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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 339 333
Rank change year-on-year +51 -6 -81
Contract jobs citing R 98 151 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.58% 0.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.52% 1.44% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 110 221
10th Percentile £375 £424 £350
25th Percentile £450 £507 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £750 £747 £660
90th Percentile £763 £928 £738
England median daily rate £550 £555 £525
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 15
10th Percentile £32.24 - £31.60
25th Percentile £41.25 - £35.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £75.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +68.54% +40.64%
75th Percentile £47.50 - £58.50
90th Percentile £48.25 - £72.40
England median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.62% +73.33% +44.23%

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 6,433 10,486 16,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.81% 40.30% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,915 7,864 12,496
10th Percentile £377 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £703
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 78 109
10th Percentile £23.80 £26.10 £30.45
25th Percentile £40.79 £46.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £58.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% +17.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63.52 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.64
% change year-on-year - +23.43% +19.14%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing R in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for R in London

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing R in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for R in London

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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 20 May 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 14 £513 -24.77% 14
West London +21 3 £500 +5.26% 16
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 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.04%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.02%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.04%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.61%) Azure
2 26 (26.53%) Power Platform
3 19 (19.39%) AWS
4 17 (17.35%) GCP
5 4 (4.08%) Power Automate
5 4 (4.08%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.06%) GitHub
7 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.04%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.02%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.53%) Power BI
2 17 (17.35%) Tableau
3 16 (16.33%) Big Data
4 11 (11.22%) BusinessObjects
5 9 (9.18%) Hadoop
6 6 (6.12%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.06%) Data Mining
9 3 (3.06%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.04%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (2.04%) KDB
10 2 (2.04%) KNIME
10 2 (2.04%) MS Access
10 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.06%) JIRA
1 3 (3.06%) RStudio
2 2 (2.04%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.02%) Git
3 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (42.86%) Finance
2 33 (33.67%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (27.55%) Social Skills
4 14 (14.29%) Front Office
5 9 (9.18%) Banking
6 8 (8.16%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.10%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.10%) Marketing
8 3 (3.06%) Advertising
8 3 (3.06%) Retail
9 2 (2.04%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.04%) Local Government
9 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.04%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Law
10 1 (1.02%) Legal
10 1 (1.02%) Police
10 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (25.51%) Data Scientist
2 23 (23.47%) Developer
3 20 (20.41%) Analyst
4 15 (15.31%) Quantitative Developer
5 14 (14.29%) Finance Manager
5 14 (14.29%) Python Developer
6 13 (13.27%) Data Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Qualitative Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Quantitative Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Consultant
8 5 (5.10%) Credit Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Econometrician
9 4 (4.08%) Lead
10 3 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Manager
10 3 (3.06%) Quantitative Consultant
10 3 (3.06%) Quantitative Risk Consultant
10 3 (3.06%) Report Manager
10 3 (3.06%) Risk Consultant
10 3 (3.06%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.06%) PyTorch
1 3 (3.06%) scikit-learn
1 3 (3.06%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.04%) .NET
2 2 (2.04%) GeoPandas
2 2 (2.04%) HTML
2 2 (2.04%) Matplotlib
2 2 (2.04%) NumPy
2 2 (2.04%) Pandas
2 2 (2.04%) React
2 2 (2.04%) Shiny
3 1 (1.02%) ggplot2
3 1 (1.02%) JSON
3 1 (1.02%) ODBC
3 1 (1.02%) Plotly
3 1 (1.02%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.43%) Derivative
2 18 (18.37%) Hedge funds
3 16 (16.33%) Fixed Income
4 14 (14.29%) Equities
5 13 (13.27%) Algorithms
6 4 (4.08%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.06%) Credit Risk
8 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.04%) Multi-touch
8 2 (2.04%) Social Media
9 1 (1.02%) Blog
9 1 (1.02%) Clustering
9 1 (1.02%) Market Risk
9 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.06%) Windows
2 1 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (36.73%) Data Analysis
1 36 (36.73%) Visualisation
2 33 (33.67%) Data Science
3 26 (26.53%) Business Intelligence
4 24 (24.49%) Agile
5 21 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
6 20 (20.41%) Mathematics
6 20 (20.41%) Statistics
7 17 (17.35%) Machine Learning
8 16 (16.33%) Data Modelling
9 15 (15.31%) Asset Management
10 14 (14.29%) Investment Management
10 14 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (14.29%) Quantitative Research
10 14 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 13 (13.27%) Analytics
12 10 (10.20%) Computer Science
12 10 (10.20%) Predictive Modelling
13 9 (9.18%) Customer Service
13 9 (9.18%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 85 (86.73%) Python
2 43 (43.88%) SQL
3 8 (8.16%) C#
3 8 (8.16%) C++
4 6 (6.12%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.06%) Java
5 3 (3.06%) PHP
5 3 (3.06%) Scala
5 3 (3.06%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.06%) VBA
6 2 (2.04%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.04%) VB
7 1 (1.02%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (19.39%) Degree
2 10 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 7 (7.14%) Numerate Degree
3 7 (7.14%) PhD
3 7 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.06%) CIMA
6 2 (2.04%) CISA
6 2 (2.04%) CRISC
7 1 (1.02%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.08%) PMO
3 3 (3.06%) QA
4 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.04%) NCSC
4 2 (2.04%) NIST
5 1 (1.02%) Basel II
5 1 (1.02%) Basel III
5 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (14.29%) Bloomberg
2 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.10%) SAP
4 3 (3.06%) Google
5 2 (2.04%) Databricks
5 2 (2.04%) ESRI
6 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.02%) Cognos
6 1 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.02%) Snow