Shiny Contracts

R Shiny
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Shiny skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Shiny 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 596 677 815
Rank change year-on-year +81 +138 -144
Contract jobs citing Shiny 3 14 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.025% 0.044%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.033% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 28
10th Percentile - £399 £313
25th Percentile £313 £431 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £473 £415
Median % change year-on-year -31.22% +13.86% -30.83%
75th Percentile £338 £515 £550
90th Percentile - £575 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £415
% change year-on-year - - -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.25
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Shiny is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,133 12,749 23,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.09% 22.89% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,304 9,299 17,416
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 151 226
10th Percentile £22.05 £30.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £67.27
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

Shiny
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Shiny as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Shiny in the UK

Shiny
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Shiny in the UK

Shiny
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Shiny within the UK 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
Work from Home +106 2 - - 1
England +85 2 £325 -31.22%
London +69 1 - -

Shiny
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) R Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Applications Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) D3.js
1 1 (33.33%) Jinja
1 1 (33.33%) ODBC
1 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Blog
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Life Science
1 1 (33.33%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
1 2 (66.67%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Physics
2 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) R
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes