R Contracts in the North West

R
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 132 111 171
Rank change year-on-year -21 +60 -30
Contract jobs citing R 3 39 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.11% 1.29% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.45% 4.58% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 22 7
10th Percentile £431 £403 £242
25th Percentile £459 £463 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £315
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +106.35% -49.60%
75th Percentile £559 £675 £431
90th Percentile £584 £700 £560
England median daily rate £500 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -12.28% +8.57% -

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 672 852 1,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.07% 28.29% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 634 1,067
10th Percentile £326 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £663 £675
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 38
10th Percentile £37.63 £25.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.75 £21.57
Median hourly rate £48.43 £46.18 £51.35
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -10.07% +71.17%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.90 £65.85 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for R in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for R in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for R in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +4 2 £425 -2.86% 14
Lancashire - 1 £600 - 4
R
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Azkaban
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) PyCharm
1 1 (33.33%) RStudio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Business Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Anaplan