R Contracts in the Midlands

R
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 114 157 175
Rank change year-on-year +43 +18 -27
Contract jobs citing R 19 3 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.71% 0.091% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.03% 0.35% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 22
10th Percentile £356 £263 £351
25th Percentile £358 £362 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £493
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +11.68% +23.13%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £540
90th Percentile - £595 £587
England median daily rate £550 £555 £525
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.73 - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -39.29% +86.67% +44.23%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 628 858 1,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.32% 26.13% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 632 969
10th Percentile £260 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 £675 £614
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 18
10th Percentile £22.42 £19.74 £16.97
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.16 £23.00
Median hourly rate £51.78 £29.93 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.99% -14.48% +6.87%
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.69 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £88.88 £46.67
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for R in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for R in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for R in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +34 10 £550 +47.06% 28
East Midlands +21 9 £363 -39.58% 14
R
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (31.58%) Hadoop
3 5 (26.32%) Impala
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
5 1 (5.26%) Big Data
5 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.26%) Power BI
5 1 (5.26%) Power Query
5 1 (5.26%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Police
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Back Office
4 1 (5.26%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (5.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Analyst
1 8 (42.11%) SIEM Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Data Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Business Data Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Process Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Process Mapping Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Process Mapping Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Report Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) Anaconda
2 1 (5.26%) BREW
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (26.32%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
1 8 (42.11%) Ubuntu
1 8 (42.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Visualisation
2 9 (47.37%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (42.11%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (42.11%) DataOps
3 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 8 (42.11%) RBAC
3 8 (42.11%) SIEM
4 7 (36.84%) Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) Data Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) Decision Tree
5 5 (26.32%) Logistic Regression
6 4 (21.05%) Business Strategy
6 4 (21.05%) Performance Analysis
6 4 (21.05%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.79%) ETL
8 2 (10.53%) Agile
8 2 (10.53%) Change Management
8 2 (10.53%) Dashboard Development
8 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 8 (42.11%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) Scala
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.26%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
1 8 (42.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kibana
1 8 (42.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle
1 1 (5.26%) Sage