R Contract Job Trends in the North of England

R
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring R skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 154 162
Rank change year-on-year -22 +8 +65
Contract jobs citing R 9 13 36
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.22% 0.31% 0.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.76% 1.25% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 20
10th Percentile £239 £331 £198
25th Percentile £265 £352 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £366 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.34% -25.03% +8.33%
75th Percentile £461 £400 £563
90th Percentile £493 £488 £650
England median daily rate £500 £458 £525
% change year-on-year +9.29% -12.86% -11.76%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,187 1,039 1,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.27% 25.18% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 686 946
10th Percentile £315 £330 £338
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £600
90th Percentile £634 £628 £675
England median daily rate £515 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.16% -1.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 29 48
10th Percentile £31.20 £35.93 £29.13
25th Percentile £41.94 £37.55 £46.11
Median hourly rate £66.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% - -7.82%
75th Percentile £84.50 £65.00 £52.06
90th Percentile £93.20 £80.84 £73.90
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +3.17% +5.00%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

R job vacancy trend in the North of England

R
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing R.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing R

R
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 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for R in the North of England

R
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing R.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing R

R
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 3 October 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
North West -12 7 £269 -24.44% 59
Yorkshire -22 2 £469 +1.35% 32
R
England

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (11.11%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Google Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 3 (33.33%) Impala
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Power Query
3 1 (11.11%) QlikView
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Data Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Data Scientist
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Performance Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Financial Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk
3 1 (11.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Analytics
1 5 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
3 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Data Science
3 3 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (33.33%) Decision Tree
3 3 (33.33%) Logistic Regression
3 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Statistical Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) IT Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Pega
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk