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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 246 355
Rank change year-on-year -12 +109 -16
Contract jobs citing R 47 98 120
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.64% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.27% 1.92% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 59 67
10th Percentile £333 £356 £323
25th Percentile £410 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £647 £763 £650
90th Percentile £774 - £768
UK median daily rate £525 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -3.80% -0.77% +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 3,700 5,105 9,528
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.51% 33.53% 37.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,637 3,700 6,968
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £788 £771
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 142 205
10th Percentile £24.60 £26.50 £32.45
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +25.63%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £88.38 £81.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £60.28
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.20% +20.55%

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 7 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 10 (21.28%) Apache Spark
2 8 (17.02%) SAS
3 4 (8.51%) Jupyter
4 2 (4.26%) Confluence
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 17 (36.17%) AWS
2 15 (31.91%) 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%) Serverless
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (6.38%) Snowflake
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.26%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub
8 2 (4.26%) Route 53
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.13%) IaaS
9 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
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
2 10 (21.28%) Tableau
3 8 (17.02%) Relational Database
4 7 (14.89%) Hadoop
5 5 (10.64%) Data Lake
6 3 (6.38%) Data Mining
6 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
6 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
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%) DynamoDB
7 2 (4.26%) Looker
7 2 (4.26%) MySQL
7 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
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%) MLflow
General
1 20 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Banking
2 11 (23.40%) Marketing
3 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (21.28%) Finance
3 10 (21.28%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.51%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Military
6 1 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Analyst
2 9 (19.15%) Data Scientist
3 7 (14.89%) Analytics Manager
3 7 (14.89%) Data Analytics Manager
3 7 (14.89%) Data Manager
3 7 (14.89%) Developer
3 7 (14.89%) Insight Manager
3 7 (14.89%) Strategy Manager
4 6 (12.77%) Lead
4 6 (12.77%) Senior
5 5 (10.64%) Data Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (6.38%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Data Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Data Migration Lead
8 2 (4.26%) Data Modeller
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) Pandas
1 5 (10.64%) PyTorch
1 5 (10.64%) TensorFlow
2 3 (6.38%) NumPy
2 3 (6.38%) scikit-learn
2 3 (6.38%) Shiny
3 2 (4.26%) Matplotlib
3 2 (4.26%) Seaborn
4 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.13%) Jinja
4 1 (2.13%) Keras
4 1 (2.13%) Plotly
4 1 (2.13%) pytest
4 1 (2.13%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Algorithms
2 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.26%) FMCG
3 2 (4.26%) Multi-touch
4 1 (2.13%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
1 3 (6.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) Analytics
2 21 (44.68%) Data Science
3 20 (42.55%) Visualisation
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%) Statistical Modelling
6 14 (29.79%) ETL
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 9 (19.15%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (19.15%) Predictive Analytics
9 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (17.02%) Computer Science
10 8 (17.02%) Mathematics
10 8 (17.02%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 36 (76.60%) Python
2 33 (70.21%) 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 9 (19.15%) Degree
2 8 (17.02%) SC Cleared
2 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) PhD
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.51%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (6.38%) QA
4 1 (2.13%) Basel III
4 1 (2.13%) EU AI Act
4 1 (2.13%) GDPR
4 1 (2.13%) IFRS
4 1 (2.13%) IFRS 9
4 1 (2.13%) NIST
4 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) 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