Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 22 April 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for R skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited R over the 6 months to 22 April 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

R
UK
6 months to
22 Apr 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 314 341 512
Rank change year-on-year +27 +171 +42
Contract jobs citing R 808 643 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.70% 0.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 1.71% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 445 270
UK median daily rate £520 £475 £500
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% -6.98%
10th Percentile £309 £230 £313
90th Percentile £688 £663 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £425 £453
% change year-on-year +8.24% -6.08% -24.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 2
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £20.50 £17.63
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +36.59% +16.31% -
10th Percentile £20.56 £17.00 £15.81
90th Percentile £98.38 £51.75 £20.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £17.00 £17.63
% change year-on-year +55.88% -3.55% -

R is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 43,475 37,689 40,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.98% 40.96% 38.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 30,426 25,829 27,911
UK median daily rate £463 £425 £415
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +8.82% +2.41% +3.75%
10th Percentile £313 £295 £275
90th Percentile £638 £613 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £380 £375
% change year-on-year +5.26% +1.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 778 841 988
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.50 £38.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -1.23% +5.19% +10.00%
10th Percentile £16.61 £16.17 £14.13
90th Percentile £51.55 £53.75 £51.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year - +3.23% +10.71%

R
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing R as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for R in the UK

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing R.

Contractor daily rate trend for R in the UK

R
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing R over the 6 months to 22 April 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for R in the UK

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing R.

Contractor hourly rate trend for R in the UK

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing R over the 6 months to 22 April 2018.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for R in the UK

R
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 April 2018. 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
Job
Vacancies
England +43 765 £525 +10.53% 182
London -14 533 £550 +10.00% 99
UK excluding London +75 269 £460 +8.24% 89
South East +1 88 £468 +24.67% 27
East of England +19 47 £525 +2.44% 22
Midlands +13 47 £463 +23.33% 12
East Midlands +14 31 £463 +23.33% 5
South West +28 26 £364 +150.86% 7
Wales +8 26 £250 -50.00% 1
North of England -5 25 £500 +47.06% 15
West Midlands +6 16 £475 +26.67% 7
North West -8 14 £500 +42.86% 10
Yorkshire -3 10 £500 +51.52% 5
Scotland -38 10 £475 - 5
North East +31 1 £525 -4.55%

For the 6 months to 22 April 2018, IT contractor jobs citing R also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for R.

1 596 (73.76%) Python
2 396 (49.01%) SQL
3 381 (47.15%) Analytics
4 353 (43.69%) Data Science
5 252 (31.19%) Machine Learning
6 235 (29.08%) Big Data
7 230 (28.47%) Analytical Skills
8 207 (25.62%) Visualisation
9 204 (25.25%) Agile Software Development
10 192 (23.76%) Apache Spark
11 187 (23.14%) Hadoop
12 184 (22.77%) Finance
13 182 (22.52%) Mathematics
14 180 (22.28%) Statistics
15 170 (21.04%) Java
16 161 (19.93%) SAS
17 154 (19.06%) Tableau
18 144 (17.82%) ETL
19 142 (17.57%) Business Intelligence
20 141 (17.45%) Data Analysis
21 140 (17.33%) Degree
22 125 (15.47%) Scala
23 119 (14.73%) Computer Science
24 118 (14.60%) C#
25 111 (13.74%) Algorithms
26 109 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
27 104 (12.87%) Data Analytics
28 98 (12.13%) Data Warehouse
29 97 (12.00%) SQL Server
30 95 (11.76%) Data Modelling

R
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 192 (23.76%) Apache Spark
2 161 (19.93%) SAS
3 45 (5.57%) Apache
4 41 (5.07%) Jupyter
5 34 (4.21%) Apache Pig
6 18 (2.23%) Confluence
6 18 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (1.24%) Apache Solr
8 9 (1.11%) SharePoint
9 7 (0.87%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.74%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.25%) IBM Domino
12 2 (0.25%) IPython
13 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.12%) CMS
13 1 (0.12%) DNN
13 1 (0.12%) Jetty
13 1 (0.12%) nginx
13 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 83 (10.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (6.68%) SPSS
3 17 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.11%) Chatbot
4 9 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.11%) Stata
5 4 (0.50%) Weka
6 3 (0.37%) S-PLUS
7 2 (0.25%) Pipeline Pilot
8 1 (0.12%) Simulink
8 1 (0.12%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 9 (1.11%) ReMetrica
2 7 (0.87%) Distributed Ledger
2 7 (0.87%) R3 Corda
3 5 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
3 5 (0.62%) Summit
4 3 (0.37%) Radian6
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.25%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.12%) Finacle
6 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.12%) HFM
6 1 (0.12%) ION MarketView
6 1 (0.12%) Maximo
6 1 (0.12%) Revive Adserver
Cloud Services
1 81 (10.02%) Amazon AWS
2 76 (9.41%) Microsoft Azure
3 31 (3.84%) Google Analytics
4 25 (3.09%) Google Cloud Platform
5 22 (2.72%) GitHub
6 17 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (1.98%) Amazon S3
7 16 (1.98%) PaaS
8 13 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
9 12 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (1.24%) Adobe Analytics
11 10 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (1.11%) Route 53
13 7 (0.87%) Data Lake Analytics
14 6 (0.74%) SaaS
15 5 (0.62%) IaaS
16 4 (0.50%) Amazon EMR
16 4 (0.50%) Serverless
17 3 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.24%) SSL
2 8 (0.99%) HTTP
3 6 (0.74%) SMS
4 3 (0.37%) FTP
4 3 (0.37%) Internet
4 3 (0.37%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.37%) LAN
5 2 (0.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.12%) FlexRay
6 1 (0.12%) Skype
6 1 (0.12%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (29.08%) Big Data
2 187 (23.14%) Hadoop
3 98 (12.13%) Data Warehouse
4 97 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 83 (10.27%) Data Mining
6 82 (10.15%) Power BI
7 80 (9.90%) NoSQL
8 79 (9.78%) Apache Hive
9 66 (8.17%) Relational Database
10 60 (7.43%) MongoDB
11 45 (5.57%) MySQL
12 43 (5.32%) Data Lake
13 41 (5.07%) Apache Cassandra
14 38 (4.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 36 (4.46%) QlikView
16 28 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 27 (3.34%) PowerCenter
18 26 (3.22%) HBase
19 25 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
19 25 (3.09%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 45 (5.57%) Git (software)
2 32 (3.96%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.59%) Visual Studio
4 24 (2.97%) RStudio
5 19 (2.35%) JIRA
6 11 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (0.99%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.87%) Selenium
10 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.74%) Visual Studio Team System
11 4 (0.50%) Subversion
12 3 (0.37%) Capybara
12 3 (0.37%) RSpec
13 2 (0.25%) FishEye
13 2 (0.25%) GitLab
13 2 (0.25%) GoCD
13 2 (0.25%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.25%) Vagrant
14 1 (0.12%) ERwin
General
1 184 (22.77%) Finance
2 76 (9.41%) Retail
3 58 (7.18%) Banking
4 55 (6.81%) Marketing
5 46 (5.69%) Games
6 39 (4.83%) Front Office
7 35 (4.33%) Manufacturing
8 21 (2.60%) Investment Banking
9 19 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 8 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (0.87%) Advertising
11 7 (0.87%) Automotive
11 7 (0.87%) French Language
11 7 (0.87%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.74%) Electronics
12 6 (0.74%) Law
13 4 (0.50%) Polish Language
14 2 (0.25%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.25%) Publishing
15 1 (0.12%) Legal
Job Titles
1 249 (30.82%) Data Scientist
2 164 (20.30%) Analyst
3 148 (18.32%) Developer
4 89 (11.01%) Data Analyst
5 85 (10.52%) Data Engineer
6 44 (5.45%) C# Developer
7 40 (4.95%) Architect
8 39 (4.83%) Consultant
9 30 (3.71%) Data Architect
10 29 (3.59%) Python Developer
11 28 (3.47%) SQL Developer
12 23 (2.85%) SQL Analyst
13 22 (2.72%) Data Consultant
14 21 (2.60%) Senior Data Scientist
15 19 (2.35%) Python Engineer
16 18 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
17 16 (1.98%) Insight Analyst
18 14 (1.73%) Big Data Engineer
18 14 (1.73%) Business Analyst
18 14 (1.73%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (9.41%) HTML
2 62 (7.67%) .NET
3 54 (6.68%) Natural Language Processing
4 45 (5.57%) Pandas
5 43 (5.32%) NumPy
6 41 (5.07%) TensorFlow
7 38 (4.70%) D3.js
8 34 (4.21%) HTML5
9 32 (3.96%) CSS
10 30 (3.71%) Matplotlib
11 29 (3.59%) Kafka
12 27 (3.34%) JSON
13 24 (2.97%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 24 (2.97%) Unreal Engine
14 21 (2.60%) XML
15 20 (2.48%) AngularJS
15 20 (2.48%) REST
15 20 (2.48%) RESTful
16 19 (2.35%) Web Services
17 18 (2.23%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 230 (28.47%) Analytical Skills
2 119 (14.73%) Computer Science
3 111 (13.74%) Algorithms
4 31 (3.84%) Data Structures
5 26 (3.22%) User Experience
6 17 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.49%) Fintech
9 11 (1.36%) FMCG
10 10 (1.24%) Clustering
10 10 (1.24%) Credit Risk
10 10 (1.24%) Reinsurance
11 9 (1.11%) Social Media
12 8 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.99%) Online Games
12 8 (0.99%) Robotics
13 7 (0.87%) Blog
14 6 (0.74%) AS400
14 6 (0.74%) NHS
15 5 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.95%) Linux
2 35 (4.33%) Unix
3 12 (1.49%) Windows
4 9 (1.11%) Mac OS X
5 5 (0.62%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.25%) AIX
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (47.15%) Analytics
2 353 (43.69%) Data Science
3 252 (31.19%) Machine Learning
4 207 (25.62%) Visualisation
5 204 (25.25%) Agile Software Development
6 182 (22.52%) Mathematics
7 180 (22.28%) Statistics
8 144 (17.82%) ETL
9 142 (17.57%) Business Intelligence
10 141 (17.45%) Data Analysis
11 109 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
12 104 (12.87%) Data Analytics
13 95 (11.76%) Data Modelling
14 93 (11.51%) Data Visualisation
15 71 (8.79%) Open Source
16 65 (8.04%) Artificial Intelligence
17 64 (7.92%) Decision-Making
18 57 (7.05%) Data Management
19 56 (6.93%) Continuous Integration
20 55 (6.81%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 596 (73.76%) Python
2 396 (49.01%) SQL
3 170 (21.04%) Java
4 125 (15.47%) Scala
5 118 (14.60%) C#
6 85 (10.52%) MATLAB
7 69 (8.54%) JavaScript
8 60 (7.43%) VBA
9 54 (6.68%) C++
10 25 (3.09%) Ruby
11 20 (2.48%) C
12 16 (1.98%) Perl
13 14 (1.73%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.73%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.73%) VB
14 13 (1.61%) Bash Shell
14 13 (1.61%) Go
15 12 (1.49%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.49%) VB.NET
16 11 (1.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 140 (17.33%) Degree
2 66 (8.17%) Security Cleared
3 51 (6.31%) SC Cleared
4 48 (5.94%) PhD
5 28 (3.47%) Numerate Degree
6 23 (2.85%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.37%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.25%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.12%) MBA
11 1 (0.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.81%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.60%) QA
3 7 (0.87%) GDPR
4 5 (0.62%) IFRS
4 5 (0.62%) IFRS 9
5 4 (0.50%) SLA
6 3 (0.37%) GCP
7 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.12%) CDISC
7 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.12%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (2.60%) Docker
2 19 (2.35%) HDFS
3 17 (2.10%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (2.10%) Terraform
2 16 (1.98%) Grafana
3 12 (1.49%) Kubernetes
4 10 (1.24%) Kibana
5 8 (0.99%) Fluentd
5 8 (0.99%) logstash
5 8 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.99%) Puppet
5 8 (0.99%) StatsD
6 6 (0.74%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (0.62%) Oozie
8 4 (0.50%) Ansible
9 3 (0.37%) Ambari
10 2 (0.25%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.12%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 154 (19.06%) Tableau
2 73 (9.03%) Microsoft
3 60 (7.43%) Oracle
4 49 (6.06%) Google
5 37 (4.58%) Cloudera
6 35 (4.33%) Informatica
7 34 (4.21%) MapR
8 28 (3.47%) Alteryx
9 21 (2.60%) Hortonworks
10 18 (2.23%) IBM
11 16 (1.98%) Bloomberg
11 16 (1.98%) Teradata
12 14 (1.73%) Adobe
12 14 (1.73%) Reuters
13 13 (1.61%) Splunk
14 10 (1.24%) Salesforce.com
14 10 (1.24%) SAP
15 9 (1.11%) Databricks
15 9 (1.11%) Vertica
16 8 (0.99%) RapidMiner