R Contract Job Trends in the East of England

R
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring R skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 73 100
Rank change year-on-year -23 +27 +31
Contract jobs citing R 8 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.51% 0.74% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.27% 2.95% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 10
10th Percentile £548 £603 £293
25th Percentile £621 £625 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +36.84% +22.58%
75th Percentile £682 £675 £575
90th Percentile £693 - £581
England median daily rate £492 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -4.47% -4.63% -1.82%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 352 271 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.26% 24.93% 25.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 129 223
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £560
90th Percentile £693 £625 £675
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 43 105
10th Percentile £42.25 £48.50 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £61.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.50 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -2.17% +6.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £84.36
90th Percentile £77.50 £95.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

R job vacancy trend in the East of England

R
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

R
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for R in the East of England

R
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

R
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Essex - 4 £662 - 5
Hertfordshire -24 2 £500 -23.08% 3
Cambridgeshire -5 1 - - 5
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 2
R
England

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (62.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) GIS
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Agriculture
2 1 (12.50%) Agrochemical
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) R Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Research Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Research Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SAS Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SAS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Credit Risk
2 1 (12.50%) CUDA
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Modelling
2 5 (62.50%) Credit Risk Management
2 5 (62.50%) Regulatory Compliance
2 5 (62.50%) Risk Management
2 5 (62.50%) Scorecard
2 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) System Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Test Strategy
2 5 (62.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Biology
5 1 (12.50%) Biotechnology
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 1 (12.50%) Predictive Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
5 1 (12.50%) Statistics
5 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) Java
3 5 (62.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) C
4 1 (12.50%) C++
4 1 (12.50%) Go
4 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Lustre
1 1 (12.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Packer