R Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

R
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring R skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 98 124
Rank change year-on-year 0 +26 +6
Contract jobs citing R 10 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.68% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.99% 1.26% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £483 - £536
25th Percentile £513 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £615
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -18.70% +45.81%
75th Percentile £625 £525 £630
90th Percentile - £540 £635
South East median daily rate £588 £513 £615
% change year-on-year +14.63% -16.67% +44.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £28.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year - -41.54% +128.71%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

R falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 335 398 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.64% 25.88% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 242 255
10th Percentile £358 £390 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +5.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £650 £638
90th Percentile £619 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -4.71% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 9
10th Percentile £39.25 £50.25 -
25th Percentile £70.00 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £75.00 £63.75 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +17.66% +16.83% -0.80%
75th Percentile £82.00 £69.69 £58.48
90th Percentile £84.40 £77.39 £66.36
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.40 £57.32
% change year-on-year -4.17% +0.13% -4.47%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing R relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

R job vacancy trend in Berkshire

R
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing R.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing R

R
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for R in Berkshire

R
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing R.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing R

R
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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
Reading +18 8 £588 +17.50% 3
Wokingham - 2 £475 -
R
South East

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) 2G
1 2 (20.00%) 5G
1 2 (20.00%) LTE
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (20.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) PyTorch
1 8 (80.00%) scikit-learn
1 8 (80.00%) TensorFlow
2 4 (40.00%) Google JAX
2 4 (40.00%) JAX
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) IoT
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) MLOps
4 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (40.00%) AI
5 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (40.00%) Data Science
5 4 (40.00%) LLM
5 4 (40.00%) Security Architecture
5 4 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (30.00%) Deep Learning
6 3 (30.00%) SDLC
6 3 (30.00%) Secure Coding
6 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (30.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) C++
3 4 (40.00%) Java
4 3 (30.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) EU AI Act
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes