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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 55 73
Rank change year-on-year +13 +18 -2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing R 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.52% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.10% 0.54% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £282 - -
25th Percentile £310 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% - -
75th Percentile £374 - -
90th Percentile £376 - -
South East median daily rate £468 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -20.43% +6.82% +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
South East median hourly rate - £28.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -62.00% +62.16%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 122 186 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 36.97% 32.52% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 140 156
10th Percentile £204 £203 £355
25th Percentile £276 £289 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £548 £558 £600
90th Percentile £575 £626 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 7
10th Percentile £50.05 £68.00 £31.05
25th Percentile £52.50 - £38.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +50.00% +156.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £80.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - £83.00 £60.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.93% +21.85% +3.77%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing R

R
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing R.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing R

R
DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Staines - 3 £365 -
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 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (40.00%) Head of Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Head of Data Analytics
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Data Science
3 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (40.00%) Predictive Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Predictive Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow