R Contracts in the North West

R
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 128 167
Rank change year-on-year -9 +39 -40
Contract jobs citing R 4 30 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.93% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.59% 3.21% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 20 6
10th Percentile £431 £391 £239
25th Percentile £459 £463 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £314
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +107.17% -26.18%
75th Percentile £559 £675 £333
90th Percentile £584 £700 £474
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -2.55%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 680 935 1,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.49% 29.11% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 711 1,066
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £588
90th Percentile £610 £659 £663
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 15 33
10th Percentile £41.25 £20.74 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £36.40 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -2.19% +22.06%
75th Percentile £69.53 £50.87 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.15 £62.01 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.18 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -0.52% +25.00% +16.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for R in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the North West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for R in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Manchester +15 2 £425 -6.85% 16
Lancashire +5 1 £600 - 10
Cheshire -1 1 - - 6
R
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) Tableau
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) PyCharm
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Shiny
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) People Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Julia
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Anaplan
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) Workday