Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 September 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 25 September 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
25 Sep 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 357 466 573
Rank change year-on-year +109 +107 +130
Contract jobs citing R 654 496 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.47% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 1.18% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 345 241
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
10th Percentile £313 £313 £363
90th Percentile £675 £623 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £443 £525
% change year-on-year -3.95% -15.71% +44.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 6
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 £15.38
90th Percentile £47.15 £40.65 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £20.50 £12.00
% change year-on-year +104.88% +70.83% -63.08%

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 41138 42182 43416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.89% 39.81% 38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 28402 28998 29257
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +3.23%
10th Percentile £306 £280 £263
90th Percentile £625 £588 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £363
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 768 908 967
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £36.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% +12.31%
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £15.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £51.50 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +1.35% +10.45%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +106 608 £500 +5.26% 86
London +45 444 £525 +10.53% 42
UK excluding London +98 195 £425 -3.95% 45
South East +27 44 £388 -9.88% 13
East of England +21 41 £525 +61.54% 8
Midlands +26 39 £450 -8.16% 9
Scotland +36 25 £475 +35.71% 1
West Midlands +20 25 £450 -8.16% 8
North of England +66 18 £425 -5.56% 12
South West +1 15 £475 +11.76% 2
East Midlands +6 14 £463 - 1
Yorkshire +40 9 £425 -19.05% 2
North West +32 9 £475 +11.76% 9
Wales -4 7 £525 +228.13%
Northern Ireland -46 6 £400 -
North East - 2 £425 - 1

For the 6 months to 25 September 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.

1 416 (63.61%) Python
2 352 (53.82%) SQL
3 302 (46.18%) Analytics
4 223 (34.10%) Machine Learning
5 203 (31.04%) Hadoop
6 199 (30.43%) Big Data
7 193 (29.51%) Analytical Skills
8 178 (27.22%) Finance
9 169 (25.84%) Visualisation
10 165 (25.23%) Apache Spark
11 146 (22.32%) Degree
12 139 (21.25%) SAS
13 134 (20.49%) Mathematics
14 133 (20.34%) Business Intelligence
15 132 (20.18%) Statistics
16 130 (19.88%) Agile Software Development
17 126 (19.27%) Java
18 125 (19.11%) Data Visualisation
19 124 (18.96%) Tableau
20 107 (16.36%) Apache Hive
21 99 (15.14%) Data Analytics
22 92 (14.07%) Algorithms
23 85 (13.00%) Data Modelling
24 83 (12.69%) Linux
25 81 (12.39%) Scala
26 80 (12.23%) Data Analysis
27 76 (11.62%) MATLAB
27 76 (11.62%) Computer Science
28 75 (11.47%) Unix
29 72 (11.01%) Data Warehouse

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
1 165 (25.23%) Apache Spark
2 139 (21.25%) SAS
3 35 (5.35%) Apache Pig
4 15 (2.29%) Apache
5 12 (1.83%) Apache Solr
6 11 (1.68%) Confluence
7 8 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.07%) nginx
9 5 (0.76%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.61%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.31%) CMS
12 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.15%) Jetty
13 1 (0.15%) Office Communications Server
13 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 66 (10.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (8.72%) SPSS
3 28 (4.28%) Stata
4 17 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.46%) S-PLUS
8 2 (0.31%) EViews
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.15%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.15%) HipChat
9 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.15%) Simulink
9 1 (0.15%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Salesforce.com CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Eloqua
2 1 (0.15%) FastStats
2 1 (0.15%) Primavera
2 1 (0.15%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 68 (10.40%) Amazon AWS
2 41 (6.27%) Microsoft Azure
3 18 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 16 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (1.99%) Google Analytics
6 9 (1.38%) Google Cloud Platform
7 8 (1.22%) PaaS
8 7 (1.07%) GitHub
9 6 (0.92%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (0.92%) Route 53
10 5 (0.76%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (0.61%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.61%) Google Play
11 4 (0.61%) SaaS
12 3 (0.46%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.31%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.31%) Azure Active Directory
13 2 (0.31%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.75%) Kerberos
2 5 (0.76%) Internet
3 4 (0.61%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.61%) Wireless
4 3 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.31%) Skype
6 1 (0.15%) Broadband
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.15%) SMS
6 1 (0.15%) SNMP
6 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (31.04%) Hadoop
2 199 (30.43%) Big Data
3 107 (16.36%) Apache Hive
4 72 (11.01%) Data Warehouse
5 68 (10.40%) NoSQL
6 67 (10.24%) Data Mining
6 67 (10.24%) Relational Database
7 64 (9.79%) MongoDB
8 61 (9.33%) Power BI
9 46 (7.03%) SQL Server
10 41 (6.27%) QlikView
11 39 (5.96%) Impala
12 37 (5.66%) MySQL
13 31 (4.74%) Apache Cassandra
13 31 (4.74%) Qlik Sense
14 29 (4.43%) BusinessObjects
15 26 (3.98%) HBase
15 26 (3.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (3.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 18 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (4.89%) Git (software)
1 32 (4.89%) JIRA
2 12 (1.83%) Visual Studio
3 11 (1.68%) Selenium
4 10 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.22%) JUnit
6 7 (1.07%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.07%) Vagrant
7 6 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.61%) RStudio
10 3 (0.46%) Gradle
10 3 (0.46%) Maven
10 3 (0.46%) Subversion
11 2 (0.31%) Bower
11 2 (0.31%) ERwin
11 2 (0.31%) Grunt
11 2 (0.31%) gulp
11 2 (0.31%) Mocha
11 2 (0.31%) Travis CI
General
1 178 (27.22%) Finance
2 64 (9.79%) Marketing
3 63 (9.63%) Banking
4 43 (6.57%) Front Office
5 29 (4.43%) Retail
6 27 (4.13%) Investment Banking
7 23 (3.52%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 17 (2.60%) Games
9 16 (2.45%) Electronics
10 13 (1.99%) Publishing
11 12 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.07%) Advertising
14 6 (0.92%) Back Office
15 3 (0.46%) Automotive
15 3 (0.46%) Legal
16 2 (0.31%) French Language
16 2 (0.31%) Law
16 2 (0.31%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 197 (30.12%) Data Scientist
2 183 (27.98%) Analyst
3 111 (16.97%) Developer
4 78 (11.93%) Data Analyst
5 63 (9.63%) Data Engineer
6 54 (8.26%) Business Analyst
7 39 (5.96%) Python Developer
8 37 (5.66%) Big Data Engineer
9 34 (5.20%) Architect
10 29 (4.43%) Senior Data Scientist
11 22 (3.36%) Machine Learning Scientist
12 20 (3.06%) Data Architect
12 20 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
13 19 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
14 18 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (2.60%) Banking Analyst
15 17 (2.60%) Big Data Developer
15 17 (2.60%) R Developer
15 17 (2.60%) SQL Analyst
16 15 (2.29%) Qualitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.20%) Natural Language Processing
2 33 (5.05%) D3.js
3 32 (4.89%) Kafka
4 31 (4.74%) JSON
5 20 (3.06%) TensorFlow
6 19 (2.91%) HTML
7 17 (2.60%) JMS
8 16 (2.45%) Keras
8 16 (2.45%) MLlib
9 15 (2.29%) RESTful
9 15 (2.29%) Web Services
10 13 (1.99%) ActiveMQ
10 13 (1.99%) Hibernate
11 12 (1.83%) REST
12 11 (1.68%) .NET
12 11 (1.68%) Spring
13 10 (1.53%) Lucene
13 10 (1.53%) scikit-learn
13 10 (1.53%) XML
14 9 (1.38%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 193 (29.51%) Analytical Skills
2 92 (14.07%) Algorithms
3 76 (11.62%) Computer Science
4 21 (3.21%) Market Risk
5 19 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.60%) Fintech
7 15 (2.29%) Credit Risk
7 15 (2.29%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.29%) Fixed Income
8 13 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (1.99%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.83%) User Experience
10 10 (1.53%) Equities
11 9 (1.38%) Replication
12 7 (1.07%) Derivative
12 7 (1.07%) OTC Derivatives
13 6 (0.92%) Online Games
13 6 (0.92%) Reference Data
14 5 (0.76%) Digital Media
15 4 (0.61%) Streaming Music
Operating Systems
1 83 (12.69%) Linux
2 75 (11.47%) Unix
3 28 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.53%) CentOS
5 6 (0.92%) Mac OS X
5 6 (0.92%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.61%) Windows
7 3 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.15%) MVS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (46.18%) Analytics
2 223 (34.10%) Machine Learning
3 169 (25.84%) Visualisation
4 134 (20.49%) Mathematics
5 133 (20.34%) Business Intelligence
6 132 (20.18%) Statistics
7 130 (19.88%) Agile Software Development
8 125 (19.11%) Data Visualisation
9 99 (15.14%) Data Analytics
10 85 (13.00%) Data Modelling
11 80 (12.23%) Data Analysis
12 54 (8.26%) Statistical Modelling
13 51 (7.80%) ETL
14 45 (6.88%) Predictive Analytics
15 44 (6.73%) Scrum
16 40 (6.12%) Actionable Insight
17 39 (5.96%) Stakeholder Management
18 38 (5.81%) E-Commerce
18 38 (5.81%) Open Source
18 38 (5.81%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 416 (63.61%) Python
2 352 (53.82%) SQL
3 126 (19.27%) Java
4 81 (12.39%) Scala
5 76 (11.62%) MATLAB
6 46 (7.03%) VBA
7 45 (6.88%) JavaScript
8 41 (6.27%) C#
9 34 (5.20%) C++
10 23 (3.52%) C
11 19 (2.91%) Bash Shell
12 18 (2.75%) Perl
12 18 (2.75%) Shell Script
13 17 (2.60%) T-SQL
14 15 (2.29%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.83%) Ruby
15 12 (1.83%) VB
16 10 (1.53%) GraphQL
17 7 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
18 6 (0.92%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 146 (22.32%) Degree
2 44 (6.73%) PhD
3 26 (3.98%) Security Cleared
4 25 (3.82%) Numerate Degree
5 24 (3.67%) Master's Degree
6 21 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.14%) Postgraduate
8 12 (1.83%) SC Cleared
9 4 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.31%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.15%) ISEB
11 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.05%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.98%) QA
3 5 (0.76%) IFRS
3 5 (0.76%) IFRS 9
4 2 (0.31%) IAS 39
5 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.15%) Basel III
5 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.15%) GCP
5 1 (0.15%) MiFID
5 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (3.06%) Docker
2 8 (1.22%) HDFS
3 5 (0.76%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.46%) Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
4 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.31%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.15%) Varnish
6 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (2.75%) Terraform
2 14 (2.14%) Hadoop YARN
3 13 (1.99%) Puppet
4 9 (1.38%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.76%) Ansible
6 3 (0.46%) Grafana
6 3 (0.46%) StatsD
7 2 (0.31%) Mesos
7 2 (0.31%) Opscode Chef
8 1 (0.15%) Kibana
8 1 (0.15%) SCCM
8 1 (0.15%) SCOM
8 1 (0.15%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 124 (18.96%) Tableau
2 63 (9.63%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.88%) Oracle
4 39 (5.96%) Google
5 25 (3.82%) Teradata
6 23 (3.52%) Cloudera
7 20 (3.06%) SAP
8 19 (2.91%) Red Hat
9 13 (1.99%) IBM
10 11 (1.68%) Bloomberg
10 11 (1.68%) Informatica
10 11 (1.68%) Reuters
11 10 (1.53%) MicroStrategy
12 9 (1.38%) Alteryx
12 9 (1.38%) Calypso
13 8 (1.22%) Splunk
14 6 (0.92%) Hortonworks
15 5 (0.76%) Datameer
16 4 (0.61%) Netezza
16 4 (0.61%) Sybase