The first table below looks at the demand for R skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited R over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Reading region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
R
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing R 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.120% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.424% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £375 £625
% change year-on-year
-3.33% -40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.00 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -6.97%
All Programming Languages
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
236 266 362
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 28.26% 23.86% 34.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 105 163
Average daily rate £363 £370 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.02% +9.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £226 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £480 £436
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 16
Average hourly rate £16.86 £44.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.68% +114.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.20 £12.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £44.00 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
R
Berkshire

R
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing R across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Reading R Jobs Demand Trend

R
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing R across the Reading region.

Reading R Daily Rate Trend

R
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing R also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited R.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cluster Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) MapReduce
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Pig

R
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing R also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited R. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) MapReduce
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Pig
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cluster Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
Reading, Berkshire
Essential Skills: Experience with software such as R, Graphite, Splunk, StatsD or similar tools. Experience with SQL (Postgres, Mysql), NOSQL, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, MapReduce, or other similar tools...
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Posted: 23 May 2013