R Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

R
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring R skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 54 88
Rank change year-on-year -15 +34 +2
Contract jobs citing R 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.49% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.94% 1.33% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £519
25th Percentile - - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £563
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -28.89% +32.35%
75th Percentile - - £603
90th Percentile - - £616
South West median daily rate £325 £438 £600
% change year-on-year -25.71% -27.08% +26.32%

All Programming Languages
Wiltshire

R falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 136 75 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 16.75% 16.67% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 56 92
10th Percentile £400 £441 £413
25th Percentile £500 £513 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £553
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +4.07% +5.24%
75th Percentile £706 £625 £700
90th Percentile £725 £669 £711
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

R job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

R
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing R.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing R

R
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 30 March 2026. 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
Corsham - 3 £450 - 3
Swindon - 1 - - 4
R
South West

R
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
1 3 (75.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Shiny
1 1 (25.00%) Tidyverse
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
1 3 (75.00%) Data Transformation
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (75.00%) Value Proposition
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow Development
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared