R Contracts in the City of London

R
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 138 152
Rank change year-on-year +21 +14 -28
Contract jobs citing R 13 27 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.60% 0.76% 0.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.74% 1.78% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 25
10th Percentile £457 £442 £325
25th Percentile £475 £558 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £681 £551
Median % change year-on-year -22.94% +23.75% +33.45%
75th Percentile £688 £875 £650
90th Percentile £879 - £695
Central London median daily rate £525 £681 £550
% change year-on-year -22.94% +23.86% +32.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £40.90
25th Percentile - - £47.88
Median hourly rate - - £57.00
75th Percentile - - £65.69
90th Percentile - - £72.78
Central London median hourly rate - - £57.00

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 745 1,519 1,857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.16% 42.84% 44.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 998 1,445
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £693 £738 £713
90th Percentile £793 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £563 £623 £600
% change year-on-year -9.64% +3.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £35.00 £44.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £43.13 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +120.00%
75th Percentile £50.25 £71.25 £74.38
90th Percentile - £84.25 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +137.49%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for R in the City of London

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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 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for R in the City of 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 1 (7.69%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SPSS
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Power Automate
3 3 (23.08%) PowerApps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
2 2 (15.38%) KDB
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (7.69%) Data Mining
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
1 1 (7.69%) RStudio
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Agriculture
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Analyst
1 2 (15.38%) Analytics Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Applications Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
1 2 (15.38%) Data Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Data Scientist
1 2 (15.38%) Insight Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Report Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Data Modeller
2 1 (7.69%) Insight Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Principal Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Principal Security Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
1 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
1 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Data Analysis
2 4 (30.77%) Visualisation
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) Statistical Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (15.38%) Data Privacy
4 2 (15.38%) Data Science
4 2 (15.38%) DataOps
4 2 (15.38%) OO
4 2 (15.38%) People Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Reinforcement Learning
4 2 (15.38%) Storytelling
4 2 (15.38%) User Experience
4 2 (15.38%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) CIMA
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) PhD
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Cognos
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce