Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 19 September 2021

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 19 September 2021 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
19 Sep 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 328 218 327
Rank change year-on-year -110 +109 +55
Contract jobs citing R 620 366 736
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 1.24% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.98% 2.93% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 282 491
10th Percentile £242 £350 £344
25th Percentile £395 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £580 £650 £613
90th Percentile £650 £800 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 17 12
10th Percentile £18.36 £18.18 £16.67
25th Percentile £19.52 £20.00 £16.99
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £21.48
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +16.40% -2.38%
75th Percentile £59.19 £39.39 £29.58
90th Percentile £65.53 £63.00 £52.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.25 £23.37 £20.96
% change year-on-year +8.03% +11.54% +11.05%

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 31,242 12,471 37,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 39.81% 42.20% 42.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,324 8,701 26,184
10th Percentile £350 £313 £320
25th Percentile £423 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% +3.16% +1.06%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £437 £425
% change year-on-year +2.97% +2.82% +2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 246 628
10th Percentile £16.77 £12.81 £19.22
25th Percentile £25.00 £21.25 £34.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £39.63 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.56% -10.96% +7.19%
75th Percentile £57.63 £47.50 £50.78
90th Percentile £66.30 £55.00 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year +5.88% -3.41% +4.76%

R
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for R in the UK

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R.

Daily rate trend for R in the UK

R
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R over the 6 months to 19 September 2021.

Daily rate histogram for R in the UK

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R.

Hourly rate trend for R in the UK

R
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R over the 6 months to 19 September 2021.

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 19 September 2021. 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 -98 497 £495 -10.00% 123
London -144 288 £500 -9.09% 70
UK excluding London -46 205 £450 +9.09% 62
Work from Home -132 179 £500 -4.76% 18
South East -19 76 £400 -15.79% 13
North of England -65 31 £483 -3.50% 13
Wales -2 28 £298 +3.48% 1
Midlands -53 27 £493 +57.60% 8
West Midlands -40 25 £493 +57.60% 5
South West -23 24 £475 -1.04% 12
Yorkshire -40 17 £481 +6.94% 2
Scotland -71 15 £322 -18.35% 8
North West -51 12 £483 -19.58% 11
East of England -52 4 £338 -25.00% 6
East Midlands -39 2 £430 - 3
North East - 2 - -

For the 6 months to 19 September 2021, 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.

1 484 (78.06%) Python
2 370 (59.68%) SQL
3 234 (37.74%) Analytics
4 221 (35.65%) Analytical Skills
5 217 (35.00%) Data Science
6 170 (27.42%) Visualisation
7 165 (26.61%) Business Intelligence
8 148 (23.87%) Agile Software Development
8 148 (23.87%) Azure
8 148 (23.87%) Social Skills
9 146 (23.55%) Machine Learning
10 141 (22.74%) Power Platform
10 141 (22.74%) Power BI
11 137 (22.10%) AWS
12 132 (21.29%) Data Analysis
13 121 (19.52%) Statistics
14 116 (18.71%) Mathematics
14 116 (18.71%) Finance
15 111 (17.90%) Data Visualisation
16 109 (17.58%) Degree
17 106 (17.10%) Data Modelling
18 103 (16.61%) Security Cleared
19 102 (16.45%) Microsoft Excel
20 95 (15.32%) ETL
21 94 (15.16%) Public Sector
22 93 (15.00%) SAS
23 92 (14.84%) Java
24 91 (14.68%) Tableau
25 90 (14.52%) SC Cleared
26 89 (14.35%) 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 93 (15.00%) SAS
2 82 (13.23%) Apache Spark
3 37 (5.97%) Jupyter
4 29 (4.68%) Confluence
5 13 (2.10%) Apache
6 11 (1.77%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.81%) IIS
8 5 (0.81%) R Markdown
9 4 (0.65%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.32%) Luigi
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.16%) Appian
11 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 102 (16.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (5.16%) SPSS
3 26 (4.19%) Stata
4 21 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.16%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.32%) Oracle ASCP
2 2 (0.32%) SAP HCM
2 2 (0.32%) SAP R/3
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.16%) Salesforce.com CRM
3 1 (0.16%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
3 1 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.16%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 148 (23.87%) Azure
2 141 (22.74%) Power Platform
3 137 (22.10%) AWS
4 42 (6.77%) GCP
5 37 (5.97%) GitHub
6 30 (4.84%) Amazon S3
7 27 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (2.74%) Serverless
9 15 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (2.42%) Google Analytics
10 14 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (2.10%) Amazon SageMaker
12 12 (1.94%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (1.77%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.61%) Amazon EMR
15 8 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.29%) AWS CodeBuild
15 8 (1.29%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (1.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.45%) LAN
2 4 (0.65%) HTTP
2 4 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (0.32%) 2G
3 2 (0.32%) 3G
3 2 (0.32%) 4G
3 2 (0.32%) 5G
3 2 (0.32%) DNS
3 2 (0.32%) Internet
3 2 (0.32%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.16%) Firewall
4 1 (0.16%) Intranet
4 1 (0.16%) SSH
4 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (22.74%) Power BI
2 91 (14.68%) Tableau
3 79 (12.74%) Big Data
4 69 (11.13%) Hadoop
5 65 (10.48%) Relational Database
6 63 (10.16%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (8.23%) Apache Hive
8 50 (8.06%) NoSQL
9 48 (7.74%) SQL Server
10 36 (5.81%) Data Lake
11 35 (5.65%) MySQL
12 34 (5.48%) Data Mining
13 30 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 26 (4.19%) QlikView
15 25 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
16 24 (3.87%) HBase
17 21 (3.39%) Metadata
18 19 (3.06%) GIS
19 18 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
19 18 (2.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 74 (11.94%) Git (software)
2 38 (6.13%) JIRA
3 32 (5.16%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.87%) Bitbucket
5 20 (3.23%) RStudio
6 17 (2.74%) GitLab
7 10 (1.61%) Maven
7 10 (1.61%) Subversion
8 9 (1.45%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.45%) FishEye
8 9 (1.45%) JUnit
8 9 (1.45%) Selenium
8 9 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.45%) TestNG
9 4 (0.65%) git-flow
9 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.48%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.48%) MLflow
10 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 221 (35.65%) Analytical Skills
2 148 (23.87%) Social Skills
3 116 (18.71%) Finance
4 94 (15.16%) Public Sector
5 46 (7.42%) Marketing
6 34 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.90%) Front Office
9 17 (2.74%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.26%) Banking
11 13 (2.10%) Retail
12 11 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.77%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.61%) Local Government
14 9 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.29%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.13%) Advertising
16 7 (1.13%) Legal
16 7 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 173 (27.90%) Analyst
2 137 (22.10%) Data Scientist
3 94 (15.16%) Data Analyst
4 84 (13.55%) Data Engineer
5 78 (12.58%) Developer
6 25 (4.03%) Python Developer
6 25 (4.03%) Senior Data Scientist
7 23 (3.71%) Architect
8 22 (3.55%) Consultant
9 20 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (2.74%) Software Engineer
11 16 (2.58%) Python Engineer
12 15 (2.42%) Data Consultant
12 15 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (2.10%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (2.10%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 13 (2.10%) SQL Analyst
14 12 (1.94%) Data Architect
14 12 (1.94%) Power BI Developer
14 12 (1.94%) Research Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (10.00%) Shiny
2 33 (5.32%) Pandas
3 27 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 27 (4.35%) Web Services
4 26 (4.19%) HTML
4 26 (4.19%) PySpark
5 24 (3.87%) TensorFlow
5 24 (3.87%) XML
6 23 (3.71%) NumPy
7 22 (3.55%) D3.js
7 22 (3.55%) JSON
7 22 (3.55%) Kafka
8 20 (3.23%) CSS
9 19 (3.06%) React
10 14 (2.26%) Akka
10 14 (2.26%) Node.js
11 11 (1.77%) HTML5
12 10 (1.61%) .NET
12 10 (1.61%) PyTorch
13 9 (1.45%) Vue.js
Miscellaneous
1 89 (14.35%) Algorithms
2 31 (5.00%) Social Media
3 30 (4.84%) Management Information System
4 19 (3.06%) Data Structures
5 15 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (1.77%) Credit Risk
6 11 (1.77%) Derivative
7 10 (1.61%) Equities
7 10 (1.61%) Fixed Income
8 9 (1.45%) Client/Server
8 9 (1.45%) Replication
9 8 (1.29%) Market Risk
9 8 (1.29%) NHS
9 8 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.29%) Swaptions
9 8 (1.29%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.81%) Linked Data
12 5 (0.81%) User Experience
Operating Systems
1 47 (7.58%) Linux
2 42 (6.77%) Windows
3 33 (5.32%) Unix
4 12 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (37.74%) Analytics
2 217 (35.00%) Data Science
3 170 (27.42%) Visualisation
4 165 (26.61%) Business Intelligence
5 148 (23.87%) Agile Software Development
6 146 (23.55%) Machine Learning
7 132 (21.29%) Data Analysis
8 121 (19.52%) Statistics
9 116 (18.71%) Mathematics
10 111 (17.90%) Data Visualisation
11 106 (17.10%) Data Modelling
12 95 (15.32%) ETL
13 88 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
14 80 (12.90%) Data Analytics
15 79 (12.74%) Decision-Making
16 68 (10.97%) Computer Science
17 64 (10.32%) Data Management
18 63 (10.16%) Statistical Analysis
19 61 (9.84%) Software Engineering
20 58 (9.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 484 (78.06%) Python
2 370 (59.68%) SQL
3 92 (14.84%) Java
4 70 (11.29%) Scala
5 55 (8.87%) VBA
6 46 (7.42%) JavaScript
7 27 (4.35%) C++
7 27 (4.35%) T-SQL
8 21 (3.39%) C#
8 21 (3.39%) Perl
9 16 (2.58%) HiveQL
9 16 (2.58%) MATLAB
10 15 (2.42%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.42%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.10%) TypeScript
12 11 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
13 10 (1.61%) C
14 9 (1.45%) Java 8
15 7 (1.13%) VB
16 6 (0.97%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 109 (17.58%) Degree
2 103 (16.61%) Security Cleared
3 90 (14.52%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.74%) Numerate Degree
5 17 (2.74%) PhD
6 10 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.97%) Tableau Certification
9 5 (0.81%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.48%) HND
11 3 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.32%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.32%) MBA
13 1 (0.16%) CBAP
13 1 (0.16%) MCSD
13 1 (0.16%) MCSE
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (9.35%) Data Quality
2 43 (6.94%) QA
3 8 (1.29%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.48%) CDISC
4 3 (0.48%) WCAG
5 2 (0.32%) IFRS
5 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.32%) NCSC
5 2 (0.32%) NIST
5 2 (0.32%) RMADS
6 1 (0.16%) Basel II
6 1 (0.16%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.16%) EMIR
6 1 (0.16%) GDPR
6 1 (0.16%) MiFID
6 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.16%) PMO
6 1 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 40 (6.45%) Docker
2 20 (3.23%) HDFS
3 5 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 18 (2.90%) Kubernetes
1 18 (2.90%) Terraform
2 9 (1.45%) Ansible
3 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.48%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.32%) BladeLogic
5 2 (0.32%) collectd
5 2 (0.32%) Control-M
5 2 (0.32%) Fluentd
5 2 (0.32%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.32%) logstash
6 1 (0.16%) Kibana
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.16%) Oozie
6 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 88 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 50 (8.06%) Oracle
3 40 (6.45%) Google
4 37 (5.97%) Databricks
5 32 (5.16%) Alteryx
6 22 (3.55%) Informatica
6 22 (3.55%) Salesforce.com
7 17 (2.74%) Talend
8 14 (2.26%) SAP
9 7 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.97%) Adobe
10 6 (0.97%) IBM
10 6 (0.97%) Minitab
11 5 (0.81%) Cloudera
11 5 (0.81%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (0.81%) Teradata
12 4 (0.65%) Cognos
13 3 (0.48%) Intel
13 3 (0.48%) Mapinfo
13 3 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud