Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 19 August 2018

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 19 August 2018 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
19 Aug 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 340 368 464
Rank change year-on-year +28 +96 +72
Contract jobs citing R 698 572 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 0.75% 0.64% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.67% 1.53% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 397 324
England median daily rate £525 £500 £463
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.00% +8.11% -14.94%
10th Percentile £349 £313 £313
90th Percentile £700 £675 £620
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +5.00% +8.11% -12.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 3
England median hourly rate £22.50 £34.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -34.78% +68.29% -31.67%
10th Percentile £18.00 £20.75 £16.11
90th Percentile £48.75 £45.75 £43.35
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £34.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year -36.23% +68.29% -31.67%

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 41,680 37,341 39,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.65% 42.00% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,492 25,818 27,614
England median daily rate £475 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
10th Percentile £313 £305 £281
90th Percentile £638 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 689 730 835
England median hourly rate £41.77 £40.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +4.41% +6.67% +4.90%
10th Percentile £17.49 £16.25 £14.18
90th Percentile £52.60 £53.75 £51.50
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +3.75% +6.67% +7.14%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for R in England

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing R in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for R in England

R
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing R in England over the 6 months to 19 August 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for R in England

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing R in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for R in England

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing R in England over the 6 months to 19 August 2018.

Contractor 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 19 August 2018. 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
Job
Vacancies
London +2 487 £550 +10.00% 109
South East +34 93 £475 +21.02% 21
North of England +4 35 £500 +17.65% 22
East of England -4 30 £431 -13.75% 13
Midlands -7 29 £461 +2.50% 20
South West -4 24 £413 -13.16% 6
East Midlands +11 23 £466 +9.71% 10
Yorkshire +9 20 £475 +11.76% 8
North West -8 8 £425 +6.25% 13
North East -1 7 £650 +52.94% 1
West Midlands -31 6 £388 -13.89% 10
R
UK

For the 6 months to 19 August 2018, 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.

1 516 (73.93%) Python
2 359 (51.43%) SQL
3 318 (45.56%) Analytics
4 297 (42.55%) Data Science
5 216 (30.95%) Machine Learning
6 202 (28.94%) Big Data
7 186 (26.65%) Finance
8 181 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
9 175 (25.07%) Hadoop
10 170 (24.36%) Visualisation
11 157 (22.49%) Agile Software Development
12 146 (20.92%) SAS
12 146 (20.92%) Business Intelligence
13 141 (20.20%) Mathematics
14 138 (19.77%) Java
14 138 (19.77%) Apache Spark
15 128 (18.34%) Statistics
16 117 (16.76%) Algorithms
17 116 (16.62%) Tableau
18 114 (16.33%) C#
19 107 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
20 106 (15.19%) Degree
21 96 (13.75%) Microsoft Azure
22 93 (13.32%) ETL
23 92 (13.18%) Scala
24 91 (13.04%) Computer Science
24 91 (13.04%) Data Analysis
24 91 (13.04%) Data Analytics
25 88 (12.61%) Amazon AWS
26 87 (12.46%) SQL Server

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
1 146 (20.92%) SAS
2 138 (19.77%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.58%) Apache Pig
4 18 (2.58%) Jupyter
5 17 (2.44%) Confluence
6 16 (2.29%) SharePoint
7 15 (2.15%) Apache
8 14 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.29%) Apache Solr
10 7 (1.00%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.86%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.72%) CMS
12 5 (0.72%) IIS
12 5 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
14 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.14%) IBM Domino
14 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 55 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (4.01%) SPSS
3 12 (1.72%) Chatbot
4 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.57%) Stata
7 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.29%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.14%) EViews
9 1 (0.14%) Fireworks
9 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (1.00%) R3 Corda
2 6 (0.86%) Distributed Ledger
3 5 (0.72%) ION MarketView
3 5 (0.72%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 3 (0.43%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.43%) Summit
5 2 (0.29%) ReMetrica
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.14%) FastStats
6 1 (0.14%) Finacle
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 96 (13.75%) Microsoft Azure
2 88 (12.61%) Amazon AWS
3 30 (4.30%) Google Cloud Platform
4 22 (3.15%) Azure Machine Learning
5 21 (3.01%) Google Analytics
6 19 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (2.58%) Data Lake Analytics
7 18 (2.58%) PaaS
8 17 (2.44%) GitHub
9 16 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
10 15 (2.15%) Amazon S3
11 6 (0.86%) Adobe Analytics
11 6 (0.86%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (0.86%) IaaS
12 4 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (0.57%) SaaS
13 2 (0.29%) Amazon ELB
13 2 (0.29%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.86%) Kerberos
1 6 (0.86%) SSL
1 6 (0.86%) VPN
2 5 (0.72%) Internet
3 4 (0.57%) SNA
4 2 (0.29%) LAN
4 2 (0.29%) SMS
5 1 (0.14%) BGP
5 1 (0.14%) Broadband
5 1 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.14%) CTI
5 1 (0.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) MPLS
5 1 (0.14%) OSPF
5 1 (0.14%) PBX
5 1 (0.14%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (28.94%) Big Data
2 175 (25.07%) Hadoop
3 87 (12.46%) SQL Server
4 84 (12.03%) Data Warehouse
4 84 (12.03%) Power BI
5 72 (10.32%) NoSQL
6 67 (9.60%) Data Mining
7 66 (9.46%) Apache Hive
8 61 (8.74%) MongoDB
9 58 (8.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 55 (7.88%) Relational Database
11 51 (7.31%) Data Lake
12 43 (6.16%) Apache Cassandra
13 35 (5.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 34 (4.87%) HBase
15 31 (4.44%) MySQL
16 30 (4.30%) Impala
17 25 (3.58%) Spotfire
18 23 (3.30%) QlikView
19 22 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 48 (6.88%) Git (software)
2 33 (4.73%) Jenkins
3 32 (4.58%) JIRA
4 19 (2.72%) RStudio
5 17 (2.44%) Visual Studio
6 14 (2.01%) Team Foundation Server
6 14 (2.01%) Visual Studio Team System
7 10 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (1.15%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.15%) Subversion
9 6 (0.86%) FishEye
9 6 (0.86%) Selenium
9 6 (0.86%) Vagrant
10 5 (0.72%) ReSharper
10 5 (0.72%) Toad
11 4 (0.57%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.57%) Maven
12 3 (0.43%) Gradle
12 3 (0.43%) PostCSS
13 2 (0.29%) GitLab
General
1 186 (26.65%) Finance
2 57 (8.17%) Retail
3 50 (7.16%) Front Office
4 49 (7.02%) Marketing
5 40 (5.73%) Banking
6 26 (3.72%) Games
7 20 (2.87%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.15%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.29%) Advertising
9 9 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (1.15%) Law
11 7 (1.00%) Automotive
11 7 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.86%) Electronics
12 6 (0.86%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.72%) Back Office
14 4 (0.57%) French Language
14 4 (0.57%) Publishing
15 3 (0.43%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.29%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (25.79%) Data Scientist
2 140 (20.06%) Developer
3 136 (19.48%) Analyst
4 72 (10.32%) Data Engineer
5 63 (9.03%) Data Analyst
6 46 (6.59%) Consultant
7 43 (6.16%) Architect
8 38 (5.44%) C# Developer
9 31 (4.44%) Data Architect
10 27 (3.87%) SQL Developer
11 26 (3.72%) Data Consultant
11 26 (3.72%) Python Developer
12 23 (3.30%) Python Engineer
13 21 (3.01%) Front Office Developer
14 20 (2.87%) Big Data Engineer
15 18 (2.58%) Big Data Architect
15 18 (2.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 18 (2.58%) Senior Data Scientist
16 17 (2.44%) SQL Analyst
17 16 (2.29%) Insight Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (11.46%) HTML
2 61 (8.74%) Natural Language Processing
3 57 (8.17%) Kafka
4 56 (8.02%) .NET
5 42 (6.02%) HTML5
6 35 (5.01%) TensorFlow
7 26 (3.72%) AngularJS
7 26 (3.72%) CSS
8 21 (3.01%) Pandas
8 21 (3.01%) React
9 19 (2.72%) NumPy
10 17 (2.44%) Web Services
11 16 (2.29%) D3.js
12 15 (2.15%) scikit-learn
12 15 (2.15%) XML
13 14 (2.01%) Node.js
13 14 (2.01%) Theano
14 13 (1.86%) ASP.NET Web API
14 13 (1.86%) Matplotlib
15 12 (1.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 181 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
2 117 (16.76%) Algorithms
3 91 (13.04%) Computer Science
4 23 (3.30%) User Experience
5 19 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 19 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.15%) Fintech
7 13 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.72%) Equities
8 12 (1.72%) Hedge funds
9 11 (1.58%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.43%) Credit Risk
10 10 (1.43%) Reference Data
11 9 (1.29%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.15%) Derivative
12 8 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.15%) Taxonomies
13 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.86%) FMCG
14 6 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.02%) Linux
2 33 (4.73%) Unix
3 19 (2.72%) Windows
4 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.43%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.14%) AIX
6 1 (0.14%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (45.56%) Analytics
2 297 (42.55%) Data Science
3 216 (30.95%) Machine Learning
4 170 (24.36%) Visualisation
5 157 (22.49%) Agile Software Development
6 146 (20.92%) Business Intelligence
7 141 (20.20%) Mathematics
8 128 (18.34%) Statistics
9 107 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
10 93 (13.32%) ETL
11 91 (13.04%) Data Analysis
11 91 (13.04%) Data Analytics
12 79 (11.32%) Data Visualisation
13 76 (10.89%) Data Modelling
14 60 (8.60%) DevOps
15 56 (8.02%) Statistical Modelling
16 55 (7.88%) Software Engineering
17 52 (7.45%) Artificial Intelligence
17 52 (7.45%) Open Source
18 48 (6.88%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 516 (73.93%) Python
2 359 (51.43%) SQL
3 138 (19.77%) Java
4 114 (16.33%) C#
5 92 (13.18%) Scala
6 77 (11.03%) MATLAB
7 59 (8.45%) JavaScript
8 51 (7.31%) VBA
9 35 (5.01%) C++
10 22 (3.15%) Ruby
11 19 (2.72%) Bash Shell
12 18 (2.58%) U-SQL
13 17 (2.44%) C
13 17 (2.44%) PL/SQL
14 16 (2.29%) T-SQL
15 14 (2.01%) Perl
16 13 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
17 12 (1.72%) VB.NET
18 10 (1.43%) TypeScript
19 8 (1.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 106 (15.19%) Degree
2 58 (8.31%) PhD
3 28 (4.01%) Security Cleared
4 24 (3.44%) SC Cleared
5 20 (2.87%) Numerate Degree
6 18 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.57%) MBA
9 2 (0.29%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.14%) CCIE
10 1 (0.14%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (0.14%) CCNP
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.14%) MCSA
10 1 (0.14%) MCSE
10 1 (0.14%) OSCP
10 1 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.31%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.58%) QA
3 19 (2.72%) GDPR
4 14 (2.01%) GCP
5 7 (1.00%) IFRS
5 7 (1.00%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.14%) CDISC
7 1 (0.14%) DO-178B
System Software
1 31 (4.44%) Apache Flume
2 26 (3.72%) Docker
3 14 (2.01%) HDFS
4 5 (0.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (2.01%) Terraform
2 9 (1.29%) Hadoop YARN
3 8 (1.15%) Ansible
4 6 (0.86%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.72%) Kibana
5 5 (0.72%) Oozie
5 5 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.43%) Opscode Chef
6 3 (0.43%) Puppet
7 2 (0.29%) Mesos
8 1 (0.14%) Ambari
8 1 (0.14%) PTC Integrity
8 1 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 116 (16.62%) Tableau
2 75 (10.74%) Oracle
3 71 (10.17%) Microsoft
4 40 (5.73%) Alteryx
4 40 (5.73%) Google
5 32 (4.58%) Cloudera
6 29 (4.15%) Informatica
6 29 (4.15%) MapR
7 28 (4.01%) Hortonworks
8 22 (3.15%) Teradata
9 19 (2.72%) Bloomberg
10 17 (2.44%) SAP
11 16 (2.29%) Talend
12 15 (2.15%) Reuters
13 14 (2.01%) IBM
14 11 (1.58%) RapidMiner
15 9 (1.29%) Databricks
16 7 (1.00%) Adobe
16 7 (1.00%) Capita
16 7 (1.00%) MicroStrategy