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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 122 137
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 +47
Contract jobs citing R 10 14 16
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.52% 0.60% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.45% 1.75% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 15
10th Percentile £328 £225 £344
25th Percentile £475 £419 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -6.38%
75th Percentile - £569 £676
90th Percentile - £675 £755
London median daily rate £518 £475 £519
% change year-on-year +9.05% -8.43% -20.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £29.75 - -
25th Percentile £35.00 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £60.25 - -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £52.50 £35.32
% change year-on-year -28.57% +48.66% -21.52%

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 689 798 1,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.92% 34.02% 35.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 518 741
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £482 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +0.84%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
London median daily rate £550 £565 £588
% change year-on-year -2.65% -3.83% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 2
10th Percentile £24.83 £38.35 £15.65
25th Percentile £26.31 £40.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +38.33% -42.86%
75th Percentile £60.85 £112.00 £39.75
90th Percentile £66.25 - £45.15
London median hourly rate £44.95 £48.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.32% -11.82% -4.35%

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 8 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R in Central London over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for R in Central London

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 8 November 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 -7 8 £500 +5.26% 79
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
1 2 (20.00%) SAS
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Tableau
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Police
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Pandas
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (10.00%) Life Science
1 1 (10.00%) Multi-touch
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Data Science
2 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (30.00%) Statistics
4 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) MLOps
5 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) Storytelling
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Management
6 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) MATLAB
4 1 (10.00%) 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%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) PhD
3 1 (10.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Anywhere