R Contracts in the City of London

R
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring R skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited R over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 113 138
Rank change year-on-year +3 +25 +31
DemandTrendContract jobs citing R 16 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.87% 0.49% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.29% 1.35% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 17
10th Percentile £293 £211 £358
25th Percentile £494 £416 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £476 £655
Median % change year-on-year +15.49% -27.29% +8.04%
75th Percentile - £538 £800
90th Percentile £725 £608 £905
Central London median daily rate £550 £476 £655
% change year-on-year +15.49% -27.29% +11.49%
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 - -
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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 699 741 1,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.93% 35.99% 39.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 507 831
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £610
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -2.87% +1.67%
75th Percentile £699 £710 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £831
Central London median daily rate £579 £575 £605
% change year-on-year +0.70% -4.96% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £22.05 - £24.80
25th Percentile £26.00 - £43.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £84.38
90th Percentile £73.75 - £84.75
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £41.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -18.07% -48.13% +52.38%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for R 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 20 August 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for R in the City of London

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate - 1 £300 -
R
Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (12.50%) Luigi
2 2 (12.50%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) EViews
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.25%) SPSS
2 1 (6.25%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
3 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Power BI
2 4 (25.00%) Big Data
2 4 (25.00%) Tableau
3 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
General
1 8 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (25.00%) Police
4 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (12.50%) Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Front Office
6 1 (6.25%) Games
6 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Legal
6 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Data Scientist
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Legal Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Research Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Pandas
2 4 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 4 (25.00%) TensorFlow
3 2 (12.50%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (6.25%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Data Fabric
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Life Science
2 1 (6.25%) Multi-touch
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Data Science
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 6 (37.50%) Statistics
3 6 (37.50%) Visualisation
4 5 (31.25%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (31.25%) Data Analysis
4 5 (31.25%) Data Visualisation
4 5 (31.25%) Statistical Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Analytical Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 4 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Regression Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) SDLC
7 2 (12.50%) API Integration
7 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Python
2 12 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) MATLAB
3 2 (12.50%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) Fortran
4 1 (6.25%) Korn
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) PhD
3 1 (6.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Aderant
2 1 (6.25%) Automation Anywhere