Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 January 2021

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 2021 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 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 250 277 378
Rank change year-on-year +27 +101 -48
Contract jobs citing R 340 610 626
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.98% 0.94% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.33% 2.28% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 389 356
Median daily rate £500 £525 £494
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.33% -5.05%
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
90th Percentile £672 £781 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 11 2
Median hourly rate £26.25 £31.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -15.32% -31.11% +109.30%
10th Percentile £17.98 £21.66 £42.50
90th Percentile £58.38 £53.75 £47.50
UK median hourly rate £26.25 £25.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year +5.00% -28.06% +26.36%

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 14,579 26,719 40,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.05% 41.04% 44.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,271 18,938 29,230
Median daily rate £481 £488 £480
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.56% +1.05%
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 479 586
Median hourly rate £42.50 £44.00 £42.27
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -3.41% +4.11% +5.66%
10th Percentile £13.78 £16.50 £17.50
90th Percentile £58.75 £55.00 £52.38
Median hourly rate £42.50 £43.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -2.30% +3.57% +5.00%

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 2021.

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 2021.

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 2021. 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 -12 223 £550 - 64
North of England +111 41 £375 -26.83% 11
Yorkshire +72 26 £183 -61.47% 4
South West +66 22 £490 +5.95% 6
East of England +59 17 £394 -34.38% 10
North West +54 15 £425 -25.11% 7
South East +67 12 £425 -10.53% 14
Midlands +38 4 £438 +2.94% 12
West Midlands +30 3 £438 +2.94% 8
East Midlands +35 1 - - 4
R
UK

For the 6 months to 25 January 2021, 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.

1 263 (77.35%) Python
2 147 (43.24%) SQL
3 117 (34.41%) Agile Software Development
4 113 (33.24%) Analytics
5 98 (28.82%) AWS
5 98 (28.82%) Finance
6 92 (27.06%) Data Science
7 82 (24.12%) Azure
8 78 (22.94%) Java
9 76 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
10 71 (20.88%) Visualisation
11 67 (19.71%) Machine Learning
12 63 (18.53%) Business Intelligence
13 57 (16.76%) Software Engineering
13 57 (16.76%) GCP
14 56 (16.47%) Web Services
15 55 (16.18%) SAS
16 48 (14.12%) Fixed Income
16 48 (14.12%) Derivative
17 45 (13.24%) Data Analysis
17 45 (13.24%) Power Platform
17 45 (13.24%) Power BI
18 43 (12.65%) Data Management
18 43 (12.65%) Investment Management
19 42 (12.35%) Apache Spark
20 41 (12.06%) Big Data
20 41 (12.06%) Shiny
21 39 (11.47%) Data Analytics
21 39 (11.47%) Tableau
22 37 (10.88%) Statistics

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 55 (16.18%) SAS
2 42 (12.35%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.82%) Confluence
4 12 (3.53%) Apache
5 7 (2.06%) Jupyter
6 4 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.59%) Apache Synapse
7 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.53%) SPSS
3 6 (1.76%) Stata
4 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.29%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 98 (28.82%) AWS
2 82 (24.12%) Azure
3 57 (16.76%) GCP
4 45 (13.24%) Power Platform
5 20 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 17 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (4.41%) Serverless
8 14 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (2.65%) OpenShift
12 8 (2.35%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.76%) GitHub
14 5 (1.47%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (1.47%) PaaS
14 5 (1.47%) SaaS
14 5 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (1.18%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.76%) Network Security
1 6 (1.76%) VPN
2 3 (0.88%) BIG-IP
2 3 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 3 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (0.88%) H.323
2 3 (0.88%) MGCP
2 3 (0.88%) NX-OS
2 3 (0.88%) Sourcefire
2 3 (0.88%) SSL
2 3 (0.88%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.88%) Unified Communications
2 3 (0.88%) VoIP
2 3 (0.88%) Wireless
3 2 (0.59%) 2G
3 2 (0.59%) 3G
3 2 (0.59%) Firewall
3 2 (0.59%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.24%) Power BI
2 41 (12.06%) Big Data
3 39 (11.47%) Tableau
4 29 (8.53%) Hadoop
5 27 (7.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 22 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (6.47%) Relational Database
6 22 (6.47%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 20 (5.88%) SQL Server
8 19 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (5.29%) Apache Hive
10 17 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (4.71%) NoSQL
12 11 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (2.35%) Data Lake
13 8 (2.35%) Geospatial Data
13 8 (2.35%) Spotfire
14 7 (2.06%) MySQL
14 7 (2.06%) Spark SQL
15 6 (1.76%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 29 (8.53%) RStudio
2 21 (6.18%) Jenkins
2 21 (6.18%) JIRA
3 16 (4.71%) Git (software)
4 8 (2.35%) Artifactory
5 5 (1.47%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (1.47%) Subversion
6 4 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.88%) Maven
7 3 (0.88%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.59%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.59%) Selenium
8 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.29%) Ant
9 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.29%) FishEye
9 1 (0.29%) JProfiler
9 1 (0.29%) TestNG
General
1 98 (28.82%) Finance
2 35 (10.29%) Front Office
3 34 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
5 16 (4.71%) Banking
6 11 (3.24%) Marketing
7 6 (1.76%) Publishing
7 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.18%) Electronics
8 4 (1.18%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.88%) Games
9 3 (0.88%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.59%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.59%) Local Government
10 2 (0.59%) Retail
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Automotive
11 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.29%) Law
11 1 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 85 (25.00%) Developer
2 67 (19.71%) Analyst
3 54 (15.88%) Data Scientist
4 52 (15.29%) Data Analyst
5 39 (11.47%) Data Engineer
6 38 (11.18%) Python Developer
7 26 (7.65%) Front Office Developer
7 26 (7.65%) JavaScript Developer
8 18 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (4.71%) Programmer
10 15 (4.41%) Data Manager
10 15 (4.41%) Python Engineer
11 12 (3.53%) Architect
11 12 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 11 (3.24%) Lead Developer
13 10 (2.94%) Java Developer
13 10 (2.94%) Senior Data Scientist
14 9 (2.65%) AWS Developer
14 9 (2.65%) Software Engineer
15 8 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (16.47%) Web Services
2 41 (12.06%) Shiny
3 29 (8.53%) AngularJS
4 27 (7.94%) React
5 26 (7.65%) Vue.js
6 11 (3.24%) Kafka
7 9 (2.65%) J2EE
7 9 (2.65%) Natural Language Processing
8 8 (2.35%) J2SE
8 8 (2.35%) scikit-learn
9 7 (2.06%) NumPy
10 6 (1.76%) Pandas
11 5 (1.47%) REST
11 5 (1.47%) Spring
12 4 (1.18%) HTML
12 4 (1.18%) XML
13 3 (0.88%) gRPC
13 3 (0.88%) JSON
13 3 (0.88%) Protocol Buffers
13 3 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 76 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
2 48 (14.12%) Derivative
2 48 (14.12%) Fixed Income
3 34 (10.00%) Equities
4 18 (5.29%) Algorithms
5 16 (4.71%) Data Structures
6 15 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (4.12%) Credit Derivative
7 14 (4.12%) Hedge funds
8 11 (3.24%) NHS
9 7 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.06%) Lidar
9 7 (2.06%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.76%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.47%) FMCG
11 5 (1.47%) Life Science
12 4 (1.18%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.18%) Social Media
13 3 (0.88%) PlayStation
13 3 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.29%) Linux
2 7 (2.06%) Unix
3 6 (1.76%) Windows
4 1 (0.29%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (34.41%) Agile Software Development
2 113 (33.24%) Analytics
3 92 (27.06%) Data Science
4 71 (20.88%) Visualisation
5 67 (19.71%) Machine Learning
6 63 (18.53%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (16.76%) Software Engineering
8 45 (13.24%) Data Analysis
9 43 (12.65%) Data Management
9 43 (12.65%) Investment Management
10 39 (11.47%) Data Analytics
11 37 (10.88%) Statistics
12 35 (10.29%) DevOps
13 33 (9.71%) Data Modelling
13 33 (9.71%) Mathematics
14 31 (9.12%) Data Visualisation
15 28 (8.24%) Migration
16 27 (7.94%) Asset Management
16 27 (7.94%) Scrum
17 26 (7.65%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 263 (77.35%) Python
2 147 (43.24%) SQL
3 78 (22.94%) Java
4 37 (10.88%) JavaScript
5 25 (7.35%) Scala
6 15 (4.41%) C
7 9 (2.65%) Bash Shell
7 9 (2.65%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.65%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.06%) MATLAB
9 6 (1.76%) C#
9 6 (1.76%) VBA
10 5 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.47%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.88%) C++
11 3 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
11 3 (0.88%) HiveQL
11 3 (0.88%) Perl
11 3 (0.88%) Ruby
12 2 (0.59%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (10.29%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.53%) Degree
3 24 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.12%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.24%) PhD
6 9 (2.65%) Numerate Degree
7 7 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.88%) CCNP
10 3 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.88%) PMP
11 2 (0.59%) CCNA
12 1 (0.29%) CCIE
12 1 (0.29%) CFA
12 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.29%) ISEB
12 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.29%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.65%) QA
3 4 (1.18%) CDISC
4 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.29%) SLA
4 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
4 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (8.53%) Docker
2 6 (1.76%) HDFS
3 5 (1.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 3 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.59%) Terraform
3 10 (2.94%) Ansible
4 6 (1.76%) Kibana
5 4 (1.18%) Opscode Chef
6 3 (0.88%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.88%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.88%) Puppet
7 2 (0.59%) Salt
7 2 (0.59%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.29%) Argo
8 1 (0.29%) logstash
8 1 (0.29%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 25 (7.35%) Google
2 24 (7.06%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.76%) Databricks
4 18 (5.29%) Oracle
5 10 (2.94%) SAP
5 10 (2.94%) Talend
6 8 (2.35%) Adobe
7 6 (1.76%) Informatica
8 5 (1.47%) Hortonworks
8 5 (1.47%) Vertica
9 4 (1.18%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.18%) Sparx
9 4 (1.18%) Teradata
10 3 (0.88%) ExtraHop
10 3 (0.88%) F5
10 3 (0.88%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (0.88%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.88%) Splunk
10 3 (0.88%) VMware