Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 15 July 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 15 July 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
15 Jul 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 327 361 507
Rank change year-on-year +34 +146 +38
Contract jobs citing R 799 651 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.68% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.76% 1.64% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 438 321
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
10th Percentile £325 £306 £325
90th Percentile £700 £675 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -24.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 1
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £22.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year - +15.79% -36.67%
10th Percentile £18.35 £20.30 £17.50
90th Percentile £47.45 £46.10 £20.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £42.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -47.62% +121.05% -

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 45,427 39,742 42,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.78% 41.54% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 31,744 27,199 29,174
UK median daily rate £460 £440 £424
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.90% +5.88%
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
90th Percentile £638 £625 £599
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 802 819 933
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £41.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year - +9.33% +7.14%
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.45 £14.03
90th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £52.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £41.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -2.41% +10.67% +7.14%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +45 748 £525 +5.00% 185
London -5 525 £550 +10.00% 108
UK excluding London +68 269 £450 -5.26% 83
South East +21 93 £475 +11.76% 31
East of England +13 34 £450 -10.00% 11
North of England +2 34 £500 +17.65% 19
Midlands +3 32 £463 +2.78% 8
South West +24 29 £400 -33.33% 8
Wales +6 26 £350 -39.13%
East Midlands +16 25 £463 +8.82% 5
Scotland -33 21 £430 -9.47% 6
Yorkshire -2 16 £463 +8.82% 8
North West -25 11 £475 +26.67% 9
North East +1 7 £650 +52.94% 2
West Midlands -24 7 £388 -13.89% 3

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 579 (72.47%) Python
2 406 (50.81%) SQL
3 341 (42.68%) Analytics
4 337 (42.18%) Data Science
5 250 (31.29%) Machine Learning
6 215 (26.91%) Big Data
7 209 (26.16%) Analytical Skills
8 205 (25.66%) Finance
9 188 (23.53%) Hadoop
10 183 (22.90%) Visualisation
11 179 (22.40%) Agile Software Development
12 169 (21.15%) Java
12 169 (21.15%) SAS
13 165 (20.65%) Statistics
14 164 (20.53%) Mathematics
15 160 (20.03%) Apache Spark
16 155 (19.40%) Business Intelligence
17 133 (16.65%) Algorithms
18 131 (16.40%) C#
19 129 (16.15%) Degree
20 123 (15.39%) Tableau
21 120 (15.02%) ETL
22 113 (14.14%) Data Analysis
22 113 (14.14%) Scala
23 110 (13.77%) Computer Science
24 103 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
25 101 (12.64%) Microsoft Azure
25 101 (12.64%) SQL Server
26 96 (12.02%) Amazon AWS
27 95 (11.89%) Data Analytics

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
1 169 (21.15%) SAS
2 160 (20.03%) Apache Spark
3 35 (4.38%) Apache Pig
4 30 (3.75%) Jupyter
5 27 (3.38%) Apache
6 17 (2.13%) Confluence
6 17 (2.13%) SharePoint
7 14 (1.75%) Apache Solr
8 12 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (0.88%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.75%) CMS
10 6 (0.75%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.63%) IIS
11 5 (0.63%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.25%) IBM Domino
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.13%) DNN
Applications
1 74 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.63%) SPSS
3 17 (2.13%) Chatbot
4 13 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.50%) Stata
8 2 (0.25%) S-PLUS
9 1 (0.13%) EViews
9 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.13%) Simulink
9 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (0.88%) Distributed Ledger
1 7 (0.88%) R3 Corda
2 5 (0.63%) ION MarketView
2 5 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
3 4 (0.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 3 (0.38%) Summit
5 2 (0.25%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.13%) FastStats
6 1 (0.13%) Finacle
6 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.13%) Revive Adserver
Cloud Services
1 101 (12.64%) Microsoft Azure
2 96 (12.02%) Amazon AWS
3 30 (3.75%) Google Analytics
3 30 (3.75%) Google Cloud Platform
4 22 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
6 18 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
6 18 (2.25%) GitHub
7 16 (2.00%) Amazon S3
7 16 (2.00%) Data Lake Analytics
8 15 (1.88%) PaaS
9 11 (1.38%) Adobe Analytics
10 8 (1.00%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (0.63%) IaaS
13 4 (0.50%) SaaS
14 2 (0.25%) Amazon ELB
14 2 (0.25%) Amazon Kinesis
14 2 (0.25%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.75%) Kerberos
1 6 (0.75%) SMS
1 6 (0.75%) SSL
1 6 (0.75%) VPN
2 4 (0.50%) LAN
3 3 (0.38%) SNA
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%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Internet
5 1 (0.13%) MPLS
5 1 (0.13%) OSPF
5 1 (0.13%) Skype
5 1 (0.13%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (26.91%) Big Data
2 188 (23.53%) Hadoop
3 101 (12.64%) SQL Server
4 89 (11.14%) NoSQL
5 88 (11.01%) Data Warehouse
6 87 (10.89%) Power BI
7 76 (9.51%) Data Mining
8 74 (9.26%) Apache Hive
9 67 (8.39%) Relational Database
10 62 (7.76%) MongoDB
11 58 (7.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 52 (6.51%) Apache Cassandra
13 49 (6.13%) Data Lake
14 39 (4.88%) HBase
15 37 (4.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 36 (4.51%) MySQL
17 31 (3.88%) QlikView
18 27 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
18 27 (3.38%) Impala
19 22 (2.75%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 50 (6.26%) Git (software)
2 35 (4.38%) JIRA
3 30 (3.75%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.63%) RStudio
5 19 (2.38%) Visual Studio
6 12 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (1.25%) Selenium
8 9 (1.13%) Visual Studio Team System
9 7 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.75%) FishEye
10 6 (0.75%) Subversion
10 6 (0.75%) Vagrant
11 5 (0.63%) ReSharper
11 5 (0.63%) Toad
12 4 (0.50%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.50%) GitLab
13 3 (0.38%) Capybara
13 3 (0.38%) RSpec
14 2 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 205 (25.66%) Finance
2 64 (8.01%) Retail
3 57 (7.13%) Front Office
4 56 (7.01%) Banking
5 51 (6.38%) Marketing
6 29 (3.63%) Games
7 24 (3.00%) Manufacturing
8 17 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.25%) Advertising
10 10 (1.25%) Law
10 10 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.00%) Automotive
11 8 (1.00%) French Language
12 6 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.63%) Back Office
14 4 (0.50%) Polish Language
14 4 (0.50%) Publishing
14 4 (0.50%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.38%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 214 (26.78%) Data Scientist
2 165 (20.65%) Developer
3 148 (18.52%) Analyst
4 80 (10.01%) Data Engineer
5 72 (9.01%) Data Analyst
6 50 (6.26%) Consultant
7 49 (6.13%) C# Developer
8 40 (5.01%) Architect
9 32 (4.01%) Python Developer
10 30 (3.75%) Python Engineer
10 30 (3.75%) SQL Developer
11 28 (3.50%) Data Consultant
12 26 (3.25%) Data Architect
13 22 (2.75%) Front Office Developer
14 20 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
14 20 (2.50%) Senior Data Scientist
14 20 (2.50%) Software Engineer
15 19 (2.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 18 (2.25%) Big Data Engineer
16 18 (2.25%) Insight Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (11.51%) HTML
2 71 (8.89%) .NET
3 68 (8.51%) Natural Language Processing
4 55 (6.88%) Kafka
5 46 (5.76%) HTML5
6 44 (5.51%) TensorFlow
7 35 (4.38%) AngularJS
8 31 (3.88%) CSS
9 28 (3.50%) Pandas
10 27 (3.38%) NumPy
11 25 (3.13%) React
12 23 (2.88%) D3.js
13 20 (2.50%) Node.js
14 18 (2.25%) Matplotlib
14 18 (2.25%) scikit-learn
15 17 (2.13%) Web Services
16 15 (1.88%) ASP.NET Web API
16 15 (1.88%) REST
16 15 (1.88%) Theano
16 15 (1.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 209 (26.16%) Analytical Skills
2 133 (16.65%) Algorithms
3 110 (13.77%) Computer Science
4 26 (3.25%) User Experience
5 22 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 19 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.00%) Fintech
8 15 (1.88%) Credit Risk
9 13 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.50%) Hedge funds
11 11 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.38%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.25%) Social Media
13 8 (1.00%) Blog
13 8 (1.00%) FMCG
14 7 (0.88%) Equities
14 7 (0.88%) Fixed Income
15 5 (0.63%) Market Risk
15 5 (0.63%) Reference Data
15 5 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.13%) Linux
2 38 (4.76%) Unix
3 25 (3.13%) Windows
4 6 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.63%) Windows 7
6 3 (0.38%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) CentOS
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (42.68%) Analytics
2 337 (42.18%) Data Science
3 250 (31.29%) Machine Learning
4 183 (22.90%) Visualisation
5 179 (22.40%) Agile Software Development
6 165 (20.65%) Statistics
7 164 (20.53%) Mathematics
8 155 (19.40%) Business Intelligence
9 120 (15.02%) ETL
10 113 (14.14%) Data Analysis
11 103 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
12 95 (11.89%) Data Analytics
13 80 (10.01%) Data Visualisation
14 79 (9.89%) Data Modelling
15 65 (8.14%) Open Source
16 64 (8.01%) Artificial Intelligence
17 60 (7.51%) Statistical Modelling
18 57 (7.13%) DevOps
19 56 (7.01%) Software Engineering
20 53 (6.63%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 579 (72.47%) Python
2 406 (50.81%) SQL
3 169 (21.15%) Java
4 131 (16.40%) C#
5 113 (14.14%) Scala
6 80 (10.01%) MATLAB
7 74 (9.26%) JavaScript
8 60 (7.51%) VBA
9 41 (5.13%) C++
10 25 (3.13%) Ruby
11 21 (2.63%) Bash Shell
12 19 (2.38%) C
13 18 (2.25%) T-SQL
14 16 (2.00%) PL/SQL
14 16 (2.00%) U-SQL
15 15 (1.88%) VB.NET
16 13 (1.63%) Perl
17 12 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
18 10 (1.25%) TypeScript
19 9 (1.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 129 (16.15%) Degree
2 63 (7.88%) PhD
3 41 (5.13%) Security Cleared
4 31 (3.88%) Numerate Degree
5 28 (3.50%) SC Cleared
6 22 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.50%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.25%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.25%) MBA
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%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.26%) Data Quality
2 18 (2.25%) QA
3 16 (2.00%) GDPR
4 11 (1.38%) IFRS
4 11 (1.38%) IFRS 9
5 10 (1.25%) GCP
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 36 (4.51%) Apache Flume
2 20 (2.50%) Docker
3 19 (2.38%) HDFS
4 4 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (2.13%) Terraform
2 9 (1.13%) Hadoop YARN
3 6 (0.75%) Ansible
3 6 (0.75%) Oozie
4 5 (0.63%) Kibana
4 5 (0.63%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.25%) Ambari
6 2 (0.25%) Mesos
6 2 (0.25%) Opscode Chef
6 2 (0.25%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) PTC Integrity
7 1 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 123 (15.39%) Tableau
2 78 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 76 (9.51%) Oracle
4 49 (6.13%) Google
5 43 (5.38%) MapR
6 41 (5.13%) Alteryx
6 41 (5.13%) Cloudera
7 33 (4.13%) Hortonworks
8 27 (3.38%) Informatica
9 18 (2.25%) Bloomberg
9 18 (2.25%) SAP
9 18 (2.25%) Teradata
10 17 (2.13%) IBM
11 15 (1.88%) Reuters
11 15 (1.88%) Talend
12 12 (1.50%) RapidMiner
13 11 (1.38%) Adobe
14 10 (1.25%) Databricks
15 7 (0.88%) Vertica
16 6 (0.75%) Atlassian