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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 333 332
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 -72
Contract jobs citing R 87 146 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.50% 0.58% 0.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.32% 1.44% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 108 229
10th Percentile £319 £429 £348
25th Percentile £388 £516 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £763 £750 £688
90th Percentile £780 £933 £750
England median daily rate £500 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -12.28% +8.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 14
10th Percentile - - £29.78
25th Percentile £41.25 - £32.94
Median hourly rate £43.75 - £37.50
75th Percentile £47.81 - £54.88
90th Percentile £48.38 - £63.85
England median hourly rate £32.12 £70.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +97.18% +36.54%

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 6,587 10,126 16,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.52% 40.12% 41.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,007 7,630 12,509
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 £827 £800
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 74 107
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.40 £28.85
25th Percentile £40.75 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +23.71% +2.11%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £66.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £75.57
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +18.44%

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 8 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

R
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 8 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 +25 15 £513 -21.76% 9
West London +23 1 £448 -5.68% 8
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 5 (5.75%) SAS
2 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.75%) SPSS
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 30 (34.48%) Azure
2 17 (19.54%) AWS
3 14 (16.09%) Power Platform
4 12 (13.79%) GCP
5 4 (4.60%) Power Automate
5 4 (4.60%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (3.45%) GitHub
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.30%) Serverless
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.54%) Tableau
2 14 (16.09%) Power BI
3 12 (13.79%) Big Data
4 10 (11.49%) Hadoop
5 8 (9.20%) Data Lake
6 6 (6.90%) Data Mining
7 5 (5.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.60%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.45%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.30%) Apache Hive
10 2 (2.30%) KDB
10 2 (2.30%) KNIME
10 2 (2.30%) MS Access
10 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Git
1 3 (3.45%) JIRA
2 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
2 2 (2.30%) MLflow
2 2 (2.30%) RStudio
3 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (44.83%) Finance
2 29 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (22.99%) Social Skills
4 11 (12.64%) Front Office
5 10 (11.49%) Banking
6 6 (6.90%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.75%) Marketing
8 4 (4.60%) Retail
9 3 (3.45%) Advertising
9 3 (3.45%) Legal
9 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.30%) Agriculture
10 2 (2.30%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.30%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.15%) Hungarian Language
11 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.15%) Local Government
11 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.15%) Police
11 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (22.99%) Developer
2 19 (21.84%) Analyst
3 14 (16.09%) Data Scientist
4 12 (13.79%) Quantitative Developer
5 11 (12.64%) Data Analyst
5 11 (12.64%) Finance Manager
5 11 (12.64%) Python Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Credit Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Qualitative Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Quantitative Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Consultant
7 5 (5.75%) Senior
8 4 (4.60%) Econometrician
8 4 (4.60%) Lead
9 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Quantitative Consultant
9 3 (3.45%) Quantitative Risk Consultant
9 3 (3.45%) Report Manager
9 3 (3.45%) Risk Consultant
9 3 (3.45%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.30%) .NET
2 1 (1.15%) JSON
2 1 (1.15%) ODBC
2 1 (1.15%) Pandas
2 1 (1.15%) PySpark
2 1 (1.15%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.15%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.15%) Shiny
2 1 (1.15%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.69%) Derivative
2 16 (18.39%) Algorithms
3 15 (17.24%) Hedge funds
4 13 (14.94%) Fixed Income
5 11 (12.64%) Equities
6 4 (4.60%) Credit Derivative
6 4 (4.60%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.30%) FMCG
7 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.15%) Blog
8 1 (1.15%) Clustering
8 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.15%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.15%) Multi-touch
8 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) Replication
8 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.15%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (1.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.74%) Data Analysis
2 24 (27.59%) Visualisation
3 23 (26.44%) Data Science
3 23 (26.44%) Statistics
4 22 (25.29%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (24.14%) Agile
5 21 (24.14%) Analytics
5 21 (24.14%) Data Visualisation
6 19 (21.84%) Mathematics
7 18 (20.69%) Machine Learning
8 16 (18.39%) Data Modelling
9 12 (13.79%) Actionable Insight
9 12 (13.79%) Asset Management
9 12 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (13.79%) Software Engineering
9 12 (13.79%) Statistical Analysis
10 11 (12.64%) Investment Management
10 11 (12.64%) Quantitative Research
11 10 (11.49%) Computer Science
11 10 (11.49%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 73 (83.91%) Python
2 39 (44.83%) SQL
3 8 (9.20%) C#
3 8 (9.20%) C++
4 5 (5.75%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.45%) Java
5 3 (3.45%) PHP
5 3 (3.45%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.45%) VBA
6 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.30%) VB
7 1 (1.15%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.15%) Scala
7 1 (1.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (25.29%) Degree
2 11 (12.64%) Numerate Degree
3 9 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (8.05%) Master's Degree
4 7 (8.05%) PhD
5 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.45%) CIMA
7 2 (2.30%) CISA
7 2 (2.30%) CRISC
8 1 (1.15%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.60%) PMO
3 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.30%) NCSC
3 2 (2.30%) NIST
3 2 (2.30%) QA
4 1 (1.15%) Basel II
4 1 (1.15%) Basel III
4 1 (1.15%) EMIR
4 1 (1.15%) MiFID
4 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Docker
1 2 (2.30%) HDFS
2 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) Bloomberg
2 8 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.75%) SAP
4 3 (3.45%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.15%) Cognos
5 1 (1.15%) Google
5 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle
5 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.15%) Snow