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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 50 64
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 +28
Contract jobs citing R 5 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.58% 1.22% 0.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.48% 4.48% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £289 -
25th Percentile £363 £295 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £340 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% - -
75th Percentile £388 £356 -
90th Percentile - £384 -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £22.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +70.45% -51.11% +48.76%

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 202 201 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 23.33% 27.35% 25.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 138 156
10th Percentile £275 £309 £313
25th Percentile £361 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £464
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -8.40% +1.97%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £558
90th Percentile £596 £535 £650
England median daily rate £514 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £20.41
25th Percentile - £21.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £13.84 £22.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.49% -57.55% +169.51%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £55.50
90th Percentile - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.26%

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 8 November 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 -7 4 - - 7
Northamptonshire -19 1 £375 +17.74% 5
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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Big Data
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 3 (60.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (60.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (60.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
5 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 1 (20.00%) Fraud Detection
5 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Validation
5 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft