Shiny Contracts in England

R Shiny
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Shiny skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Shiny over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 535 641
Rank change year-on-year +59 +106 +113
Contract jobs citing Shiny 9 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.019% 0.024%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.093% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile £375 £335 £408
25th Percentile £381 £369 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £492 £473
Median % change year-on-year -21.16% +4.02% +16.67%
75th Percentile £477 £583 £530
90th Percentile £774 - £575
UK median daily rate £388 £492 £473
% change year-on-year -21.16% +4.02% +14.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Shiny falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Shiny
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Shiny in England

Shiny
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Shiny in England.

Daily rate trend for Shiny in England

Shiny
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Shiny in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Shiny 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 Shiny within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +38 4 £613 +5.19% 8
Midlands - 4 £388 -
West Midlands - 4 £388 -
North of England +19 1 £350 - 1
North West +17 1 £350 -
Shiny
UK

Shiny
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 3 (33.33%) R Markdown
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
1 3 (33.33%) Serverless
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (22.22%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
3 3 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Data Collection
3 3 (33.33%) Data Sharing
3 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 3 (33.33%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (33.33%) Statistics
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Security
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) R
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) WCAG
2 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Sage
3 1 (11.11%) Brio