R Contracts in Reading

R
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 92 86
Rank change year-on-year +31 -6 +13
Contract jobs citing R 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.70% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.33% 1.09% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £519 - £608
25th Percentile £528 - £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £620
Median % change year-on-year - - +47.00%
75th Percentile £566 - £634
90th Percentile £571 - £636
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £350 £550
% change year-on-year +42.86% -36.36% +57.87%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 172 275 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 30.18% 22.45% 23.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 199 202
10th Percentile £400 £331 £363
25th Percentile £475 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +13.99%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £663
90th Percentile £700 £675 £746
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 5
10th Percentile - £54.13 £73.68
25th Percentile - £56.65 -
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.40 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.19% -26.26% -
75th Percentile - £66.96 -
90th Percentile - £71.47 £80.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £54.35 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -11.78% -12.00% -12.50%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for R in Reading

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for R in Reading

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Google JAX
1 4 (100.00%) JAX
1 4 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 4 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Deep Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Secure Coding
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Workflow
3 2 (50.00%) DataOps
3 2 (50.00%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes