R Contract Job Trends in Manchester

R
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring R skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 76 94
Rank change year-on-year -21 +18 +18
Contract jobs citing R 4 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.30% 0.39% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.86% 1.40% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £365 £243
25th Percentile - £388 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £428 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +0.59% -10.53%
75th Percentile - £463 £544
90th Percentile - - £608
North West median daily rate £513 £378 £425
% change year-on-year +35.75% -11.06% -15.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.50 - -
Median hourly rate £43.00 - -
75th Percentile £49.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £43.00 - -

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 467 286 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 35.01% 28.07% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 211 407
10th Percentile £334 £363 £325
25th Percentile £396 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £535 £525 £546
90th Percentile £588 £600 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 2 10
10th Percentile - - £61.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £65.63
Median hourly rate £61.75 £65.00 £72.19
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.95% +51.97%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £80.44
90th Percentile £90.80 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £67.32 £65.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +2.77% +41.84% +12.51%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

R job vacancy trend in Manchester

R
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing R

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
2 1 (25.00%) Base SAS
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Excel Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Qualitative Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Paid Search
2 2 (50.00%) Statistics
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Model Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Objectives and Key Results
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Storytelling
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree