Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 27 January 2020

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 27 January 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
UK
6 months to
27 Jan 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 274 383 343
Rank change year-on-year +109 -40 +20
Contract jobs citing R 658 659 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.67% 0.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.26% 1.52% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 367 520
UK median daily rate £525 £480 £500
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% +5.26%
10th Percentile £363 £325 £300
90th Percentile £738 £675 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 18
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £40.00 £26.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -17.50% +50.94% +27.62%
10th Percentile £19.36 £21.89 £16.54
90th Percentile £53.75 £98.63 £60.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.24 £22.84 £25.00
% change year-on-year +6.11% -8.64% +31.58%

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 29,135 43,431 42,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.75% 44.33% 42.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,959 30,501 29,610
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
10th Percentile £325 £320 £308
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +1.18% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 695 764
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £42.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +0.59% +5.63% -
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.00 £16.62
90th Percentile £55.00 £52.40 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +6.25% +0.63%

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 27 January 2020.

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 27 January 2020.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for R in the UK

R
Top 14 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 27 January 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		 Live
Job
Vacancies
England +103 614 £525 +6.33% 160
London +92 417 £550 +10.00% 90
UK excluding London +88 226 £475 +5.56% 88
South East +56 74 £475 -5.00% 22
South West +26 47 £463 - 6
North of England +35 29 £513 +13.89% 21
Midlands +50 24 £425 +21.43% 14
North West +35 21 £568 +33.53% 10
Wales +32 20 £475 - 3
East of England +32 20 £600 +9.09% 7
West Midlands +42 19 £425 +21.43% 10
Scotland +19 12 £450 +12.50% 15
Yorkshire +29 8 £475 - 9
East Midlands +28 5 £400 -17.95% 3

For the 6 months to 27 January 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.

1 559 (84.95%) Python
2 342 (51.98%) SQL
3 282 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
4 234 (35.56%) Finance
5 233 (35.41%) Analytics
6 231 (35.11%) AWS
7 206 (31.31%) Java
8 205 (31.16%) Data Science
9 175 (26.60%) Machine Learning
10 169 (25.68%) Software Engineering
11 168 (25.53%) Asset Management
12 162 (24.62%) Web Services
13 149 (22.64%) Front Office
14 147 (22.34%) Fixed Income
15 135 (20.52%) Analytical Skills
16 123 (18.69%) Azure
17 119 (18.09%) Derivative
18 114 (17.33%) Business Intelligence
19 110 (16.72%) DevOps
20 106 (16.11%) Docker
20 106 (16.11%) Microservices
21 105 (15.96%) Equities
22 98 (14.89%) JavaScript
22 98 (14.89%) Visualisation
22 98 (14.89%) Power BI
22 98 (14.89%) Power Platform
23 96 (14.59%) Kubernetes
24 94 (14.29%) Apache Spark
25 93 (14.13%) Decision-Making
26 92 (13.98%) NoSQL

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 94 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 63 (9.57%) SAS
3 25 (3.80%) Jupyter
4 22 (3.34%) R Markdown
5 13 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.67%) Apache
7 9 (1.37%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.91%) Confluence
9 3 (0.46%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 47 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.50%) SPSS
3 8 (1.22%) Stata
4 6 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.46%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.15%) S-PLUS
7 1 (0.15%) Weka
Business Applications
1 13 (1.98%) Markit EDM
1 13 (1.98%) PolarLake
2 9 (1.37%) FINCAD Analytics
3 8 (1.22%) Eagle PACE
4 1 (0.15%) Actimize
4 1 (0.15%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.15%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 231 (35.11%) AWS
2 123 (18.69%) Azure
3 98 (14.89%) Power Platform
4 87 (13.22%) Serverless
5 81 (12.31%) AWS Lambda
6 77 (11.70%) Amazon S3
7 67 (10.18%) OpenShift
8 65 (9.88%) Amazon SQS
9 56 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
9 56 (8.51%) GCP
10 53 (8.05%) Amazon EC2
10 53 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (2.28%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
13 12 (1.82%) Google Analytics
14 11 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (1.67%) PaaS
15 9 (1.37%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.76%) Broadband
2 3 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.30%) Firewall
3 2 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.30%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.30%) SSL
3 2 (0.30%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Internet
4 1 (0.15%) Multicast
4 1 (0.15%) Skype
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (14.89%) Power BI
2 92 (13.98%) NoSQL
3 89 (13.53%) Big Data
4 85 (12.92%) Hadoop
5 78 (11.85%) Amazon RDS
6 73 (11.09%) SQL Server
7 70 (10.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 46 (6.99%) Data Lake
9 40 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
11 32 (4.86%) Relational Database
12 31 (4.71%) MongoDB
13 30 (4.56%) Apache Hive
14 28 (4.26%) Data Mining
15 24 (3.65%) Apache Cassandra
16 23 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (3.34%) HDInsight
18 19 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
19 18 (2.74%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 84 (12.77%) RStudio
2 66 (10.03%) Artifactory
3 54 (8.21%) Jenkins
4 43 (6.53%) Git (software)
5 19 (2.89%) JIRA
6 15 (2.28%) Visual Studio
7 13 (1.98%) Visual Studio Team System
8 11 (1.67%) Jasmine
9 8 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (1.06%) Selenium
11 6 (0.91%) Travis CI
12 5 (0.76%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.46%) Maven
14 2 (0.30%) Ant
14 2 (0.30%) ERwin
14 2 (0.30%) GitLab
14 2 (0.30%) HP UFT
14 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.30%) Toad
15 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 234 (35.56%) Finance
2 149 (22.64%) Front Office
3 50 (7.60%) Banking
4 36 (5.47%) Marketing
5 30 (4.56%) Public Sector
6 21 (3.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 15 (2.28%) Retail
8 14 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.67%) Back Office
9 11 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.22%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.06%) Local Government
11 7 (1.06%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.91%) Advertising
12 6 (0.91%) Electronics
12 6 (0.91%) Law
13 5 (0.76%) Publishing
14 4 (0.61%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.61%) Games
14 4 (0.61%) German Language
Job Titles
1 207 (31.46%) Developer
2 146 (22.19%) Analyst
3 141 (21.43%) Data Scientist
4 78 (11.85%) Data Analyst
5 77 (11.70%) Java Developer
6 74 (11.25%) AWS Developer
7 66 (10.03%) Python Developer
8 60 (9.12%) Data Engineer
9 52 (7.90%) Software Engineer
10 47 (7.14%) Java Software Developer
11 45 (6.84%) Python Engineer
12 43 (6.53%) Senior Developer
13 40 (6.08%) Lead Developer
14 38 (5.78%) SQL Analyst
15 36 (5.47%) Architect
15 36 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
16 34 (5.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 34 (5.17%) R Developer
17 31 (4.71%) Java Engineer
18 28 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (24.62%) Web Services
2 77 (11.70%) J2EE
3 47 (7.14%) .NET
4 39 (5.93%) J2SE
5 38 (5.78%) React
6 36 (5.47%) Pandas
7 34 (5.17%) NumPy
8 28 (4.26%) AngularJS
9 25 (3.80%) Kafka
9 25 (3.80%) Node.js
9 25 (3.80%) SciPy
10 24 (3.65%) TensorFlow
11 18 (2.74%) scikit-learn
12 15 (2.28%) Natural Language Processing
13 12 (1.82%) Spring
14 11 (1.67%) PySpark
15 9 (1.37%) gRPC
15 9 (1.37%) Keras
15 9 (1.37%) Protocol Buffers
15 9 (1.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 147 (22.34%) Fixed Income
2 135 (20.52%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (18.09%) Derivative
4 105 (15.96%) Equities
5 81 (12.31%) Algorithms
6 47 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 44 (6.69%) Hedge funds
8 43 (6.53%) Greenfield Project
9 25 (3.80%) Public Cloud
10 24 (3.65%) Equity Derivative
11 23 (3.50%) Blog
12 18 (2.74%) Reference Data
13 13 (1.98%) Credit Risk
14 12 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.67%) Data Structures
16 7 (1.06%) Clustering
17 6 (0.91%) Life Science
17 6 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
17 6 (0.91%) Management Information System
17 6 (0.91%) User Experience
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.80%) Linux
2 19 (2.89%) Unix
3 7 (1.06%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) CentOS
4 1 (0.15%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 233 (35.41%) Analytics
3 205 (31.16%) Data Science
4 175 (26.60%) Machine Learning
5 169 (25.68%) Software Engineering
6 168 (25.53%) Asset Management
7 114 (17.33%) Business Intelligence
8 110 (16.72%) DevOps
9 106 (16.11%) Microservices
10 98 (14.89%) Visualisation
11 93 (14.13%) Decision-Making
12 91 (13.83%) Data Analysis
13 83 (12.61%) Statistics
14 80 (12.16%) ETL
15 79 (12.01%) Computer Science
16 72 (10.94%) Mathematics
17 65 (9.88%) Data Analytics
18 64 (9.73%) Data Modelling
19 61 (9.27%) Artificial Intelligence
20 56 (8.51%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 559 (84.95%) Python
2 342 (51.98%) SQL
3 206 (31.31%) Java
4 98 (14.89%) JavaScript
5 71 (10.79%) C#
6 67 (10.18%) Scala
7 55 (8.36%) C++
8 26 (3.95%) MATLAB
9 17 (2.58%) VBA
10 15 (2.28%) C
11 10 (1.52%) PHP
12 9 (1.37%) Ruby
13 8 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
14 7 (1.06%) Go
15 6 (0.91%) Julia
15 6 (0.91%) Perl
16 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.61%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.61%) U-SQL
17 3 (0.46%) Bash Shell
Qualifications
1 78 (11.85%) Degree
2 30 (4.56%) PhD
3 27 (4.10%) DBS Check
4 22 (3.34%) Security Cleared
5 15 (2.28%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.67%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.76%) Postgraduate
9 4 (0.61%) CFA
9 4 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.61%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.15%) HNC
11 1 (0.15%) HND
11 1 (0.15%) OCPJP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.53%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.19%) QA
3 10 (1.52%) IFRS
3 10 (1.52%) IFRS 9
4 4 (0.61%) GxP
4 4 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.15%) GDPR
5 1 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (16.11%) Docker
2 24 (3.65%) HDFS
3 8 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.61%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 96 (14.59%) Kubernetes
2 56 (8.51%) Terraform
3 16 (2.43%) Hadoop YARN
4 8 (1.22%) Kibana
5 7 (1.06%) Ansible
6 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Clustering
7 4 (0.61%) Puppet
8 3 (0.46%) Grafana
8 3 (0.46%) Kubeflow
8 3 (0.46%) Opscode Chef
9 1 (0.15%) Consul
9 1 (0.15%) Matomo
9 1 (0.15%) Mesos
9 1 (0.15%) Oozie
9 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 87 (13.22%) Tableau
2 82 (12.46%) Microsoft
3 53 (8.05%) Oracle
4 39 (5.93%) Google
5 20 (3.04%) Bloomberg
6 17 (2.58%) Cloudera
7 16 (2.43%) Alteryx
8 15 (2.28%) SAP
9 14 (2.13%) Databricks
10 13 (1.98%) Teradata
11 11 (1.67%) Hortonworks
12 8 (1.22%) Reuters
12 8 (1.22%) Splunk
13 7 (1.06%) Foundry
13 7 (1.06%) Palantir
13 7 (1.06%) Talend
14 5 (0.76%) RapidMiner
15 4 (0.61%) Facebook
15 4 (0.61%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.61%) StreamSets