R Contracts in England

R
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 405 384
Rank change year-on-year +25 -21 -100
Contract jobs citing R 161 262 473
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.54% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.48% 1.56% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 166 322
10th Percentile £355 £344 £313
25th Percentile £391 £461 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £640
90th Percentile £763 £850 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 24
10th Percentile £21.14 £20.47 £19.52
25th Percentile £22.86 £22.16 £24.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +86.67% +44.23%
75th Percentile £48.44 £75.00 £54.13
90th Percentile £77.63 - £65.30
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -39.29% +86.67% +44.23%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,846 16,845 25,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.81% 34.96% 36.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,871 12,314 19,084
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £772
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 408 456
10th Percentile £37.59 £26.11 £20.13
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.36 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for R in England

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for R in England

R
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in England

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for R in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for R in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London +54 96 £580 -3.33% 179
Midlands +43 19 £450 -18.18% 43
South East -4 12 £350 -36.36% 43
West Midlands +34 10 £550 +47.06% 29
East Midlands +21 9 £363 -39.58% 14
East of England +1 8 £388 +29.17% 13
South West +1 5 £525 +10.53% 20
North of England -13 4 £513 -21.15% 45
North West -17 3 £513 -21.15% 23
North East - 1 - - 10
R
UK

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 19 (11.80%) SAS
2 6 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.11%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.62%) Apache
5 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (6.83%) SPSS
2 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.24%) Stata
4 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Primavera
2 1 (0.62%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.36%) Azure
2 28 (17.39%) AWS
2 28 (17.39%) Power Platform
3 18 (11.18%) GCP
4 4 (2.48%) Azure Machine Learning
4 4 (2.48%) GitHub
4 4 (2.48%) Power Automate
4 4 (2.48%) PowerApps
5 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.24%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.24%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.62%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.39%) Power BI
1 28 (17.39%) Tableau
2 19 (11.80%) Big Data
3 16 (9.94%) Hadoop
4 11 (6.83%) BusinessObjects
5 10 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.97%) Qlik Sense
7 7 (4.35%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.73%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.11%) Data Mining
9 5 (3.11%) Impala
9 5 (3.11%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.48%) Looker
10 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.86%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.24%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (2.48%) JIRA
1 4 (2.48%) RStudio
2 2 (1.24%) CircleCI
2 2 (1.24%) Git
3 1 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.62%) PyCharm
3 1 (0.62%) Toad
3 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (34.16%) Finance
2 53 (32.92%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (24.22%) Social Skills
4 15 (9.32%) Front Office
5 14 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.45%) Banking
7 8 (4.97%) Marketing
7 8 (4.97%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.11%) Investment Banking
9 5 (3.11%) Police
10 4 (2.48%) Advertising
11 3 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.86%) Retail
11 3 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.24%) Agriculture
12 2 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.24%) Local Government
12 2 (1.24%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (24.22%) Analyst
2 32 (19.88%) Data Scientist
2 32 (19.88%) Developer
3 28 (17.39%) Data Analyst
4 16 (9.94%) Python Developer
4 16 (9.94%) Quantitative Developer
5 14 (8.70%) Finance Manager
6 11 (6.83%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.83%) Senior
7 8 (4.97%) SIEM Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Qualitative Analyst
8 6 (3.73%) Quantitative Analyst
8 6 (3.73%) SQL Analyst
8 6 (3.73%) SQL Data Analyst
9 5 (3.11%) Consultant
9 5 (3.11%) Credit Analyst
9 5 (3.11%) Lead
10 4 (2.48%) Analytics Manager
10 4 (2.48%) Business Intelligence Manager
10 4 (2.48%) Econometrician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.97%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (4.35%) D3.js
3 6 (3.73%) PySpark
4 4 (2.48%) Shiny
5 3 (1.86%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.86%) React
5 3 (1.86%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.86%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.24%) .NET
6 2 (1.24%) GeoPandas
6 2 (1.24%) HTML
6 2 (1.24%) Kafka
6 2 (1.24%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.24%) NumPy
6 2 (1.24%) Pandas
7 1 (0.62%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.62%) BREW
7 1 (0.62%) Jinja
7 1 (0.62%) JSON
7 1 (0.62%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 23 (14.29%) Derivative
2 19 (11.80%) Hedge funds
3 17 (10.56%) Fixed Income
4 14 (8.70%) Equities
5 8 (4.97%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.73%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.11%) Credit Derivative
8 3 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.86%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.86%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.86%) Social Media
9 2 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.24%) Multi-touch
10 1 (0.62%) Blog
10 1 (0.62%) Clustering
10 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.62%) Life Science
10 1 (0.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.83%) Windows
2 9 (5.59%) Linux
3 8 (4.97%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (34.78%) Visualisation
2 50 (31.06%) Data Analysis
3 48 (29.81%) Data Science
4 42 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
5 37 (22.98%) Analytics
6 36 (22.36%) Data Modelling
6 36 (22.36%) Statistics
7 35 (21.74%) Agile
8 33 (20.50%) Mathematics
9 30 (18.63%) Machine Learning
10 29 (18.01%) Data Visualisation
11 27 (16.77%) Computer Science
12 24 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (11.80%) Software Engineering
14 18 (11.18%) Predictive Modelling
15 16 (9.94%) Asset Management
15 16 (9.94%) Quantitative Research
16 15 (9.32%) Data Analytics
16 15 (9.32%) Investment Management
17 14 (8.70%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 137 (85.09%) Python
2 72 (44.72%) SQL
3 13 (8.07%) Java
4 8 (4.97%) C#
5 7 (4.35%) C++
5 7 (4.35%) Scala
6 5 (3.11%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.86%) PHP
8 3 (1.86%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.24%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.62%) Bash
10 1 (0.62%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (22.36%) Degree
2 20 (12.42%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (9.32%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.83%) Master's Degree
6 10 (6.21%) Numerate Degree
7 9 (5.59%) PhD
8 5 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.86%) CIMA
10 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.24%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.62%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.21%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.11%) QA
3 4 (2.48%) PMO
4 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.24%) NCSC
4 2 (1.24%) NIST
5 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.62%) Basel II
5 1 (0.62%) Basel III
5 1 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.62%) CDISC
5 1 (0.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (5.59%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.97%) iptables
3 3 (1.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.97%) Kibana
1 8 (4.97%) logstash
2 3 (1.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (8.70%) Bloomberg
2 10 (6.21%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.73%) Databricks
3 6 (3.73%) SAP
4 4 (2.48%) Google
5 2 (1.24%) ESRI
5 2 (1.24%) IBM
5 2 (1.24%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.24%) Oracle
6 1 (0.62%) Adobe
6 1 (0.62%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.62%) Cognos
6 1 (0.62%) Sage
6 1 (0.62%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.62%) Snow