R Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

R
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring R skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing R 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.55% - 0.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.30% - 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £191 - £338
25th Percentile £192 - £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £194 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.17%
75th Percentile - - £641
90th Percentile - - £646
Scotland median daily rate £194 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -64.66% -12.00% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 174 214 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 24.10% 33.75% 23.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 120 115
10th Percentile £400 £412 £377
25th Percentile £413 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -1.55%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £538
90th Percentile £576 £625 £604
Scotland median daily rate £445 £500 £453
% change year-on-year -11.00% +10.38% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +42.86%
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -41.67% +12.15% -8.18%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

R job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

R
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing R.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing R

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
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
1 3 (75.00%) Power Query
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Research Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Keras
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Data Entry
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Deep Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) Linear Algebra
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Neural Network
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft