Shiny Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

R Shiny
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Shiny skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Shiny 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 301 339 472
Rank change year-on-year +38 +133 +142
Contract jobs citing Shiny 3 6 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.039% 0.019%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% 0.16% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £472 £407 £395
25th Percentile £567 £436 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £492 £473
Median % change year-on-year +52.49% +4.02% -3.57%
75th Percentile £774 £540 £484
90th Percentile - £566 £503
UK median daily rate £388 £492 £473
% change year-on-year -21.16% +4.02% +14.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Shiny 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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Shiny
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Shiny trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Shiny
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Shiny daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Shiny
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Shiny daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Shiny
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) R
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Sage
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks