R Contracts in London

R
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 294 348 326
Rank change year-on-year +54 -22 -77
Contract jobs citing R 96 146 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.55% 0.56% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.50% 1.40% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 103 212
10th Percentile £387 £426 £350
25th Percentile £469 £515 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £763 £750 £650
90th Percentile - £945 £713
England median daily rate £550 £555 £525
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 15
10th Percentile £32.24 - £31.60
25th Percentile £41.25 - £35.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £75.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +68.54% +40.64%
75th Percentile £47.50 - £58.50
90th Percentile £48.25 - £72.40
England median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -39.29% +86.67% +44.23%

All Programming Languages
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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,395 10,434 16,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.63% 40.32% 41.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,885 7,812 12,407
10th Percentile £381 £413 £416
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £835 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 80 113
10th Percentile £23.80 £30.30 £31.05
25th Percentile £40.77 £49.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64.02 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for R in London

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for R in London

R
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for R in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for R in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for R in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +21 13 £525 -22.94% 18
West London +20 3 £500 +5.26% 14
R
England

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (2.08%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.08%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.04%) SAS
2 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.08%) SPSS
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.25%) Azure
2 26 (27.08%) Power Platform
3 20 (20.83%) AWS
4 18 (18.75%) GCP
5 4 (4.17%) Power Automate
5 4 (4.17%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.08%) GitHub
6 2 (2.08%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.04%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.04%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.08%) Power BI
2 16 (16.67%) Big Data
2 16 (16.67%) Tableau
3 11 (11.46%) BusinessObjects
4 9 (9.38%) Hadoop
5 6 (6.25%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.13%) Data Mining
8 3 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.08%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.08%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (2.08%) KDB
9 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) JIRA
1 3 (3.13%) RStudio
2 2 (2.08%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.04%) Git
3 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (43.75%) Finance
2 33 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (28.13%) Social Skills
4 15 (15.63%) Front Office
5 9 (9.38%) Banking
6 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.21%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.21%) Marketing
8 3 (3.13%) Advertising
8 3 (3.13%) Retail
9 2 (2.08%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.08%) Local Government
9 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.04%) Hungarian Language
10 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Law
10 1 (1.04%) Police
10 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (26.04%) Data Scientist
2 24 (25.00%) Developer
3 18 (18.75%) Analyst
4 16 (16.67%) Quantitative Developer
5 15 (15.63%) Python Developer
6 14 (14.58%) Finance Manager
7 11 (11.46%) Data Analyst
8 6 (6.25%) Qualitative Analyst
8 6 (6.25%) Quantitative Analyst
9 5 (5.21%) Consultant
9 5 (5.21%) Credit Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Econometrician
10 4 (4.17%) Lead
11 3 (3.13%) Applications Manager
11 3 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Manager
11 3 (3.13%) Quantitative Consultant
11 3 (3.13%) Quantitative Risk Consultant
11 3 (3.13%) Risk Consultant
11 3 (3.13%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.13%) PyTorch
1 3 (3.13%) scikit-learn
1 3 (3.13%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.08%) GeoPandas
2 2 (2.08%) HTML
2 2 (2.08%) Matplotlib
2 2 (2.08%) NumPy
2 2 (2.08%) Pandas
2 2 (2.08%) React
2 2 (2.08%) Shiny
3 1 (1.04%) .NET
3 1 (1.04%) ggplot2
3 1 (1.04%) JSON
3 1 (1.04%) ODBC
3 1 (1.04%) Plotly
3 1 (1.04%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.92%) Derivative
2 19 (19.79%) Hedge funds
3 17 (17.71%) Fixed Income
4 14 (14.58%) Equities
5 13 (13.54%) Algorithms
6 5 (5.21%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.08%) Credit Risk
8 2 (2.08%) Multi-touch
8 2 (2.08%) Social Media
9 1 (1.04%) Blog
9 1 (1.04%) Clustering
9 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.04%) Market Risk
9 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Windows
2 1 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.50%) Visualisation
2 35 (36.46%) Data Analysis
3 33 (34.38%) Data Science
4 25 (26.04%) Agile
5 24 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (21.88%) Data Visualisation
7 20 (20.83%) Mathematics
7 20 (20.83%) Statistics
8 17 (17.71%) Machine Learning
9 16 (16.67%) Asset Management
10 15 (15.63%) Data Modelling
10 15 (15.63%) Investment Management
10 15 (15.63%) Quantitative Research
10 15 (15.63%) Software Engineering
11 14 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (11.46%) Analytics
13 10 (10.42%) Computer Science
13 10 (10.42%) Predictive Modelling
14 9 (9.38%) Model Validation
14 9 (9.38%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 83 (86.46%) Python
2 40 (41.67%) SQL
3 7 (7.29%) C#
3 7 (7.29%) C++
4 4 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.13%) Java
5 3 (3.13%) PHP
5 3 (3.13%) Scala
5 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.08%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (19.79%) Degree
2 10 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.29%) Master's Degree
3 7 (7.29%) Numerate Degree
3 7 (7.29%) PhD
3 7 (7.29%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.13%) CIMA
6 1 (1.04%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.17%) PMO
3 3 (3.13%) QA
4 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.08%) NCSC
4 2 (2.08%) NIST
5 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.04%) Basel II
5 1 (1.04%) Basel III
5 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (14.58%) Bloomberg
2 6 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.21%) SAP
4 3 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) Databricks
5 2 (2.08%) ESRI
6 1 (1.04%) Cognos
6 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) Snow