R Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

R
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring R skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 104 127
Rank change year-on-year -39 +23 +31
Contract jobs citing R 19 18 8
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.60% 0.78% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.52% 3.24% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 7
10th Percentile £333 £287 £468
25th Percentile £363 £319 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £388 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.26% -29.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £500 £550 -
90th Percentile £568 £612 £592
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £20.97 - -
25th Percentile £21.68 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £23.71 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% - -
75th Percentile £25.09 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £25.41 - -
England median hourly rate £25.42 £28.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year -10.82% -20.01% +27.25%

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 754 555 576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.95% 24.15% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 355 424
10th Percentile £358 £340 £307
25th Percentile £413 £386 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £562 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £688
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 16
10th Percentile £19.83 £16.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £27.91 £17.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.37 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.97% +12.47% -3.38%
75th Percentile - £30.31 £51.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £50.75 £54.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

R job vacancy trend in the Midlands

R
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing R.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing R

R
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for R in the Midlands

R
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing R.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing R

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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 December 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
East Midlands -15 12 £385 +13.24% 28
West Midlands -34 7 £475 -12.60% 42
R
England

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (15.79%) Apache Spark
1 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (5.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.26%) ProjectWise
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) Power Platform
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 6 (31.58%) AWS
4 5 (26.32%) PowerApps
5 4 (21.05%) Power Automate
6 3 (15.79%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (15.79%) GCP
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) Power BI
2 6 (31.58%) Big Data
3 4 (21.05%) Power Query
3 4 (21.05%) Tableau
4 3 (15.79%) Data Mining
4 3 (15.79%) Hadoop
5 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
6 1 (5.26%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Data Scientist
2 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analytics Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Document Controller
4 1 (5.26%) Junior
4 1 (5.26%) Junior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Pandas
1 3 (15.79%) scikit-learn
1 3 (15.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Visualisation
2 11 (57.89%) Analytics
2 11 (57.89%) Data Science
3 9 (47.37%) Data Visualisation
3 9 (47.37%) Decision-Making
4 8 (42.11%) Actionable Insight
4 8 (42.11%) Data Modelling
5 7 (36.84%) Data Analysis
6 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (26.32%) Exploratory Data Analysis
7 5 (26.32%) Machine Learning
7 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (21.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (21.05%) Mathematics
8 4 (21.05%) Statistical Modelling
9 3 (15.79%) Agile
9 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
9 3 (15.79%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) Python
1 18 (94.74%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (10.53%) Scala
4 1 (5.26%) C++
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Autodesk