RStudio Contracts

RStudio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring RStudio skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RStudio over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 573 702
Rank change year-on-year +61 +129 +133
Contract jobs citing RStudio 8 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.021% 0.027%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.19% 0.17% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £234 £455 £353
25th Percentile £383 £500 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £600 £523
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +14.83% -12.92%
75th Percentile £640 £644 £545
90th Percentile £653 £693 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £181 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -29.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.24 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

RStudio falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,103 5,181 9,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.89% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,744 3,477 6,339
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £717 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 197 246
10th Percentile £26.92 £32.48 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.53 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £81.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

RStudio
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for RStudio in the UK

RStudio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for RStudio in the UK

RStudio
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RStudio over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RStudio in the UK

RStudio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for RStudio in the UK

RStudio
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RStudio within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Jobs
England +55 7 £573 -4.58% 10
London +38 7 £573 -4.58% 4
Work from Home +37 2 £418 -30.42% 9
UK excluding London +63 1 £181 - 6
Scotland - 1 £181 -

RStudio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) Apache
1 6 (75.00%) Apache Spark
1 6 (75.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Power Platform
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Power BI
2 6 (75.00%) Apache Hive
2 6 (75.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (75.00%) Delta Lake
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
1 6 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Development Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) JSON
1 6 (75.00%) pydantic
1 6 (75.00%) PySpark
1 6 (75.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Data Structures
1 6 (75.00%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (75.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Data Ingestion
2 6 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (75.00%) Data Security
2 6 (75.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (12.50%) Data Entry
3 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) Bash
2 6 (75.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft