R Contracts in the North of England

R
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 180 159 228
Rank change year-on-year -21 +69 -61
Contract jobs citing R 5 43 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.10% 0.79% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.40% 2.81% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 22 16
10th Percentile £435 £403 £275
25th Percentile £469 £463 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +48.57% -10.03%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £506
90th Percentile £595 £700 £563
England median daily rate £500 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -12.28% +8.57% -

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,244 1,529 2,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.68% 28.10% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 1,113 1,688
10th Percentile £319 £351 £325
25th Percentile £403 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £625 £699 £663
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 49
10th Percentile £37.55 £28.26 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £47.75 £47.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +11.76% +63.46%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.90 £65.90 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for R in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for R in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for R in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West -21 3 £513 -21.15% 31
Yorkshire +11 1 £550 - 12
North East - 1 - - 8
R
England

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Azkaban
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) RStudio
2 1 (20.00%) PyCharm
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Business Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (20.00%) Strategy Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) MLOps
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Time Series Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Anaplan
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft