The first table below looks at the demand for R skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited R over the 3 months to 23 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.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
R
Rank 494 523 564
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +41
Contract jobs citing R 47 42 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.101% 0.072% 0.035%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.272% 0.208% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 12
Average daily rate £450 £418 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.78% -7.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £252 £305 £333
10% offered a daily rate of more than £545 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £375 £625
% change year-on-year
-3.33% -40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £42.00 £40.00 £43.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -6.97%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.00 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -6.97%
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
17292 20186 23280
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.32% 34.58% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10671 11908 13509
Average daily rate £385 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £570 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 602 723 930
Average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £17.05 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%

R
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

R Daily Rate Trend

R
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing R within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

R Daily Rate Histogram

R
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing R within the UK.

R Hourly Rate Trend

R
Top 23 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +51 45 £450 +6.76%
London +39 27 £475 -20.83%
South East +21 9 £250 -37.88%
City of London +27 8 £475 -
South West +34 5 £450 +28.57%
Wiltshire - 5 £450 -
Surrey +19 3 £250 -
Swindon - 3 £450 -
Hampshire -1 2 £363 -0.75%
Havant - 2 £363 -
Guildford - 2 £250 -
North West +9 1 - -
Yorkshire -4 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -
North Yorkshire - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £575 -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Woking - 1 - -
Reading - 1 - -
Peterborough - 1 - -
Milton Keynes - 1 £575 -
Middlesbrough - 1 - -

R
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 55 (50.46%) SQL
2 40 (36.70%) Finance
3 39 (35.78%) Oracle
4 37 (33.94%) Degree
5 34 (31.19%) Mathematics
6 33 (30.28%) Analytics
7 32 (29.36%) Statistics
8 31 (28.44%) SQL Server
9 30 (27.52%) SAS
10 26 (23.85%) C++
11 23 (21.10%) MS Excel
12 22 (20.18%) Java
12 22 (20.18%) Big Data
13 21 (19.27%) PL/SQL
13 21 (19.27%) SPSS
13 21 (19.27%) Banking
14 19 (17.43%) T-SQL
14 19 (17.43%) Business Objects
15 18 (16.51%) Business Intelligence
15 18 (16.51%) BusinessObjects XI
16 17 (15.60%) Data Mining
16 17 (15.60%) ETL
16 17 (15.60%) Sybase
17 16 (14.68%) Apache
17 16 (14.68%) Data Warehouse
18 15 (13.76%) Star Schema
18 15 (13.76%) Hadoop
19 14 (12.84%) Python
19 14 (12.84%) PhD
19 14 (12.84%) SAP

R
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 9 (8.257%) MapReduce
2 8 (7.339%) WebSphere
3 5 (4.587%) WAP
3 5 (4.587%) SAP XI
4 3 (2.752%) SciPy
5 2 (1.835%) XML
5 2 (1.835%) ASP
6 1 (0.917%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.917%) Qt
6 1 (0.917%) HTML5
6 1 (0.917%) EDI
6 1 (0.917%) HTML
6 1 (0.917%) STL
6 1 (0.917%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 30 (27.52%) SAS
2 16 (14.68%) Apache
3 10 (9.174%) Apache Pig
4 9 (8.257%) WebLogic
5 8 (7.339%) Tomcat
6 5 (4.587%) IIS
7 4 (3.670%) Mathematica
8 2 (1.835%) Amazon AWS
8 2 (1.835%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.917%) Amazon EMR
Applications
1 23 (21.10%) MS Excel
2 21 (19.27%) SPSS
3 4 (3.670%) S-PLUS
4 2 (1.835%) MS Office
5 1 (0.917%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.917%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (9.174%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (6.422%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (4.587%) Oracle HRMS
3 5 (4.587%) Oracle Payroll
4 4 (3.670%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.835%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (1.835%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.917%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.917%) SAP HCM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.505%) 3G
2 5 (4.587%) 4G
2 5 (4.587%) GSM
2 5 (4.587%) WCDMA
2 5 (4.587%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (4.587%) LTE
3 4 (3.670%) WiMAX
3 4 (3.670%) Bluetooth
3 4 (3.670%) SMS
4 3 (2.752%) HTTP
5 2 (1.835%) Network Security
5 2 (1.835%) RNC
5 2 (1.835%) Firewall
5 2 (1.835%) 2G
5 2 (1.835%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.917%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.917%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.917%) VPN
6 1 (0.917%) 802.11
6 1 (0.917%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (28.44%) SQL Server
2 22 (20.18%) Big Data
3 18 (16.51%) BusinessObjects XI
4 17 (15.60%) Data Mining
5 16 (14.68%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (13.76%) Star Schema
6 15 (13.76%) Hadoop
7 13 (11.93%) BODI
8 12 (11.01%) DB2
8 12 (11.01%) SAP BW
8 12 (11.01%) BusinessObjects
9 11 (10.09%) Apache Hive
10 9 (8.257%) Mahout
10 9 (8.257%) HBase
11 8 (7.339%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (4.587%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (4.587%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (1.835%) Oracle 11g
13 2 (1.835%) Oracle Discoverer
13 2 (1.835%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 8 (7.339%) Mercurial
1 8 (7.339%) ClearCase
2 2 (1.835%) PowerBuilder
2 2 (1.835%) ERwin
3 1 (0.917%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.917%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.917%) Git (software)
General
1 40 (36.70%) Finance
2 21 (19.27%) Banking
3 13 (11.93%) Investment Banking
4 6 (5.505%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.587%) Marketing
6 4 (3.670%) Retail
7 2 (1.835%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.917%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.917%) Automotive
8 1 (0.917%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.917%) Military
8 1 (0.917%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.917%) French Language
8 1 (0.917%) German Language
Job Titles
1 32 (29.36%) Developer
2 24 (22.02%) Analyst
3 17 (15.60%) Business Developer
4 16 (14.68%) Business Objects Developer
5 13 (11.93%) MI Developer
6 12 (11.01%) Data Scientist
7 11 (10.09%) Consultant
8 8 (7.339%) Quantitative Analyst
9 7 (6.422%) Technical Consultant
10 6 (5.505%) Data Manager
10 6 (5.505%) Research Engineer
11 5 (4.587%) Wintel Analyst
12 4 (3.670%) Oracle Consultant
12 4 (3.670%) Risk Analyst
12 4 (3.670%) Statistician
12 4 (3.670%) Data Analyst
12 4 (3.670%) Test Engineer
12 4 (3.670%) Quantitative Developer
12 4 (3.670%) Field Engineer
13 3 (2.752%) Research Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 34 (31.19%) Mathematics
2 32 (29.36%) Statistics
3 14 (12.84%) Computer Science
4 9 (8.257%) Credit Risk
4 9 (8.257%) Visualisation
5 8 (7.339%) Physics
6 7 (6.422%) Neural Network
7 6 (5.505%) Social Network
7 6 (5.505%) Grid Computing
8 5 (4.587%) Clustering
9 4 (3.670%) Market Risk
9 4 (3.670%) Handset
9 4 (3.670%) Firmware
9 4 (3.670%) Mobile App
9 4 (3.670%) Machine Learning
10 3 (2.752%) Economics
11 2 (1.835%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.835%) Social Media
12 1 (0.917%) Hedge funds
12 1 (0.917%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.339%) Windows
2 6 (5.505%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (4.587%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (2.752%) Linux
5 2 (1.835%) UNIX
6 1 (0.917%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.917%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.28%) Analytics
2 18 (16.51%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (15.60%) ETL
4 13 (11.93%) Dimensional Modelling
4 13 (11.93%) Data Analysis
5 10 (9.174%) Unit Testing
6 9 (8.257%) Monte Carlo Method
6 9 (8.257%) Predictive Modelling
7 8 (7.339%) Data Modelling
7 8 (7.339%) Validation
7 8 (7.339%) Configuration Management
8 7 (6.422%) Software Engineering
8 7 (6.422%) Operations Research
8 7 (6.422%) Time Management
9 6 (5.505%) Stochastic Calculus
9 6 (5.505%) Project Management
10 5 (4.587%) Change Control
10 5 (4.587%) Risk Analytics
10 5 (4.587%) E-Commerce
10 5 (4.587%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 55 (50.46%) SQL
2 26 (23.85%) C++
3 22 (20.18%) Java
4 21 (19.27%) PL/SQL
5 19 (17.43%) T-SQL
6 14 (12.84%) Python
7 12 (11.01%) VBA
8 10 (9.174%) Scala
8 10 (9.174%) MATLAB
8 10 (9.174%) C
9 5 (4.587%) VBScript
9 5 (4.587%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.670%) Perl
11 1 (0.917%) Clojure
11 1 (0.917%) C#
11 1 (0.917%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.917%) Lisp
11 1 (0.917%) Haskell
11 1 (0.917%) Erlang
11 1 (0.917%) F#
Qualifications
1 37 (33.94%) Degree
2 14 (12.84%) PhD
3 12 (11.01%) Security Cleared
4 11 (10.09%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.587%) Postgraduate
6 2 (1.835%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.835%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.917%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (5.505%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.587%) XenServer
2 5 (4.587%) SRDF
2 5 (4.587%) Hyper-V
2 5 (4.587%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.917%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (4.587%) SCCM
1 5 (4.587%) SCOM
2 2 (1.835%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.917%) Splunk
Vendors
1 39 (35.78%) Oracle
2 19 (17.43%) Business Objects
3 17 (15.60%) Sybase
4 14 (12.84%) SAP
5 8 (7.339%) JBoss
5 8 (7.339%) Perforce
6 7 (6.422%) HP
7 6 (5.505%) VMware
7 6 (5.505%) IBM
8 5 (4.587%) Dell
8 5 (4.587%) Citrix
8 5 (4.587%) Veritas
8 5 (4.587%) Informatica
8 5 (4.587%) Altiris
9 4 (3.670%) Agilent
10 3 (2.752%) Microsoft
10 3 (2.752%) Cisco
10 3 (2.752%) Teradata
11 2 (1.835%) Murex
11 2 (1.835%) MicroStrategy
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