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 24 October 2020 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 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.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills
13,436
35,444
46,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
42.20%
41.96%
44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted
8,829
24,593
32,388
Median daily rate
£475
£475
£475
10th Percentile
£310
£322
£315
90th Percentile
£675
£650
£638
UK excluding London median daily rate
£425
£425
£420
% change year-on-year
-
+1.19%
+5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted
363
685
699
Median hourly rate
£35.00
£44.00
£42.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.45%
+4.76%
+5.00%
10th Percentile
£13.00
£19.25
£16.25
90th Percentile
£54.55
£55.00
£52.50
Median hourly rate
£35.00
£43.50
£42.27
% change year-on-year
-19.54%
+2.92%
+4.36%
R Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
R Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R.
R Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R over the 6 months to 24 October 2020.
R Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R.
R Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R over the 6 months to 24 October 2020.
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 24 October 2020. 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
For the 6 months to 24 October 2020, 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.
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:
