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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 166 217
Rank change year-on-year -5 +51 -44
Contract jobs citing R 5 43 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.11% 0.77% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.42% 2.68% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 22 19
10th Percentile £435 £403 £290
25th Percentile £469 £466 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +62.50% -17.74%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £475
90th Percentile £595 £700 £555
England median daily rate £542 £560 £525
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.67% -

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 1,201 1,602 2,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.80% 28.69% 31.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,167 1,702
10th Percentile £325 £362 £325
25th Percentile £404 £423 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £549 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.40% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 29 51
10th Percentile £37.56 £29.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.80 £21.64
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +15.29% +63.46%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.30 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +20.71%

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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 25 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 25 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 -12 3 £513 -21.15% 16
Yorkshire +8 1 £550 - 5
North East - 1 - - 6
R
England

R
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 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Azkaban
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) RStudio
2 1 (20.00%) PyCharm
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Business Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (20.00%) Strategy Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) MLOps
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Time Series Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Anaplan
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft