R Contracts in the East of England

R
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 108 108
Rank change year-on-year +40 0 +18
Contract jobs citing R 21 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.88% 0.26% 0.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.71% 1.19% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 8
10th Percentile £424 £357 £203
25th Percentile £514 £359 £229
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £280
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% +33.93% -49.09%
75th Percentile £675 £481 £350
90th Percentile - £538 £401
England median daily rate £509 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +7.11% -20.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £16.38 £56.25
25th Percentile - £16.99 £58.13
Median hourly rate - £17.99 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -71.22% -
75th Percentile - £19.00 £69.38
90th Percentile - £19.60 £72.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £21.73 £67.50
% change year-on-year +118.59% -67.81% +90.14%

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 368 421 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.95% 21.92% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 175 360
10th Percentile £306 £325 £312
25th Percentile £406 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.55% +1.58%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £635 £633 £700
England median daily rate £520 £540 £555
% change year-on-year -3.70% -2.70% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 148 102
10th Percentile £31.64 £52.50 £47.88
25th Percentile £54.44 £59.69 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.07%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +18.99%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for R in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for R in the East of England

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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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for R in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for R in the East of England

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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 3 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
Hertfordshire +46 19 £650 +73.33% 10
Cambridgeshire +15 2 £413 -10.33% 32
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 12 (57.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.52%) IBM Domino
3 1 (4.76%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) Azure
2 12 (57.14%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (71.43%) Tableau
2 13 (61.90%) Big Data
3 12 (57.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (61.90%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Developer
2 13 (61.90%) Data Science Developer
3 8 (38.10%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Senior
4 5 (23.81%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Gen AI Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.76%) Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (71.43%) Matplotlib
1 15 (71.43%) PyTorch
1 15 (71.43%) scikit-learn
1 15 (71.43%) Seaborn
1 15 (71.43%) TensorFlow
2 14 (66.67%) NumPy
2 14 (66.67%) Pandas
3 1 (4.76%) ggplot2
3 1 (4.76%) Gherkin
3 1 (4.76%) JSON
3 1 (4.76%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 14 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.52%) CRISPR
3 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Data Analysis
1 16 (76.19%) Data Science
1 16 (76.19%) Visualisation
2 15 (71.43%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (71.43%) Data Munging
2 15 (71.43%) Generative AI
2 15 (71.43%) Machine Learning
3 14 (66.67%) LLM
4 13 (61.90%) Analytics
4 13 (61.90%) Statistical Modelling
5 12 (57.14%) Predictive Analytics
5 12 (57.14%) Reinforcement Learning
5 12 (57.14%) Time Series Forecasting
6 11 (52.38%) Data Analytics
6 11 (52.38%) Decision-Making
6 11 (52.38%) Feature Engineering
7 10 (47.62%) Computer Science
8 3 (14.29%) Agile
9 2 (9.52%) Bioinformatics
9 2 (9.52%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Degree
1 10 (47.62%) Master's Degree
1 10 (47.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (61.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) OpenAI