R Contracts

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 3 months to 27 June 2017 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
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	329	431	493
Rank change year-on-year	+102	+62
Contract jobs citing R	309	228	149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.66%	0.42%	0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category	1.56%	1.09%	0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted	201	172	102
Median daily rate	£490	£463	£550
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.94%	-15.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£350	£390
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£600	£680
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£450	£525
% change year-on-year	-	-14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	0	4
Median hourly rate	£21.75	-	£55.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.50	-	£30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£34.60	-	£80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	-	-	-

R is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	19764	20993	21025
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	41.95%	38.88%	38.12%
Number of daily rates quoted	13485	14405	14060
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£300	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£575	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	389	462	425
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£37.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+13.33%	+1.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.77	£15.00	£19.03
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.80	£50.16	£51.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+1.35%

R
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing R as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

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 3 months to 27 June 2017.

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 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for R in the UK

R
Top 30 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 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+69	281	£497	+7.40%	98
London	+69	221	£500	+5.26%	62
City of London	+27	48	£525	+31.25%	15
East of England	+15	21	£500	-	11
Scotland	+52	19	£475	+35.71%	10
Norfolk	-	18	-	-
Norwich	-	18	-	-
Edinburgh	-	15	£475	-	4
South East	+2	14	£410	-10.86%	6
South West	-7	7	£600	+41.17%	8
West Midlands	+7	6	£450	-8.16%
East Midlands	0	6	£411	-	1
Canary Wharf	-	5	£475	-
Berkshire	+18	4	£550	+4.76%	1
North West	+17	4	£625	+56.25%	2
Birmingham	+11	4	£450	-8.16%
Bristol	-	4	£650	-	4
Stirling	-	4	£475	-	1
Surrey	+7	3	£363	-	1
Wiltshire	+2	3	£425	-16.66%	2
West Sussex	-	3	£425	-	1
Worthing	-	3	£425	-
Wales	-	3	-	-
Staines	+6	2	-	-
County Antrim	-41	2	£403	-
Northern Ireland	-44	2	£403	-
Belfast	-46	2	£403	-
Derby	-	2	£411	-	1
Corsham	-	2	-	-
Northamptonshire	-	2	-	-

R
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing R also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for R.

1	393 (63.18%)	Python
2	339 (54.50%)	SQL
3	308 (49.52%)	Analytics
4	236 (37.94%)	Hadoop
5	224 (36.01%)	Big Data
6	193 (31.03%)	Apache Spark
7	175 (28.14%)	Machine Learning
8	170 (27.33%)	Visualisation
9	154 (24.76%)	Degree
10	153 (24.60%)	SAS
11	152 (24.44%)	Business Intelligence
11	152 (24.44%)	Analytical Skills
12	141 (22.67%)	Finance
13	135 (21.70%)	Java
14	123 (19.77%)	Mathematics

15	122 (19.61%)	Statistics
16	121 (19.45%)	Tableau
17	112 (18.01%)	Agile Software Development
18	111 (17.85%)	Apache Hive
18	111 (17.85%)	Data Visualisation
19	98 (15.76%)	Data Analytics
20	96 (15.43%)	Data Modelling
21	93 (14.95%)	Scala
22	87 (13.99%)	Relational Database
23	85 (13.67%)	Algorithms
24	83 (13.34%)	MATLAB
25	74 (11.90%)	Data Mining
26	73 (11.74%)	Linux
27	69 (11.09%)	Microsoft Excel
27	69 (11.09%)	ETL

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
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	193 (31.03%)	Apache Spark
2	153 (24.60%)	SAS
3	45 (7.23%)	Apache Pig
4	19 (3.05%)	Apache
5	18 (2.89%)	Elasticsearch
6	9 (1.45%)	Drupal
7	8 (1.29%)	Apache Solr
7	8 (1.29%)	Confluence
7	8 (1.29%)	SharePoint
8	4 (0.64%)	Adobe Experience Manager
8	4 (0.64%)	Cloud Foundry
8	4 (0.64%)	OpenStack
9	3 (0.48%)	ArcGIS
9	3 (0.48%)	CMS
10	2 (0.32%)	Apache Airflow
10	2 (0.32%)	CICS
10	2 (0.32%)	Oracle SOA Suite
10	2 (0.32%)	Tomcat
11	1 (0.16%)	IPython
11	1 (0.16%)	Jupyter

Applications
1	69 (11.09%)	Microsoft Excel
2	61 (9.81%)	SPSS
3	25 (4.02%)	Microsoft Office
3	25 (4.02%)	Stata
4	17 (2.73%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	8 (1.29%)	Spreadsheet
6	7 (1.13%)	MS Visio
6	7 (1.13%)	S-PLUS
7	4 (0.64%)	GNU Octave
7	4 (0.64%)	Weka
8	3 (0.48%)	Microsoft Project
9	2 (0.32%)	EViews
9	2 (0.32%)	SPSS Modeler
10	1 (0.16%)	AutoCAD
10	1 (0.16%)	Mathematica
10	1 (0.16%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	10 (1.61%)	FastStats
2	8 (1.29%)	Eloqua
2	8 (1.29%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	4 (0.64%)	Adobe Campaign
4	3 (0.48%)	Salesforce.com CRM
5	2 (0.32%)	FINCAD Analytics
6	1 (0.16%)	Oracle Receivables

Cloud Services
1	50 (8.04%)	Amazon AWS
2	25 (4.02%)	Microsoft Azure
3	13 (2.09%)	Google Analytics
4	11 (1.77%)	Amazon EC2
4	11 (1.77%)	Amazon S3
5	10 (1.61%)	Virtual Private Cloud
6	9 (1.45%)	GitHub
7	7 (1.13%)	Amazon EMR
8	6 (0.96%)	SaaS
9	5 (0.80%)	Azure Machine Learning
10	4 (0.64%)	Adobe Analytics
10	4 (0.64%)	AWS Lambda
10	4 (0.64%)	Cloud Computing
10	4 (0.64%)	Google Play
11	3 (0.48%)	Azure Active Directory
11	3 (0.48%)	Azure Data Factory
12	2 (0.32%)	Data Lake Analytics
12	2 (0.32%)	Google Cloud Platform
12	2 (0.32%)	PaaS
13	1 (0.16%)	Flurry Analytics

Communications & Networking
1	18 (2.89%)	Kerberos
2	4 (0.64%)	Internet
3	2 (0.32%)	Firewall
3	2 (0.32%)	HTTP
4	1 (0.16%)	DNS
4	1 (0.16%)	LDAP
4	1 (0.16%)	SNMP
4	1 (0.16%)	SSL
4	1 (0.16%)	TCP/IP
4	1 (0.16%)	VPN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	236 (37.94%)	Hadoop
2	224 (36.01%)	Big Data
3	111 (17.85%)	Apache Hive
4	87 (13.99%)	Relational Database
5	74 (11.90%)	Data Mining
6	66 (10.61%)	NoSQL
7	64 (10.29%)	Data Warehouse
8	62 (9.97%)	Power BI
8	62 (9.97%)	SQL Server
9	54 (8.68%)	MongoDB
10	49 (7.88%)	QlikView
11	40 (6.43%)	Apache Cassandra
11	40 (6.43%)	HBase
12	35 (5.63%)	BusinessObjects
13	33 (5.31%)	Impala
14	26 (4.18%)	MySQL
15	24 (3.86%)	RDBMS
16	20 (3.22%)	Qlik Sense
16	20 (3.22%)	Spotfire
17	19 (3.05%)	SQL Server Reporting Services

Development Applications
1	37 (5.95%)	Git (software)
2	31 (4.98%)	JIRA
3	15 (2.41%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4	12 (1.93%)	Selenium
5	8 (1.29%)	JUnit
6	7 (1.13%)	Visual Studio
7	5 (0.80%)	Cucumber
7	5 (0.80%)	Team Foundation Server
8	4 (0.64%)	Jenkins
9	3 (0.48%)	Maven
9	3 (0.48%)	Talend Open Studio
9	3 (0.48%)	Toad
9	3 (0.48%)	Vagrant
10	2 (0.32%)	ChangeMan
10	2 (0.32%)	ERwin
10	2 (0.32%)	Gradle
10	2 (0.32%)	gulp
10	2 (0.32%)	Oracle Forms
10	2 (0.32%)	PowerBuilder
10	2 (0.32%)	Subversion

General
1	141 (22.67%)	Finance
2	67 (10.77%)	Marketing
3	65 (10.45%)	Banking
4	36 (5.79%)	Front Office
5	24 (3.86%)	Retail
6	17 (2.73%)	Investment Banking
6	17 (2.73%)	Telecoms
7	14 (2.25%)	Financial Institution
7	14 (2.25%)	Publishing
8	9 (1.45%)	Legal
8	9 (1.45%)	Manufacturing
9	8 (1.29%)	Electronics
9	8 (1.29%)	Games
10	6 (0.96%)	Advertising
11	4 (0.64%)	Back Office
11	4 (0.64%)	Pharmaceutical
12	3 (0.48%)	German Language
13	2 (0.32%)	French Language
13	2 (0.32%)	Retail Banking
14	1 (0.16%)	Aerospace

Job Titles
1	181 (29.10%)	Analyst
2	143 (22.99%)	Developer
3	139 (22.35%)	Data Scientist
4	93 (14.95%)	Data Analyst
5	54 (8.68%)	Data Engineer
6	44 (7.07%)	Python Developer
7	40 (6.43%)	Business Analyst
8	39 (6.27%)	Big Data Engineer
9	35 (5.63%)	Architect
10	29 (4.66%)	SQL Analyst
11	28 (4.50%)	R Developer
12	26 (4.18%)	Big Data Developer
13	24 (3.86%)	Data Architect
14	21 (3.38%)	Business Intelligence Developer
14	21 (3.38%)	SQL Data Analyst
15	19 (3.05%)	Cloud Engineer
15	19 (3.05%)	Consultant
16	18 (2.89%)	Hadoop Developer
16	18 (2.89%)	Infrastructure Engineer
17	17 (2.73%)	Qualitative Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	34 (5.47%)	Kafka
2	27 (4.34%)	D3.js
3	25 (4.02%)	JSON
4	24 (3.86%)	Natural Language Processing
5	21 (3.38%)	Web Services
6	13 (2.09%)	.NET
6	13 (2.09%)	AngularJS
7	12 (1.93%)	HTML
7	12 (1.93%)	Node.js
8	11 (1.77%)	CSS
8	11 (1.77%)	React
8	11 (1.77%)	XML
9	10 (1.61%)	RESTful
10	8 (1.29%)	MLlib
10	8 (1.29%)	Sass
11	7 (1.13%)	Ajax
11	7 (1.13%)	LESS
11	7 (1.13%)	NumPy
12	6 (0.96%)	ActiveMQ
12	6 (0.96%)	REST

Miscellaneous
1	152 (24.44%)	Analytical Skills
2	85 (13.67%)	Algorithms
3	63 (10.13%)	Computer Science
4	18 (2.89%)	Greenfield Project
5	17 (2.73%)	Data Structures
6	16 (2.57%)	Market Risk
6	16 (2.57%)	User Experience
7	15 (2.41%)	Fixed Income
8	9 (1.45%)	Credit Risk
8	9 (1.45%)	Management Information System
9	8 (1.29%)	Data Protection Act
9	8 (1.29%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
9	8 (1.29%)	Mainframe
10	7 (1.13%)	Fintech
11	5 (0.80%)	Data Centre
11	5 (0.80%)	IBM Mainframe
11	5 (0.80%)	NHS
11	5 (0.80%)	Online Games
12	4 (0.64%)	Social Media
13	3 (0.48%)	Smart Meter

Operating Systems
1	73 (11.74%)	Linux
2	57 (9.16%)	Unix
3	19 (3.05%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	7 (1.13%)	Windows
5	5 (0.80%)	Mac OS X
6	3 (0.48%)	MVS
7	2 (0.32%)	CentOS
8	1 (0.16%)	Android
8	1 (0.16%)	Ubuntu
8	1 (0.16%)	Windows Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	308 (49.52%)	Analytics
2	175 (28.14%)	Machine Learning
3	170 (27.33%)	Visualisation
4	152 (24.44%)	Business Intelligence
5	123 (19.77%)	Mathematics
6	122 (19.61%)	Statistics
7	112 (18.01%)	Agile Software Development
8	111 (17.85%)	Data Visualisation
9	98 (15.76%)	Data Analytics
10	96 (15.43%)	Data Modelling
11	69 (11.09%)	ETL
12	64 (10.29%)	Statistical Modelling
13	60 (9.65%)	Data Analysis
14	48 (7.72%)	Predictive Modelling
15	47 (7.56%)	E-Commerce
16	40 (6.43%)	MapReduce
16	40 (6.43%)	Predictive Analytics
17	39 (6.27%)	Data Management
17	39 (6.27%)	Open Source
18	35 (5.63%)	Scrum

Programming Languages
1	393 (63.18%)	Python
2	339 (54.50%)	SQL
3	135 (21.70%)	Java
4	93 (14.95%)	Scala
5	83 (13.34%)	MATLAB
6	48 (7.72%)	C++
7	33 (5.31%)	VBA
8	25 (4.02%)	C#
8	25 (4.02%)	JavaScript
9	18 (2.89%)	Shell Script
10	16 (2.57%)	C
10	16 (2.57%)	T-SQL
11	13 (2.09%)	Perl
12	11 (1.77%)	Bash Shell
13	9 (1.45%)	PL/SQL
13	9 (1.45%)	VB
14	8 (1.29%)	Ruby
15	7 (1.13%)	PHP
16	6 (0.96%)	Julia
17	5 (0.80%)	Go

Qualifications
1	154 (24.76%)	Degree
2	47 (7.56%)	PhD
3	23 (3.70%)	Numerate Degree
3	23 (3.70%)	Security Cleared
4	15 (2.41%)	Computer Science Degree
5	12 (1.93%)	Master's Degree
6	10 (1.61%)	Postgraduate
6	10 (1.61%)	SC Cleared
7	9 (1.45%)	CCA
8	7 (1.13%)	BPSS Clearance
9	6 (0.96%)	BC Cleared
10	2 (0.32%)	CBAP
10	2 (0.32%)	CISA
10	2 (0.32%)	CISM
10	2 (0.32%)	CISSP
10	2 (0.32%)	GSEC
10	2 (0.32%)	IIBA
11	1 (0.16%)	DV Cleared
11	1 (0.16%)	ISEB
11	1 (0.16%)	ITIL Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	31 (4.98%)	Data Quality
2	20 (3.22%)	QA
3	5 (0.80%)	IFRS
3	5 (0.80%)	IFRS 9
4	4 (0.64%)	IAS 39
5	2 (0.32%)	Actionable Recommendations
5	2 (0.32%)	CDISC
6	1 (0.16%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	1 (0.16%)	MiFID

System Software
1	18 (2.89%)	Apache Flume
1	18 (2.89%)	HDFS
2	7 (1.13%)	Docker
3	4 (0.64%)	Apache ZooKeeper
4	3 (0.48%)	Active Directory
5	2 (0.32%)	KVM
5	2 (0.32%)	LXC
5	2 (0.32%)	Virtual Machines
5	2 (0.32%)	Xen
6	1 (0.16%)	Slurm Workload Manager
6	1 (0.16%)	Varnish

Systems Management
1	8 (1.29%)	Hadoop YARN
1	8 (1.29%)	Terraform
2	7 (1.13%)	Oozie
2	7 (1.13%)	Puppet
3	6 (0.96%)	Opscode Chef
4	4 (0.64%)	Ansible
4	4 (0.64%)	Grafana
4	4 (0.64%)	StatsD
5	3 (0.48%)	Kubernetes
6	2 (0.32%)	Mesos
7	1 (0.16%)	Kibana
7	1 (0.16%)	vCenter Server

Vendors
1	121 (19.45%)	Tableau
2	63 (10.13%)	Oracle
3	59 (9.49%)	Microsoft
4	36 (5.79%)	Teradata
5	29 (4.66%)	Google
6	27 (4.34%)	Cloudera
7	23 (3.70%)	SAP
8	19 (3.05%)	Cognos
9	18 (2.89%)	Red Hat
10	16 (2.57%)	MicroStrategy
11	15 (2.41%)	IBM
12	12 (1.93%)	Informatica
13	11 (1.77%)	Netezza
14	10 (1.61%)	Splunk
14	10 (1.61%)	Sybase
15	8 (1.29%)	Apteco
16	7 (1.13%)	Adobe
16	7 (1.13%)	Bloomberg
16	7 (1.13%)	RapidMiner
16	7 (1.13%)	Reuters