R Contracts in Stevenage

R
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Stevenage 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 46 45
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 -
Contract jobs citing R 4 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Stevenage 2.92% 0.84% 1.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.97% 3.08% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £319 -
25th Percentile - £347 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +7.14% -
75th Percentile - £391 £435
90th Percentile - £396 £486
Hertfordshire median daily rate £650 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +73.33% +7.14% -49.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate - - £67.50

All Programming Languages
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 67 130 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 48.91% 27.37% 51.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 31
10th Percentile - £285 £350
25th Percentile £525 £323 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £363 £400
Median % change year-on-year +51.72% -9.38% -21.41%
75th Percentile £575 £391 £538
90th Percentile - £460 £672
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +27.91% -14.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 105 78
10th Percentile £45.34 £60.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £61.50 £61.25 £54.38
Median hourly rate £72.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - +15.04%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £88.00 £87.50
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £72.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.54% - +16.07%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Job vacancy trend for R in Stevenage

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

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

Daily rate trend for R in Stevenage

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (50.00%) IBM Domino
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Big Data
2 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Matplotlib
1 2 (50.00%) NumPy
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
1 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (50.00%) Seaborn
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Munging
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Reinforcement Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (50.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks