R Contracts in England

R
UK > England

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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 409 375
Rank change year-on-year +35 -34 -88
Contract jobs citing R 168 274 490
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.54% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.54% 1.54% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 172 331
10th Percentile £355 £339 £310
25th Percentile £397 £461 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -1.64%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £640
90th Percentile £763 £786 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 21 27
10th Percentile £24.75 £20.47 £19.52
25th Percentile £26.24 £22.16 £22.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +86.67% +41.51%
75th Percentile £52.50 £75.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £77.75 - £65.52
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -39.29% +86.67% +41.51%

All Programming Languages
England

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,937 17,763 26,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.44% 35.31% 36.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,945 12,962 19,302
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 425 457
10th Percentile £35.52 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.00 £49.68 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.43
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% +13.64%

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 1 May 2024.

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for R in England

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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 1 May 2024. 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 +49 103 £580 -3.33% 236
Midlands +44 18 £450 +12.78% 42
South East -2 10 £350 -36.36% 59
West Midlands +36 9 £550 +177.78% 26
East Midlands +25 9 £363 -39.58% 16
East of England +1 8 £388 +29.17% 20
North of England -7 6 £513 -6.82% 50
South West +7 5 £525 +10.53% 15
North West -5 5 £513 -21.15% 33
North East - 1 - - 6
R
UK

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 16 (9.52%) SAS
2 6 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.19%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.60%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (6.55%) SPSS
2 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Primavera
2 1 (0.60%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 38 (22.62%) Azure
2 35 (20.83%) Power Platform
3 30 (17.86%) AWS
4 21 (12.50%) GCP
5 6 (3.57%) Power Automate
6 5 (2.98%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.38%) GitHub
8 3 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.79%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.19%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.19%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.19%) Google Data Studio
9 2 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.60%) Serverless
10 1 (0.60%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.60%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (20.83%) Power BI
2 29 (17.26%) Tableau
3 19 (11.31%) Big Data
4 16 (9.52%) Hadoop
5 11 (6.55%) BusinessObjects
6 9 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 8 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (4.76%) Qlik Sense
8 6 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.98%) Data Mining
9 5 (2.98%) Impala
9 5 (2.98%) Looker
9 5 (2.98%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.38%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.79%) MySQL
11 3 (1.79%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.38%) RStudio
2 3 (1.79%) JIRA
3 2 (1.19%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.19%) Git
4 1 (0.60%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.60%) Toad
4 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (35.12%) Analytical Skills
2 57 (33.93%) Finance
3 44 (26.19%) Social Skills
4 16 (9.52%) Front Office
5 15 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.14%) Banking
7 9 (5.36%) Marketing
7 9 (5.36%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (3.57%) Police
8 6 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.98%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.79%) Advertising
10 3 (1.79%) Legal
10 3 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.79%) Retail
10 3 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.19%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.19%) Law
11 2 (1.19%) Local Government
11 2 (1.19%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (23.21%) Analyst
2 34 (20.24%) Data Scientist
3 33 (19.64%) Developer
4 28 (16.67%) Data Analyst
5 17 (10.12%) Python Developer
5 17 (10.12%) Quantitative Developer
6 14 (8.33%) Finance Manager
7 13 (7.74%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Senior
9 8 (4.76%) SIEM Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Lead
10 6 (3.57%) Qualitative Analyst
10 6 (3.57%) Quantitative Analyst
10 6 (3.57%) SQL Analyst
10 6 (3.57%) SQL Data Analyst
11 5 (2.98%) Consultant
11 5 (2.98%) Credit Analyst
12 4 (2.38%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 4 (2.38%) Data Architect
12 4 (2.38%) Econometrician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (4.17%) D3.js
3 6 (3.57%) PySpark
4 5 (2.98%) Shiny
5 3 (1.79%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.79%) React
5 3 (1.79%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.79%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.19%) .NET
6 2 (1.19%) GeoPandas
6 2 (1.19%) HTML
6 2 (1.19%) JSON
6 2 (1.19%) Kafka
6 2 (1.19%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.19%) NumPy
6 2 (1.19%) Pandas
7 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.60%) ODBC
7 1 (0.60%) OLE
7 1 (0.60%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 24 (14.29%) Derivative
2 20 (11.90%) Hedge funds
3 18 (10.71%) Fixed Income
4 14 (8.33%) Equities
5 8 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.57%) Credit Derivative
6 6 (3.57%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.98%) Social Media
8 4 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.19%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.19%) Multi-touch
10 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.60%) Genomics
11 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.14%) Windows
2 9 (5.36%) Linux
3 8 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (35.71%) Visualisation
2 51 (30.36%) Data Analysis
2 51 (30.36%) Data Science
3 47 (27.98%) Business Intelligence
4 42 (25.00%) Analytics
5 40 (23.81%) Data Modelling
6 35 (20.83%) Statistics
7 34 (20.24%) Agile
7 34 (20.24%) Data Visualisation
7 34 (20.24%) Mathematics
8 32 (19.05%) Machine Learning
9 25 (14.88%) Computer Science
9 25 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (13.10%) Software Engineering
11 17 (10.12%) Asset Management
11 17 (10.12%) Predictive Modelling
11 17 (10.12%) Quantitative Research
12 16 (9.52%) Investment Management
13 14 (8.33%) Data Analytics
13 14 (8.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 143 (85.12%) Python
2 76 (45.24%) SQL
3 13 (7.74%) Java
4 8 (4.76%) C#
4 8 (4.76%) Scala
5 7 (4.17%) C++
6 5 (2.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (2.98%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.98%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.79%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.79%) PHP
8 2 (1.19%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.60%) Bash
9 1 (0.60%) Julia
9 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (20.83%) Degree
2 22 (13.10%) Security Cleared
3 17 (10.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (10.12%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.55%) Master's Degree
5 10 (5.95%) Numerate Degree
6 8 (4.76%) PhD
7 4 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.79%) CIMA
9 2 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.19%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.60%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.60%) MCITP
10 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.60%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.57%) QA
3 4 (2.38%) PMO
4 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.19%) NCSC
4 2 (1.19%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) Basel II
5 1 (0.60%) Basel III
5 1 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.60%) CDISC
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.76%) iptables
3 3 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.76%) Kibana
1 8 (4.76%) logstash
2 3 (1.79%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (8.33%) Bloomberg
2 13 (7.74%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.76%) SAP
4 7 (4.17%) Databricks
4 7 (4.17%) Google
5 3 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.19%) ESRI
6 2 (1.19%) IBM
6 2 (1.19%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.60%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.60%) Cognos
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle
7 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.60%) Snow
7 1 (0.60%) Workday