R Contracts in Central London

R
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for R skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited R over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 145 162
Rank change year-on-year +22 +17 -39
Contract jobs citing R 14 29 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.58% 0.78% 0.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.63% 1.92% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 21
10th Percentile £385 £419 £230
25th Percentile £450 £540 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £655 £551
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% +18.98% +22.33%
75th Percentile £681 £850 £650
90th Percentile £879 £875 £725
London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.75
25th Percentile - - £43.00
Median hourly rate - - £53.50
75th Percentile - - £58.50
90th Percentile - - £60.45
London median hourly rate £42.50 - £37.50
% change year-on-year - - +17.19%

All Programming Languages
Central London

R is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 858 1,514 1,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.82% 40.82% 42.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 1,001 1,490
10th Percentile £406 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £512 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £21.35 £39.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £35.00 £45.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -1.87% +101.89%
75th Percentile £50.25 £83.75 £66.75
90th Percentile - £84.50 £77.00
London median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £49.24
% change year-on-year -15.83% +21.85% +3.67%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for R in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing R in Central London.

Daily rate trend for R in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing R in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for R in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
City of London +32 14 £500 -23.66% 5
R
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (7.14%) Jupyter
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) SPSS
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 3 (21.43%) Power Automate
2 3 (21.43%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) Data Mining
3 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 2 (14.29%) KDB
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (7.14%) Big Data
4 1 (7.14%) KNIME
4 1 (7.14%) MS Access
4 1 (7.14%) MySQL
4 1 (7.14%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
1 1 (7.14%) RStudio
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Agriculture
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) Data Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Analytics Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Data Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Insight Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Report Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Business Analytics Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
3 1 (7.14%) Head of Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Head of Business Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Principal Security Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
1 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
1 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Analytics
1 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Data Analysis
2 5 (35.71%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
2 5 (35.71%) Visualisation
3 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Data Science
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Statistical Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Statistical Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 2 (14.29%) OO
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Management
5 2 (14.29%) Statistics
5 2 (14.29%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 10 (71.43%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (7.14%) VB
5 1 (7.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) CIMA
2 1 (7.14%) CISA
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) CRISC
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) PhD
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (14.29%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Cognos
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce