5 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
5 1 (7.69%) Data Privacy
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.69%) Open Source
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Scala
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
1 8 (61.54%) iptables
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Kibana
1 8 (61.54%) logstash
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft