R Contracts in the North of England

R
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 167 216
Rank change year-on-year -11 +49 -56
Contract jobs citing R 6 46 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.13% 0.81% 0.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.51% 2.76% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 25 20
10th Percentile £431 £313 £295
25th Percentile £459 £463 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £388
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +41.94% -22.50%
75th Percentile £559 £675 £450
90th Percentile £584 £700 £553
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -0.94%

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,180 1,668 2,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.14% 29.22% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 1,231 1,728
10th Percentile £319 £350 £326
25th Percentile £400 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 28 40
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £38.32 £18.47
Median hourly rate £47.75 £48.75 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +45.52% +28.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.25 £52.03
90th Percentile £74.97 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.17% +22.11% +15.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for R in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for R in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North West -11 5 £513 -21.15% 29
North East - 1 - - 6
R
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Google Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) Azkaban
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata
3 1 (16.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) PyCharm
1 1 (16.67%) RStudio
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) Shiny
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Analytics
1 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Security
3 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
4 1 (16.67%) Full Text Search
4 1 (16.67%) People Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Predictive Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Service Design
4 1 (16.67%) Time Series Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Julia
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Anaplan
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Workday