R Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

R
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring R skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing R 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.63% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £370 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £437 - -
90th Percentile £475 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 - -

All Programming Languages
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 363 107 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.29% 33.75% 32.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 77 69
10th Percentile £366 £359 £400
25th Percentile £420 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +12.36% -24.26%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £545
90th Percentile £618 £650 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £520 £431
% change year-on-year -7.46% +20.52% -25.00%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

R job vacancy trend in Sheffield

R
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing R.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing R

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
1 5 (83.33%) Tableau
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Analyst
1 6 (100.00%) Data Analyst
2 5 (83.33%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 5 (83.33%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (83.33%) Data Collection
2 5 (83.33%) Decision-Making
2 5 (83.33%) Validation
2 5 (83.33%) Visualisation
3 4 (66.67%) Statistics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) SQL