Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 13 August 2020

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 13 August 2020 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
13 Aug 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 233 311 349
Rank change year-on-year +78 +38 +30
Contract jobs citing R 331 686 706
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.09% 0.83% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.60% 1.94% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 455 466
Median daily rate £550 £550 £525
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
10th Percentile £360 £363 £347
90th Percentile £750 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 11
Median hourly rate £38.50 £20.96 £22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +83.73% -6.87% -34.78%
10th Percentile £35.00 £16.67 £18.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £30.14 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £20.96 £22.00
% change year-on-year +67.02% -4.75% -36.23%

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 12,729 35,291 41,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.88% 42.65% 44.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,544 24,654 29,529
Median daily rate £500 £475 £475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
90th Percentile £695 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £498 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +4.74% +2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 620 697
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £41.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.43% +1.22%
10th Percentile £17.41 £20.50 £17.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £56.28 £53.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £44.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.45% +7.32% +1.23%

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 13 August 2020.

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 13 August 2020.

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 13 August 2020. 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 +78 256 £550 - 43
South East +128 25 £470 -3.09% 4
North of England +73 19 £450 -11.98% 8
East of England +46 12 £438 -27.08% 4
South West +90 10 £481 -3.75% 7
North West +68 10 £575 +27.78% 4
Yorkshire +47 9 £450 -14.29% 4
Midlands +81 5 £313 -26.47% 7
West Midlands +63 3 £313 -10.71% 5
East Midlands +61 1 - - 2
R
UK

For the 6 months to 13 August 2020, 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.

1 285 (86.10%) Python
2 158 (47.73%) SQL
3 150 (45.32%) Agile Software Development
4 135 (40.79%) AWS
5 134 (40.48%) Finance
6 121 (36.56%) Java
7 103 (31.12%) Analytics
8 102 (30.82%) Asset Management
9 97 (29.31%) Web Services
10 93 (28.10%) Fixed Income
11 91 (27.49%) Azure
12 89 (26.89%) Derivative
13 86 (25.98%) Front Office
13 86 (25.98%) Data Science
14 75 (22.66%) Software Engineering
15 73 (22.05%) DevOps
16 70 (21.15%) Equities
16 70 (21.15%) Decision-Making
17 68 (20.54%) Business Intelligence
17 68 (20.54%) Docker
17 68 (20.54%) Kubernetes
18 64 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
19 61 (18.43%) Visualisation
20 57 (17.22%) Machine Learning
21 56 (16.92%) GCP
21 56 (16.92%) Amazon RDS
22 53 (16.01%) Terraform
22 53 (16.01%) Artifactory
23 52 (15.71%) OpenShift
24 51 (15.41%) Jenkins

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 30 (9.06%) SAS
2 25 (7.55%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.72%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.51%) Apache
5 3 (0.91%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.91%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.91%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.60%) Confluence
7 1 (0.30%) R Markdown
Applications
1 41 (12.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.30%) SPSS
5 1 (0.30%) Stata
Business Applications
1 6 (1.81%) Markit EDM
1 6 (1.81%) PolarLake
2 3 (0.91%) Eagle PACE
2 3 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Primavera
3 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 135 (40.79%) AWS
2 91 (27.49%) Azure
3 56 (16.92%) GCP
4 52 (15.71%) OpenShift
5 45 (13.60%) Amazon ECS
6 44 (13.29%) Power Platform
6 44 (13.29%) Serverless
7 43 (12.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 42 (12.69%) Amazon S3
8 42 (12.69%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (12.39%) Amazon EC2
9 41 (12.39%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (2.72%) GitHub
11 6 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.81%) PaaS
12 5 (1.51%) SaaS
13 4 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.91%) Azure Active Directory
14 3 (0.91%) Google Analytics
15 2 (0.60%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.21%) SSL
2 3 (0.91%) DNS
2 3 (0.91%) HTTP
3 2 (0.60%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.60%) Skype
4 1 (0.30%) Internet
4 1 (0.30%) LAN
4 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (16.92%) Amazon RDS
2 44 (13.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 44 (13.29%) Power BI
3 38 (11.48%) Big Data
4 31 (9.37%) Hadoop
5 29 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (6.65%) SQL Server
7 21 (6.34%) Relational Database
8 17 (5.14%) Data Mining
8 17 (5.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 16 (4.83%) NoSQL
10 13 (3.93%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (3.93%) RDBMS
11 10 (3.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 9 (2.72%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (2.72%) Apache Hive
12 9 (2.72%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (1.81%) Looker
15 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 53 (16.01%) Artifactory
2 51 (15.41%) Jenkins
3 50 (15.11%) RStudio
4 22 (6.65%) Git (software)
5 10 (3.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (2.42%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (1.81%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.51%) JIRA
8 5 (1.51%) Maven
8 5 (1.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (1.51%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.21%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.60%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.60%) GitLab
10 2 (0.60%) Snyk
10 2 (0.60%) Subversion
10 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Team System
11 1 (0.30%) ERwin
11 1 (0.30%) JUnit
11 1 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 134 (40.48%) Finance
2 86 (25.98%) Front Office
3 19 (5.74%) Banking
4 14 (4.23%) Marketing
5 10 (3.02%) Investment Banking
5 10 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
5 10 (3.02%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.42%) Retail
7 5 (1.51%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.21%) Electronics
8 4 (1.21%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.91%) Back Office
9 3 (0.91%) Legal
10 2 (0.60%) Advertising
10 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.60%) Games
10 2 (0.60%) Local Government
10 2 (0.60%) Publishing
11 1 (0.30%) Billing
11 1 (0.30%) German Language
Job Titles
1 92 (27.79%) Developer
2 60 (18.13%) Data Scientist
3 54 (16.31%) Analyst
4 47 (14.20%) Python Developer
5 41 (12.39%) AWS Developer
6 39 (11.78%) AWS Engineer
7 37 (11.18%) Java Developer
8 33 (9.97%) Java Software Developer
9 32 (9.67%) Lead Developer
10 27 (8.16%) Python Engineer
11 25 (7.55%) Data Analyst
11 25 (7.55%) Java Engineer
11 25 (7.55%) Lead Java Developer
11 25 (7.55%) Lead Software Developer
12 24 (7.25%) Data Engineer
13 23 (6.95%) DevOps Engineer
14 21 (6.34%) Architect
14 21 (6.34%) AWS DevOps
15 20 (6.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 17 (5.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (29.31%) Web Services
2 41 (12.39%) J2EE
2 41 (12.39%) J2SE
3 26 (7.85%) Shiny
4 23 (6.95%) React
5 22 (6.65%) AngularJS
6 15 (4.53%) TensorFlow
7 14 (4.23%) .NET
7 14 (4.23%) gRPC
7 14 (4.23%) Protocol Buffers
8 13 (3.93%) Natural Language Processing
8 13 (3.93%) Node.js
9 10 (3.02%) Vue.js
10 8 (2.42%) HTML
11 7 (2.11%) XML
12 6 (1.81%) CSS
12 6 (1.81%) D3.js
12 6 (1.81%) Pandas
12 6 (1.81%) scikit-learn
12 6 (1.81%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 93 (28.10%) Fixed Income
2 89 (26.89%) Derivative
3 70 (21.15%) Equities
4 64 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (13.90%) Hedge funds
6 27 (8.16%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (5.74%) Reference Data
8 17 (5.14%) Algorithms
9 14 (4.23%) Credit Derivative
10 13 (3.93%) OTC Derivatives
11 12 (3.63%) Public Cloud
12 9 (2.72%) Blog
12 9 (2.72%) Equity Derivative
13 8 (2.42%) Cloud Native
14 6 (1.81%) Management Information System
15 5 (1.51%) Market Risk
15 5 (1.51%) NHS
15 5 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
16 4 (1.21%) Data Structures
17 3 (0.91%) User Experience
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.63%) Linux
2 10 (3.02%) Unix
3 2 (0.60%) CentOS
3 2 (0.60%) CoreOS
3 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (45.32%) Agile Software Development
2 103 (31.12%) Analytics
3 102 (30.82%) Asset Management
4 86 (25.98%) Data Science
5 75 (22.66%) Software Engineering
6 73 (22.05%) DevOps
7 70 (21.15%) Decision-Making
8 68 (20.54%) Business Intelligence
9 61 (18.43%) Visualisation
10 57 (17.22%) Machine Learning
11 50 (15.11%) Investment Management
12 49 (14.80%) Data Analysis
13 46 (13.90%) Scrum
14 41 (12.39%) Deployment Automation
14 41 (12.39%) Statistics
15 39 (11.78%) Mathematics
15 39 (11.78%) Migration
16 34 (10.27%) Data Modelling
17 32 (9.67%) ETL
18 31 (9.37%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 285 (86.10%) Python
2 158 (47.73%) SQL
3 121 (36.56%) Java
4 39 (11.78%) JavaScript
5 22 (6.65%) VBA
6 19 (5.74%) T-SQL
7 16 (4.83%) C
7 16 (4.83%) C++
8 15 (4.53%) MATLAB
9 14 (4.23%) C#
10 7 (2.11%) Scala
11 6 (1.81%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.81%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.51%) Bash Shell
12 5 (1.51%) CQL
12 5 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
12 5 (1.51%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.21%) Go
14 3 (0.91%) Groovy
14 3 (0.91%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (11.48%) Degree
2 35 (10.57%) Security Cleared
3 27 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.02%) PhD
5 9 (2.72%) Numerate Degree
6 8 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.91%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) CFA
8 1 (0.30%) HND
8 1 (0.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.74%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.81%) QA
3 3 (0.91%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.30%) CDISC
4 1 (0.30%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.30%) EMIR
4 1 (0.30%) GDPR
4 1 (0.30%) MiFID
4 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
4 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (20.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 68 (20.54%) Kubernetes
2 53 (16.01%) Terraform
3 3 (0.91%) Ansible
3 3 (0.91%) Grafana
3 3 (0.91%) logstash
4 1 (0.30%) Opscode Chef
Vendors
1 44 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.88%) Tableau
3 23 (6.95%) Google
4 21 (6.34%) Bloomberg
5 20 (6.04%) Databricks
6 15 (4.53%) Oracle
7 12 (3.63%) SAP
8 8 (2.42%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.51%) BMC
9 5 (1.51%) Hortonworks
9 5 (1.51%) Sybase
10 4 (1.21%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.21%) Teradata
11 3 (0.91%) Birst
11 3 (0.91%) Informatica
11 3 (0.91%) Sparx
12 2 (0.60%) Adobe
12 2 (0.60%) Confluent
12 2 (0.60%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.60%) Veracode