Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 November 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 20 November 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
20 Nov 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 379 348 411
Rank change year-on-year -31 +63 +161
Contract jobs citing R 685 716 599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.70% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.47% 1.67% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 494 398
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
90th Percentile £681 £675 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £420
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 22 11
UK median hourly rate £24.50 £24.75 £21.03
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -1.01% +17.69% +7.85%
10th Percentile £19.42 £19.34 £16.25
90th Percentile £68.95 £43.00 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.25 £42.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -47.02% +104.88% +26.15%

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 46,493 42,960 41,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.69% 42.00% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 32,731 30,022 28,803
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
10th Percentile £316 £308 £281
90th Percentile £640 £638 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 680 801 874
UK median hourly rate £41.53 £40.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +3.83% +6.67% -
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.13 £14.37
90th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +5.00% +6.67% -

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 20 November 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 -16 641 £500 - 238
London -19 422 £513 -2.38% 136
UK excluding London -8 258 £450 - 119
South East +24 96 £500 +17.65% 32
North of England -9 50 £475 -2.56% 26
South West +1 38 £413 -13.16% 15
Scotland -4 27 £400 -14.44% 11
Yorkshire -1 25 £475 +11.76% 9
Midlands -35 21 £350 -22.22% 14
North West -16 16 £440 -12.00% 15
West Midlands -40 15 £350 -22.22% 6
East of England -28 12 £394 -28.41% 16
Wales -24 10 £500 +66.67% 1
North East +4 9 £650 +52.94% 2
East Midlands -2 6 £700 +39.86% 8
Northern Ireland +39 4 - - 5

For the 6 months to 20 November 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.

1 514 (75.04%) Python
2 396 (57.81%) SQL
3 310 (45.26%) Data Science
4 300 (43.80%) Analytics
5 205 (29.93%) Analytical Skills
6 196 (28.61%) Big Data
7 193 (28.18%) Machine Learning
8 188 (27.45%) Finance
9 183 (26.72%) Hadoop
10 162 (23.65%) Visualisation
11 160 (23.36%) Agile Software Development
12 157 (22.92%) SAS
13 145 (21.17%) Apache Spark
14 140 (20.44%) Java
15 138 (20.15%) Degree
15 138 (20.15%) Mathematics
16 136 (19.85%) Business Intelligence
17 129 (18.83%) Statistics
18 120 (17.52%) Amazon AWS
19 116 (16.93%) Algorithms
19 116 (16.93%) Tableau
20 111 (16.20%) ETL
20 111 (16.20%) Microsoft Azure
21 105 (15.33%) Computer Science
22 101 (14.74%) MATLAB
23 96 (14.01%) Linux
24 93 (13.58%) SQL Server
25 88 (12.85%) Microsoft
26 86 (12.55%) Power BI
27 82 (11.97%) Data Visualisation

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
1 157 (22.92%) SAS
2 145 (21.17%) Apache Spark
3 24 (3.50%) SharePoint
4 17 (2.48%) Apache
5 13 (1.90%) Jupyter
6 12 (1.75%) Apache Pig
7 10 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.17%) Skype for Business
9 7 (1.02%) CMS
9 7 (1.02%) IIS
9 7 (1.02%) Sitecore CMS
10 6 (0.88%) Confluence
11 4 (0.58%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.29%) nginx
13 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
13 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
13 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 57 (8.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (4.96%) SPSS
3 14 (2.04%) Chatbot
4 12 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.73%) Stata
6 4 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.44%) Mathematica
7 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.29%) EViews
8 2 (0.29%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.15%) Fireworks
9 1 (0.15%) InVision
9 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (1.46%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 3 (0.44%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.29%) ReMetrica
4 1 (0.15%) Actimize
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.15%) FastStats
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle AML
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 120 (17.52%) Amazon AWS
2 111 (16.20%) Microsoft Azure
3 36 (5.26%) Google Cloud Platform
4 23 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (3.21%) Cloud Computing
5 22 (3.21%) PaaS
6 21 (3.07%) Data Lake Analytics
7 19 (2.77%) Amazon S3
7 19 (2.77%) Azure Machine Learning
7 19 (2.77%) GitHub
8 16 (2.34%) IaaS
9 13 (1.90%) Amazon EMR
10 12 (1.75%) Google Analytics
11 9 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (1.17%) Apigee
13 5 (0.73%) Adobe Analytics
13 5 (0.73%) SaaS
13 5 (0.73%) Serverless
14 3 (0.44%) Amazon SageMaker
15 2 (0.29%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.75%) SSL
2 8 (1.17%) Skype
3 5 (0.73%) Internet
4 4 (0.58%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.58%) VPN
5 3 (0.44%) 3GPP
5 3 (0.44%) DNS
5 3 (0.44%) HTTP
5 3 (0.44%) LTE
5 3 (0.44%) SNA
5 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.44%) WCDMA
5 3 (0.44%) Wireless
6 2 (0.29%) Firewall
6 2 (0.29%) LAN
6 2 (0.29%) SMS
6 2 (0.29%) SSH
6 2 (0.29%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.29%) WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (28.61%) Big Data
2 183 (26.72%) Hadoop
3 93 (13.58%) SQL Server
4 86 (12.55%) Power BI
5 82 (11.97%) Relational Database
6 80 (11.68%) Data Warehouse
7 71 (10.36%) Apache Hive
8 58 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 57 (8.32%) NoSQL
10 54 (7.88%) Data Lake
11 51 (7.45%) Data Mining
12 44 (6.42%) MongoDB
13 38 (5.55%) HBase
14 36 (5.26%) Impala
15 34 (4.96%) MySQL
16 33 (4.82%) Spotfire
17 32 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
18 28 (4.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 26 (3.80%) Apache Cassandra
20 20 (2.92%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 61 (8.91%) Git (software)
2 48 (7.01%) Jenkins
3 38 (5.55%) JIRA
4 25 (3.65%) RStudio
5 14 (2.04%) Bitbucket
5 14 (2.04%) Visual Studio
5 14 (2.04%) Visual Studio Team System
6 13 (1.90%) Maven
7 9 (1.31%) Vagrant
8 8 (1.17%) Subversion
9 7 (1.02%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.02%) IntelliJ
9 7 (1.02%) ReSharper
10 5 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.73%) Selenium
10 5 (0.73%) Toad
11 4 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.44%) PostCSS
General
1 188 (27.45%) Finance
2 55 (8.03%) Banking
3 50 (7.30%) Retail
4 48 (7.01%) Marketing
5 30 (4.38%) Front Office
6 18 (2.63%) Telecoms
7 13 (1.90%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.46%) Advertising
8 10 (1.46%) Legal
9 9 (1.31%) Games
9 9 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.73%) Publishing
12 4 (0.58%) Electronics
12 4 (0.58%) Law
12 4 (0.58%) Social Science
13 3 (0.44%) Back Office
13 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.44%) Retail Finance
14 2 (0.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 174 (25.40%) Data Scientist
2 145 (21.17%) Developer
3 115 (16.79%) Analyst
4 73 (10.66%) Data Engineer
5 59 (8.61%) Data Analyst
6 39 (5.69%) Consultant
7 32 (4.67%) Big Data Engineer
8 27 (3.94%) Architect
9 25 (3.65%) Python Developer
9 25 (3.65%) SQL Developer
10 23 (3.36%) Administrator
10 23 (3.36%) Data Consultant
10 23 (3.36%) Python Engineer
11 21 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
11 21 (3.07%) Senior Data Scientist
12 20 (2.92%) C# Developer
13 19 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
14 18 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 18 (2.63%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.63%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (9.20%) Kafka
2 55 (8.03%) Natural Language Processing
3 52 (7.59%) HTML
4 40 (5.84%) AngularJS
5 36 (5.26%) .NET
6 35 (5.11%) TensorFlow
7 33 (4.82%) HTML5
8 28 (4.09%) XML
9 27 (3.94%) Web Services
10 26 (3.80%) Node.js
11 24 (3.50%) React
11 24 (3.50%) RESTful
12 22 (3.21%) scikit-learn
13 20 (2.92%) Keras
13 20 (2.92%) Pandas
14 18 (2.63%) CSS
15 17 (2.48%) NumPy
15 17 (2.48%) Theano
16 16 (2.34%) ASP.NET
16 16 (2.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 205 (29.93%) Analytical Skills
2 116 (16.93%) Algorithms
3 105 (15.33%) Computer Science
4 14 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 12 (1.75%) User Experience
6 10 (1.46%) Digital Media
6 10 (1.46%) Fixed Income
6 10 (1.46%) Reference Data
7 9 (1.31%) Cloud Native
7 9 (1.31%) Credit Risk
7 9 (1.31%) Derivative
7 9 (1.31%) Fintech
8 8 (1.17%) Equities
8 8 (1.17%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.17%) Taxonomies
9 7 (1.02%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.02%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 96 (14.01%) Linux
2 50 (7.30%) Unix
3 27 (3.94%) Windows
4 14 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.90%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.17%) CentOS
7 7 (1.02%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.15%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (45.26%) Data Science
2 300 (43.80%) Analytics
3 193 (28.18%) Machine Learning
4 162 (23.65%) Visualisation
5 160 (23.36%) Agile Software Development
6 138 (20.15%) Mathematics
7 136 (19.85%) Business Intelligence
8 129 (18.83%) Statistics
9 111 (16.20%) ETL
10 82 (11.97%) Data Visualisation
11 80 (11.68%) Data Modelling
12 79 (11.53%) Data Analysis
13 75 (10.95%) Data Analytics
14 74 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
15 68 (9.93%) DevOps
16 65 (9.49%) Artificial Intelligence
17 58 (8.47%) Statistical Analysis
18 56 (8.18%) Statistical Modelling
19 51 (7.45%) Deep Learning
20 43 (6.28%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 514 (75.04%) Python
2 396 (57.81%) SQL
3 140 (20.44%) Java
4 101 (14.74%) MATLAB
5 77 (11.24%) Scala
6 65 (9.49%) C#
7 57 (8.32%) JavaScript
8 38 (5.55%) C++
9 26 (3.80%) Bash Shell
10 24 (3.50%) VBA
11 21 (3.07%) C
11 21 (3.07%) T-SQL
12 20 (2.92%) PHP
13 19 (2.77%) Perl
14 18 (2.63%) PL/SQL
15 16 (2.34%) U-SQL
16 15 (2.19%) PowerShell
17 12 (1.75%) VBScript
18 10 (1.46%) Ruby
19 9 (1.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 138 (20.15%) Degree
2 69 (10.07%) PhD
3 29 (4.23%) Master's Degree
4 21 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.07%) Security Cleared
5 19 (2.77%) Numerate Degree
6 16 (2.34%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.58%) MBA
9 3 (0.44%) OSCP
10 2 (0.29%) MCSA
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%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.15%) MCSE
11 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.80%) QA
3 15 (2.19%) GDPR
4 11 (1.61%) IFRS
4 11 (1.61%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.15%) CDISC
5 1 (0.15%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.15%) GCP
5 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.15%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (6.86%) Docker
2 32 (4.67%) Apache Flume
3 13 (1.90%) HDFS
4 2 (0.29%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.29%) iptables
4 2 (0.29%) NFS
5 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 23 (3.36%) Terraform
3 17 (2.48%) Ansible
3 17 (2.48%) Puppet
4 12 (1.75%) Opscode Chef
5 8 (1.17%) Hadoop YARN
6 5 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.44%) Control-M
7 3 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.44%) Kibana
8 2 (0.29%) Mesos
8 2 (0.29%) Oozie
9 1 (0.15%) CASB
9 1 (0.15%) SCCM
9 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 116 (16.93%) Tableau
2 88 (12.85%) Microsoft
3 79 (11.53%) Oracle
4 48 (7.01%) Teradata
5 44 (6.42%) Google
6 40 (5.84%) Cloudera
7 32 (4.67%) Informatica
8 30 (4.38%) Alteryx
9 27 (3.94%) Hortonworks
10 25 (3.65%) Talend
11 20 (2.92%) SAP
12 11 (1.61%) Datameer
13 9 (1.31%) Databricks
14 8 (1.17%) MapR
14 8 (1.17%) ServiceNow
15 7 (1.02%) Red Hat
15 7 (1.02%) Sitecore
16 6 (0.88%) Adobe
17 5 (0.73%) Bloomberg
17 5 (0.73%) MicroStrategy
257 R job vacancies Nationwide