R Contracts in the UK excluding London

R
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 328 324
Rank change year-on-year +46 -4 +17
Contract jobs citing R 65 65 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.31% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.71% 1.31% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 40 58
10th Percentile £325 £324 £212
25th Percentile £381 £357 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £406 £523
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -22.30% +6.31%
75th Percentile £675 £550 £606
90th Percentile - £603 £683
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £571
% change year-on-year - -12.43% +8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 15
10th Percentile - £18.05 £22.16
25th Percentile - £20.12 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £20.24 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.66% -71.09% +258.61%
75th Percentile - £21.39 £75.00
90th Percentile - £49.62 -
UK median hourly rate £31.91 £21.80 £70.00
% change year-on-year +46.41% -68.86% +97.18%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,806 4,979 6,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.82% 23.63% 27.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,531 3,305 4,409
10th Percentile £319 £319 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £556 £578 £594
90th Percentile £630 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 436 326
10th Percentile £27.91 £37.55 £28.55
25th Percentile £44.51 £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.59 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.20% - +20.77%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
East of England +43 19 £650 +73.33% 50
Midlands +3 12 £449 -0.33% 35
South East +44 11 £406 +12.07% 205
South West +37 11 £865 +64.76% 33
West Midlands +16 9 £419 -23.86% 19
North of England +13 6 £471 -14.32% 139
North West +12 4 £503 -1.95% 91
Scotland +11 3 £372 +68.12% 38
Yorkshire +11 2 £419 -23.86% 36
East Midlands +2 2 £447 +23.31% 14
Wales 0 2 £445 +8.01% 5
Northern Ireland -7 1 £350 - 4
R
UK

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 8 (12.31%) SAS
3 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) IBM Domino
3 2 (3.08%) R Markdown
4 1 (1.54%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.54%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (40.00%) Azure
2 18 (27.69%) AWS
3 15 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.77%) Adobe Analytics
5 5 (7.69%) GCP
6 4 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (4.62%) SaaS
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.08%) AWS CodeCommit
8 2 (3.08%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.08%) PaaS
8 2 (3.08%) Serverless
8 2 (3.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (41.54%) Tableau
2 15 (23.08%) Big Data
2 15 (23.08%) Hadoop
2 15 (23.08%) Power BI
3 11 (16.92%) Relational Database
4 10 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (9.23%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.08%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (3.08%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.08%) Power Query
6 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.54%) Metadata
7 1 (1.54%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.54%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) JIRA
3 1 (1.54%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.54%) ERwin
3 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 23 (35.38%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (32.31%) Social Skills
3 14 (21.54%) Finance
4 9 (13.85%) Banking
5 7 (10.77%) Marketing
5 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Games
7 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Legal
7 1 (1.54%) Local Government
7 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.54%) Publishing
7 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) Developer
2 12 (18.46%) Data Science Developer
2 12 (18.46%) Senior
3 11 (16.92%) Analyst
4 10 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 8 (12.31%) Data Analyst
5 8 (12.31%) Data Scientist
6 7 (10.77%) Analytics Manager
6 7 (10.77%) Data Analytics Manager
6 7 (10.77%) Data Manager
6 7 (10.77%) Insight Manager
6 7 (10.77%) Strategy Manager
7 5 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Lead
8 4 (6.15%) Power BI Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Python Developer
10 2 (3.08%) SAP Consultant
10 2 (3.08%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.15%) PyTorch
1 17 (26.15%) TensorFlow
2 15 (23.08%) scikit-learn
3 14 (21.54%) Matplotlib
3 14 (21.54%) NumPy
3 14 (21.54%) Pandas
3 14 (21.54%) Seaborn
4 3 (4.62%) Shiny
5 2 (3.08%) Django
5 2 (3.08%) MACH
6 1 (1.54%) ggplot2
6 1 (1.54%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.54%) JSON
6 1 (1.54%) ODBC
6 1 (1.54%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.62%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.08%) CRISPR
3 2 (3.08%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.54%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) VMS
3 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (55.38%) Visualisation
2 35 (53.85%) Analytics
3 29 (44.62%) Data Analysis
4 26 (40.00%) Data Science
4 26 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 23 (35.38%) Artificial Intelligence
5 23 (35.38%) Decision-Making
6 17 (26.15%) Data Modelling
7 16 (24.62%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (24.62%) Generative AI
7 16 (24.62%) Statistical Modelling
8 15 (23.08%) Data Munging
8 15 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
8 15 (23.08%) ETL
8 15 (23.08%) LLM
8 15 (23.08%) Predictive Analytics
9 14 (21.54%) Computer Science
9 14 (21.54%) Data Analytics
10 12 (18.46%) Reinforcement Learning
10 12 (18.46%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 52 (80.00%) Python
2 35 (53.85%) SQL
3 5 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.62%) Java
4 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.08%) C++
5 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.54%) Perl
6 1 (1.54%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 15 (23.08%) Degree
2 10 (15.38%) Master's Degree
2 10 (15.38%) PhD
3 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.62%) GDPR
4 2 (3.08%) WCAG
5 1 (1.54%) Basel III
5 1 (1.54%) IFRS
5 1 (1.54%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Adobe
1 7 (10.77%) Teradata
2 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.69%) Databricks
3 5 (7.69%) SAP
4 4 (6.15%) Oracle
5 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.54%) Ariba
6 1 (1.54%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.54%) Foundry
6 1 (1.54%) Google
6 1 (1.54%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.54%) Palantir
6 1 (1.54%) Talend