R Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

R
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring R skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited R 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 257 247 350
Rank change year-on-year -10 +103 -3
Contract jobs citing R 47 98 128
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.64% 0.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 1.91% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 58 74
10th Percentile £336 £366 £350
25th Percentile £411 £441 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £579 £530
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.25% +0.95%
75th Percentile £650 £763 £634
90th Percentile £795 - £744
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 16
10th Percentile - £25.80 £20.71
25th Percentile - £26.24 £22.16
Median hourly rate £26.32 £54.66 £70.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% -22.47% +34.29%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £75.00
90th Percentile - £78.25 -
UK median hourly rate £25.16 £42.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -40.80% -39.29% +86.67%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

R
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

R trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

R
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing R.

R daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing R over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

R daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing R.

R hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (19.15%) Apache Spark
2 8 (17.02%) SAS
3 4 (8.51%) Jupyter
4 2 (4.26%) Confluence
5 1 (2.13%) Apache
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) EViews
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.04%) AWS
2 14 (29.79%) Azure
3 10 (21.28%) Power Platform
4 7 (14.89%) Adobe Analytics
5 6 (12.77%) GCP
6 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (8.51%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (8.51%) Serverless
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (6.38%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.26%) Azure AI
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.26%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub
8 2 (4.26%) Route 53
9 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.13%) IaaS
9 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.40%) Big Data
2 10 (21.28%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (21.28%) Power BI
3 9 (19.15%) Tableau
4 8 (17.02%) Relational Database
5 6 (12.77%) Data Lake
5 6 (12.77%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
6 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.26%) BigQuery
7 2 (4.26%) Data Mining
7 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
7 2 (4.26%) Looker
7 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) ER Studio
2 1 (2.13%) ERwin
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) GitLab
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.13%) MLflow
General
1 22 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Banking
3 10 (21.28%) Finance
3 10 (21.28%) Marketing
3 10 (21.28%) Public Sector
4 9 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.51%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.26%) Military
7 1 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Legal
7 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
7 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Analyst
2 8 (17.02%) Analytics Manager
2 8 (17.02%) Data Scientist
3 7 (14.89%) Data Analytics Manager
3 7 (14.89%) Data Manager
3 7 (14.89%) Insight Manager
3 7 (14.89%) Lead
3 7 (14.89%) Strategy Manager
4 6 (12.77%) Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Data Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Senior
6 3 (6.38%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Data Scientist
7 2 (4.26%) Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Data Migration Lead
7 2 (4.26%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) PyTorch
1 5 (10.64%) TensorFlow
2 3 (6.38%) Pandas
2 3 (6.38%) scikit-learn
2 3 (6.38%) Shiny
3 2 (4.26%) NumPy
4 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.13%) Jinja
4 1 (2.13%) Keras
4 1 (2.13%) Matplotlib
4 1 (2.13%) Plotly
4 1 (2.13%) pytest
4 1 (2.13%) Seaborn
4 1 (2.13%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Algorithms
1 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.26%) Multi-touch
3 1 (2.13%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.13%) FMCG
3 1 (2.13%) IoT
3 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
1 3 (6.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) Analytics
2 20 (42.55%) Visualisation
3 19 (40.43%) Data Science
4 16 (34.04%) Data Analysis
4 16 (34.04%) Decision-Making
4 16 (34.04%) Machine Learning
5 15 (31.91%) Data Visualisation
5 15 (31.91%) ETL
6 13 (27.66%) Statistical Modelling
7 12 (25.53%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (25.53%) Data Modelling
8 11 (23.40%) Data Extraction
8 11 (23.40%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (23.40%) Migration
9 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (19.15%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (19.15%) Data Governance
11 8 (17.02%) Agile
11 8 (17.02%) Mathematics
11 8 (17.02%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 36 (76.60%) Python
2 34 (72.34%) SQL
3 3 (6.38%) Perl
4 2 (4.26%) Java
4 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.13%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.13%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.13%) Scala
5 1 (2.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) SC Cleared
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.89%) Degree
3 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.26%) PhD
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) Actionable Recommendations
1 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) Basel III
3 1 (2.13%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) IFRS
3 1 (2.13%) IFRS 9
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Adobe
1 7 (14.89%) Teradata
2 6 (12.77%) Google
3 5 (10.64%) Databricks
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.26%) Alteryx
5 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.26%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle
5 2 (4.26%) Sage
5 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.13%) SAP