Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 16 October 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 16 October 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
16 Oct 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 394 359 458
Rank change year-on-year -35 +99 +126
Contract jobs citing R 661 669 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.67% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.44% 1.61% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 453 349
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £470
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%
10th Percentile £348 £325 £306
90th Percentile £690 £675 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 18 11
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.03
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -37.14% +66.43% -29.90%
10th Percentile £18.26 £19.34 £16.25
90th Percentile £48.38 £46.28 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.18 £42.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -49.57% +104.88% +70.83%

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 45,866 41,586 42,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.47% 41.91% 40.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 32,162 28,869 29,199
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
10th Percentile £313 £306 £280
90th Percentile £638 £625 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +3.75% +6.67% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 711 790 913
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £40.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +5.00% +6.67% +2.74%
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.25 £14.13
90th Percentile £52.50 £53.08 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £40.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.94% +8.00% +1.35%

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 16 October 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 16 October 2018.

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 16 October 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 -17 614 £500 - 234
London -9 427 £525 - 133
UK excluding London -7 233 £463 +8.82% 114
South East +43 91 £525 +40.00% 33
North of England -9 34 £525 +23.53% 23
South West -6 27 £425 -10.53% 13
Scotland -14 27 £425 -10.53% 8
Midlands -36 22 £350 -22.22% 19
Yorkshire -10 21 £475 +11.76% 13
East of England -29 15 £425 -19.05% 13
Wales -11 14 £445 -11.00%
West Midlands -42 12 £350 -22.22% 10
East Midlands -4 10 £425 -15.08% 9
North East +9 7 £650 +52.94% 2
North West -8 6 £538 +13.16% 8
Northern Ireland +33 3 - - 5

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 483 (73.07%) Python
2 354 (53.56%) SQL
3 277 (41.91%) Analytics
4 276 (41.75%) Data Science
5 183 (27.69%) Machine Learning
6 181 (27.38%) Analytical Skills
7 178 (26.93%) Big Data
8 174 (26.32%) Finance
9 170 (25.72%) Hadoop
10 150 (22.69%) Visualisation
11 149 (22.54%) SAS
12 147 (22.24%) Agile Software Development
13 141 (21.33%) Java
14 136 (20.57%) Mathematics
15 128 (19.36%) Business Intelligence
16 121 (18.31%) Degree
17 119 (18.00%) Statistics
17 119 (18.00%) Apache Spark
18 118 (17.85%) Amazon AWS
19 108 (16.34%) Tableau
20 99 (14.98%) Algorithms
21 94 (14.22%) Microsoft Azure
22 92 (13.92%) SQL Server
23 88 (13.31%) Computer Science
24 82 (12.41%) ETL
25 80 (12.10%) MATLAB
25 80 (12.10%) Data Analysis
25 80 (12.10%) Power BI
26 76 (11.50%) C#
27 74 (11.20%) 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
1 149 (22.54%) SAS
2 119 (18.00%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.57%) Apache
4 15 (2.27%) Apache Pig
4 15 (2.27%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (1.36%) Jupyter
7 7 (1.06%) CMS
7 7 (1.06%) Confluence
7 7 (1.06%) IIS
7 7 (1.06%) Sitecore CMS
8 5 (0.76%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 51 (7.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.99%) SPSS
3 9 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.21%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.76%) Stata
6 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.30%) EViews
7 2 (0.30%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.30%) Mathematica
8 1 (0.15%) Fireworks
8 1 (0.15%) InVision
8 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (0.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 4 (0.61%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.30%) ReMetrica
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.15%) FastStats
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 118 (17.85%) Amazon AWS
2 94 (14.22%) Microsoft Azure
3 32 (4.84%) Google Cloud Platform
4 25 (3.78%) Cloud Computing
5 19 (2.87%) Azure Machine Learning
6 18 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (2.57%) Amazon S3
8 16 (2.42%) Data Lake Analytics
9 13 (1.97%) GitHub
9 13 (1.97%) PaaS
10 11 (1.66%) Amazon EMR
10 11 (1.66%) Google Analytics
11 7 (1.06%) IaaS
12 6 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.76%) Serverless
14 4 (0.61%) SaaS
15 3 (0.45%) Adobe Analytics
16 2 (0.30%) Amazon ELB
16 2 (0.30%) NuGet
16 2 (0.30%) Trello
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.76%) Internet
1 5 (0.76%) SSL
1 5 (0.76%) VPN
2 4 (0.61%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.45%) Firewall
3 3 (0.45%) SNA
4 2 (0.30%) DNS
4 2 (0.30%) LAN
4 2 (0.30%) SMS
4 2 (0.30%) SSH
4 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.30%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.30%) WAN
5 1 (0.15%) AMQP
5 1 (0.15%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.15%) Network Security
5 1 (0.15%) PBX
5 1 (0.15%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (26.93%) Big Data
2 170 (25.72%) Hadoop
3 92 (13.92%) SQL Server
4 80 (12.10%) Power BI
5 70 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
6 65 (9.83%) Apache Hive
6 65 (9.83%) Relational Database
7 62 (9.38%) NoSQL
8 61 (9.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 45 (6.81%) Data Lake
9 45 (6.81%) Data Mining
10 44 (6.66%) MongoDB
11 37 (5.60%) MySQL
12 36 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
13 33 (4.99%) Impala
13 33 (4.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 31 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
15 28 (4.24%) HBase
16 27 (4.08%) Spotfire
17 20 (3.03%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 59 (8.93%) Git (software)
2 51 (7.72%) Jenkins
3 35 (5.30%) JIRA
4 20 (3.03%) RStudio
5 15 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 13 (1.97%) Visual Studio Team System
7 12 (1.82%) Maven
8 11 (1.66%) Vagrant
9 9 (1.36%) Visual Studio
10 8 (1.21%) Selenium
10 8 (1.21%) Subversion
11 7 (1.06%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.06%) IntelliJ
11 7 (1.06%) ReSharper
12 6 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.76%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.76%) Toad
14 4 (0.61%) FishEye
14 4 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
15 3 (0.45%) Gradle
General
1 174 (26.32%) Finance
2 45 (6.81%) Banking
2 45 (6.81%) Marketing
3 41 (6.20%) Front Office
4 38 (5.75%) Retail
5 15 (2.27%) Telecoms
6 11 (1.66%) Advertising
7 10 (1.51%) Games
8 9 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (1.21%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.91%) Electronics
12 5 (0.76%) Automotive
12 5 (0.76%) Law
12 5 (0.76%) Legal
12 5 (0.76%) Publishing
13 4 (0.61%) Back Office
14 3 (0.45%) French Language
14 3 (0.45%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 167 (25.26%) Data Scientist
2 128 (19.36%) Developer
3 127 (19.21%) Analyst
4 63 (9.53%) Data Analyst
5 58 (8.77%) Data Engineer
6 52 (7.87%) Consultant
7 35 (5.30%) Architect
8 32 (4.84%) Data Consultant
9 28 (4.24%) C# Developer
10 27 (4.08%) Python Developer
11 24 (3.63%) Python Engineer
12 23 (3.48%) Big Data Engineer
12 23 (3.48%) Senior Data Scientist
12 23 (3.48%) SQL Developer
13 20 (3.03%) Analytics Consultant
13 20 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (3.03%) Data Architect
14 19 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
15 16 (2.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 16 (2.42%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.87%) Kafka
2 44 (6.66%) HTML
3 43 (6.51%) Natural Language Processing
4 41 (6.20%) .NET
5 35 (5.30%) AngularJS
6 31 (4.69%) TensorFlow
7 25 (3.78%) HTML5
8 18 (2.72%) Node.js
8 18 (2.72%) React
9 17 (2.57%) Pandas
9 17 (2.57%) Web Services
10 16 (2.42%) scikit-learn
11 15 (2.27%) Keras
12 13 (1.97%) CSS
12 13 (1.97%) NumPy
13 12 (1.82%) D3.js
13 12 (1.82%) Theano
14 11 (1.66%) ASP.NET
14 11 (1.66%) RxJS
14 11 (1.66%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 181 (27.38%) Analytical Skills
2 99 (14.98%) Algorithms
3 88 (13.31%) Computer Science
4 17 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (2.57%) User Experience
5 12 (1.82%) Fixed Income
6 11 (1.66%) Derivative
7 10 (1.51%) Credit Risk
7 10 (1.51%) Equities
7 10 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.36%) Digital Media
8 9 (1.36%) Fintech
8 9 (1.36%) Hedge funds
8 9 (1.36%) Reference Data
9 8 (1.21%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.21%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.21%) Taxonomies
9 8 (1.21%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.06%) Market Risk
10 7 (1.06%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (11.20%) Linux
2 38 (5.75%) Unix
3 18 (2.72%) Windows
4 11 (1.66%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.30%) AIX
8 1 (0.15%) Android
8 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (41.91%) Analytics
2 276 (41.75%) Data Science
3 183 (27.69%) Machine Learning
4 150 (22.69%) Visualisation
5 147 (22.24%) Agile Software Development
6 136 (20.57%) Mathematics
7 128 (19.36%) Business Intelligence
8 119 (18.00%) Statistics
9 82 (12.41%) ETL
10 80 (12.10%) Data Analysis
11 73 (11.04%) Data Visualisation
11 73 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
12 72 (10.89%) Data Analytics
13 65 (9.83%) Data Modelling
14 62 (9.38%) DevOps
15 50 (7.56%) Artificial Intelligence
16 49 (7.41%) Open Source
17 47 (7.11%) Statistical Modelling
18 46 (6.96%) Software Engineering
19 45 (6.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 483 (73.07%) Python
2 354 (53.56%) SQL
3 141 (21.33%) Java
4 80 (12.10%) MATLAB
5 76 (11.50%) C#
6 73 (11.04%) Scala
7 49 (7.41%) JavaScript
8 41 (6.20%) C++
9 30 (4.54%) VBA
10 28 (4.24%) T-SQL
11 23 (3.48%) Bash Shell
12 21 (3.18%) C
13 19 (2.87%) PL/SQL
14 17 (2.57%) Perl
14 17 (2.57%) PHP
15 16 (2.42%) U-SQL
16 14 (2.12%) Ruby
17 10 (1.51%) VB.NET
17 10 (1.51%) VBScript
18 9 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
Qualifications
1 121 (18.31%) Degree
2 65 (9.83%) PhD
3 22 (3.33%) Numerate Degree
4 20 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 20 (3.03%) Security Cleared
5 16 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.27%) SC Cleared
7 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.61%) MBA
9 3 (0.45%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.15%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.15%) CCIE
11 1 (0.15%) CCIE Data Center
11 1 (0.15%) CCNP
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.15%) MCSA
11 1 (0.15%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.11%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.63%) QA
3 18 (2.72%) GDPR
4 8 (1.21%) IFRS
4 8 (1.21%) IFRS 9
5 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.15%) CDISC
6 1 (0.15%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.15%) GCP
6 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.15%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (6.81%) Docker
2 26 (3.93%) Apache Flume
3 11 (1.66%) HDFS
4 4 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.30%) iptables
5 2 (0.30%) NFS
6 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (3.78%) Terraform
2 19 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.57%) Ansible
4 16 (2.42%) Puppet
5 11 (1.66%) Opscode Chef
6 7 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (0.76%) Kibana
7 5 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.45%) Oozie
9 2 (0.30%) Mesos
10 1 (0.15%) CASB
10 1 (0.15%) Control-M
10 1 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 108 (16.34%) Tableau
2 69 (10.44%) Microsoft
3 62 (9.38%) Oracle
4 38 (5.75%) Google
5 37 (5.60%) Cloudera
6 30 (4.54%) Teradata
7 28 (4.24%) Alteryx
8 27 (4.08%) Hortonworks
9 24 (3.63%) Informatica
10 17 (2.57%) SAP
11 16 (2.42%) Talend
12 15 (2.27%) MapR
13 11 (1.66%) Datameer
14 10 (1.51%) IBM
15 8 (1.21%) RapidMiner
16 7 (1.06%) Sitecore
17 6 (0.91%) Bloomberg
17 6 (0.91%) Databricks
17 6 (0.91%) Red Hat
18 5 (0.76%) New Relic
251 R job vacancies Nationwide