R Contracts in the UK excluding London

R
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 342 335 338
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -59
Contract jobs citing R 52 115 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.50% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.09% 1.73% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 63 118
10th Percentile £321 £217 £244
25th Percentile £356 £350 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +6.95% -1.06%
75th Percentile £550 £597 £544
90th Percentile £610 £675 £612
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 11
10th Percentile £20.44 £20.47 -
25th Percentile £20.92 £22.16 -
Median hourly rate £21.73 £62.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -65.23% +220.18% -24.92%
75th Percentile £49.62 £75.00 £32.88
90th Percentile £66.35 - £48.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -39.29% +86.67% +44.23%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,786 6,635 8,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.59% 28.84% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,218 4,688 6,111
10th Percentile £315 £350 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 329 336
10th Percentile £37.96 £23.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £27.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.38
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
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
Wales +20 3 £412 -28.35% 12
North West -17 3 £513 -21.15% 23
Scotland +26 1 £221 -41.15% 14
North East - 1 - - 10
R
UK

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 14 (26.92%) SAS
2 4 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (21.15%) SPSS
2 2 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.92%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.54%) AWS
2 3 (5.77%) Azure
3 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.92%) GitHub
4 1 (1.92%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) Tableau
2 8 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (13.46%) Qlik Sense
4 6 (11.54%) Hadoop
5 5 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (9.62%) Impala
6 4 (7.69%) Data Mining
7 3 (5.77%) Looker
8 2 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.85%) Big Data
8 2 (3.85%) Power BI
8 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.92%) Azkaban
9 1 (1.92%) Metadata
9 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.92%) Power Query
9 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (1.92%) Git
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
1 1 (1.92%) PyCharm
1 1 (1.92%) RStudio
General
1 16 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Finance
3 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.62%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Banking
6 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.85%) Marketing
7 2 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.85%) Police
8 1 (1.92%) Advertising
8 1 (1.92%) Back Office
8 1 (1.92%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.92%) Humanities
8 1 (1.92%) Military
8 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 20 (38.46%) Analyst
2 16 (30.77%) Data Analyst
3 8 (15.38%) Senior
3 8 (15.38%) SIEM Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Data Scientist
5 5 (9.62%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Developer
5 5 (9.62%) SQL Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) SQL Data Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Data Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Analytics Manager
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Business Data Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Machine Learning Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Developer
8 1 (1.92%) Senior Analytics Manager
8 1 (1.92%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (13.46%) D3.js
3 3 (5.77%) PySpark
4 2 (3.85%) Kafka
5 1 (1.92%) .NET
5 1 (1.92%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.92%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.92%) Anaconda
5 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.92%) BREW
5 1 (1.92%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
1 8 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (9.62%) Algorithms
3 4 (7.69%) Credit Risk
3 4 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.92%) CRISPR
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Derivative
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Linux
1 8 (15.38%) Ubuntu
1 8 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) Analytics
2 20 (38.46%) Data Modelling
3 19 (36.54%) Visualisation
4 17 (32.69%) Computer Science
5 16 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (28.85%) Data Analysis
7 13 (25.00%) Data Analytics
7 13 (25.00%) Data Science
8 12 (23.08%) Statistics
9 11 (21.15%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (21.15%) Mathematics
10 10 (19.23%) Agile
11 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (15.38%) DataOps
12 8 (15.38%) Infrastructure Monitoring
12 8 (15.38%) Machine Learning
12 8 (15.38%) RBAC
12 8 (15.38%) SIEM
13 7 (13.46%) Data Visualisation
13 7 (13.46%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 42 (80.77%) Python
2 29 (55.77%) SQL
3 9 (17.31%) Java
4 4 (7.69%) Scala
5 1 (1.92%) Bash
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 16 (30.77%) Degree
2 10 (19.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (19.23%) Security Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) IBM Certification
5 2 (3.85%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.92%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) PhD
6 1 (1.92%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.92%) CDISC
2 1 (1.92%) GDPR
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 8 (15.38%) iptables
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Kibana
1 8 (15.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (1.92%) Adobe
3 1 (1.92%) Anaplan
3 1 (1.92%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.92%) Databricks
3 1 (1.92%) Google
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle
3 1 (1.92%) Sage