R Contracts in Central London

R
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for R skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited R over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 145 165
Rank change year-on-year +24 +20 -39
Contract jobs citing R 16 30 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.65% 0.78% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 1.81% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 29
10th Percentile £466 £417 £325
25th Percentile £477 £523 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £681 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% +23.86% +22.22%
75th Percentile £687 £863 £650
90th Percentile £879 £875 £665
London median daily rate £580 £600 £554
% change year-on-year -3.33% +8.35% +0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £40.85
25th Percentile - - £47.75
Median hourly rate - - £60.50
75th Percentile - - £69.63
90th Percentile - - £74.35
London median hourly rate £43.75 £75.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.67% +68.54% +33.79%

All Programming Languages
Central London

R is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 831 1,660 2,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.84% 42.98% 43.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 1,096 1,576
10th Percentile £413 £421 £413
25th Percentile £463 £506 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £795 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 10
10th Percentile - £35.00 £43.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £51.25 £46.50
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +138.81%
75th Percentile £50.25 £58.75 £69.25
90th Percentile - £84.00 £77.63
London median hourly rate £50.50 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -12.17% +15.00% +11.11%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for R in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for R in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in Central London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for R in Central London

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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 24 April 2024. 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 +38 16 £533 -21.83% 12
R
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SPSS
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Power Automate
3 3 (18.75%) PowerApps
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Google Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
2 3 (18.75%) Tableau
3 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (12.50%) BigQuery
3 2 (12.50%) KDB
3 2 (12.50%) Looker
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.25%) Big Data
4 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
1 1 (6.25%) RStudio
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Agriculture
2 2 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Analytics Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Applications Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Data Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Insight Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Report Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
3 1 (6.25%) Insight Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Security Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Data Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
1 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
1 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Visualisation
2 6 (37.50%) Analytics
2 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (31.25%) Data Analysis
3 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
3 5 (31.25%) Statistical Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (25.00%) Data Science
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) CRM
5 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Statistical Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) Data Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Open Source
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
6 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 11 (68.75%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (12.50%) MATLAB
4 2 (12.50%) Scala
5 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CIMA
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) PhD
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) PMO
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Salesforce
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Cognos