R Contracts with Work from Home Options

R
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 250 349 350
Rank change year-on-year +99 +1 -105
Contract jobs citing R 97 120 297
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 0.48% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.92% 1.28% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 67 202
10th Percentile £356 £323 £332
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £763 £650 £610
90th Percentile - £768 £674
UK median daily rate £546 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -0.77% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 13
10th Percentile £34.77 £20.71 £19.63
25th Percentile £47.56 £22.16 £25.63
Median hourly rate £64.83 £70.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% +34.29% +94.73%
75th Percentile £77.81 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £78.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £70.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -35.71% +86.67% +44.23%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,049 9,363 16,804
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.45% 37.27% 38.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,659 6,853 12,474
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 203 186
10th Percentile £35.00 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.00 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

R
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

R trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing R.

R daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing R over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

R daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing R.

R hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing R over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

R hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (15.46%) SAS
2 9 (9.28%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.15%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.03%) Apache
5 1 (1.03%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.15%) SPSS
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.93%) Azure
2 27 (27.84%) AWS
3 24 (24.74%) Power Platform
4 22 (22.68%) GCP
5 7 (7.22%) Veeva
6 4 (4.12%) GitHub
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (3.09%) Google Analytics
8 2 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.06%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.06%) dbt
8 2 (2.06%) Serverless
9 1 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (24.74%) Power BI
2 10 (10.31%) Tableau
3 7 (7.22%) Big Data
4 6 (6.19%) Hadoop
5 5 (5.15%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (5.15%) Data Lake
5 5 (5.15%) Looker
6 4 (4.12%) BigQuery
6 4 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.12%) Impala
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.09%) Delta Lake
7 3 (3.09%) Spark SQL
7 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.06%) Data Hub
8 2 (2.06%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) RStudio
2 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.03%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) JIRA
3 1 (1.03%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.03%) Toad
General
1 41 (42.27%) Finance
2 26 (26.80%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (16.49%) Front Office
3 16 (16.49%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.25%) Banking
4 8 (8.25%) Marketing
4 8 (8.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.12%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.09%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.06%) Agriculture
7 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Local Government
8 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (22.68%) Analyst
1 22 (22.68%) Developer
2 19 (19.59%) Data Scientist
3 16 (16.49%) Data Analyst
3 16 (16.49%) Python Developer
3 16 (16.49%) Quantitative Developer
4 14 (14.43%) Finance Manager
5 9 (9.28%) Programmer
6 5 (5.15%) SAS Programmer
7 4 (4.12%) Credit Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Data Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Lead
7 4 (4.12%) Qualitative Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Quantitative Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Senior
8 3 (3.09%) Analytics Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) Pandas
1 5 (5.15%) Shiny
2 4 (4.12%) PySpark
3 2 (2.06%) D3.js
4 1 (1.03%) ggplot2
4 1 (1.03%) JSON
4 1 (1.03%) Kafka
4 1 (1.03%) ODBC
4 1 (1.03%) Plotly
4 1 (1.03%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.03%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.68%) Derivative
2 20 (20.62%) Hedge funds
3 16 (16.49%) Fixed Income
4 14 (14.43%) Equities
5 9 (9.28%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (8.25%) Algorithms
7 6 (6.19%) Credit Derivative
8 5 (5.15%) Multi-touch
9 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
10 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
10 2 (2.06%) Social Media
11 1 (1.03%) Blog
11 1 (1.03%) Clustering
11 1 (1.03%) Credit Risk
11 1 (1.03%) Genomics
11 1 (1.03%) Life Science
11 1 (1.03%) Market Risk
11 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
11 1 (1.03%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.90%) Data Science
2 24 (24.74%) Business Intelligence
3 22 (22.68%) Visualisation
4 21 (21.65%) Software Engineering
5 20 (20.62%) Mathematics
6 19 (19.59%) Analytics
6 19 (19.59%) Data Analysis
7 18 (18.56%) Agile
7 18 (18.56%) Asset Management
7 18 (18.56%) Investment Management
7 18 (18.56%) Statistics
8 17 (17.53%) Quantitative Research
9 14 (14.43%) Machine Learning
10 13 (13.40%) Data Modelling
10 13 (13.40%) Data Visualisation
10 13 (13.40%) Validation
11 10 (10.31%) Computer Science
11 10 (10.31%) Data Collection
11 10 (10.31%) Data Management
12 9 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 84 (86.60%) Python
2 41 (42.27%) SQL
3 9 (9.28%) C#
4 7 (7.22%) VB
5 6 (6.19%) C++
6 5 (5.15%) PL/SQL
7 4 (4.12%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.12%) Scala
8 3 (3.09%) MATLAB
9 2 (2.06%) Java
9 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.03%) Bash
10 1 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.03%) PHP
10 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) Degree
2 7 (7.22%) Numerate Degree
2 7 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.15%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.15%) PhD
3 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.03%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) CDISC
2 5 (5.15%) QA
3 4 (4.12%) GxP
4 3 (3.09%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.03%) NCSC
6 1 (1.03%) NIST
6 1 (1.03%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (16.49%) Bloomberg
2 7 (7.22%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.19%) Databricks
4 4 (4.12%) Google
5 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.09%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) Cognos
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle
6 1 (1.03%) Splunk
6 1 (1.03%) Workday