Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 22 January 2019

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 22 January 2019 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
22 Jan 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 376 347 372
Rank change year-on-year -29 +25 +203
Contract jobs citing R 662 731 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.73% 0.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.50% 1.74% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 511 421
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% -5.00%
10th Percentile £325 £305 £280
90th Percentile £675 £675 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £455 £375
% change year-on-year -1.10% +21.33% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 14
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £24.75 £20.77
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +61.62% +19.19% +20.38%
10th Percentile £21.89 £14.67 £16.48
90th Percentile £98.63 £45.25 £53.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 £26.92 £19.00
% change year-on-year -15.16% +41.68% +16.92%

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 44,216 41,984 38,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.37% 42.15% 40.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 31,032 29,597 26,730
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +3.03%
10th Percentile £320 £308 £288
90th Percentile £650 £638 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 682 757 857
UK median hourly rate £42.19 £40.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +5.48% - +6.67%
10th Percentile £17.00 £16.45 £14.75
90th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £52.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +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 22 January 2019.

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 22 January 2019.

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 22 January 2019. 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 -46 621 £488 -6.70% 232
London -8 413 £500 -9.09% 128
UK excluding London -42 238 £450 -1.10% 121
South East -3 80 £500 +12.68% 21
North of England +2 47 £450 -10.00% 29
South West -18 35 £450 +5.88% 12
Yorkshire +1 26 £475 -5.00% 8
Midlands -28 21 £350 -22.22% 19
West Midlands -37 18 £350 -22.22% 6
Scotland -1 17 £400 -14.44% 9
Wales -5 17 £475 +72.73%
East of England -19 17 £550 - 23
North West -5 16 £420 -23.64% 20
North East -3 5 £475 +11.76% 1
Northern Ireland +24 4 - - 8
East Midlands -3 3 £488 +8.33% 13

For the 6 months to 22 January 2019, 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.

1 506 (76.44%) Python
2 362 (54.68%) SQL
3 330 (49.85%) Data Science
4 309 (46.68%) Analytics
5 204 (30.82%) Machine Learning
5 204 (30.82%) Analytical Skills
6 187 (28.25%) Finance
7 184 (27.79%) Big Data
8 164 (24.77%) Agile Software Development
9 157 (23.72%) Hadoop
10 148 (22.36%) Visualisation
11 136 (20.54%) Apache Spark
12 134 (20.24%) Amazon AWS
12 134 (20.24%) Degree
13 132 (19.94%) Java
14 126 (19.03%) Microsoft Azure
15 121 (18.28%) SAS
16 120 (18.13%) Mathematics
17 117 (17.67%) ETL
18 109 (16.47%) Tableau
19 108 (16.31%) Microsoft
20 106 (16.01%) Statistics
21 104 (15.71%) Computer Science
22 103 (15.56%) Linux
23 101 (15.26%) Data Modelling
23 101 (15.26%) Business Intelligence
24 96 (14.50%) Algorithms
25 95 (14.35%) Data Analysis
26 93 (14.05%) Data Visualisation
27 91 (13.75%) MATLAB

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
1 136 (20.54%) Apache Spark
2 121 (18.28%) SAS
3 24 (3.63%) Apache
3 24 (3.63%) SharePoint
4 18 (2.72%) Skype for Business
5 12 (1.81%) Jupyter
6 10 (1.51%) Apache Pig
7 9 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.06%) Confluence
9 4 (0.60%) nginx
9 4 (0.60%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.45%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.30%) CMS
11 2 (0.30%) IIS
11 2 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.30%) Tornado
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.15%) IPython
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 59 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.08%) SPSS
3 17 (2.57%) Chatbot
4 14 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.60%) Stata
8 3 (0.45%) Mathematica
8 3 (0.45%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.30%) GIMP
9 2 (0.30%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.30%) InVision
10 1 (0.15%) EViews
10 1 (0.15%) Maya
10 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.15%) Weka
Business Applications
1 12 (1.81%) Actimize
2 9 (1.36%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.30%) FastStats
3 2 (0.30%) ReMetrica
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle AML
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 134 (20.24%) Amazon AWS
2 126 (19.03%) Microsoft Azure
3 61 (9.21%) Google Cloud Platform
4 32 (4.83%) PaaS
5 24 (3.63%) Cloud Computing
5 24 (3.63%) IaaS
6 18 (2.72%) Apigee
6 18 (2.72%) GitHub
7 16 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (2.11%) Amazon S3
9 13 (1.96%) Google Analytics
10 12 (1.81%) Amazon EMR
10 12 (1.81%) Data Lake Analytics
11 10 (1.51%) Serverless
12 8 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.06%) Azure Machine Learning
14 6 (0.91%) Adobe Analytics
15 4 (0.60%) SaaS
16 3 (0.45%) Amazon SageMaker
17 2 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.17%) SSL
2 18 (2.72%) Skype
3 5 (0.76%) Internet
4 4 (0.60%) DNS
4 4 (0.60%) VPN
5 3 (0.45%) 3GPP
5 3 (0.45%) AMQP
5 3 (0.45%) Intranet
5 3 (0.45%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.45%) LTE
5 3 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.45%) WCDMA
5 3 (0.45%) Wireless
6 2 (0.30%) Firewall
6 2 (0.30%) HTTP
6 2 (0.30%) LAN
6 2 (0.30%) SSH
6 2 (0.30%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.30%) WAN
7 1 (0.15%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (27.79%) Big Data
2 157 (23.72%) Hadoop
3 84 (12.69%) Relational Database
4 78 (11.78%) SQL Server
5 76 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
6 73 (11.03%) Apache Hive
7 59 (8.91%) Power BI
8 55 (8.31%) Data Mining
9 45 (6.80%) NoSQL
10 43 (6.50%) Data Lake
11 40 (6.04%) MongoDB
11 40 (6.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 39 (5.89%) MySQL
13 38 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
14 33 (4.98%) HBase
15 27 (4.08%) Impala
16 21 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
17 20 (3.02%) HDInsight
18 19 (2.87%) Spotfire
19 18 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 58 (8.76%) Jenkins
2 50 (7.55%) JIRA
3 47 (7.10%) Git (software)
4 21 (3.17%) RStudio
5 17 (2.57%) Visual Studio
6 13 (1.96%) Maven
7 8 (1.21%) Bitbucket
7 8 (1.21%) Visual Studio Team System
8 7 (1.06%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.91%) ERwin
10 5 (0.76%) IntelliJ
10 5 (0.76%) SoapUI
10 5 (0.76%) Subversion
10 5 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.76%) Vagrant
11 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.45%) Selenium
12 3 (0.45%) Sikuli
General
1 187 (28.25%) Finance
2 73 (11.03%) Banking
3 64 (9.67%) Marketing
4 52 (7.85%) Retail
5 24 (3.63%) Telecoms
6 22 (3.32%) Investment Banking
7 18 (2.72%) Front Office
8 15 (2.27%) Games
9 11 (1.66%) Legal
10 10 (1.51%) Publishing
10 10 (1.51%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.21%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.06%) Advertising
12 7 (1.06%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.91%) Electronics
13 6 (0.91%) Multimedia
13 6 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.76%) Automotive
15 4 (0.60%) Law
15 4 (0.60%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 171 (25.83%) Data Scientist
2 128 (19.34%) Analyst
3 117 (17.67%) Developer
4 70 (10.57%) Data Analyst
5 64 (9.67%) Data Engineer
6 37 (5.59%) Architect
7 28 (4.23%) Big Data Engineer
8 27 (4.08%) Consultant
8 27 (4.08%) Python Engineer
9 25 (3.78%) Administrator
10 22 (3.32%) Software Developer
11 21 (3.17%) SQL Developer
12 20 (3.02%) Data Architect
13 19 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
13 19 (2.87%) Python Developer
14 18 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
15 17 (2.57%) Data Consultant
16 16 (2.42%) Insight Analyst
17 15 (2.27%) Java Developer
17 15 (2.27%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (8.16%) Kafka
2 53 (8.01%) Natural Language Processing
3 45 (6.80%) HTML
4 43 (6.50%) AngularJS
5 41 (6.19%) XML
6 40 (6.04%) React
7 38 (5.74%) RESTful
8 34 (5.14%) Node.js
9 33 (4.98%) HTML5
9 33 (4.98%) JSON
10 32 (4.83%) TensorFlow
10 32 (4.83%) Web Services
11 26 (3.93%) SOAP
12 24 (3.63%) jQuery
13 22 (3.32%) Anaconda
13 22 (3.32%) NumPy
14 20 (3.02%) .NET
14 20 (3.02%) SignalR
14 20 (3.02%) WebSockets
15 18 (2.72%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 204 (30.82%) Analytical Skills
2 96 (14.50%) Algorithms
3 18 (2.72%) Data Structures
3 18 (2.72%) User Experience
4 17 (2.57%) Mobile App
4 17 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (1.66%) Cloud Native
6 10 (1.51%) Derivative
6 10 (1.51%) Digital Media
6 10 (1.51%) Fintech
7 9 (1.36%) Life Science
7 9 (1.36%) Private Cloud
8 8 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.21%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.06%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.06%) FMCG
9 7 (1.06%) Reference Data
10 6 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.91%) Semantic Web
10 6 (0.91%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 103 (15.56%) Linux
2 44 (6.65%) Unix
3 29 (4.38%) Windows
4 21 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (2.27%) CentOS
5 15 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.60%) Solaris
7 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.30%) Android
9 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.15%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (49.85%) Data Science
2 309 (46.68%) Analytics
3 204 (30.82%) Machine Learning
4 164 (24.77%) Agile Software Development
5 148 (22.36%) Visualisation
6 120 (18.13%) Mathematics
7 117 (17.67%) ETL
8 106 (16.01%) Statistics
9 104 (15.71%) Computer Science
10 101 (15.26%) Business Intelligence
10 101 (15.26%) Data Modelling
11 95 (14.35%) Data Analysis
12 93 (14.05%) Data Visualisation
13 85 (12.84%) Artificial Intelligence
14 78 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
15 77 (11.63%) Data Analytics
16 71 (10.73%) DevOps
17 61 (9.21%) Open Source
18 56 (8.46%) Statistical Modelling
19 55 (8.31%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 506 (76.44%) Python
2 362 (54.68%) SQL
3 132 (19.94%) Java
4 91 (13.75%) MATLAB
5 59 (8.91%) C#
5 59 (8.91%) JavaScript
5 59 (8.91%) Scala
6 52 (7.85%) C++
7 31 (4.68%) C
8 29 (4.38%) Bash Shell
9 24 (3.63%) Perl
9 24 (3.63%) PHP
10 23 (3.47%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.72%) VBA
12 15 (2.27%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.96%) VBScript
14 12 (1.81%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.21%) Java 8
15 8 (1.21%) Ruby
16 7 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 134 (20.24%) Degree
2 67 (10.12%) PhD
3 28 (4.23%) Security Cleared
4 21 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 18 (2.72%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.27%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.60%) MBA
8 3 (0.45%) BC Cleared
8 3 (0.45%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.45%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.30%) CFA
9 2 (0.30%) MCSA
9 2 (0.30%) OSCP
9 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.15%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.15%) MCSE
10 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.29%) QA
2 26 (3.93%) Data Quality
3 6 (0.91%) GDPR
4 5 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (0.76%) IFRS
4 5 (0.76%) IFRS 9
5 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
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%) MiFID
6 1 (0.15%) PMO
6 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 66 (9.97%) Docker
2 22 (3.32%) Apache Flume
3 13 (1.96%) HDFS
4 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.30%) iptables
5 2 (0.30%) NFS
5 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 35 (5.29%) Kubernetes
2 22 (3.32%) Terraform
3 20 (3.02%) Ansible
4 18 (2.72%) Puppet
5 15 (2.27%) Opscode Chef
6 11 (1.66%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (0.76%) Oozie
8 3 (0.45%) Control-M
8 3 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.30%) Kibana
9 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.15%) CASB
10 1 (0.15%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.15%) Mesos
10 1 (0.15%) SCCM
10 1 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 109 (16.47%) Tableau
2 108 (16.31%) Microsoft
3 60 (9.06%) Oracle
4 56 (8.46%) Google
5 50 (7.55%) Teradata
6 32 (4.83%) Cloudera
7 25 (3.78%) Informatica
8 20 (3.02%) Alteryx
8 20 (3.02%) SAP
9 19 (2.87%) Talend
10 18 (2.72%) ServiceNow
11 15 (2.27%) Hortonworks
12 10 (1.51%) Adobe
12 10 (1.51%) Databricks
13 8 (1.21%) MicroStrategy
14 7 (1.06%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.91%) Bloomberg
15 6 (0.91%) Datameer
16 5 (0.76%) Netezza
16 5 (0.76%) Rackspace