R Contracts in Cambridgeshire

R
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 52 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing R 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.72% 0.61% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.99% 3.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £389 -
25th Percentile £406 £440 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £419 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £650 £388 £300
% change year-on-year +67.74% +29.17% -27.71%

All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 67 99 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 24.28% 20.00% 29.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 56 119
10th Percentile £338 £405 £353
25th Percentile £416 £439 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £499 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £525
90th Percentile £621 £594 £578
East of England median daily rate £479 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 11
10th Percentile £23.71 £34.15 £22.50
25th Percentile £32.58 £35.52 £42.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - £67.65 -
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for R in Cambridgeshire

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for R in Cambridgeshire

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for R in Cambridgeshire

R
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cambridge +11 2 £413 -25.00% 17
R
East of England

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) CRISPR
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Bioinformatics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python