R Contracts in the UK excluding London

R
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 331 345
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 -65
Contract jobs citing R 57 109 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.47% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.17% 1.68% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 59 120
10th Percentile £323 £212 £261
25th Percentile £357 £344 £349
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +3.63% +1.58%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £550
90th Percentile £605 £680 £614
UK median daily rate £542 £567 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.06% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 9
10th Percentile - £21.15 £18.87
25th Percentile £20.12 £22.16 -
Median hourly rate £20.24 £65.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -68.87% +232.99% -24.92%
75th Percentile £21.73 £75.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £55.19 - £52.11
UK median hourly rate £26.24 £70.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -62.51% +86.67% +44.23%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,875 6,499 8,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.72% 28.23% 28.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,288 4,546 6,174
10th Percentile £319 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +16.01%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £677 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 327 325
10th Percentile £37.55 £26.11 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +23.83%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year - +22.91% +16.90%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for R in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Midlands +44 19 £450 -18.18% 25
South East +2 14 £350 -36.36% 82
West Midlands +28 10 £550 +47.06% 17
East Midlands +26 9 £363 -39.58% 8
East of England +4 8 £388 +38.39% 11
South West +1 5 £525 +23.53% 12
North of England -2 5 £550 -15.38% 28
Wales - 5 £412 - 4
North West -3 3 £513 -21.15% 17
Scotland +32 1 £221 -63.17% 9
Yorkshire +14 1 £550 - 5
North East - 1 - - 6
R
UK

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (24.56%) SAS
2 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (19.30%) SPSS
2 2 (3.51%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.75%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.53%) AWS
2 3 (5.26%) Azure
3 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.75%) GitHub
4 1 (1.75%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) Tableau
2 8 (14.04%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (12.28%) Qlik Sense
4 6 (10.53%) Hadoop
5 5 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.77%) Impala
6 4 (7.02%) Data Mining
7 3 (5.26%) Big Data
7 3 (5.26%) Looker
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.51%) Power BI
8 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.75%) Azkaban
9 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.75%) QlikView
9 1 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Git
2 2 (3.51%) RStudio
3 1 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.75%) JIRA
3 1 (1.75%) PyCharm
General
1 18 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Finance
2 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.77%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Banking
5 3 (5.26%) Marketing
5 3 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.51%) Police
7 1 (1.75%) Advertising
7 1 (1.75%) Back Office
7 1 (1.75%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.75%) Humanities
7 1 (1.75%) Military
7 1 (1.75%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Analyst
2 16 (28.07%) Data Analyst
3 8 (14.04%) Data Scientist
3 8 (14.04%) Senior
3 8 (14.04%) SIEM Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Developer
4 5 (8.77%) SQL Analyst
4 5 (8.77%) SQL Data Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Senior Data Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Analytics Manager
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Business Data Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Machine Learning Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Senior Developer
7 1 (1.75%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 1 (1.75%) Strategy Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (12.28%) D3.js
3 3 (5.26%) PySpark
4 2 (3.51%) Kafka
5 1 (1.75%) .NET
5 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.75%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.75%) Anaconda
5 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.75%) BREW
5 1 (1.75%) Google JAX
5 1 (1.75%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.75%) React
5 1 (1.75%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.75%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Linux Command Line
1 8 (14.04%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (10.53%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.77%) Data Structures
4 4 (7.02%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.75%) CRISPR
5 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) Derivative
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Linux
1 8 (14.04%) Ubuntu
1 8 (14.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (38.60%) Analytics
2 21 (36.84%) Data Modelling
3 20 (35.09%) Computer Science
4 19 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 17 (29.82%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (29.82%) Data Science
6 15 (26.32%) Data Analysis
7 14 (24.56%) Data Analytics
7 14 (24.56%) Statistics
8 13 (22.81%) Mathematics
9 12 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (17.54%) Agile
12 9 (15.79%) DataOps
12 9 (15.79%) Machine Learning
13 8 (14.04%) Decision-Making
13 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Monitoring
13 8 (14.04%) RBAC
13 8 (14.04%) SIEM
14 7 (12.28%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 47 (82.46%) Python
2 29 (50.88%) SQL
3 11 (19.30%) Java
4 4 (7.02%) Scala
5 2 (3.51%) C++
6 1 (1.75%) Bash
6 1 (1.75%) C
6 1 (1.75%) C#
6 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (33.33%) Degree
2 12 (21.05%) Security Cleared
3 11 (19.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
5 6 (10.53%) Master's Degree
6 4 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (5.26%) PhD
8 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.51%) IBM Certification
8 2 (3.51%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.75%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (1.75%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.51%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.75%) CDISC
3 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.75%) NIST
3 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Active Directory
1 8 (14.04%) iptables
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Kibana
1 8 (14.04%) logstash
2 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.51%) Adobe
2 2 (3.51%) IBM
3 1 (1.75%) Anaplan
3 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.75%) Databricks
3 1 (1.75%) Google
3 1 (1.75%) Oracle
3 1 (1.75%) Sage