R Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

R
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 59 59
Rank change year-on-year -22 0 +17
Contract jobs citing R 4 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.36% 0.31% 1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.83% 1.09% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £354
25th Percentile £393 - £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £447 £363
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +23.31% -39.58%
75th Percentile £398 - £373
90th Percentile - - £380
England median daily rate £467 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -11.10% +5.00% -12.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £21.73
England median hourly rate £58.50 £37.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year +56.00% +16.77% -54.12%

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 219 184 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.69% 28.71% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 155 152
10th Percentile £360 £269 £276
25th Percentile £406 £348 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +23.75% -5.88% -3.68%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £545
90th Percentile £600 £534 £600
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.29% -2.87% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £26.38 £18.26 £14.15
25th Percentile £45.64 £18.35 £21.92
Median hourly rate £80.50 £19.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +323.68% -24.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £84.25 £21.25 £28.44
90th Percentile £84.85 £22.30 £40.33
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% -

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

R job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

R
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing R.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing R

R
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing R.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing R

R
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 June 2026. 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 -4 3 - - 3
Northamptonshire -5 1 £395 -11.63% 2
R
England

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks