Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 17 August 2017

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 17 August 2017 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
17 Aug 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 369 483 558
Rank change year-on-year +114 +75 +111
Contract jobs citing R 612 472 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.43% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.52% 1.11% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 331 254
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £525
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +5.00%
10th Percentile £313 £313 £363
90th Percentile £670 £620 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £563
% change year-on-year -5.56% -20.00% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 5
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.50 £30.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +68.29% -31.67% -7.69%
10th Percentile £20.75 £16.50 £21.25
90th Percentile £45.75 £40.65 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £20.50 -
% change year-on-year +104.88% - -

R is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills
UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills 40199 42636 42444
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK 42.01% 39.19% 37.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 27630 29315 28158
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +6.67%
10th Percentile £300 £278 £263
90th Percentile £625 £588 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 781 907 898
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% +4.32%
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.41 £15.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.87 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% +5.88%

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 17 August 2017.

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 17 August 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for R in the UK

R
Top 16 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 17 August 2017. 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 +110 565 £500 +8.11% 124
London +70 427 £500 +5.26% 80
UK excluding London +88 172 £425 -5.56% 52
South East +28 43 £393 -7.65% 12
East of England +24 32 £500 +53.85% 12
Scotland +61 29 £475 +35.71% 5
Midlands +18 28 £450 -8.16% 1
North of England +54 15 £425 -5.56% 17
South West -11 15 £475 +11.76% 2
West Midlands +18 14 £450 -8.16% 1
East Midlands +1 14 £425 -5.56%
North West +22 9 £400 - 8
Yorkshire +33 6 £425 -19.05% 9
Northern Ireland -42 6 £400 -
Wales 0 4 - - 3
North East - 2 £425 -

For the 6 months to 17 August 2017, IT contractor jobs citing R also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for R.

1 381 (62.25%) Python
2 343 (56.05%) SQL
3 295 (48.20%) Analytics
4 202 (33.01%) Hadoop
5 191 (31.21%) Big Data
6 190 (31.05%) Machine Learning
7 176 (28.76%) Analytical Skills
8 171 (27.94%) Finance
9 160 (26.14%) Visualisation
10 155 (25.33%) Degree
11 151 (24.67%) Apache Spark
12 133 (21.73%) SAS
13 127 (20.75%) Business Intelligence
13 127 (20.75%) Statistics
14 126 (20.59%) Agile Software Development
15 125 (20.42%) Mathematics
16 109 (17.81%) Java
17 108 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
17 108 (17.65%) Tableau
18 106 (17.32%) Apache Hive
19 96 (15.69%) Data Analytics
20 83 (13.56%) Algorithms
21 82 (13.40%) Data Modelling
22 76 (12.42%) MATLAB
22 76 (12.42%) Relational Database
23 74 (12.09%) Marketing
23 74 (12.09%) Data Analysis
24 73 (11.93%) Computer Science
24 73 (11.93%) Microsoft Excel
25 69 (11.27%) Linux

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
1 151 (24.67%) Apache Spark
2 133 (21.73%) SAS
3 35 (5.72%) Apache Pig
4 12 (1.96%) Apache
5 11 (1.80%) Confluence
6 10 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (1.47%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.65%) Drupal
8 4 (0.65%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.49%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) nginx
11 1 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 73 (11.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (7.68%) SPSS
3 25 (4.08%) Stata
4 23 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.82%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.33%) EViews
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.33%) SPSS Modeler
10 1 (0.16%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.16%) Mathematica
10 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.16%) Simulink
10 1 (0.16%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (0.82%) Eloqua
1 5 (0.82%) FastStats
2 3 (0.49%) Salesforce.com CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 55 (8.99%) Amazon AWS
2 33 (5.39%) Microsoft Azure
3 13 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 12 (1.96%) Google Analytics
5 9 (1.47%) Google Cloud Platform
6 7 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (1.14%) Azure Machine Learning
6 7 (1.14%) PaaS
7 6 (0.98%) GitHub
8 5 (0.82%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (0.65%) SaaS
10 2 (0.33%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.16%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (0.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.16%) Azure Active Directory
11 1 (0.16%) BIME
11 1 (0.16%) Cortana Intelligence Suite
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.94%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.65%) Internet
2 4 (0.65%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.49%) Wireless
4 2 (0.33%) Skype
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) LDAP
5 1 (0.16%) SNMP
5 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (33.01%) Hadoop
2 191 (31.21%) Big Data
3 106 (17.32%) Apache Hive
4 76 (12.42%) Relational Database
5 65 (10.62%) Data Mining
5 65 (10.62%) Data Warehouse
6 53 (8.66%) SQL Server
7 52 (8.50%) Power BI
8 51 (8.33%) NoSQL
9 47 (7.68%) MongoDB
10 35 (5.72%) Impala
10 35 (5.72%) QlikView
11 28 (4.58%) HBase
12 27 (4.41%) BusinessObjects
12 27 (4.41%) MySQL
13 26 (4.25%) Apache Cassandra
14 23 (3.76%) Qlik Sense
14 23 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (3.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 15 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (5.23%) Git (software)
1 32 (5.23%) JIRA
2 15 (2.45%) Selenium
3 13 (2.12%) Visual Studio
4 9 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 8 (1.31%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.31%) JUnit
6 5 (0.82%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.49%) Maven
7 3 (0.49%) RStudio
7 3 (0.49%) Toad
8 2 (0.33%) ERwin
8 2 (0.33%) Gradle
8 2 (0.33%) gulp
8 2 (0.33%) Mockito
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.33%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.33%) Subversion
8 2 (0.33%) Vagrant
General
1 171 (27.94%) Finance
2 74 (12.09%) Marketing
3 64 (10.46%) Banking
4 48 (7.84%) Front Office
5 29 (4.74%) Retail
6 21 (3.43%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.10%) Telecoms
8 18 (2.94%) Financial Institution
9 15 (2.45%) Electronics
10 12 (1.96%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.96%) Publishing
11 11 (1.80%) Games
12 6 (0.98%) Advertising
12 6 (0.98%) Back Office
12 6 (0.98%) Legal
13 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.49%) Automotive
14 3 (0.49%) German Language
14 3 (0.49%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.33%) French Language
Job Titles
1 184 (30.07%) Analyst
2 179 (29.25%) Data Scientist
3 118 (19.28%) Developer
4 88 (14.38%) Data Analyst
5 50 (8.17%) Business Analyst
6 49 (8.01%) Data Engineer
7 44 (7.19%) Python Developer
8 33 (5.39%) Big Data Engineer
9 30 (4.90%) Architect
10 28 (4.58%) Senior Data Scientist
11 25 (4.08%) SQL Analyst
12 22 (3.59%) Machine Learning Scientist
12 22 (3.59%) Senior Analyst
13 20 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
13 20 (3.27%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (2.94%) R Developer
15 17 (2.78%) Big Data Developer
15 17 (2.78%) Qualitative Analyst
15 17 (2.78%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.58%) JSON
2 27 (4.41%) Kafka
3 23 (3.76%) D3.js
4 21 (3.43%) Natural Language Processing
5 17 (2.78%) Web Services
6 13 (2.12%) HTML
7 11 (1.80%) RESTful
8 10 (1.63%) ActiveMQ
8 10 (1.63%) JMS
8 10 (1.63%) MLlib
8 10 (1.63%) REST
9 9 (1.47%) .NET
9 9 (1.47%) CSS
9 9 (1.47%) Node.js
9 9 (1.47%) TensorFlow
9 9 (1.47%) XML
10 7 (1.14%) Django
10 7 (1.14%) Hibernate
10 7 (1.14%) HTML5
10 7 (1.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 176 (28.76%) Analytical Skills
2 83 (13.56%) Algorithms
3 73 (11.93%) Computer Science
4 21 (3.43%) Market Risk
5 20 (3.27%) Fixed Income
6 19 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (2.12%) Credit Risk
10 12 (1.96%) Fintech
10 12 (1.96%) User Experience
11 8 (1.31%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.98%) Derivative
12 6 (0.98%) Equities
12 6 (0.98%) OTC Derivatives
13 5 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.82%) Digital Media
14 4 (0.65%) Reference Data
14 4 (0.65%) Social Media
14 4 (0.65%) Streaming Music
Operating Systems
1 69 (11.27%) Linux
2 60 (9.80%) Unix
3 23 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.82%) CentOS
5 4 (0.65%) Mac OS X
6 3 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.49%) Windows
7 1 (0.16%) Android
7 1 (0.16%) MVS
7 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (48.20%) Analytics
2 190 (31.05%) Machine Learning
3 160 (26.14%) Visualisation
4 127 (20.75%) Business Intelligence
4 127 (20.75%) Statistics
5 126 (20.59%) Agile Software Development
6 125 (20.42%) Mathematics
7 108 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
8 96 (15.69%) Data Analytics
9 82 (13.40%) Data Modelling
10 74 (12.09%) Data Analysis
11 60 (9.80%) ETL
12 58 (9.48%) Statistical Modelling
13 46 (7.52%) E-Commerce
14 40 (6.54%) Predictive Analytics
15 39 (6.37%) Scrum
16 38 (6.21%) Actionable Insight
17 37 (6.05%) Predictive Modelling
18 35 (5.72%) Physics
19 32 (5.23%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 381 (62.25%) Python
2 343 (56.05%) SQL
3 109 (17.81%) Java
4 76 (12.42%) MATLAB
5 66 (10.78%) Scala
6 46 (7.52%) VBA
7 36 (5.88%) C++
8 34 (5.56%) JavaScript
9 33 (5.39%) C#
10 22 (3.59%) C
11 18 (2.94%) T-SQL
12 16 (2.61%) PL/SQL
13 14 (2.29%) Perl
13 14 (2.29%) Shell Script
14 13 (2.12%) Bash Shell
15 11 (1.80%) VB
16 10 (1.63%) Ruby
17 6 (0.98%) Julia
18 5 (0.82%) Go
19 4 (0.65%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 155 (25.33%) Degree
2 40 (6.54%) PhD
3 27 (4.41%) Numerate Degree
3 27 (4.41%) Security Cleared
4 21 (3.43%) Master's Degree
5 18 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.29%) Postgraduate
7 13 (2.12%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.65%) BC Cleared
8 4 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.33%) CCA
9 2 (0.33%) CISA
9 2 (0.33%) CISM
9 2 (0.33%) CISSP
9 2 (0.33%) GSEC
10 1 (0.16%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.16%) ISEB
10 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.90%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.43%) QA
3 4 (0.65%) IFRS
3 4 (0.65%) IFRS 9
4 2 (0.33%) IAS 39
5 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.16%) Basel III
5 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (2.45%) Docker
2 12 (1.96%) HDFS
3 7 (1.14%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.49%) Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
5 2 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.33%) KVM
5 2 (0.33%) LXC
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.33%) Xen
6 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 13 (2.12%) Terraform
2 10 (1.63%) Hadoop YARN
3 8 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.98%) Puppet
5 5 (0.82%) Ansible
6 4 (0.65%) Oozie
7 3 (0.49%) Grafana
7 3 (0.49%) Opscode Chef
7 3 (0.49%) StatsD
8 1 (0.16%) Kibana
8 1 (0.16%) Mesos
8 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (17.65%) Tableau
2 58 (9.48%) Microsoft
3 50 (8.17%) Oracle
4 31 (5.07%) Google
4 31 (5.07%) Teradata
5 23 (3.76%) Cloudera
6 19 (3.10%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.78%) MicroStrategy
7 17 (2.78%) SAP
8 11 (1.80%) Informatica
9 10 (1.63%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.63%) IBM
9 10 (1.63%) Reuters
10 9 (1.47%) Calypso
11 8 (1.31%) Splunk
12 6 (0.98%) Alteryx
12 6 (0.98%) Hortonworks
12 6 (0.98%) Netezza
12 6 (0.98%) Sybase
13 5 (0.82%) Apteco