R Contract Job Trends in the City of London

R
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring R skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 110 114
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +23
Contract jobs citing R 11 16 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.46% 0.86% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.70% 2.20% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 7
10th Percentile £257 £293 £170
25th Percentile £411 £494 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +12.82% -26.00%
75th Percentile £600 - £538
90th Percentile - £725 £593
Central London median daily rate £469 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -14.82% +12.82% -26.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £45.00 -

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 648 726 759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.97% 38.89% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 490 522
10th Percentile £365 £404 £400
25th Percentile £457 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £709
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 0
10th Percentile £26.32 £21.13 -
25th Percentile £32.39 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £56.11 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £65.83 £76.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.49 £40.26 £41.50
% change year-on-year +30.39% -3.00% -37.36%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

R job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing R.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing R

R
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for R in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing R.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing R

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Tableau
2 4 (36.36%) Looker
2 4 (36.36%) Mixpanel
2 4 (36.36%) Power BI
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Business Data Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Data Scientist
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Product Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Data Science
2 7 (63.64%) Analytics
2 7 (63.64%) Visualisation
3 6 (54.55%) Data Analytics
3 6 (54.55%) Fintech
3 6 (54.55%) Machine Learning
4 5 (45.45%) AI
4 5 (45.45%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (36.36%) A/B Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (36.36%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
5 4 (36.36%) Generative AI
5 4 (36.36%) Personalization
5 4 (36.36%) Predictive Analysis
5 4 (36.36%) Predictive Modelling
5 4 (36.36%) Statistical Analysis
6 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (27.27%) LLM
7 2 (18.18%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (90.91%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Amplitude
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft