R Contracts in England

R
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring R skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited R over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 390 388
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -92
Contract jobs citing R 163 262 475
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.56% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.43% 1.62% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 171 334
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £375 £436 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +8.57% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £653
90th Percentile £763 £875 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £572 £527
% change year-on-year -8.22% +8.45% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 23
10th Percentile £20.23 £22.16 £19.52
25th Percentile £21.25 £50.00 £23.25
Median hourly rate £32.12 £70.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.12% +97.18% +36.54%
75th Percentile £47.81 £75.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £74.63 - £64.15
UK median hourly rate £21.80 £70.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -68.86% +97.18% +36.54%

All Programming Languages
England

R falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,366 16,181 25,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.30% 34.40% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,149 11,851 18,996
10th Percentile £350 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 398 445
10th Percentile £35.52 £29.13 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.65 £73.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for R in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for R in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for R in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for R in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing R within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London +30 92 £538 -10.42% 178
South East +9 20 £363 -34.09% 51
Midlands +32 19 £450 -18.18% 41
West Midlands +27 11 £550 +47.06% 26
East Midlands +13 8 £363 -39.58% 15
East of England -5 8 £375 +33.93% 26
South West -7 5 £525 +5.00% 24
North of England -21 5 £550 -15.38% 50
North West -21 3 £513 -21.15% 31
Yorkshire +11 1 £550 - 12
North East - 1 - - 8
R
UK

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 24 (14.72%) SAS
2 8 (4.91%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.29%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.84%) Apache
4 3 (1.84%) Confluence
5 2 (1.23%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (7.98%) SPSS
2 8 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.84%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.23%) Stata
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) Primavera
2 1 (0.61%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 40 (24.54%) Azure
2 26 (15.95%) AWS
3 16 (9.82%) Power Platform
4 12 (7.36%) GCP
5 8 (4.91%) Azure Machine Learning
5 8 (4.91%) GitHub
6 4 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (2.45%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.45%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.23%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.23%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.23%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.23%) Serverless
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (0.61%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.61%) dbt
9 1 (0.61%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) Internet
1 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (19.02%) Tableau
2 16 (9.82%) Hadoop
2 16 (9.82%) Power BI
3 15 (9.20%) Big Data
4 10 (6.13%) Data Lake
4 10 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (4.91%) Data Mining
6 8 (4.91%) Qlik Sense
7 7 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (4.29%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (3.07%) Impala
8 5 (3.07%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.45%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.84%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.84%) Looker
10 3 (1.84%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 10 (6.13%) Git
2 6 (3.68%) JIRA
3 4 (2.45%) RStudio
4 3 (1.84%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.23%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.23%) MLflow
6 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.61%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 56 (34.36%) Finance
2 55 (33.74%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (22.70%) Social Skills
4 14 (8.59%) Banking
4 14 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.13%) Front Office
5 10 (6.13%) Marketing
6 7 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.68%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.07%) Police
8 5 (3.07%) Retail
9 4 (2.45%) Advertising
9 4 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.45%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.84%) Legal
11 2 (1.23%) Agriculture
11 2 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.23%) Local Government
11 2 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (25.15%) Analyst
2 28 (17.18%) Data Analyst
3 27 (16.56%) Developer
4 26 (15.95%) Data Scientist
5 15 (9.20%) Senior
6 11 (6.75%) Python Developer
6 11 (6.75%) Quantitative Developer
7 10 (6.13%) Data Engineer
7 10 (6.13%) Finance Manager
8 8 (4.91%) SIEM Engineer
9 7 (4.29%) Consultant
9 7 (4.29%) Credit Analyst
10 6 (3.68%) Architect
10 6 (3.68%) Qualitative Analyst
10 6 (3.68%) Quantitative Analyst
10 6 (3.68%) SQL Analyst
10 6 (3.68%) SQL Data Analyst
11 5 (3.07%) Analytics Manager
11 5 (3.07%) Lead
11 5 (3.07%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (4.29%) D3.js
3 6 (3.68%) .NET
3 6 (3.68%) PySpark
4 4 (2.45%) PyTorch
4 4 (2.45%) scikit-learn
4 4 (2.45%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.84%) Google JAX
6 2 (1.23%) Kafka
6 2 (1.23%) Shiny
7 1 (0.61%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.61%) Anaconda
7 1 (0.61%) BREW
7 1 (0.61%) Jinja
7 1 (0.61%) JSON
7 1 (0.61%) ODBC
7 1 (0.61%) Pandas
7 1 (0.61%) REST
7 1 (0.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.18%) Algorithms
2 18 (11.04%) Derivative
3 14 (8.59%) Hedge funds
4 12 (7.36%) Fixed Income
5 10 (6.13%) Equities
6 8 (4.91%) Credit Risk
6 8 (4.91%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.91%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.07%) Social Media
9 4 (2.45%) Credit Derivative
10 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.84%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.23%) FMCG
11 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
12 1 (0.61%) Blog
12 1 (0.61%) Clustering
12 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.61%) Life Science
12 1 (0.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.75%) Windows
2 9 (5.52%) Linux
3 8 (4.91%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (32.52%) Analytics
2 47 (28.83%) Data Science
3 44 (26.99%) Visualisation
4 43 (26.38%) Data Analysis
5 41 (25.15%) Business Intelligence
6 40 (24.54%) Statistics
7 36 (22.09%) Data Modelling
8 35 (21.47%) Machine Learning
9 34 (20.86%) Agile
9 34 (20.86%) Mathematics
10 31 (19.02%) Computer Science
11 29 (17.79%) Data Visualisation
12 27 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (12.88%) Data Analytics
14 19 (11.66%) Artificial Intelligence
15 18 (11.04%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (11.04%) Software Engineering
15 18 (11.04%) Statistical Analysis
16 17 (10.43%) Predictive Modelling
17 16 (9.82%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 140 (85.89%) Python
2 76 (46.63%) SQL
3 17 (10.43%) Java
4 14 (8.59%) C++
5 10 (6.13%) C#
6 6 (3.68%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.07%) Scala
8 4 (2.45%) PHP
8 4 (2.45%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.45%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.84%) C
9 3 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.84%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.84%) VBA
10 2 (1.23%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.23%) VB
11 1 (0.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 41 (25.15%) Degree
2 21 (12.88%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (11.04%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.59%) Numerate Degree
5 12 (7.36%) Master's Degree
6 10 (6.13%) PhD
7 3 (1.84%) CIMA
8 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.23%) CISA
8 2 (1.23%) CRISC
8 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.23%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.75%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.07%) NIST
2 5 (3.07%) QA
3 4 (2.45%) GDPR
3 4 (2.45%) PMO
4 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.23%) NCSC
5 1 (0.61%) Basel II
5 1 (0.61%) Basel III
5 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.61%) CDISC
5 1 (0.61%) EMIR
5 1 (0.61%) MiFID
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (5.52%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.91%) iptables
3 4 (2.45%) Docker
4 2 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (4.91%) Kibana
1 8 (4.91%) logstash
2 7 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.23%) Terraform
4 1 (0.61%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (7.36%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.13%) Bloomberg
3 7 (4.29%) SAP
4 6 (3.68%) Databricks
5 3 (1.84%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.84%) Google
6 2 (1.23%) Adobe
6 2 (1.23%) IBM
6 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle
7 1 (0.61%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.61%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.61%) Cognos
7 1 (0.61%) Informatica
7 1 (0.61%) Kenna
7 1 (0.61%) Sage
7 1 (0.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.61%) Snow