R Contracts in the South West

R
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 145 154 160
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 -51
Contract jobs citing R 5 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.80% 1.46% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 9
10th Percentile - £328 £313
25th Percentile £450 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +10.47% -33.85%
75th Percentile £631 £550 £545
90th Percentile £643 £592 £580
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate £43.75 £70.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% +86.67% +44.23%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 625 1,030 1,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.70% 29.03% 30.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 738 773
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 93 70
10th Percentile £48.60 £48.72 £46.66
25th Percentile £57.31 £53.75 £53.81
Median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +6.12% +34.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.85 £75.50 £75.00
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for R in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the South West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for R in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Bristol +12 3 £450 -5.26% 7
Somerset +2 1 £600 - 1
Wiltshire +2 1 £600 +41.18% 5
R
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Actuarial Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Derivative
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Data Acquisition
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lineage
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Interpretation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Direct Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) IBM Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM