R Contracts in the Midlands

R
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 154 168
Rank change year-on-year +32 +14 -20
Contract jobs citing R 19 4 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.64% 0.12% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.75% 0.48% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 29
10th Percentile £356 £263 £358
25th Percentile £358 £362 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +1.52%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £580
90th Percentile - £595 £643
England median daily rate £500 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -12.28% +8.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.73 - -
England median hourly rate £32.12 £70.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +97.18% +36.54%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 690 835 1,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.41% 25.94% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 605 957
10th Percentile £260 £313 £324
25th Percentile £350 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +4.40% +13.75%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £540
90th Percentile £634 £700 £625
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 17
10th Percentile £22.50 £23.61 £16.55
25th Percentile £30.37 £26.02 £20.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +42.86% +45.83%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.75 £44.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for R in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for R in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
West Midlands +27 11 £550 +47.06% 27
East Midlands +13 8 £363 -39.58% 16
R
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (5.26%) GCP
1 1 (5.26%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (31.58%) Hadoop
3 5 (26.32%) Impala
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data
4 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.26%) QlikView
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Police
6 1 (5.26%) Back Office
6 1 (5.26%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (5.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Analyst
1 8 (42.11%) SIEM Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Data Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Business Data Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Process Mapping Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Process Mapping Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Performance Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) Anaconda
2 1 (5.26%) BREW
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (26.32%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
1 8 (42.11%) Ubuntu
1 8 (42.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Data Pipeline
1 9 (47.37%) Visualisation
2 8 (42.11%) DataOps
2 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 8 (42.11%) RBAC
2 8 (42.11%) SIEM
3 7 (36.84%) Analytics
3 7 (36.84%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (26.32%) Data Analytics
4 5 (26.32%) Decision Tree
4 5 (26.32%) Logistic Regression
5 4 (21.05%) Business Strategy
5 4 (21.05%) Performance Analysis
5 4 (21.05%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (10.53%) Change Management
6 2 (10.53%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
6 2 (10.53%) Data Science
6 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 9 (47.37%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.26%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
1 8 (42.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kibana
1 8 (42.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
1 1 (5.26%) Google
1 1 (5.26%) Kenna
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle
1 1 (5.26%) Sage