R
England > South West
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 1 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 101 | 152 | 152 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +51 | 0 | +10 |
| Contract jobs citing R | 10 | 5 | 15 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West | 0.60% | 0.16% | 0.41% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category | 2.23% | 0.80% | 1.42% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| 10th Percentile | £502 | - | £328 |
| 25th Percentile | £561 | £450 | £380 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £670 | £525 | £475 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +27.62% | +10.53% | +4.97% |
| 75th Percentile | £776 | £631 | £550 |
| 90th Percentile | £834 | £643 | £592 |
| England median daily rate | £550 | £550 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | - | - | +4.76% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Median hourly rate | - | - | £50.00 |
| England median hourly rate | £26.32 | £42.50 | £70.00 |
| % change year-on-year | -38.07% | -39.29% | +86.67% |
All Programming Languages
South West
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 South West.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills | 449 | 625 | 1,060 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West | 26.76% | 19.54% | 29.23% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 299 | 421 | 759 |
| 10th Percentile | £355 | £325 | £350 |
| 25th Percentile | £406 | £406 | £413 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £525 | £513 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -4.76% | +2.44% | +2.50% |
| 75th Percentile | £623 | £638 | £625 |
| 90th Percentile | £676 | £700 | £700 |
| England median daily rate | £525 | £540 | £565 |
| % change year-on-year | -2.78% | -4.42% | +2.73% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 53 | 91 | 97 |
| 10th Percentile | £61.30 | £46.39 | £49.87 |
| 25th Percentile | £65.00 | £55.13 | £57.33 |
| Median hourly rate | £67.50 | £67.25 | £65.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +0.37% | +3.46% | +6.12% |
| 75th Percentile | £68.00 | £70.00 | £70.30 |
| 90th Percentile | £73.75 | £78.00 | £75.50 |
| England median hourly rate | £62.75 | £62.50 | £61.84 |
| % change year-on-year | +0.40% | +1.07% | +23.68% |
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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West
Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in the South West.
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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in the South West.
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Contract Job Locations in the South West
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol | +24 | 8 | £475 | +5.56% | 8 |
| Somerset | +4 | 2 | £865 | +44.17% | 3 |
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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: