R Contract Job Trends in Central London

R
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring R skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 117 119
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +50
Contract jobs citing R 6 6 20
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.29% 0.29% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 0.80% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 14
10th Percentile £253 £496 £375
25th Percentile £313 £547 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £638 £533
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +19.72% -11.25%
75th Percentile £600 £722 £687
90th Percentile - £769 £821
London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 661 749 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.46% 36.10% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 475 640
10th Percentile £356 £411 £413
25th Percentile £425 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £706
90th Percentile £773 £751 £825
London median daily rate £526 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £28.30 £38.10 £46.30
25th Percentile £31.00 £40.13 £46.38
Median hourly rate £39.50 £76.75 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.53% +59.90% +0.52%
75th Percentile £50.56 £112.00 £49.88
90th Percentile £56.06 - £50.10
London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -12.17%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

R job vacancy trend in Central London

R
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing R.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing R

R
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in Central London over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for R in Central London

R
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing R.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing R

R
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 February 2026. 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
City of London -10 6 £510 -20.00% 5
R
London

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) Tableau
3 2 (33.33%) Looker
3 2 (33.33%) Mixpanel
4 1 (16.67%) Big Data
4 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (16.67%) Metadata
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Econometrician
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Statistician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
3 3 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) A/B Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Fintech
4 2 (33.33%) Personalization
4 2 (33.33%) Predictive Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Amplitude
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow