R Contracts in Surrey

R
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 36 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing R 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.01% - 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.61% - 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £282 - -
25th Percentile £310 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 - -
75th Percentile £374 - -
90th Percentile £376 - -
South East median daily rate £368 £350 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -36.36% +69.23%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 83 140 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 27.85% 23.85% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 114 148
10th Percentile £344 £255 £396
25th Percentile £406 £376 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £540 £619 £594
90th Percentile £641 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £41.00 £50.50
25th Percentile - £55.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% +45.45% +161.90%
75th Percentile - - £60.63
90th Percentile - - £62.50
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for R in Surrey

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for R in Surrey

R
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Surrey 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
Staines - 3 £365 - 1
R
South East

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow