R Contract Job Trends in Telford

R
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring R skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing R 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.67% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 - -
75th Percentile £451 - -
90th Percentile £533 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £451 - -

All Programming Languages
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 301 71 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 40.62% 41.04% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 55 29
10th Percentile £386 £353 £300
25th Percentile £415 £453 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £515 £492
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% +4.78% -8.98%
75th Percentile £515 £538 £538
90th Percentile £599 £547 £540
Shropshire median daily rate £466 £515 £492
% change year-on-year -9.53% +4.78% -8.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £52.05 - -
25th Percentile £53.25 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 - -
75th Percentile £58.25 - -
90th Percentile £59.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £56.00 - -

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

R job vacancy trend in Telford

R
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing R

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (40.00%) Tableau
2 2 (40.00%) ZAP BI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Gatling
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
1 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (40.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) BYOD
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) A/B Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Collection
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Measurement
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Backlog
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (40.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle