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England > East Midlands
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 6 Jul 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 65 | 60 | 82 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -5 | +22 | +9 |
| Contract jobs citing R | 2 | 8 | 2 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands | 0.28% | 0.93% | 0.20% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category | 0.97% | 3.56% | 0.66% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £447 | £363 | £600 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +23.31% | -39.58% | +80.45% |
| England median daily rate | £509 | £463 | £600 |
| % change year-on-year | +10.00% | -22.92% | +9.09% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Median hourly rate | - | £21.73 | - |
| England median hourly rate | £47.50 | £21.73 | £67.50 |
| % change year-on-year | +118.59% | -67.81% | +90.14% |
All Programming Languages
East Midlands
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 East Midlands.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills | 206 | 225 | 301 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands | 28.57% | 26.04% | 29.54% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 169 | 157 | 250 |
| 10th Percentile | £268 | £297 | £309 |
| 25th Percentile | £346 | £356 | £360 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £400 | £425 | £431 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -5.88% | -1.45% | -4.17% |
| 75th Percentile | £475 | £530 | £538 |
| 90th Percentile | £531 | £600 | £650 |
| England median daily rate | £520 | £540 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | -3.70% | -1.82% | -0.90% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 3 | 6 | 7 |
| 10th Percentile | £18.26 | £14.15 | £26.48 |
| 25th Percentile | £18.35 | £21.92 | £38.24 |
| Median hourly rate | £19.00 | £25.00 | £52.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -24.00% | -52.38% | +50.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £21.25 | £28.44 | £61.88 |
| 90th Percentile | £22.30 | £40.33 | £70.00 |
| England median hourly rate | £56.38 | £65.00 | £62.50 |
| % change year-on-year | -13.27% | +4.00% | +17.37% |
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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands
Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in the East Midlands.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in the East Midlands.
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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 July 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leicestershire | +1 | 1 | - | - | 6 |
| Northamptonshire | -10 | 1 | £447 | +24.17% | 3 |
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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: