R Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

R
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing R 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.58% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.58% - -
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 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £350 -
% change year-on-year +21.43% - -

All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 379 125 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.83% 33.69% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 95 84
10th Percentile £364 £366 £400
25th Percentile £420 £449 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £520 £431
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% +20.52% -25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £539
90th Percentile £624 £650 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -3.60% +8.11% -11.90%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

R job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

R
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing R.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing R

R
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. 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
Sheffield - 6 £425 - 4
R
Yorkshire

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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