R Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

R
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring R skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 71 70
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +13
Contract jobs citing R 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.40% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.85% 0.39% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £352 - £334
25th Percentile £417 - £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £391 £438
Median % change year-on-year +40.66% -10.63% -
75th Percentile £591 - £516
90th Percentile £600 - £551
Scotland median daily rate £550 £625 £212
% change year-on-year -12.00% +194.81% -47.00%

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

R falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 355 259 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 47.21% 36.63% 35.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 157 195
10th Percentile £352 £325 £363
25th Percentile £402 £360 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £490 £636
90th Percentile £625 £590 £745
Scotland median daily rate £489 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +8.67% -9.09% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £30.05 £17.45 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.26 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -60.82% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile £63.60 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.61 £19.59 £59.52
% change year-on-year +209.41% -67.08% +28.68%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing R relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

R job vacancy trend in Glasgow

R
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing R.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing R

R
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in Glasgow over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for R in Glasgow

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality