R Contracts in the UK excluding London

R
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 337 337
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -61
Contract jobs citing R 59 110 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.48% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 1.71% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 59 117
10th Percentile £323 £212 £258
25th Percentile £357 £344 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £520 £490
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +6.12% +3.16%
75th Percentile £550 £604 £550
90th Percentile £605 £680 £627
UK median daily rate £500 £572 £527
% change year-on-year -12.59% +8.45% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 9
10th Percentile £18.05 £22.16 £18.87
25th Percentile £20.12 £36.08 -
Median hourly rate £20.24 £70.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -71.09% +258.61% -24.92%
75th Percentile £21.39 £75.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £49.62 - £52.11
UK median hourly rate £21.86 £70.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -68.77% +97.18% +36.54%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,941 6,414 8,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.70% 27.99% 28.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,307 4,495 6,145
10th Percentile £319 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.68%
75th Percentile £583 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 322 321
10th Percentile £37.55 £26.48 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.19 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £67.36
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

R
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for R in the UK excluding London

R
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for R in the UK excluding London

R
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Midlands +40 19 £450 -18.18% 25
South East -2 15 £350 -36.36% 44
West Midlands +23 10 £550 +47.06% 17
East Midlands +17 9 £363 -39.58% 8
East of England 0 9 £388 +38.39% 16
South West +1 5 £525 +5.00% 13
North of England -8 5 £550 -15.38% 22
Wales - 5 £412 - 4
North West -19 3 £513 -21.15% 11
Scotland +34 1 £221 -63.17% 11
Yorkshire +18 1 £550 - 6
North East - 1 - - 5
R
UK

R
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 15 (25.42%) SAS
2 4 (6.78%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
3 1 (1.69%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (18.64%) SPSS
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.39%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.69%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.17%) AWS
2 3 (5.08%) Azure
2 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.69%) GitHub
3 1 (1.69%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) Tableau
2 8 (13.56%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (11.86%) Qlik Sense
4 6 (10.17%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.17%) Hadoop
5 5 (8.47%) Impala
6 4 (6.78%) Data Mining
7 3 (5.08%) Big Data
7 3 (5.08%) Looker
7 3 (5.08%) Power BI
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.69%) MS Access
9 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.69%) QlikView
9 1 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) RStudio
3 1 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (32.20%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (25.42%) Finance
3 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Banking
6 3 (5.08%) Marketing
6 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.39%) Police
8 1 (1.69%) Advertising
8 1 (1.69%) Back Office
8 1 (1.69%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.69%) Humanities
8 1 (1.69%) Local Government
8 1 (1.69%) Military
8 1 (1.69%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Analyst
2 17 (28.81%) Data Analyst
3 9 (15.25%) Senior
4 8 (13.56%) Data Scientist
4 8 (13.56%) SIEM Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Data Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) SQL Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) SQL Data Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Data Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Analytics Manager
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Business Data Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Machine Learning Analyst
9 1 (1.69%) Data Business Analyst
9 1 (1.69%) Hadoop Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (11.86%) D3.js
3 3 (5.08%) PySpark
4 2 (3.39%) .NET
4 2 (3.39%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.39%) Kafka
5 1 (1.69%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.69%) Anaconda
5 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.69%) BREW
5 1 (1.69%) Google JAX
5 1 (1.69%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.69%) React
5 1 (1.69%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Linux Command Line
1 8 (13.56%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (10.17%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.47%) Credit Risk
3 5 (8.47%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.69%) CRISPR
4 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.69%) Derivative
4 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Linux
1 8 (13.56%) Ubuntu
1 8 (13.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) Analytics
2 21 (35.59%) Data Modelling
3 20 (33.90%) Computer Science
4 19 (32.20%) Visualisation
5 18 (30.51%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (28.81%) Data Science
7 16 (27.12%) Data Analysis
8 14 (23.73%) Data Analytics
8 14 (23.73%) Statistics
9 13 (22.03%) Mathematics
10 12 (20.34%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (18.64%) Agile
12 9 (15.25%) DataOps
12 9 (15.25%) Decision-Making
12 9 (15.25%) Machine Learning
13 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Monitoring
13 8 (13.56%) RBAC
13 8 (13.56%) SIEM
14 7 (11.86%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (83.05%) Python
2 31 (52.54%) SQL
3 11 (18.64%) Java
4 4 (6.78%) Scala
5 2 (3.39%) C++
6 1 (1.69%) Bash
6 1 (1.69%) C
6 1 (1.69%) C#
6 1 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.69%) PHP
6 1 (1.69%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (32.20%) Degree
2 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
3 11 (18.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (16.95%) SC Cleared
5 6 (10.17%) Master's Degree
6 4 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (5.08%) PhD
8 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.39%) IBM Certification
8 2 (3.39%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.69%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (1.69%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.39%) GDPR
2 2 (3.39%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.69%) CDISC
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) Active Directory
1 8 (13.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Kibana
1 8 (13.56%) logstash
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.39%) Adobe
2 2 (3.39%) IBM
3 1 (1.69%) Anaplan
3 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.69%) Databricks
3 1 (1.69%) Google
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle
3 1 (1.69%) Sage