R Contracts in Hertfordshire

R
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 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 29 69 67
Rank change year-on-year +40 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing R 16 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.98% 0.48% 0.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.69% 2.13% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 6
10th Percentile £544 £319 £231
25th Percentile £625 £347 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% +7.14% -49.49%
75th Percentile £675 £391 £416
90th Percentile - £396 £479
East of England median daily rate £650 £388 £300
% change year-on-year +67.74% +29.17% -27.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - - £46.00

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 102 188 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 31.78% 22.54% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 49 101
10th Percentile £399 £360 £363
25th Percentile £463 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £634 £506 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £676
East of England median daily rate £479 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +0.79% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 108 84
10th Percentile £49.77 £60.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £60.69 £61.25 £54.69
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £90.00 £77.00
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% - +16.07%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for R in Hertfordshire

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for R in Hertfordshire

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for R in Hertfordshire

R
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage +27 1 - - 3
R
East of England

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 14 (87.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) AWS
1 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) Tableau
2 14 (87.50%) Big Data
2 14 (87.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 12 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 14 (87.50%) Data Science Developer
3 10 (62.50%) Senior
3 10 (62.50%) Senior Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Gen AI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 16 (100.00%) NumPy
1 16 (100.00%) Pandas
1 16 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 16 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 16 (100.00%) Seaborn
1 16 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 16 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 16 (100.00%) Data Science
1 16 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 16 (100.00%) LLM
1 16 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 16 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 14 (87.50%) Analytics
2 14 (87.50%) Data Analytics
2 14 (87.50%) Decision-Making
2 14 (87.50%) Predictive Analytics
2 14 (87.50%) Reinforcement Learning
2 14 (87.50%) Statistical Modelling
2 14 (87.50%) Time Series Forecasting
3 12 (75.00%) Computer Science
3 12 (75.00%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) Degree
1 12 (75.00%) Master's Degree
1 12 (75.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) OpenAI