R Contracts with Work from Home Options

R
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 258 350 352
Rank change year-on-year +92 +2 -103
Contract jobs citing R 89 118 288
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.48% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.78% 1.29% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 68 203
10th Percentile £357 £350 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £763 £650 £610
90th Percentile - £766 £660
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 10
10th Percentile £34.77 £22.16 £20.61
25th Percentile £47.56 £51.48 £45.31
Median hourly rate £64.83 £70.50 £59.02
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% +19.45% +118.92%
75th Percentile £77.81 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £78.38 - £66.74
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -39.29% +86.67% +44.23%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,002 9,174 16,719
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.80% 37.22% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 6,731 12,427
10th Percentile £356 £390 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 195 194
10th Percentile £33.13 £32.45 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +26.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

R
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing R as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

R trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing R.

R daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing R over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

R daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing R.

R hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing R over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

R hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (16.85%) SAS
2 6 (6.74%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.62%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.12%) Apache
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.62%) SPSS
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.21%) Azure
2 25 (28.09%) AWS
3 21 (23.60%) Power Platform
4 18 (20.22%) GCP
5 7 (7.87%) Veeva
6 4 (4.49%) GitHub
7 3 (3.37%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.37%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.25%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.25%) Serverless
9 1 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.12%) Google Analytics
9 1 (1.12%) PaaS
9 1 (1.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.60%) Power BI
2 7 (7.87%) Tableau
3 6 (6.74%) Big Data
3 6 (6.74%) Hadoop
4 5 (5.62%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (4.49%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.49%) Impala
6 3 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.37%) Looker
6 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.25%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.25%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.25%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.25%) Spark SQL
7 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.12%) Metadata
8 1 (1.12%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) RStudio
2 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.12%) Git
3 1 (1.12%) JIRA
3 1 (1.12%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.12%) Toad
General
1 39 (43.82%) Finance
2 25 (28.09%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (17.98%) Social Skills
4 15 (16.85%) Front Office
5 8 (8.99%) Banking
5 8 (8.99%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.49%) Marketing
6 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.25%) Agriculture
8 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Retail
9 1 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Local Government
9 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (23.60%) Analyst
1 21 (23.60%) Developer
2 15 (16.85%) Data Analyst
2 15 (16.85%) Data Scientist
2 15 (16.85%) Python Developer
2 15 (16.85%) Quantitative Developer
3 14 (15.73%) Finance Manager
4 9 (10.11%) Programmer
5 5 (5.62%) SAS Programmer
6 4 (4.49%) Credit Analyst
6 4 (4.49%) Data Manager
6 4 (4.49%) Lead
6 4 (4.49%) Qualitative Analyst
6 4 (4.49%) Quantitative Analyst
6 4 (4.49%) Senior
7 3 (3.37%) Analytics Manager
7 3 (3.37%) Clinical Data Manager
7 3 (3.37%) Consultant
7 3 (3.37%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.37%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.49%) Shiny
2 3 (3.37%) Pandas
2 3 (3.37%) PySpark
3 2 (2.25%) D3.js
4 1 (1.12%) ggplot2
4 1 (1.12%) JSON
4 1 (1.12%) Kafka
4 1 (1.12%) ODBC
4 1 (1.12%) Plotly
4 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.12%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.60%) Derivative
2 19 (21.35%) Hedge funds
3 15 (16.85%) Fixed Income
4 14 (15.73%) Equities
5 9 (10.11%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (8.99%) Algorithms
7 5 (5.62%) Credit Derivative
8 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
8 3 (3.37%) Multi-touch
9 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.25%) Social Media
10 1 (1.12%) Blog
10 1 (1.12%) Clustering
10 1 (1.12%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.12%) Life Science
10 1 (1.12%) Market Risk
10 1 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (1.12%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.09%) Data Science
2 23 (25.84%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (21.35%) Visualisation
4 17 (19.10%) Agile
4 17 (19.10%) Data Analysis
4 17 (19.10%) Software Engineering
5 16 (17.98%) Asset Management
5 16 (17.98%) Investment Management
5 16 (17.98%) Quantitative Research
5 16 (17.98%) Statistics
6 15 (16.85%) Analytics
6 15 (16.85%) Mathematics
7 12 (13.48%) Machine Learning
8 11 (12.36%) Data Modelling
8 11 (12.36%) Validation
9 10 (11.24%) Computer Science
9 10 (11.24%) Data Management
9 10 (11.24%) Data Visualisation
10 9 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (8.99%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 76 (85.39%) Python
2 36 (40.45%) SQL
3 9 (10.11%) C#
4 7 (7.87%) VB
5 6 (6.74%) C++
6 5 (5.62%) PL/SQL
7 4 (4.49%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.37%) Scala
9 2 (2.25%) Java
9 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.12%) Bash
10 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.12%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.12%) PHP
10 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (16.85%) Degree
2 7 (7.87%) Numerate Degree
2 7 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.62%) PhD
3 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.12%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.11%) CDISC
2 4 (4.49%) GxP
2 4 (4.49%) QA
3 3 (3.37%) Good Clinical Practice
4 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.12%) NCSC
5 1 (1.12%) NIST
5 1 (1.12%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (16.85%) Bloomberg
2 7 (7.87%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.62%) Databricks
4 3 (3.37%) SAP
5 2 (2.25%) Google
6 1 (1.12%) Cognos
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.12%) Splunk