Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 June 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 June 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 Jun 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 311 359 528
Rank change year-on-year +48 +169 +29
Contract jobs citing R 792 607 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 0.67% 0.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.83% 1.60% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 413 305
UK median daily rate £525 £498 £475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.53% +4.74% -13.64%
10th Percentile £329 £292 £331
90th Percentile £700 £675 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 1
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +2.33% +13.16% -65.45%
10th Percentile £18.26 £17.00 £17.50
90th Percentile £40.70 £50.05 £20.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.44 £17.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +20.21% -10.53% -

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 43,269 37,828 40,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.34% 41.55% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 30,176 25,939 28,019
UK median daily rate £460 £438 £420
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.14% +4.17% +5.00%
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
90th Percentile £638 £613 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £390 £375
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 774 814 933
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £41.13 £38.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -0.30% +6.82% +10.00%
10th Percentile £16.83 £17.08 £14.13
90th Percentile £53.38 £54.50 £52.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £41.25 £38.50
% change year-on-year -1.82% +7.14% +10.00%

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 June 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 June 2018.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for R in the UK

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 20 June 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 +39 745 £525 +5.00% 176
London -3 529 £550 +10.00% 101
UK excluding London +67 260 £450 -5.26% 85
South East +21 85 £473 +11.18% 23
Midlands +14 39 £450 +9.42% 12
East of England +19 38 £450 -10.00% 13
East Midlands +16 31 £455 +21.33% 3
South West +23 29 £400 +110.53% 5
Wales +13 27 £350 -30.00% 1
North of England -14 26 £450 -18.18% 22
Scotland -48 16 £430 -9.47% 9
Yorkshire - 13 £425 - 8
West Midlands -13 8 £400 -11.11% 9
North West -17 8 £450 +12.50% 11
North East +2 5 £625 +13.64% 3

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 573 (72.35%) Python
2 394 (49.75%) SQL
3 347 (43.81%) Analytics
4 325 (41.04%) Data Science
5 231 (29.17%) Machine Learning
6 225 (28.41%) Big Data
7 210 (26.52%) Analytical Skills
8 196 (24.75%) Finance
9 186 (23.48%) Agile Software Development
10 177 (22.35%) Hadoop
10 177 (22.35%) Visualisation
11 174 (21.97%) Apache Spark
12 165 (20.83%) Java
12 165 (20.83%) SAS
13 162 (20.45%) Mathematics
14 153 (19.32%) Statistics
15 147 (18.56%) Business Intelligence
16 138 (17.42%) C#
17 136 (17.17%) ETL
18 128 (16.16%) Degree
19 126 (15.91%) Data Analysis
20 120 (15.15%) Algorithms
21 119 (15.03%) Tableau
22 114 (14.39%) Scala
23 109 (13.76%) Data Analytics
24 107 (13.51%) Computer Science
25 99 (12.50%) SQL Server
26 98 (12.37%) Data Warehouse
27 93 (11.74%) Microsoft Azure
28 92 (11.62%) Problem-Solving

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
1 174 (21.97%) Apache Spark
2 165 (20.83%) SAS
3 35 (4.42%) Apache Pig
4 33 (4.17%) Apache
5 28 (3.54%) Jupyter
6 19 (2.40%) Confluence
7 14 (1.77%) Apache Solr
8 13 (1.64%) SharePoint
9 11 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (0.88%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.76%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.63%) CMS
13 4 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.51%) IIS
13 4 (0.51%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.25%) IBM Domino
14 2 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
14 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
15 1 (0.13%) DNN
Applications
1 70 (8.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (5.43%) SPSS
3 12 (1.52%) Chatbot
4 11 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.63%) Stata
7 2 (0.25%) Pipeline Pilot
7 2 (0.25%) S-PLUS
8 1 (0.13%) Simulink
8 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.88%) Distributed Ledger
1 7 (0.88%) R3 Corda
2 5 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
3 4 (0.51%) ION MarketView
4 3 (0.38%) Radian6
4 3 (0.38%) ReMetrica
4 3 (0.38%) Summit
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.25%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.13%) Finacle
6 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.13%) HFM
6 1 (0.13%) Revive Adserver
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 93 (11.74%) Microsoft Azure
2 81 (10.23%) Amazon AWS
3 33 (4.17%) Google Analytics
4 27 (3.41%) Google Cloud Platform
5 17 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (2.15%) Azure Machine Learning
6 15 (1.89%) GitHub
7 13 (1.64%) PaaS
8 10 (1.26%) Adobe Analytics
8 10 (1.26%) Data Lake Analytics
9 9 (1.14%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.51%) SaaS
11 3 (0.38%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.38%) IaaS
11 3 (0.38%) Office 365
12 2 (0.25%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.13%) Amazon ELB
13 1 (0.13%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.76%) Kerberos
1 6 (0.76%) SMS
1 6 (0.76%) SSL
1 6 (0.76%) VPN
2 4 (0.51%) LAN
3 3 (0.38%) Internet
4 2 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) BGP
5 1 (0.13%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.13%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.13%) FlexRay
5 1 (0.13%) MPLS
5 1 (0.13%) OSPF
5 1 (0.13%) Skype
5 1 (0.13%) SNA
5 1 (0.13%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (28.41%) Big Data
2 177 (22.35%) Hadoop
3 99 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 98 (12.37%) Data Warehouse
5 90 (11.36%) NoSQL
6 83 (10.48%) Power BI
7 74 (9.34%) Apache Hive
8 68 (8.59%) Data Mining
9 59 (7.45%) Relational Database
10 52 (6.57%) MongoDB
11 50 (6.31%) Apache Cassandra
12 49 (6.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 43 (5.43%) Data Lake
14 37 (4.67%) MySQL
15 36 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 34 (4.29%) HBase
17 33 (4.17%) QlikView
18 26 (3.28%) Impala
18 26 (3.28%) PowerCenter
19 24 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (5.56%) Git (software)
2 25 (3.16%) Jenkins
2 25 (3.16%) JIRA
3 23 (2.90%) Visual Studio
4 17 (2.15%) RStudio
5 11 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
6 10 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
6 10 (1.26%) Selenium
7 7 (0.88%) Vagrant
8 6 (0.76%) FishEye
9 4 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.51%) GitLab
9 4 (0.51%) ReSharper
9 4 (0.51%) Toad
9 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Team System
10 3 (0.38%) Capybara
10 3 (0.38%) RSpec
10 3 (0.38%) Subversion
11 2 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.25%) LabVIEW
General
1 196 (24.75%) Finance
2 69 (8.71%) Retail
3 58 (7.32%) Banking
4 57 (7.20%) Front Office
5 51 (6.44%) Marketing
6 38 (4.80%) Manufacturing
7 30 (3.79%) Games
8 21 (2.65%) Investment Banking
9 18 (2.27%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.14%) Advertising
10 9 (1.14%) Law
11 8 (1.01%) Automotive
12 7 (0.88%) French Language
12 7 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.76%) Electronics
13 6 (0.76%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.51%) Back Office
14 4 (0.51%) Polish Language
15 3 (0.38%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 212 (26.77%) Data Scientist
2 161 (20.33%) Developer
3 152 (19.19%) Analyst
4 85 (10.73%) Data Engineer
5 76 (9.60%) Data Analyst
6 57 (7.20%) C# Developer
7 54 (6.82%) Consultant
8 39 (4.92%) Architect
9 35 (4.42%) SQL Developer
10 34 (4.29%) Python Developer
11 30 (3.79%) Data Consultant
12 28 (3.54%) Python Engineer
13 27 (3.41%) Data Architect
14 21 (2.65%) Front Office Developer
14 21 (2.65%) Senior Data Scientist
14 21 (2.65%) Software Engineer
15 19 (2.40%) Insight Analyst
15 19 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (2.15%) SQL Analyst
17 16 (2.02%) Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (11.36%) HTML
2 76 (9.60%) .NET
3 56 (7.07%) Natural Language Processing
4 45 (5.68%) Kafka
5 44 (5.56%) HTML5
6 43 (5.43%) TensorFlow
7 33 (4.17%) AngularJS
8 30 (3.79%) CSS
9 28 (3.54%) Pandas
10 27 (3.41%) NumPy
10 27 (3.41%) React
11 24 (3.03%) D3.js
12 22 (2.78%) Node.js
13 19 (2.40%) Web Services
14 17 (2.15%) REST
15 16 (2.02%) ASP.NET Web API
15 16 (2.02%) Matplotlib
16 15 (1.89%) scikit-learn
16 15 (1.89%) Velocity
16 15 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 210 (26.52%) Analytical Skills
2 120 (15.15%) Algorithms
3 107 (13.51%) Computer Science
4 27 (3.41%) User Experience
5 25 (3.16%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.02%) Fintech
8 12 (1.52%) Credit Risk
8 12 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.39%) FMCG
9 11 (1.39%) Hedge funds
10 10 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.14%) Blog
12 8 (1.01%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.01%) Social Media
13 6 (0.76%) Equities
14 5 (0.63%) Fixed Income
14 5 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.63%) Replication
14 5 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (5.30%) Linux
2 33 (4.17%) Unix
3 20 (2.53%) Windows
4 5 (0.63%) Windows 7
4 5 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.38%) AIX
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) CentOS
6 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (43.81%) Analytics
2 325 (41.04%) Data Science
3 231 (29.17%) Machine Learning
4 186 (23.48%) Agile Software Development
5 177 (22.35%) Visualisation
6 162 (20.45%) Mathematics
7 153 (19.32%) Statistics
8 147 (18.56%) Business Intelligence
9 136 (17.17%) ETL
10 126 (15.91%) Data Analysis
11 109 (13.76%) Data Analytics
12 92 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
13 83 (10.48%) Data Modelling
13 83 (10.48%) Data Visualisation
14 62 (7.83%) Open Source
15 59 (7.45%) Artificial Intelligence
16 53 (6.69%) Data Engineering
16 53 (6.69%) Software Engineering
17 48 (6.06%) Statistical Modelling
18 47 (5.93%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 573 (72.35%) Python
2 394 (49.75%) SQL
3 165 (20.83%) Java
4 138 (17.42%) C#
5 114 (14.39%) Scala
6 74 (9.34%) JavaScript
7 71 (8.96%) MATLAB
8 55 (6.94%) VBA
9 39 (4.92%) C++
10 25 (3.16%) Ruby
11 20 (2.53%) Bash Shell
12 18 (2.27%) C
12 18 (2.27%) T-SQL
12 18 (2.27%) VB.NET
13 17 (2.15%) PL/SQL
14 15 (1.89%) Perl
15 10 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
15 10 (1.26%) U-SQL
16 9 (1.14%) PowerShell
16 9 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 128 (16.16%) Degree
2 58 (7.32%) PhD
3 52 (6.57%) Security Cleared
4 37 (4.67%) SC Cleared
5 30 (3.79%) Numerate Degree
6 18 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.63%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.25%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.13%) CCIE
11 1 (0.13%) CCIE Data Center
11 1 (0.13%) CCNP
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.13%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 14 (1.77%) QA
3 9 (1.14%) GDPR
3 9 (1.14%) IFRS
3 9 (1.14%) IFRS 9
4 5 (0.63%) GCP
5 3 (0.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.13%) CDISC
6 1 (0.13%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (3.16%) Apache Flume
2 21 (2.65%) Docker
2 21 (2.65%) HDFS
3 4 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (1.77%) Terraform
2 11 (1.39%) Hadoop YARN
3 7 (0.88%) Ansible
3 7 (0.88%) Oozie
4 5 (0.63%) Kibana
4 5 (0.63%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.25%) Ambari
5 2 (0.25%) Mesos
6 1 (0.13%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 119 (15.03%) Tableau
2 76 (9.60%) Microsoft
3 67 (8.46%) Oracle
4 54 (6.82%) Google
5 45 (5.68%) MapR
6 43 (5.43%) Cloudera
7 35 (4.42%) Informatica
8 32 (4.04%) Alteryx
9 31 (3.91%) Hortonworks
10 18 (2.27%) Teradata
11 17 (2.15%) Bloomberg
11 17 (2.15%) IBM
12 15 (1.89%) Reuters
13 14 (1.77%) Adobe
13 14 (1.77%) SAP
14 12 (1.52%) RapidMiner
15 8 (1.01%) Databricks
15 8 (1.01%) Talend
16 7 (0.88%) Vertica
17 6 (0.76%) Atlassian