R Contracts in London

R
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 342 334
Rank change year-on-year +35 -8 -94
Contract jobs citing R 86 147 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.58% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.32% 1.44% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 108 225
10th Percentile £318 £429 £350
25th Percentile £388 £516 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £763 £753 £688
90th Percentile - £933 £750
England median daily rate £500 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -12.28% +8.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 13
10th Percentile £32.24 - £31.30
25th Percentile £41.25 - £34.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £37.50
75th Percentile £47.50 - £55.25
90th Percentile £48.25 - £64.15
England median hourly rate £26.24 £70.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -62.51% +97.18% +35.24%

All Programming Languages
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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,524 10,182 16,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.26% 40.03% 41.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,973 7,675 12,404
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £543 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 74 102
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.75 £31.03
25th Percentile £33.07 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £49.24
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +21.85% +3.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £76.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +20.00%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for R in London

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for R in London

R
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in London

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for R in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for R in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +22 14 £500 -23.66% 5
West London +22 2 £487 +2.42% 4
R
England

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (4.65%) SAS
2 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.33%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.81%) SPSS
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 29 (33.72%) Azure
2 18 (20.93%) AWS
3 15 (17.44%) Power Platform
4 14 (16.28%) GCP
5 4 (4.65%) Power Automate
5 4 (4.65%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.49%) GitHub
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.16%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.77%) Tableau
2 15 (17.44%) Power BI
3 14 (16.28%) Big Data
4 9 (10.47%) Hadoop
5 6 (6.98%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.98%) Data Mining
6 5 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.49%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.33%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.33%) KDB
9 2 (2.33%) KNIME
9 2 (2.33%) MS Access
9 2 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Git
1 3 (3.49%) JIRA
1 3 (3.49%) RStudio
2 2 (2.33%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (44.19%) Finance
2 31 (36.05%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (23.26%) Social Skills
4 12 (13.95%) Front Office
5 9 (10.47%) Banking
6 5 (5.81%) Investment Banking
6 5 (5.81%) Marketing
7 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.65%) Retail
8 3 (3.49%) Advertising
9 2 (2.33%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.33%) Local Government
9 2 (2.33%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Police
10 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (24.42%) Developer
2 19 (22.09%) Analyst
3 13 (15.12%) Quantitative Developer
4 12 (13.95%) Data Analyst
4 12 (13.95%) Data Scientist
4 12 (13.95%) Finance Manager
4 12 (13.95%) Python Developer
5 6 (6.98%) Qualitative Analyst
5 6 (6.98%) Quantitative Analyst
6 5 (5.81%) Consultant
6 5 (5.81%) Credit Analyst
7 4 (4.65%) Econometrician
7 4 (4.65%) Lead
8 3 (3.49%) Analytics Manager
8 3 (3.49%) Business Intelligence Manager
8 3 (3.49%) Quantitative Consultant
8 3 (3.49%) Quantitative Risk Consultant
8 3 (3.49%) Report Manager
8 3 (3.49%) Risk Consultant
8 3 (3.49%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.33%) .NET
1 2 (2.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (2.33%) scikit-learn
1 2 (2.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.16%) GeoPandas
2 1 (1.16%) HTML
2 1 (1.16%) JSON
2 1 (1.16%) Matplotlib
2 1 (1.16%) NumPy
2 1 (1.16%) ODBC
2 1 (1.16%) Pandas
2 1 (1.16%) PySpark
2 1 (1.16%) React
2 1 (1.16%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.09%) Derivative
2 16 (18.60%) Hedge funds
3 14 (16.28%) Algorithms
3 14 (16.28%) Fixed Income
4 12 (13.95%) Equities
5 4 (4.65%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (3.49%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.33%) FMCG
7 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.16%) Blog
8 1 (1.16%) Clustering
8 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.16%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.16%) Multi-touch
8 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) Replication
8 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.16%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.23%) Data Analysis
1 26 (30.23%) Visualisation
2 23 (26.74%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (26.74%) Data Science
3 22 (25.58%) Agile
3 22 (25.58%) Data Visualisation
4 21 (24.42%) Statistics
5 19 (22.09%) Mathematics
6 18 (20.93%) Analytics
7 17 (19.77%) Data Modelling
8 16 (18.60%) Machine Learning
9 13 (15.12%) Asset Management
9 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
10 12 (13.95%) Investment Management
10 12 (13.95%) Quantitative Research
10 12 (13.95%) Statistical Analysis
11 11 (12.79%) Actionable Insight
12 10 (11.63%) Computer Science
12 10 (11.63%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 73 (84.88%) Python
2 40 (46.51%) SQL
3 8 (9.30%) C#
3 8 (9.30%) C++
4 5 (5.81%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.49%) Java
5 3 (3.49%) PHP
5 3 (3.49%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.49%) VBA
6 2 (2.33%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.33%) VB
7 1 (1.16%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.16%) Scala
7 1 (1.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (26.74%) Degree
2 11 (12.79%) Numerate Degree
3 9 (10.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (8.14%) Master's Degree
4 7 (8.14%) PhD
5 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.65%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.49%) CIMA
7 2 (2.33%) CISA
7 2 (2.33%) CRISC
8 1 (1.16%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.65%) PMO
3 3 (3.49%) QA
4 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.33%) NCSC
4 2 (2.33%) NIST
5 1 (1.16%) Basel II
5 1 (1.16%) Basel III
5 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Docker
1 2 (2.33%) HDFS
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) Bloomberg
2 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.81%) SAP
4 3 (3.49%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.33%) Google
6 1 (1.16%) Cognos
6 1 (1.16%) ESRI
6 1 (1.16%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle
6 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.16%) Snow