Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 29 July 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 29 July 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
29 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 286 248 334
Rank change year-on-year -38 +86 +6
Contract jobs citing R 508 338 682
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.89% 1.04% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.19% 2.48% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 271 446
10th Percentile £289 £375 £363
25th Percentile £400 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% +0.46% +4.29%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £617
90th Percentile £650 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 8
10th Percentile £17.92 £20.75 £16.67
25th Percentile £20.00 £37.75 £16.99
Median hourly rate £24.75 £38.50 £21.48
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +79.26% -3.47%
75th Percentile £45.85 £58.00 £25.24
90th Percentile £65.54 £72.00 £28.92
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £38.50 £20.96
% change year-on-year -33.77% +83.73% -4.75%

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 23,216 13,647 35,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.62% 41.80% 42.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,669 9,755 25,318
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 243 590
10th Percentile £16.84 £15.35 £20.31
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.50 £34.25
Median hourly rate £42.81 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% -5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £64.55 £60.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £44.96
% change year-on-year - -5.47% +11.01%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -112 277 £525 -4.55% 109
South East 0 73 £500 +5.16% 13
North of England -11 36 £500 +11.11% 18
South West +4 31 £600 +33.33% 5
Midlands -22 28 £490 +18.79% 12
West Midlands -14 26 £493 +19.39% 6
Yorkshire -7 23 £500 +11.11% 5
North West -28 11 £501 -4.52% 12
East of England -14 6 £338 -27.03% 7
East Midlands -15 2 £310 - 6
North East - 2 - - 1
R
UK

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 401 (78.94%) Python
2 294 (57.87%) SQL
3 208 (40.94%) Analytics
4 207 (40.75%) Data Science
5 186 (36.61%) Analytical Skills
6 160 (31.50%) Visualisation
7 159 (31.30%) Machine Learning
8 131 (25.79%) Business Intelligence
9 124 (24.41%) Azure
10 122 (24.02%) Agile Software Development
11 120 (23.62%) Mathematics
11 120 (23.62%) Social Skills
12 117 (23.03%) AWS
13 116 (22.83%) Statistics
14 114 (22.44%) Data Analysis
15 110 (21.65%) Finance
16 109 (21.46%) Degree
17 95 (18.70%) Power BI
17 95 (18.70%) Power Platform
18 88 (17.32%) Data Modelling
19 86 (16.93%) ETL
19 86 (16.93%) Data Visualisation
19 86 (16.93%) Algorithms
20 84 (16.54%) Java
21 79 (15.55%) Computer Science
22 77 (15.16%) Security Cleared
22 77 (15.16%) Microsoft Excel
23 74 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
24 73 (14.37%) SAS
25 71 (13.98%) Tableau

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 73 (14.37%) SAS
2 64 (12.60%) Apache Spark
3 27 (5.31%) Confluence
3 27 (5.31%) Jupyter
4 6 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.98%) Apache
5 5 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.59%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.59%) R Markdown
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 77 (15.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (5.12%) SPSS
3 22 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (3.74%) Stata
5 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.39%) Oracle ASCP
3 2 (0.39%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.39%) SAP R/3
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.20%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
4 1 (0.20%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 124 (24.41%) Azure
2 117 (23.03%) AWS
3 95 (18.70%) Power Platform
4 38 (7.48%) GCP
5 19 (3.74%) GitHub
6 17 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (2.17%) Amazon S3
8 8 (1.57%) Amazon SageMaker
8 8 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (1.57%) Google Analytics
9 5 (0.98%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (0.98%) Serverless
10 4 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (0.79%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (0.59%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.59%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.57%) LAN
2 4 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.59%) Internet
4 2 (0.39%) 2G
4 2 (0.39%) 3G
4 2 (0.39%) 4G
4 2 (0.39%) 5G
4 2 (0.39%) DNS
4 2 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.20%) Firewall
5 1 (0.20%) Intranet
5 1 (0.20%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (18.70%) Power BI
2 71 (13.98%) Tableau
3 61 (12.01%) Big Data
4 55 (10.83%) Data Mining
4 55 (10.83%) Relational Database
5 54 (10.63%) Hadoop
6 50 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
7 37 (7.28%) NoSQL
8 36 (7.09%) SQL Server
9 34 (6.69%) Apache Hive
10 30 (5.91%) MySQL
11 26 (5.12%) QlikView
12 22 (4.33%) Data Lake
13 21 (4.13%) HBase
14 18 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (3.35%) GIS
15 17 (3.35%) Pentaho
16 14 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
17 13 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 57 (11.22%) Git (software)
2 35 (6.89%) JIRA
3 28 (5.51%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.13%) Bitbucket
5 15 (2.95%) RStudio
6 9 (1.77%) Maven
7 8 (1.57%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.57%) FishEye
7 8 (1.57%) JUnit
7 8 (1.57%) Selenium
7 8 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.57%) Subversion
7 8 (1.57%) TestNG
8 7 (1.38%) GitLab
9 4 (0.79%) MLflow
10 3 (0.59%) ERwin
10 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.39%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.39%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.20%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 186 (36.61%) Analytical Skills
2 120 (23.62%) Social Skills
3 110 (21.65%) Finance
4 68 (13.39%) Public Sector
5 56 (11.02%) Marketing
6 38 (7.48%) Presentation Skills
7 26 (5.12%) Front Office
8 19 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (3.35%) Telecoms
10 16 (3.15%) Manufacturing
10 16 (3.15%) Retail
11 13 (2.56%) Banking
12 11 (2.17%) Local Government
12 11 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.57%) Multimedia
15 7 (1.38%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.18%) Electronics
17 5 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 152 (29.92%) Data Scientist
2 129 (25.39%) Analyst
3 77 (15.16%) Data Analyst
4 68 (13.39%) Developer
5 61 (12.01%) Data Engineer
6 37 (7.28%) Senior Data Scientist
7 23 (4.53%) Python Developer
8 22 (4.33%) Architect
9 16 (3.15%) Front Office Developer
9 16 (3.15%) JavaScript Developer
10 14 (2.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 13 (2.56%) Consultant
12 12 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (2.17%) Data Consultant
14 10 (1.97%) Data Architect
15 9 (1.77%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (1.77%) Power BI Developer
15 9 (1.77%) Python Engineer
15 9 (1.77%) Software Engineer
15 9 (1.77%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.43%) Shiny
2 34 (6.69%) TensorFlow
3 33 (6.50%) AngularJS
4 32 (6.30%) NumPy
5 30 (5.91%) Web Services
6 23 (4.53%) React
7 22 (4.33%) PyTorch
8 20 (3.94%) Pandas
9 19 (3.74%) D3.js
10 17 (3.35%) XML
11 16 (3.15%) Akka
11 16 (3.15%) JSON
11 16 (3.15%) Keras
11 16 (3.15%) Vue.js
12 15 (2.95%) PySpark
13 13 (2.56%) Node.js
14 11 (2.17%) scikit-learn
15 10 (1.97%) Spring
16 8 (1.57%) Java EE
16 8 (1.57%) Java EE 5
Miscellaneous
1 86 (16.93%) Algorithms
2 30 (5.91%) Management Information System
2 30 (5.91%) Social Media
3 20 (3.94%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (3.35%) Derivative
6 16 (3.15%) Equities
6 16 (3.15%) Fixed Income
7 11 (2.17%) Credit Risk
8 9 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.57%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.57%) Market Risk
9 8 (1.57%) Replication
9 8 (1.57%) Swaptions
10 7 (1.38%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.38%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.18%) NHS
11 6 (1.18%) PlayStation
12 5 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.50%) Linux
2 30 (5.91%) Windows
3 24 (4.72%) Unix
4 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (40.94%) Analytics
2 207 (40.75%) Data Science
3 160 (31.50%) Visualisation
4 159 (31.30%) Machine Learning
5 131 (25.79%) Business Intelligence
6 122 (24.02%) Agile Software Development
7 120 (23.62%) Mathematics
8 116 (22.83%) Statistics
9 114 (22.44%) Data Analysis
10 88 (17.32%) Data Modelling
11 86 (16.93%) Data Visualisation
11 86 (16.93%) ETL
12 79 (15.55%) Computer Science
13 74 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
14 65 (12.80%) Decision-Making
15 58 (11.42%) Data Analytics
16 57 (11.22%) Statistical Analysis
17 53 (10.43%) Software Engineering
17 53 (10.43%) Statistical Modelling
18 50 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 401 (78.94%) Python
2 294 (57.87%) SQL
3 84 (16.54%) Java
4 53 (10.43%) VBA
5 49 (9.65%) Scala
6 39 (7.68%) JavaScript
7 27 (5.31%) C++
8 24 (4.72%) T-SQL
9 19 (3.74%) MATLAB
10 17 (3.35%) Perl
11 16 (3.15%) HiveQL
12 15 (2.95%) PL/SQL
13 14 (2.76%) Shell Script
14 11 (2.17%) C#
15 10 (1.97%) Java 8
16 9 (1.77%) TypeScript
17 7 (1.38%) C
17 7 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
18 6 (1.18%) Bash Shell
18 6 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 109 (21.46%) Degree
2 77 (15.16%) Security Cleared
3 68 (13.39%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.13%) Numerate Degree
5 18 (3.54%) PhD
6 16 (3.15%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.98%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.59%) HND
11 3 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.20%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.20%) CBAP
13 1 (0.20%) MCSD
13 1 (0.20%) MCSE
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (11.61%) Data Quality
2 32 (6.30%) QA
3 7 (1.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (0.79%) CDISC
5 2 (0.39%) IFRS
5 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.39%) NCSC
5 2 (0.39%) NIST
5 2 (0.39%) RMADS
6 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.20%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.20%) EMIR
6 1 (0.20%) MiFID
6 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (5.91%) Docker
2 17 (3.35%) HDFS
3 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 12 (2.36%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.77%) Ansible
2 9 (1.77%) Terraform
3 4 (0.79%) Kibana
4 2 (0.39%) BladeLogic
4 2 (0.39%) collectd
4 2 (0.39%) Fluentd
4 2 (0.39%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.39%) logstash
5 1 (0.20%) Control-M
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.20%) Oozie
Vendors
1 54 (10.63%) Microsoft
2 48 (9.45%) Oracle
3 32 (6.30%) Databricks
4 28 (5.51%) Salesforce.com
5 26 (5.12%) Google
6 24 (4.72%) Alteryx
7 20 (3.94%) Talend
8 17 (3.35%) Informatica
9 15 (2.95%) SAP
10 11 (2.17%) Adobe
11 8 (1.57%) IBM
12 7 (1.38%) Minitab
13 6 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 6 (1.18%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.98%) MicroStrategy
14 5 (0.98%) Teradata
15 4 (0.79%) Cloudera
15 4 (0.79%) Sparx
16 3 (0.59%) Intel
17 2 (0.39%) HP