R Contracts in the North of England

R
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 168 215
Rank change year-on-year -5 +47 -46
Contract jobs citing R 4 43 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.087% 0.77% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.34% 2.68% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 22 18
10th Percentile £431 £403 £285
25th Percentile £459 £466 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £388
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +67.74% -17.99%
75th Percentile £559 £675 £450
90th Percentile £584 £700 £558
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,188 1,602 2,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.74% 28.71% 31.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 1,173 1,702
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £403 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 28 52
10th Percentile £37.63 £30.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £43.57 £39.45 £21.71
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.29 £43.59
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% +13.06% +67.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.25 £66.25
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for R in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for R in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the North of England region over the 6 months to 22 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
North West -16 3 £513 -21.15% 26
North East - 1 - - 10
R
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Azkaban
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) PyCharm
1 1 (25.00%) RStudio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Business Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Full Text Search
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Research
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) Time Series Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Anaplan
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft