R Shiny
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Shiny skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Shiny over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 706 809
Rank change year-on-year +117 +103 -173
Contract jobs citing Shiny 9 13 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.022% 0.045%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.10% 0.093% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 26
10th Percentile £343 £390 £330
25th Percentile £388 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £473 £413
Median % change year-on-year +23.39% +14.55% -31.25%
75th Percentile - £515 £490
90th Percentile £604 £575 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate - £400 £415
% change year-on-year - -3.61% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £44.75
25th Percentile - - £47.00
Median hourly rate - - £53.00
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - £62.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Shiny is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

Shiny
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Shiny as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Shiny in the UK

Shiny
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shiny.

Daily rate trend for Shiny in the UK

Shiny
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shiny over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Shiny in the UK

Shiny
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Shiny within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +124 8 £583 +23.39% 7
Work from Home +132 6 £492 +4.02% 2
London +97 5 £583 +18.68% 4
UK excluding London +64 1 - - 2
North of England +33 1 - -
North West +16 1 - -

Shiny
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Power BI
1 4 (44.44%) Tableau
2 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Scientist
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) ETL Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Science Developer
4 1 (11.11%) R Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Web Applications Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) ggplot2
1 3 (33.33%) Plotly
2 1 (11.11%) D3.js
2 1 (11.11%) Jinja
2 1 (11.11%) ODBC
2 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 1 (11.11%) Blog
1 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (11.11%) Life Science
1 1 (11.11%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Science
1 5 (55.56%) Visualisation
2 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 3 (33.33%) Statistics
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Statistical Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Analytical Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (11.11%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
5 1 (11.11%) LLM
5 1 (11.11%) People Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) R
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cloudera
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Workday