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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 338 366
Rank change year-on-year +65 +28 -112
Contract jobs citing R 76 122 277
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.50% 0.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.52% 1.38% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 71 204
10th Percentile £302 £350 £342
25th Percentile £360 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £763 £650 £616
90th Percentile - £775 £696
UK median daily rate £500 £572 £527
% change year-on-year -12.59% +8.45% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 9
10th Percentile £23.61 £22.16 £19.47
25th Percentile £26.24 £62.19 £20.24
Median hourly rate £54.66 £70.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.47% +48.42% +75.93%
75th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £78.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £21.86 £70.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -68.77% +97.18% +36.54%

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 4,999 8,854 16,837
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.14% 36.52% 38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 6,538 12,568
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.33% +8.26%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £800 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 184 183
10th Percentile £27.75 £32.03 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £62.20
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

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

R
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 2 June 2024.

R daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

R
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 2 June 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 (19.74%) SAS
2 6 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (9.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (9.21%) SPSS
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.95%) Azure
2 18 (23.68%) AWS
3 14 (18.42%) GCP
3 14 (18.42%) Power Platform
4 7 (9.21%) Veeva
5 3 (3.95%) GitHub
6 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.32%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.32%) PaaS
7 1 (1.32%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.32%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.42%) Power BI
2 6 (7.89%) Hadoop
2 6 (7.89%) Tableau
3 4 (5.26%) Big Data
3 4 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.26%) Impala
3 4 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.95%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.95%) Looker
4 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.63%) MS Access
5 2 (2.63%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.32%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.32%) Metadata
6 1 (1.32%) Power Query
6 1 (1.32%) SQL Navigator
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Git
1 4 (5.26%) RStudio
2 1 (1.32%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.32%) JIRA
2 1 (1.32%) PyCharm
2 1 (1.32%) Toad
General
1 35 (46.05%) Finance
2 26 (34.21%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.79%) Front Office
4 11 (14.47%) Social Skills
5 8 (10.53%) Banking
6 6 (7.89%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.95%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.95%) Marketing
9 2 (2.63%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.63%) Retail
10 1 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Local Government
10 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (25.00%) Analyst
2 17 (22.37%) Developer
3 13 (17.11%) Data Analyst
4 12 (15.79%) Finance Manager
4 12 (15.79%) Python Developer
4 12 (15.79%) Quantitative Developer
5 9 (11.84%) Data Scientist
5 9 (11.84%) Programmer
6 5 (6.58%) SAS Programmer
6 5 (6.58%) Senior
7 4 (5.26%) Consultant
7 4 (5.26%) Credit Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Data Manager
7 4 (5.26%) Lead
7 4 (5.26%) Qualitative Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Quantitative Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Analytics Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Clinical Data Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Insight Manager
9 2 (2.63%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) D3.js
1 2 (2.63%) Pandas
1 2 (2.63%) PySpark
1 2 (2.63%) Shiny
2 1 (1.32%) .NET
2 1 (1.32%) JSON
2 1 (1.32%) Kafka
2 1 (1.32%) ODBC
2 1 (1.32%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.32%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) Derivative
2 16 (21.05%) Hedge funds
3 12 (15.79%) Equities
3 12 (15.79%) Fixed Income
4 10 (13.16%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (10.53%) Algorithms
6 4 (5.26%) Credit Derivative
7 2 (2.63%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.63%) Multi-touch
7 2 (2.63%) Social Media
8 1 (1.32%) Biopharmaceutical
8 1 (1.32%) Blog
8 1 (1.32%) Clustering
8 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.32%) FMCG
8 1 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.32%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.95%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (25.00%) Data Science
3 18 (23.68%) Statistics
4 17 (22.37%) Analytics
5 16 (21.05%) Mathematics
6 15 (19.74%) Agile
7 13 (17.11%) Quantitative Research
7 13 (17.11%) Software Engineering
8 12 (15.79%) Asset Management
8 12 (15.79%) Computer Science
8 12 (15.79%) Investment Management
8 12 (15.79%) Visualisation
9 11 (14.47%) Data Analysis
9 11 (14.47%) Data Management
10 10 (13.16%) Data Analytics
10 10 (13.16%) Data Modelling
10 10 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (13.16%) Validation
11 9 (11.84%) Machine Learning
11 9 (11.84%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 64 (84.21%) Python
2 33 (43.42%) SQL
3 9 (11.84%) C#
4 8 (10.53%) VB
5 6 (7.89%) C++
6 5 (6.58%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.58%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.63%) Java
7 2 (2.63%) Scala
8 1 (1.32%) Bash
8 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.32%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.32%) PHP
8 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (25.00%) Degree
2 9 (11.84%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (7.89%) Master's Degree
3 6 (7.89%) PhD
4 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.58%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.32%) CISA
6 1 (1.32%) CRISC
6 1 (1.32%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.84%) CDISC
2 4 (5.26%) GxP
2 4 (5.26%) QA
3 3 (3.95%) Good Clinical Practice
4 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.32%) NCSC
5 1 (1.32%) NIST
5 1 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.32%) Docker
1 1 (1.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (15.79%) Bloomberg
2 6 (7.89%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.95%) Databricks
3 3 (3.95%) SAP
4 2 (2.63%) Google
5 1 (1.32%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.32%) Cognos
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle
5 1 (1.32%) Salesforce