Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 14 November 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 14 November 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
14 Nov 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 315 386 354
Rank change year-on-year +71 -32 +68
Contract jobs citing R 686 676 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 0.65% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.96% 1.45% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 390 492
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
10th Percentile £338 £325 £325
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +7.78% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 22
UK median hourly rate £23.19 £23.50 £24.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -1.34% -5.05% +17.69%
10th Percentile £16.67 £18.68 £19.34
90th Percentile £53.75 £58.85 £43.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.96 £22.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -4.75% -47.62% +104.88%

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 35,043 46,581 43,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.61% 44.63% 42.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,213 32,786 30,209
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
10th Percentile £321 £315 £308
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 709 698 804
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £41.57 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +3.44% +3.93% +6.67%
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.90 £16.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £42.27 £40.50
% change year-on-year +0.56% +4.36% +8.00%

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 14 November 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 14 November 2019.

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 14 November 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 +79 651 £513 +2.50% 138
London +78 450 £525 - 77
UK excluding London +48 221 £485 +7.78% 69
South East +39 87 £475 -7.32% 22
North of England +34 46 £550 +15.79% 10
East of England +44 29 £600 +52.38% 10
North West +19 26 £450 -1.10% 8
South West +1 21 £475 +18.75% 8
Yorkshire +25 18 £550 +15.79% 1
Wales +35 15 £150 -68.42% 1
Midlands +37 13 £388 +10.71% 11
Scotland +19 10 £515 +28.75% 6
West Midlands +27 9 £388 +10.71% 4
East Midlands +21 4 £388 -44.64% 7
North East +8 2 £531 -18.27% 1

For the 6 months to 14 November 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.

1 606 (88.34%) Python
2 353 (51.46%) SQL
3 278 (40.52%) Analytics
4 269 (39.21%) Data Science
5 230 (33.53%) Agile Software Development
6 225 (32.80%) Finance
7 212 (30.90%) AWS
8 211 (30.76%) Machine Learning
9 179 (26.09%) Java
10 159 (23.18%) Software Engineering
11 140 (20.41%) Visualisation
12 138 (20.12%) Azure
13 126 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
14 125 (18.22%) Web Services
14 125 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
15 124 (18.08%) Hadoop
16 119 (17.35%) Statistics
17 114 (16.62%) Apache Spark
17 114 (16.62%) Big Data
18 112 (16.33%) Asset Management
19 110 (16.03%) Computer Science
20 105 (15.31%) Mathematics
20 105 (15.31%) Degree
21 102 (14.87%) Microservices
21 102 (14.87%) Power BI
21 102 (14.87%) Power Platform
22 101 (14.72%) JavaScript
23 100 (14.58%) ETL
24 96 (13.99%) Front Office
25 95 (13.85%) Algorithms

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
1 114 (16.62%) Apache Spark
2 79 (11.52%) SAS
3 47 (6.85%) Jupyter
4 16 (2.33%) Confluence
5 11 (1.60%) Apache
6 10 (1.46%) ArcGIS
7 9 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (1.31%) OpenStack
8 8 (1.17%) R Markdown
9 4 (0.58%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.58%) Pachyderm
10 3 (0.44%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.15%) Drupal
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 55 (8.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (5.39%) SPSS
3 18 (2.62%) Stata
4 9 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (1.02%) Weka
7 3 (0.44%) GNU Octave
7 3 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.15%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.31%) FINCAD Analytics
2 4 (0.58%) Markit EDM
2 4 (0.58%) PolarLake
2 4 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (0.29%) Sprinklr
4 1 (0.15%) Actimize
4 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.15%) Raiser's Edge
4 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 212 (30.90%) AWS
2 138 (20.12%) Azure
3 102 (14.87%) Power Platform
4 63 (9.18%) Serverless
5 58 (8.45%) GCP
6 55 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
7 44 (6.41%) Amazon S3
8 37 (5.39%) Amazon SQS
9 36 (5.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 27 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (3.35%) GitHub
12 23 (3.35%) OpenShift
13 21 (3.06%) Amazon EMR
14 18 (2.62%) Google Analytics
15 14 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
16 13 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (1.90%) Data Lake Analytics
17 9 (1.31%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.73%) Broadband
1 5 (0.73%) Internet
2 3 (0.44%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.44%) SSL
2 3 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.29%) Firewall
3 2 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.29%) Multicast
3 2 (0.29%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (18.08%) Hadoop
2 114 (16.62%) Big Data
3 102 (14.87%) Power BI
4 88 (12.83%) SQL Server
5 70 (10.20%) NoSQL
6 69 (10.06%) Data Warehouse
7 56 (8.16%) Data Lake
8 51 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (7.00%) Apache Hive
10 46 (6.71%) Data Mining
10 46 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
11 33 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
11 33 (4.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 32 (4.66%) MongoDB
13 31 (4.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 28 (4.08%) BigQuery
15 27 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
16 26 (3.79%) HBase
16 26 (3.79%) Relational Database
17 24 (3.50%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 66 (9.62%) RStudio
2 53 (7.73%) Git (software)
3 34 (4.96%) Jenkins
4 28 (4.08%) JIRA
5 23 (3.35%) Artifactory
6 16 (2.33%) Jasmine
7 13 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (1.31%) Gradle
10 8 (1.17%) Travis CI
11 6 (0.87%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.87%) Visual Studio Team System
12 5 (0.73%) ERwin
12 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 4 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (0.44%) Toad
15 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
15 2 (0.29%) HP UFT
15 2 (0.29%) Vagrant
15 2 (0.29%) Yeoman
General
1 225 (32.80%) Finance
2 96 (13.99%) Front Office
3 63 (9.18%) Banking
4 43 (6.27%) Marketing
5 30 (4.37%) Retail
6 27 (3.94%) Public Sector
7 14 (2.04%) Investment Banking
7 14 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 13 (1.90%) Manufacturing
8 13 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.75%) Retail Banking
10 9 (1.31%) Legal
11 8 (1.17%) Publishing
12 6 (0.87%) Advertising
12 6 (0.87%) Law
13 5 (0.73%) Games
14 4 (0.58%) Automotive
14 4 (0.58%) Portuguese Language
14 4 (0.58%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 185 (26.97%) Developer
2 176 (25.66%) Data Scientist
3 156 (22.74%) Analyst
4 75 (10.93%) Data Analyst
5 64 (9.33%) Python Developer
6 61 (8.89%) Data Engineer
7 60 (8.75%) Java Developer
8 50 (7.29%) AWS Developer
8 50 (7.29%) Software Engineer
9 44 (6.41%) Senior Developer
10 41 (5.98%) Python Engineer
11 36 (5.25%) SQL Analyst
12 34 (4.96%) Lead Developer
13 31 (4.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 27 (3.94%) Architect
14 27 (3.94%) Java Software Developer
15 26 (3.79%) Quantitative Developer
16 23 (3.35%) Insight Analyst
16 23 (3.35%) Python Software Engineer
16 23 (3.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (18.22%) Web Services
2 65 (9.48%) Pandas
3 58 (8.45%) J2EE
4 48 (7.00%) NumPy
5 38 (5.54%) Kafka
6 32 (4.66%) .NET
7 31 (4.52%) scikit-learn
8 29 (4.23%) Natural Language Processing
9 26 (3.79%) React
10 25 (3.64%) SciPy
11 22 (3.21%) TensorFlow
12 19 (2.77%) PySpark
13 17 (2.48%) MDX
14 14 (2.04%) AngularJS
15 13 (1.90%) Flask
16 12 (1.75%) D3.js
16 12 (1.75%) J2SE
17 10 (1.46%) HTML
17 10 (1.46%) Node.js
18 9 (1.31%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 125 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
2 95 (13.85%) Algorithms
3 92 (13.41%) Fixed Income
4 65 (9.48%) Derivative
5 53 (7.73%) Equities
6 51 (7.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 38 (5.54%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (3.35%) Data Structures
9 17 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.90%) User Experience
11 10 (1.46%) Credit Risk
11 10 (1.46%) Equity Derivative
11 10 (1.46%) Hedge funds
11 10 (1.46%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.31%) Blog
12 9 (1.31%) Market Risk
12 9 (1.31%) Social Media
13 8 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.02%) Clustering
14 7 (1.02%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.25%) Linux
2 27 (3.94%) Unix
3 6 (0.87%) Windows
4 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (40.52%) Analytics
2 269 (39.21%) Data Science
3 230 (33.53%) Agile Software Development
4 211 (30.76%) Machine Learning
5 159 (23.18%) Software Engineering
6 140 (20.41%) Visualisation
7 126 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
8 119 (17.35%) Statistics
9 112 (16.33%) Asset Management
10 110 (16.03%) Computer Science
11 105 (15.31%) Mathematics
12 102 (14.87%) Microservices
13 100 (14.58%) ETL
14 94 (13.70%) Artificial Intelligence
15 92 (13.41%) DevOps
16 87 (12.68%) Data Analysis
17 86 (12.54%) Data Modelling
18 67 (9.77%) Data Visualisation
19 65 (9.48%) Quantitative Analysis
20 58 (8.45%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 606 (88.34%) Python
2 353 (51.46%) SQL
3 179 (26.09%) Java
4 101 (14.72%) JavaScript
5 91 (13.27%) C#
6 75 (10.93%) Scala
7 55 (8.02%) C++
8 43 (6.27%) MATLAB
9 20 (2.92%) C
10 18 (2.62%) PHP
11 17 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
12 15 (2.19%) VBA
13 14 (2.04%) Perl
14 12 (1.75%) Bash Shell
14 12 (1.75%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.31%) Julia
15 9 (1.31%) U-SQL
16 6 (0.87%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.58%) Ruby
17 4 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 105 (15.31%) Degree
2 59 (8.60%) PhD
3 29 (4.23%) Security Cleared
4 19 (2.77%) Master's Degree
5 14 (2.04%) SC Cleared
6 13 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.60%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (1.17%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.87%) CFA
9 6 (0.87%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.44%) HND
11 3 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.44%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.29%) HNC
13 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.15%) MCSA
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.15%) OCPJP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.66%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.79%) QA
3 10 (1.46%) IFRS
3 10 (1.46%) IFRS 9
4 7 (1.02%) GxP
5 6 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.15%) Basel III
6 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 85 (12.39%) Docker
2 23 (3.35%) HDFS
3 9 (1.31%) Apache Flume
4 6 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 63 (9.18%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.23%) Terraform
3 23 (3.35%) Ansible
4 16 (2.33%) Hadoop YARN
5 11 (1.60%) Puppet
6 8 (1.17%) Opscode Chef
7 6 (0.87%) Grafana
7 6 (0.87%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.29%) Consul
9 2 (0.29%) Kibana
9 2 (0.29%) Mesos
9 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.15%) Matomo
10 1 (0.15%) Oozie
Vendors
1 87 (12.68%) Tableau
2 81 (11.81%) Microsoft
3 62 (9.04%) Google
4 56 (8.16%) Oracle
5 29 (4.23%) Cloudera
6 28 (4.08%) Databricks
7 23 (3.35%) Alteryx
8 15 (2.19%) Splunk
9 13 (1.90%) Informatica
9 13 (1.90%) SAP
10 11 (1.60%) Hortonworks
10 11 (1.60%) Talend
11 10 (1.46%) MicroStrategy
11 10 (1.46%) Teradata
12 8 (1.17%) Palantir
13 7 (1.02%) Bloomberg
13 7 (1.02%) Foundry
14 6 (0.87%) Adobe
14 6 (0.87%) Minitab
15 5 (0.73%) VMware