Tidyverse Contract Job Trends

Tidyverse
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Tidyverse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 - 606
Rank change year-on-year - - +179
Contract jobs citing Tidyverse 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - 0.004%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.012% - 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.52%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £550

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Tidyverse falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,136 7,791 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.43% 21.82% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 4,931 7,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 110 182
10th Percentile £30.08 £21.93 £32.30
25th Percentile £42.88 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +23.81% -19.23%

Tidyverse
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Tidyverse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Tidyverse job vacancy trend in the UK

Tidyverse
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tidyverse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tidyverse

Tidyverse
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tidyverse within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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
South West - 1 - -
England - 1 - -
Work from Home - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - -

Tidyverse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Shiny
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared