R Contracts in Berkshire

R
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring R skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited R over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 108 108
Rank change year-on-year +19 0 +22
Contract jobs citing R 10 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.83% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.05% 1.46% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £459 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £583
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.11%
75th Percentile £544 - £626
90th Percentile £560 - £633
South East median daily rate £443 £588 £557
% change year-on-year -24.68% +5.42% +23.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £51.75 -
South East median hourly rate - £28.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -62.00% +62.16%

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 328 343 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 27.09% 19.54% 22.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 236 295
10th Percentile £393 £363 £319
25th Percentile £450 £459 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £651 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 9
10th Percentile - £50.55 £19.92
25th Percentile £30.25 £58.49 £49.73
Median hourly rate £31.50 £61.60 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.86% +4.85% -26.56%
75th Percentile £32.75 £69.69 £70.00
90th Percentile - £79.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% +8.33%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for R in Berkshire

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for R in Berkshire

R
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for R in Berkshire

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for R in Berkshire

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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 2 August 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 +27 4 £550 - 18
Windsor - 3 £480 - 2
Wokingham - 2 £413 - 1
Slough -2 1 £550 - 6
R
South East

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Power Query
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Local Government
4 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 5 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 5 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 4 (40.00%) Google JAX
2 4 (40.00%) JAX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (20.00%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (40.00%) Data Science
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) LLM
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (30.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (30.00%) MLOps
3 3 (30.00%) SDLC
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) Java
4 4 (40.00%) C++
5 3 (30.00%) C
6 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (10.00%) XMLA
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%) Accessibility
2 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) SAP