R Contracts in the North West

R
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 138 121 167
Rank change year-on-year -17 +46 -37
Contract jobs citing R 3 39 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.11% 1.27% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.46% 4.33% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 22 6
10th Percentile £431 £403 £239
25th Percentile £459 £466 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £314
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +107.17% -37.25%
75th Percentile £559 £675 £333
90th Percentile £584 £700 £474
England median daily rate £550 £555 £525
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.71% -

All Programming Languages
North West

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 North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 656 901 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.60% 29.35% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 672 1,079
10th Percentile £325 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £542 £588 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £663
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 41
10th Percentile £39.25 £24.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.78 £21.50
Median hourly rate £48.43 £44.05 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.96% -11.47% +65.83%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.68 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.45 £65.88 £77.50
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for R in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for R in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for R in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the North West 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
Manchester +10 2 £425 -13.92% 10
Lancashire - 1 £600 - 4
R
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Azkaban
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) PyCharm
1 1 (33.33%) RStudio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Business Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Anaplan