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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 122 132
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 +51
Contract jobs citing R 10 10 18
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.50% 0.42% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 1.24% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 14
10th Percentile £223 £436 £341
25th Percentile £271 £459 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year - -4.99% -12.29%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £680
90th Percentile £550 £700 £766
London median daily rate £513 £500 £546
% change year-on-year +2.50% -8.38% -15.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £35.32
% change year-on-year -47.62% +48.66% -49.37%

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 664 806 931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.52% 34.12% 33.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 518 671
10th Percentile £359 £413 £400
25th Percentile £436 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +0.84%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £714
90th Percentile £775 £795 £838
London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile £26.00 £38.35 -
25th Percentile £26.31 £40.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £41.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.30% -12.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £44.50 £112.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £55.63 - -
London median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -8.70%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 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
City of London 0 8 £325 -35.00% 7
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 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Luigi
2 1 (10.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Big Data
2 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) Metadata
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Econometrician
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Statistician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (40.00%) Data Science
3 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (20.00%) MLOps
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (10.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 1 (10.00%) Data Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Metadata Management
6 1 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) MATLAB
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Fortran
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Korn
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Anywhere
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow