Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 January 2022

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for R skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited R over the 6 months to 25 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

R
UK > England
6 months to
25 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 341 259 284
Rank change year-on-year -82 +25 +105
Contract jobs citing R 523 337 610
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.75% 0.98% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.93% 2.33% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 242 378
10th Percentile £300 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% -3.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £631
90th Percentile £688 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 29 11
10th Percentile £18.68 £17.66 £21.66
25th Percentile £19.52 £21.50 £23.15
Median hourly rate £19.70 £26.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.23% -16.13% -31.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £43.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £65.45 £58.75 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £20.75 £25.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.82% +1.00% -28.06%

R is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
England
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,049 14,457 26,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.72% 42.06% 41.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,982 10,281 18,944
10th Percentile £363 £313 £325
25th Percentile £450 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £483 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.99% -1.03% +1.56%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £575
90th Percentile £738 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +13.16% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 345 479
10th Percentile £19.52 £13.78 £16.50
25th Percentile £32.50 £24.00 £23.13
Median hourly rate £49.00 £42.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -3.41% +4.11%
75th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £58.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £49.00 £42.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +15.29% -2.30% +3.57%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for R in England

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for R in England

R
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in England over the 6 months to 25 January 2022.

Daily rate histogram for R in England

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for R in England

R
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R in England over the 6 months to 25 January 2022.

Hourly rate histogram for R in England

R
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 25 January 2022. 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
London -111 314 £550 - 60
South East -18 64 £300 -27.27% 12
North of England -59 42 £440 +10.00% 16
Midlands -36 33 £520 +18.86% 15
West Midlands -28 29 £509 +16.34% 9
Yorkshire -41 29 £440 +120.00% 3
South West -60 19 £475 -3.06% 12
North West -51 13 £438 +2.94% 10
East of England -50 5 £495 +39.44% 11
East Midlands -30 3 £550 - 6
R
UK

For the 6 months to 25 January 2022, IT contractor jobs citing R also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region with a requirement for R.

1 391 (74.76%) Python
2 302 (57.74%) SQL
3 225 (43.02%) Analytics
4 190 (36.33%) Data Science
5 178 (34.03%) Azure
6 175 (33.46%) Social Skills
7 166 (31.74%) Analytical Skills
8 153 (29.25%) Visualisation
9 147 (28.11%) Business Intelligence
10 137 (26.20%) Power Platform
11 136 (26.00%) Power BI
12 119 (22.75%) Agile Software Development
13 113 (21.61%) Machine Learning
14 112 (21.41%) AWS
15 109 (20.84%) Data Analysis
16 106 (20.27%) Microsoft Excel
17 105 (20.08%) Data Visualisation
18 104 (19.89%) Finance
19 100 (19.12%) Tableau
20 93 (17.78%) Microsoft
21 85 (16.25%) Degree
22 82 (15.68%) ETL
23 78 (14.91%) Security Cleared
23 78 (14.91%) SAS
24 77 (14.72%) Mathematics
24 77 (14.72%) Big Data
24 77 (14.72%) Apache Spark
25 76 (14.53%) Statistics
26 74 (14.15%) Public Sector
27 72 (13.77%) Data Modelling

R
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 78 (14.91%) SAS
2 77 (14.72%) Apache Spark
3 27 (5.16%) Confluence
4 18 (3.44%) Jupyter
5 16 (3.06%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.91%) Apache
6 10 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (1.34%) IIS
8 6 (1.15%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.76%) Oracle Coherence
10 3 (0.57%) R Markdown
11 1 (0.19%) Appian
11 1 (0.19%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 106 (20.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (6.88%) Stata
3 25 (4.78%) SPSS
4 6 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.19%) SessionCam
1 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 178 (34.03%) Azure
2 137 (26.20%) Power Platform
3 112 (21.41%) AWS
4 62 (11.85%) GCP
5 48 (9.18%) GitHub
6 29 (5.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (4.21%) Google Analytics
8 19 (3.63%) Google Data Studio
9 18 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (3.06%) PowerApps
11 14 (2.68%) Serverless
11 14 (2.68%) Snowflake
12 13 (2.49%) Amazon S3
13 12 (2.29%) Matillion
14 11 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
16 9 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (1.72%) PaaS
17 8 (1.53%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.34%) SD-WAN
1 7 (1.34%) WAN
2 3 (0.57%) Firewall
2 3 (0.57%) Internet
2 3 (0.57%) LAN
2 3 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.57%) VPN
3 2 (0.38%) CATAPAN
3 2 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.38%) EIGRP
3 2 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.19%) 4G
4 1 (0.19%) Broadband
4 1 (0.19%) DNS
4 1 (0.19%) Intranet
4 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
4 1 (0.19%) SSH
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (26.00%) Power BI
2 100 (19.12%) Tableau
3 77 (14.72%) Big Data
4 58 (11.09%) SQL Server
5 56 (10.71%) Hadoop
6 46 (8.80%) Data Warehouse
7 41 (7.84%) Apache Hive
8 34 (6.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 33 (6.31%) Data Lake
10 30 (5.74%) Data Mining
11 24 (4.59%) BigQuery
11 24 (4.59%) NoSQL
11 24 (4.59%) Relational Database
12 22 (4.21%) Looker
12 22 (4.21%) MySQL
13 21 (4.02%) HBase
14 20 (3.82%) QlikView
15 17 (3.25%) Pentaho
16 13 (2.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 11 (2.10%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 59 (11.28%) Git (software)
2 47 (8.99%) JIRA
3 23 (4.40%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.02%) RStudio
5 18 (3.44%) Bitbucket
6 12 (2.29%) GitLab
7 6 (1.15%) MLflow
7 6 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.96%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.57%) Crucible
9 3 (0.57%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.57%) FishEye
9 3 (0.57%) JUnit
9 3 (0.57%) Maven
9 3 (0.57%) PyCharm
9 3 (0.57%) Selenium
9 3 (0.57%) Subversion
9 3 (0.57%) TestNG
10 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 175 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 166 (31.74%) Analytical Skills
3 104 (19.89%) Finance
4 74 (14.15%) Public Sector
5 43 (8.22%) Presentation Skills
6 33 (6.31%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (4.59%) Banking
8 20 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.49%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.29%) Legal
10 12 (2.29%) Marketing
11 11 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.91%) Front Office
13 9 (1.72%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.34%) Advertising
14 7 (1.34%) Retail
15 6 (1.15%) Publishing
16 5 (0.96%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 167 (31.93%) Analyst
2 105 (20.08%) Data Analyst
3 80 (15.30%) Data Scientist
4 65 (12.43%) Data Engineer
5 63 (12.05%) Developer
6 28 (5.35%) Consultant
7 22 (4.21%) Architect
8 18 (3.44%) Data Consultant
9 17 (3.25%) Digital Analyst
10 14 (2.68%) Data Manager
11 13 (2.49%) Senior Data Scientist
11 13 (2.49%) SQL Analyst
12 12 (2.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 12 (2.29%) Product Analyst
12 12 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (2.29%) Software Engineer
13 11 (2.10%) Business Analyst
13 11 (2.10%) SQL Data Analyst
14 10 (1.91%) Power BI Developer
14 10 (1.91%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.31%) TensorFlow
2 25 (4.78%) Shiny
3 24 (4.59%) Pandas
4 21 (4.02%) .NET
4 21 (4.02%) Kafka
4 21 (4.02%) NumPy
5 18 (3.44%) PyTorch
6 17 (3.25%) Keras
7 16 (3.06%) JSON
8 15 (2.87%) HTML
8 15 (2.87%) PySpark
8 15 (2.87%) REST
9 11 (2.10%) CSS
9 11 (2.10%) Matplotlib
9 11 (2.10%) scikit-learn
9 11 (2.10%) Spring
10 10 (1.91%) XML
11 9 (1.72%) D3.js
12 6 (1.15%) Akka
12 6 (1.15%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.99%) Algorithms
2 18 (3.44%) User Experience
3 14 (2.68%) NHS
4 10 (1.91%) Market Risk
4 10 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (1.91%) Swaptions
5 9 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.34%) Clustering
6 7 (1.34%) Credit Risk
7 6 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.15%) Replication
8 5 (0.96%) Blog
8 5 (0.96%) Data Structures
8 5 (0.96%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.76%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 51 (9.75%) Linux
2 42 (8.03%) Windows
3 26 (4.97%) Unix
4 17 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.19%) CentOS
6 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (43.02%) Analytics
2 190 (36.33%) Data Science
3 153 (29.25%) Visualisation
4 147 (28.11%) Business Intelligence
5 119 (22.75%) Agile Software Development
6 113 (21.61%) Machine Learning
7 109 (20.84%) Data Analysis
8 105 (20.08%) Data Visualisation
9 82 (15.68%) ETL
10 77 (14.72%) Mathematics
11 76 (14.53%) Statistics
12 72 (13.77%) Data Modelling
13 66 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
14 61 (11.66%) Computer Science
14 61 (11.66%) Data Analytics
15 57 (10.90%) Statistical Modelling
16 51 (9.75%) Stakeholder Management
17 49 (9.37%) Software Engineering
18 47 (8.99%) Data Engineering
18 47 (8.99%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 391 (74.76%) Python
2 302 (57.74%) SQL
3 72 (13.77%) Java
4 64 (12.24%) Scala
5 51 (9.75%) VBA
6 36 (6.88%) C#
7 28 (5.35%) JavaScript
8 21 (4.02%) Perl
9 20 (3.82%) PL/SQL
9 20 (3.82%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.63%) Bash
10 19 (3.63%) C++
11 18 (3.44%) T-SQL
12 17 (3.25%) HiveQL
12 17 (3.25%) PowerShell
13 12 (2.29%) MATLAB
14 10 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
14 10 (1.91%) Julia
15 8 (1.53%) Java 8
16 6 (1.15%) Java 11
Qualifications
1 85 (16.25%) Degree
2 78 (14.91%) Security Cleared
3 67 (12.81%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.10%) Master's Degree
5 11 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (1.91%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.91%) MCSA
6 10 (1.91%) PhD
7 8 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.53%) Numerate Degree
8 7 (1.34%) CCNP
8 7 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.34%) Tableau Certification
9 6 (1.15%) MCSE
10 5 (0.96%) PRNE
11 2 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.19%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (9.56%) Data Quality
2 42 (8.03%) QA
3 8 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.57%) GDPR
5 2 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.19%) Basel II
6 1 (0.19%) CDISC
6 1 (0.19%) IFRS
6 1 (0.19%) PMO
6 1 (0.19%) SLA
6 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 36 (6.88%) Docker
2 20 (3.82%) HDFS
3 8 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.76%) Platform Symphony
7 3 (0.57%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.19%) NFS
9 1 (0.19%) Samba
Systems Management
1 21 (4.02%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.06%) Terraform
3 11 (2.10%) Ansible
4 8 (1.53%) Kibana
5 7 (1.34%) Kubeflow
6 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
7 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.38%) Control-M
8 2 (0.38%) WSUS
9 1 (0.19%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 93 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 52 (9.94%) Databricks
3 43 (8.22%) Oracle
4 39 (7.46%) Google
5 33 (6.31%) Talend
6 22 (4.21%) Informatica
7 20 (3.82%) Alteryx
8 15 (2.87%) Splunk
9 12 (2.29%) StreamSets
10 9 (1.72%) Foundry
10 9 (1.72%) Palantir
11 7 (1.34%) Cisco
11 7 (1.34%) VMware
12 6 (1.15%) IBM
13 5 (0.96%) Cognos
13 5 (0.96%) SAP
13 5 (0.96%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.57%) Adobe
14 3 (0.57%) Hortonworks
14 3 (0.57%) Twitter