R Contracts in London

R
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for R skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited R over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 340 324
Rank change year-on-year +46 -16 -73
Contract jobs citing R 97 149 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.58% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.50% 1.44% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 109 221
10th Percentile £375 £423 £350
25th Percentile £450 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £660
90th Percentile £763 £930 £738
England median daily rate £546 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -0.77% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 15
10th Percentile £32.24 - £31.60
25th Percentile £41.25 - £35.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £75.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +68.54% +40.64%
75th Percentile £47.50 - £58.50
90th Percentile £48.25 - £72.40
England median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.62% +73.33% +44.23%

All Programming Languages
London

R is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,447 10,376 16,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.97% 40.28% 41.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,933 7,778 12,494
10th Percentile £377 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £703
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 78 109
10th Percentile £23.80 £26.10 £30.45
25th Percentile £40.75 £46.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £58.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% +17.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64.53 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for R in London

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for R in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for R in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for R in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the London region over the 6 months to 21 May 2024. 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
Central London +27 14 £513 -24.77% 16
West London +19 3 £500 +5.26% 16
R
England

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (3.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.06%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.03%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.06%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.90%) Azure
2 26 (26.80%) Power Platform
3 18 (18.56%) AWS
4 16 (16.49%) GCP
5 4 (4.12%) Power Automate
5 4 (4.12%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.09%) GitHub
7 2 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.06%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.03%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.80%) Power BI
2 17 (17.53%) Tableau
3 16 (16.49%) Big Data
4 11 (11.34%) BusinessObjects
5 9 (9.28%) Hadoop
6 6 (6.19%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.12%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.12%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.09%) Data Mining
9 3 (3.09%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.06%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.06%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (2.06%) KDB
10 2 (2.06%) KNIME
10 2 (2.06%) MS Access
10 2 (2.06%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) JIRA
1 3 (3.09%) RStudio
2 2 (2.06%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.03%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (42.27%) Finance
2 33 (34.02%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (27.84%) Social Skills
4 13 (13.40%) Front Office
5 9 (9.28%) Banking
6 8 (8.25%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.15%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.15%) Marketing
8 3 (3.09%) Advertising
8 3 (3.09%) Retail
9 2 (2.06%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.06%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.06%) Local Government
9 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Law
10 1 (1.03%) Legal
10 1 (1.03%) Police
10 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (25.77%) Data Scientist
2 22 (22.68%) Developer
3 20 (20.62%) Analyst
4 14 (14.43%) Quantitative Developer
5 13 (13.40%) Data Analyst
5 13 (13.40%) Finance Manager
5 13 (13.40%) Python Developer
6 6 (6.19%) Qualitative Analyst
6 6 (6.19%) Quantitative Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Consultant
7 5 (5.15%) Credit Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Econometrician
8 4 (4.12%) Lead
9 3 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Quantitative Consultant
9 3 (3.09%) Quantitative Risk Consultant
9 3 (3.09%) Report Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Risk Consultant
9 3 (3.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) PyTorch
1 3 (3.09%) scikit-learn
1 3 (3.09%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.06%) .NET
2 2 (2.06%) GeoPandas
2 2 (2.06%) HTML
2 2 (2.06%) Matplotlib
2 2 (2.06%) NumPy
2 2 (2.06%) Pandas
2 2 (2.06%) React
2 2 (2.06%) Shiny
3 1 (1.03%) ggplot2
3 1 (1.03%) JSON
3 1 (1.03%) ODBC
3 1 (1.03%) Plotly
3 1 (1.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.62%) Derivative
2 17 (17.53%) Hedge funds
3 15 (15.46%) Fixed Income
4 13 (13.40%) Algorithms
4 13 (13.40%) Equities
5 4 (4.12%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.09%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.06%) Multi-touch
7 2 (2.06%) Social Media
8 1 (1.03%) Blog
8 1 (1.03%) Clustering
8 1 (1.03%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Windows
2 1 (1.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.11%) Data Analysis
1 36 (37.11%) Visualisation
2 33 (34.02%) Data Science
3 26 (26.80%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (23.71%) Agile
5 21 (21.65%) Data Visualisation
6 20 (20.62%) Mathematics
6 20 (20.62%) Statistics
7 17 (17.53%) Machine Learning
8 16 (16.49%) Data Modelling
9 14 (14.43%) Asset Management
9 14 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (13.40%) Analytics
10 13 (13.40%) Investment Management
10 13 (13.40%) Quantitative Research
10 13 (13.40%) Software Engineering
11 10 (10.31%) Computer Science
11 10 (10.31%) Predictive Modelling
12 9 (9.28%) Customer Service
12 9 (9.28%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 84 (86.60%) Python
2 43 (44.33%) SQL
3 8 (8.25%) C#
3 8 (8.25%) C++
4 6 (6.19%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.09%) Java
5 3 (3.09%) PHP
5 3 (3.09%) Scala
5 3 (3.09%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.09%) VBA
6 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.06%) VB
7 1 (1.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (19.59%) Degree
2 10 (10.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.22%) Master's Degree
3 7 (7.22%) Numerate Degree
3 7 (7.22%) PhD
3 7 (7.22%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.09%) CIMA
6 2 (2.06%) CISA
6 2 (2.06%) CRISC
7 1 (1.03%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.12%) PMO
3 3 (3.09%) QA
4 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.06%) NCSC
4 2 (2.06%) NIST
5 1 (1.03%) Basel II
5 1 (1.03%) Basel III
5 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (13.40%) Bloomberg
2 8 (8.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.15%) SAP
4 3 (3.09%) Google
5 2 (2.06%) Databricks
5 2 (2.06%) ESRI
6 1 (1.03%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.03%) Cognos
6 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) Snow