RStudio Contract Job Trends in England

RStudio
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring RStudio skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 527 603
Rank change year-on-year +14 +76 +182
Contract jobs citing RStudio 7 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.024% 0.012%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.17% 0.18% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 3
10th Percentile £456 £455 £510
25th Percentile £503 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% - +25.71%
75th Percentile £641 £588 £575
90th Percentile £664 £600 £590
UK median daily rate £573 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +4.09% +10.00% +17.65%

All Development Application Skills
England

RStudio falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,108 4,390 5,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.90% 13.38% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 2,815 3,957
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.55%
75th Percentile £603 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 169 228
10th Percentile £42.50 £37.39 £46.18
25th Percentile £52.25 £54.36 £53.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.63
90th Percentile £78.25 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

RStudio
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RStudio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RStudio in England

RStudio
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RStudio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RStudio

RStudio
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RStudio in England over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RStudio in England

RStudio
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RStudio.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing RStudio

RStudio
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 RStudio within the England region over the 6 months to 21 September 2025. 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 +21 5 £573 +4.09% 1
RStudio
UK

RStudio
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 4 (57.14%) Apache
1 4 (57.14%) Apache Spark
1 4 (57.14%) Jupyter
2 2 (28.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Apache Hive
1 4 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (57.14%) Delta Lake
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) JSON
1 4 (57.14%) pydantic
1 4 (57.14%) PySpark
1 4 (57.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Structures
1 4 (57.14%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (57.14%) Reference Data
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Data Ingestion
1 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (57.14%) Data Security
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
2 4 (57.14%) Scala
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Rancher
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) VMware