R Contracts in Glasgow

R
Scotland > Glasgow

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing R 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.13% - 0.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.25% - 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £395
25th Percentile £309 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £317 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +56.25%
75th Percentile £326 - £775
90th Percentile - - £895
Scotland median daily rate £317 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -49.28% +8.70% +17.35%

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 402 296 318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 50.25% 38.59% 34.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 205 197
10th Percentile £300 £336 £400
25th Percentile £396 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -13.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £613
90th Percentile £582 £650 £733
Scotland median daily rate £475 £453 £488
% change year-on-year +4.86% -7.08% +0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 6
10th Percentile £22.57 £37.52 £51.99
25th Percentile £33.80 £51.88 £56.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -6.82% +31.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.06
90th Percentile - - £67.66
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +25.68%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for R in Glasgow

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for R in Glasgow

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality